If you are interested in history and technology than one podcast you should definitely be tuning in is Digital Campus from the Center for History and New Media. Recently, Canadian historians Kevin Kee and Bill Turkel joined the podcast for a discussion of their recent unconference called "Past Play."

Held in Niagara-on-the-Lake the conference brought together historians to collaborate and play with new technologies. The project is the start of what will hopefully be a full publication, the details of which are available here.

It's exciting stuff for historians who are interested in engaging audiences with new ways of sharing the past. "We've got used to expressing history as text," Keven Kee notes, "and that's part of the problem. We need to move beyond, so what are the other forms we can explore."

Bill Turkel, who was one of my former profs at the University of Western Ontario, follows that "every sort of object around us is some kind of time traveller from the past and yet for some reason we choose to convey our conciousness, our understanding, of the past often in text."

I'm particularly interested in the format of the conference which was intended to facilitate a social and playful structure to lead to new ideas, rather than simply presenting information which has already been published.