I’m breaking ground in terms of online blogging, so I have yet to familiarize myself with all that can be done. In the meantime, I read some posts and thought that Scott made a good point about the ‘MythBusters’ television show and the hoaxes they’ve ‘busted’.
Archive for September, 2008
fellow classmates
Thursday, September 4th, 2008YouTube Hoaxes
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Here are links to the YouTube Hoaxes I mentioned in class yesterday:
Lonely Girl — and a Wired magazine story on Lonely Girl.
As with every hoax we’ve discussed so far, why do you think these two worked so well?
Other People’s Hoax Ideas
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Word about our course is wandering around the history blogosphere and has resulted in some suggestions for further study from other historians:
Five Hoaxes that Fooled the World
Six More Hoaxes that Fooled the World
Some of these are in our other readings, but not all…
Hello
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008I am looking forward to working with you all this semester. Time to put that ‘thinking cap’ to work. See you tomorrow.
Hi
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Hello, this is to make sure this blog things works and all. See you in class
Google Hoaxes
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Hi all. I hope you had a great weekend. Here is a link to the Wikipedia page that details Google’s various hoaxes over the years. Some of these turned into real news events and so can be instructive for us. See you tomorrow.
Hello!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Hey everyone! Looking forward to getting to know all of you. Scott you make a really good point about mythbusters…great show…but we should definitely be careful about our selection.
See everyone in class 
Jenn
Hello
Monday, September 1st, 2008Hello Everyone.