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How and where would you dispense $10,000; $100,000; $1,000,000: $10,000,000 to have maximum impact? This is a hard question. What is maximum impact you want to get by spending money? To get more money,

If there were a huge amount of money waiting for you to dispense in urban community development, what would you do? It’s always more exited to imagine assumption like that. However, it’s a little bit hard

This is a platitude question that I usually asked my cousins. They have different answers but the same goal. For example, one planned to recharge the King's Glory game; another wanted to buy a house for

We are coming to a close on #philly5151's class project for the 2018 semester (to read more about the details of our class and program, head here!), and this week we are tasked with thinking about impact.

Picture from Earning money by posting content online is not merely the privilege of professional writers thanks to blockchain technology. With the use of decentralised network in content production, it

Philly History Blogging experience This semester is quite different from others because I get to know a quite innovative platform to post my blogs. Here I'd like to thank Prof. Finkel for introducing us

Steemit proposes an innovative incentive model in the field of content output, which is a kind of incentive mode that has never been used before and cannot be used by traditional platforms. It is of great

"Thousands of years of civilization, there are too many things to be repaired, but too few people can repair them," said Jiang Daoyin, a master of ancient porcelain restoration. In China, there

Interacting with the Inter-web Good evening, Steemians! In just a few days, I will be defending my thesis, and my brain has been focused exclusively on Philadelphia’s jazz history for what seems like 68

Picture from Obviously, traditional institutions like museums and art institutes are catering to audience in this era. Different from old time that there were limited choices for people to spend their

Last month we lost one of our most lovely physicist Stephen William Hawking. Mr. Hawking is a splendid and interesting physicist. He had some guest appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Big Bang,

Picture from: Museum usually leaves people an impression of rigidity and detachment, which impedes the thorough access of publics to the knowledge. However, knowledge in the museum is not unfathomable

Shipping /SHipiNG/ noun: the act of wanting and supporting two individuals involved in a romantic relationship. DISCLAIMER: This picture in no way indicates my support of a Harmony ship. Now, shipping

As one of the oldest historical societies, HSP owns a big materials collection including books, manuscripts, family histories and artifacts from different times. But due to the overlook of museum function

Yesterday, I wrote about the gaps I see in Philadelphia's history system. Today I give you, the funders, a mock Letter of Intent for a project that could meet some of those needs. It is a version of an

This post is part of the Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory). This week our class took stock of the experiment so far and continued posing questions about the financial future of the cultural

Hi folks! My name is Ted Maust and I'm getting an M.A. in public history from Temple University. On the water with classmates from Studies in American Material Culture, Fall 2017. Photo by Charlie Hersh

An 18th-century leaf-printing project as it relates to counterfeit-resistant currency, discussed here by @voronoi, features the printer’s partner, the go-to Founding Father: Benjamin Franklin. Source: