Are you going to say more about whether and how digital historians should be creating web sites that empower users to apply what they are learning.

Sure! As to the “whether” part of you question, I think that, yes, digital historians absolutely should be creating or contributing to projects that empower users to use what they’ve learned in other applications. The “how” is the tricky part. Well, not tricky, but certainly more complex, and depends on the specific project or web site. I’ve got some ideas for this, that I plan to detain in some future posts. And, as I mentioned on Twitter to you and and a few others, I’d like to organize a session at THATCamp about how digital historians/humanists/whoever can use design to help create or reinforce arguments and narrative.