Year: 2007
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A new seeker after the Grail
A digital history grail, anyway. Yale Computer Science major Sam Strasser has started blogging about his Senior project at Visualize History. Visualize History will attack the general problem by presenting that multi-dimensional story in multiple dimensions. For example, many key events are directly linked to a specific geographic location and all are linked to a…
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NASCAR=War
In an opinion piece today, David Caraviello (nascar.com) uses a battle analogy talking about cars not finishing races in the Chase to the Nextel Cup: … This isn’t racing. This is an automotive Antietam, a three-week wave of motorsports mayhem that’s turned NASCAR’s premier championship into a simple battle of attrition. Drivers, cars, and hopes…
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A Painter and a Coffin for Two Stetsons
(Stetson Company) Anniversary weekend at the Antietam battlefield, Harry Smeltzer came upon the stone honoring Lieutenant Colonel John L Stetson. Stetson was killed at the head of the 59th New York Volunteer Infantry, at the farthest reach of the disastrous Federal Second Army Corps advance into the West Woods on 17 September 1862. Harry also…
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Cartoonist really gets the Blogosphere
Documenting the upmty-ump trillionth blog–created by Ms. Myrna Hummel (observing on stale pancake mix), noting the blog-prominence of cats, and worrying about an approaching critical-mass-of-blogs crisis, cartoonist Richard Thompson has nailed it. As a garrulous drone I can personally validate the accuracy of both his analysis and the technically stunning blog map, seen here. The…
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Trees? Meet forest
In Google Books: Is it Good for History? in the latest Perspectives–the journal of the American Historical Association (AHA)–Robert Townsend reprises his April AHA blog post with The Google Books project promises to open up a vast amount of older literature, but a closer look at the material on the site raises real worries about…
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Why Open Access?
Unless you’re a certain kind of geek, you may not have heard much about Open Access (OA), but it’s coming on strong. The core idea is to make the products of research more widely available by reducing the barriers of cost and limited access. I think the case for OA is strongest for ‘peer-reviewed scientific…
