James A. Hodges
@jameshodges.net
human scholar with phd (digital archives) • www.jameshodges.net
Can't wait! I'll be talking about processual metadata as a key to documenting the function of complex systems (like LLMs).
Isto Huvila@ihuvila.bsky.social · last wk.On 24 Sept ASIS&T Webinar: Meet the Author: Perspectives on Paradata Research and Practice of Documenting Process Knowledge www.asist.org/meetings-eve... w Sarah Buchanan, @jameshodges.net , Andrea Thomer, Alexandria Rayburn & Olle Sköld
I don’t understand why any swim trunks would have an elastic waistband, ever. They will fall down if you actually swim, or even if you put anything in the pockets.
SJSU mentioned! 🥳 (from Benjamin Breen's "Tripping on Utopia)
i don't know how yet, but i assume eric adams has something to do with this too www.reuters.com/world/protes...
Protesters clash with Albanian police in demonstrations triggered by Kushner resort plan
Albanian police used water cannons and tear gas on Thursday to disperse protesters who threw eggs and bottles at officers, in the latest flare-up of demonstrations triggered by Jared Kushner's plans ...
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I went to a new “listening bar” in downtown Vancouver last night. I’ve now been to several “listening bars” around North America. They are generally not cool, no matter how hard they try to convince you otherwise
No matter the format, recording music has always carried environmental costs. That’s to say nothing of the carbon emissions that an international concert tour can generate. @robarcand.bsky.social considers a new book on climate and culture.
It’s Not Easy Being Green | Rob Arcand
In his new book, Kyle Devine examines various efforts—and their shortcomings—to make the music industry greener.
thebaffler.com
I don’t think people outside of NYC realize how funny it is that Jen Rajkumar lost yesterday. She showed up at my door 3 times. She called multiple times a day, even after we blocked her number. She parked a billboard truck at our polling place. And still lost www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
New WFP ad attacks Rajkumar as ‘Modi’s best friend in Queens’
The progressive group is supporting challenger David Orkin in the Queens Assembly race.
cityandstateny.com
"No human musician could stay in time counting as slowly as these whales do."
The Cold War’s Accidental Whale Observatory
Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
Your neighborhood’s choice of NYC-themed rap song for last night’s celebration says a lot. If they were singing “Empire State of Mind,” you’re surrounded by transplants
Not actually surprising for anyone who paid attention when it launched dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
dronexl.co
"No one knows anymore whether a door opens to the imaginary or to the real. We are all unhinged.” -Bernhard Siegert
Big Bird Appears in Doorway
ALT: Big Bird Appears in Doorway
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new blog post on my website: www.jameshodges.net/blog/coming-... on substack: jameshodges.substack.com/p/coming-soo...
Coming Soon: Psychedelic Software — James A. Hodges, Ph.D.
My book is under contract. It started as a grad school project in 2013, looking at the archival preservation of unreleased software. Over the next decade-plus it slowly grew into a book about ways tha...
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It is the last day of my Preserving Information Resources through Media Archaeology class and students are reading @jameshodges.net new article on historicizing data from Surfrider. The article is 🔥 or perhaps more accurately 🌊. Either way, it is worth your time! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Historicising web-based environmental data dashboards: surfrider.org, 1997-2025
Web-based data dashboards provide critical points of access for users hoping to gain knowledge concerning environmental phenomena, yet their historical development has not been explicitly tracked i...
tandfonline.com
Returned to the site of my PhD for an IMLS symposium on provenance
Greetings from Silicon Valley! Enjoy the funny dance now because these things will probably be committing atrocities in a year or two 🥳
🚨 New article out now in Internet Histories! 🌊 A History of water quality data on the web, from 1997-2025 🤔 How do we know what's in our water? Through web-based data dashboards, which have changed a LOT in the last 20 years ➡️ Free eprints available now! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KS8KK...
Historicising web-based environmental data dashboards: surfrider.org, 1997-2025
Web-based data dashboards provide critical points of access for users hoping to gain knowledge concerning environmental phenomena, yet their historical development has not been explicitly tracked i...
tandfonline.com
🚨 New article out now in Internet Histories! 🌊 A History of water quality data on the web, from 1997-2025 🤔 How do we know what's in our water? Through web-based data dashboards, which have changed a LOT in the last 20 years ➡️ Free eprints available now! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KS8KK...
Historicising web-based environmental data dashboards: surfrider.org, 1997-2025
Web-based data dashboards provide critical points of access for users hoping to gain knowledge concerning environmental phenomena, yet their historical development has not been explicitly tracked i...
tandfonline.com
To all who say "Let people enjoy things," I say "Let people hate things"
Is WSOU the only radio station in America that regularly plays E-Town Concrete?
My paper "Historicizing Web-Based Environmental Data Dashboards: Surfrider.org, 1997-2025" has been accepted for publication in Internet Histories 🥳 It compares data structures, web source, and supporting documents from 1997 to 2025, to show how citizen science data curation changes over time
You know what's even funnier than typing "pubic" instead of "public"? Typing "sharting" instead of "sharing"
🚨BIG NEWS🚨 I just signed a contact with MIT Press for my book "Psychedelic Software" 🥳 We all know the 60s counterculture influenced home computing conceptually, but this book uses digital forensics to show how hippie theories of consciousness were baked into software at a technical level too
Big update, this article now has a volume number (62) and issue number (2)
James A. Hodges@jameshodges.net · 10mo ago🌊 New article out now in Social Studies of Science 🌊 How do common web development frameworks shape our experience of coastal pollution? 🌊 Two case studies from NYC's beaches Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
In honor of the Artemis II mission, I decided to open this “Apollo Space Pen,” which I purchased as a souvenir from the Kennedy Space Center as a child in the 1990s. It didn’t work, but I have contacted the Fischer Space Pen company regarding their lifetime guarantee
Just registered for the Archival Education and Research Initiative conference at University of British Columbia this summer. I'll be speaking on the Digital Curation in Archival Education Roundtable. #AERI #AERI2026 Revisiting the 2010s "Canadian Riviera" sound in preparation ra.co/features/2740
Vancouver: Rhythms of the Canadian Riviera · Feature ⟋ RA
Vancouver is currently thriving, with a distinctive sound and a vibrant music community. Andrew Ryce surveys the scene.
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Someone told me I have a “Portland vibe” and I don’t know how to take it