The New York Times has published a sequence of blog posts by filmmaker Errol Morris telling a story of the invention of e-mail and his brother’s role in its development. The posts – mixing personal history with the history of e-mail and computer time-sharing – consist largely of excerpts from conversations between Morris and individuals who worked on CTSS and Project MAC at MIT in the 1960s with Morris’s brother. The resulting story provides insight into early human-computer interaction and describes how computers, through the advent of e-mail and time-sharing, unexpectedly came to mediate and facilitate interaction and community-formation among people.
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Tim Eriksen on The Makers of the Sacred Harp
Southern Spaces, the journal I worked for this past spring, has just published a review by Tim Eriksen of David Warren Steel and Richard Hulan’s The Makers of the Sacred Harp.
Emory Sacred Harp Singing
Emory University will host its 7th annual Sacred Harp singing this Saturday, February 12 from 10 AM to 3 PM. The singing will be held at Cannon Chapel. There will be a covered dish dinner on the grounds at noon. Continue reading “Emory Sacred Harp Singing”
Registration Is Open for Camp Fasola 2011
Camp Fasola, a summer camp and singing school for learning and singing Sacred Harp will be held this summer for the 9th consecutive year. Continue reading “Registration Is Open for Camp Fasola 2011”
New Sacred Harp Publishing Company Web Site
Late last week I launched a new version of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company web site, the second redesign since I took over as webmaster in 2008. The new site is built with WordPress and features a customized version of the Twenty Ten theme also used here. The site features a larger main column, more readable text, and a new newsletter section which will feature updates from the Company and posts on Sacred Harp history and items of interest.