Ian Milligan
@ianmilligan1.bsky.social
Professor of History and Associate Vice-President in the Office of Research, University of Waterloo. Interested in digital history and preservation. Posts in a personal capacity only.
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This is the case in ways already recognized (see e.g., @laraputnam.bsky.social's www.jstor.org/stable/43955... and @ianmilligan1.bsky.social's uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/items/a27aaa...), and ways yet to be felt.
The technology, combined with full-text search, opens and closes many worlds.
The technology, combined with full-text search, opens and closes many worlds.
The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast on JSTOR
LARA PUTNAM, The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast, The American Historical Review, Vol. 121, No. 2 (APRIL 2016), pp. 377-402
www.jstor.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is the case in ways already recognized (see e.g., @laraputnam.bsky.social's www.jstor.org/stable/43955... and @ianmilligan1.bsky.social's uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/items/a27aaa...), and ways yet to be felt.
The technology, combined with full-text search, opens and closes many worlds.
The technology, combined with full-text search, opens and closes many worlds.
Good thing we don't pay academics by the hour!
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Good thing we don't pay academics by the hour!
Anyways now I'm sitting in a cafe, writing, drinking a flat white, and remembering what a great privilege it is to be a historian.
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Anyways now I'm sitting in a cafe, writing, drinking a flat white, and remembering what a great privilege it is to be a historian.
I used to be the jerk that "didn't get jet lag," so this is called "what goes around comes around."
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I used to be the jerk that "didn't get jet lag," so this is called "what goes around comes around."
Off to write my book "The Slow Research Administrator."
(The jokes write 'emselves)
(The jokes write 'emselves)
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Off to write my book "The Slow Research Administrator."
(The jokes write 'emselves)
(The jokes write 'emselves)
One day when I'm not a full-time administrator you better believe I'll be serving up some more juicy hot takes.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
One day when I'm not a full-time administrator you better believe I'll be serving up some more juicy hot takes.
When I was there I went to watch a horse race at Happy Valley - interesting!
The old Central Police Station was super interesting, turned into an art area (Tai Kwun). The Hong Kong History Museum was also interesting...
The Central-Mid-Level escalators were neat too.
Now I want dim sum..
The old Central Police Station was super interesting, turned into an art area (Tai Kwun). The Hong Kong History Museum was also interesting...
The Central-Mid-Level escalators were neat too.
Now I want dim sum..
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When I was there I went to watch a horse race at Happy Valley - interesting!
The old Central Police Station was super interesting, turned into an art area (Tai Kwun). The Hong Kong History Museum was also interesting...
The Central-Mid-Level escalators were neat too.
Now I want dim sum..
The old Central Police Station was super interesting, turned into an art area (Tai Kwun). The Hong Kong History Museum was also interesting...
The Central-Mid-Level escalators were neat too.
Now I want dim sum..
“There’s this new movie with Russell Crowe, but you won’t guess who he’s playing..”
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“There’s this new movie with Russell Crowe, but you won’t guess who he’s playing..”
My book has come together enough that I am 100% sure I could finish this full manuscript if I had a sabbatical...
(I will jynx myself as I have managed to carve out the _entire_ morning tomorrow to write, please don't tell my boss or anybody else on campus)
(I will jynx myself as I have managed to carve out the _entire_ morning tomorrow to write, please don't tell my boss or anybody else on campus)
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
My book has come together enough that I am 100% sure I could finish this full manuscript if I had a sabbatical...
(I will jynx myself as I have managed to carve out the _entire_ morning tomorrow to write, please don't tell my boss or anybody else on campus)
(I will jynx myself as I have managed to carve out the _entire_ morning tomorrow to write, please don't tell my boss or anybody else on campus)
Hah sending exact same solidarity vibes to you!
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Hah sending exact same solidarity vibes to you!
Sounds familiar to hockey.
I am the rare parent here who was largely forced by his kid to put him into hockey, as opposed to the other way around!
I am the rare parent here who was largely forced by his kid to put him into hockey, as opposed to the other way around!
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Sounds familiar to hockey.
I am the rare parent here who was largely forced by his kid to put him into hockey, as opposed to the other way around!
I am the rare parent here who was largely forced by his kid to put him into hockey, as opposed to the other way around!