This site has been built using existing (mainly) Open Source software and tools, in some cases customised and adapted to varying degrees.

• WordPress
• WP-o-matic plugin
• Twitter Hashtag Shortcode plugin
• WP Twitter Users plugin
• How to use the Twitter API in WordPress
• Twitter API
• Twitter @Anywhere
• Tweeted Times
• SimplePie (feeds management)
• Feed on Feeds
• JQuery Masonry

The @historycarnival’s friends on Twitter make the Broadside possible – as do all the #twitterstorians sharing their ideas and links on Twitter.

The smart people at Digital Humanities Now provided the original inspiration.

Some favourite #twitterstorians, who have helped, inspired or entertained along the way:

katrinagulliver

(Katrina Gulliver)

Bio: Studying things that happened before you were born to people you never met.

clioweb

(Jeremy Boggs)

Bio: Humanities Design Architect at UVa's @scholarslab. ABD in History at George Mason University.

jondresner

(Jonathan Dresner)

Bio: Japanese and World historian. Nerd, geek and photography nut. Blogger.

Airminded

(Brett Holman)

Bio: History. Airpower. Fear. Fun!

dancohen

(Dan Cohen)

Bio: Director, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media, resources & platforms for scholarship; Zotero, PressForward; Mason prof of history & digital humanities

sepoy

(Manan Ahmed)

Bio: a historian, a blogger, and a frumious bandersnatch.

williamjturkel

(williamjturkel)

Bio: Computational history, big history, STS, Mathematica, fabrication, physical computing and electronics