Scavenger Hunt

Sorry, but this may be a little long winded. In all honesty, I went over the 30 minutes, but I learned a lot more about web searching and I had fun in the process! 1. Was a tricky one to find. I did a Google search with “Leon Trotsky speaking in English,” but that didn’t help. I eventually found it on the Center for History and New Media’s “Resources” link: http://webcorp.com/video/videoarchive.htm#sounds 2. Found through a Google search by using “When all the women wanted it” as the search criteria. Two sites came up. The site with the actual poem “Evolution,” by Alice Duer Miller is at: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/8066/ADMsuffrage.html 3. I thought it might be one of the easiest to find; after all, it was a letter written by George Washington. But I ended up spending more than my allotted time looking for this letter . However, my detective work paid off! I began with a Google search using “George Washington and Timothy Pickering,” but that lead nowhere. After several other attempts using various other search criteria, I eventually tried a search using “George Washington and ‘forged letters’” as my criteria. This produced the only reference I could find to the actual letter that Washington wrote to Pickering. Strangely enough this reference was in a letter Madison wrote to Jefferson. In the letter, Madison mentions that Washington wrote Pickering on his last official day as president about forged letters. The Madison/Jefferson letter was at: http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/mazzei/madison2.html After Searching the National Archives and getting nowhere, I searched the Library of Congress and their American Memory site. Using the search criteria of “ ‘deceive the people’ and ‘Timothy Pickering’” over 200 results of various letters appeared. These were in chronological order. Finding that Washington’s last day was March 3, 1797, I was able to narrow the selection down to one letter. And, viola! There it was: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/P?mgw:79:./temp/~ammem_043o:: I might mention that one thing became very apparent from this search and that was the rampant plagiarism on the web. For instance, many sites mentioned the actual forged letters (rather than Washington’s letter to Pickering). Many used the same wording or slightly different wording when writing about the letters. Check out these websites and search the “entire page” for “forged letters”: http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0410800-00&templatename=/article/article.html and http://www.antiessays.com/essay.php?eid=710 I guess it would be hard to pinpoint on the web who actually wrote something first. And, if you were the original author and someone plagiarized from you using your text on their website, what could you do about it? 4. Probably one of the easiest to find. There were a lot of sites posting this speech. Most were “dot com” rather than “dot edu.” I found the speech at: www.freemaninstitute.com/lynch.htm and http://thetalkingdrum.com/wil.html This search gives some insight into the commercialization of history and how anyone with a computer can post things on the web. 5. I wasn’t sure if it was an actual debate on-line (between people actually debating the Cuban Missile crisis on line) or a debate that was posted on-line. However, I believe this is the one. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec97/cuba_10-16.html 6. First I looked for the actual article in a Google search, but didn’t find it. Then I resorted to JSTOR. I Found it there, but you may not be able to access via this link unless you log on to Jstor. http://www.jstor.org/search/cc99333c.10939706290/1- 1?configsortorder=SCORE&frame=noframe&dpi=3&config=jstor 7. Easy to find. Went to the Syllabus finder on Center for History and New Media. Seems to be a popular book! http://legacy.centenary.edu/~balexand/multimedia/2001/syllabus.html http://www.stanford.edu/class/sts145/html/Syllabus2003.htm http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~leggett/courses/gslis/ral02/syllabus.html http://iat.ubalt.edu/courses/old/idia619.185_Sp03/syllabus.shtml 8. I know I saw it on the screen in class, but I could not find it on the web. 9. I searched and searched. I searched using “Janet Murray,” “Janet Murray and the Sims,” “the Sims” and I went onto the Sims web site. Nothing. Other than seeing many pictures of Janet Murray with a scary hair-do http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~murray/ No picture of her with the Sims. Posted by Jeff at September 2, 2004 07:29 PM