Necessary but Dull Wednesday
Today I’m pulling my own teeth, metaphorically speaking. No, I’m not talking about my checkup this afternoon but working on the references to Accountability Frankenstein. After finishing the text of chapter 2, there are a bunch of citations that I didn’t yet have in the references file, others I need to complete, and so forth. […]
More on online encyclopedias
Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi has the same question I have about encyclopedias: why still deadtree?
Wiki, Witty, Wicca
Duly noted: Wikiversity? At least they have a tutorial on Blender 3d, my technogeek readers. Michael Bérubé discusses foolish anti-Semitic diatribing on the left in the first of a promised weeklong series on the pseudo-left, with views and solidity on a level with Gitlin. (Note that this view is consistent with his being upset at […]
Domesday and depressing news
The Domesday Book is online, a wonderful boon to European history teachers everywhere. And New York teen Kiri Davis has replicated Kenneth Clark’s 1940s doll work in today’s Manhattan, with depressing results. (Jan. 24, 2014 note: You can watch Davis’s short documentary on Vimeo.) I hope it sparks additional discussion about the work of the […]
Library of Congress takes blogs seriously
By Sherman Dorn on August 9, 2006
My friend Kathleen de la Peña McCook has received an ISSN for her Librarian blog. That’s right—the Library of Congress’s ISSN processing unit is now recognizing blogs as periodicals. So what are you waiting for? Blog and get your ISSN today!
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