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September 02, 2005
Scavenger Hunt
Oops, first posted this to Scott's Blog (primary category selection mistake, hey, I've never done a blog before):
Scavenger Hunt
Operation “Scavenger Hunt” commenced at 1300 hours on 2 September 2005, at work (dial-up at home would be way too slow—guess it’s time to fork out for DSL, huh?) during my lunch hour. Concurrently write/paste to a Word document as I go along:
1. Searched on Google for Josip Tito; found this site as the fifth entry “all you wanted to know about Tito”; then within the site: http://www.titoville.com/voditelji.html
2. Google again, put the phrase in quotation marks, many hits right on target, including http://www.sakoman.net/pg/html/11689.htm which has the poem Evolution by Alice Duer Miller
3. Georgie Washington, go to the Library of Congress!! American Memory, use their search engine to find letters from Washington to Pickering, too many listed; then tried, in quotations, “deceive the people” and it was the 7th entry, a letter dated March 3, 1797. It’s now been 12 minutes.
4. Google again, 9,270 hits. First entry had the speech. http://thetalkingdrum.com/wil.html
5. Spent almost 10 minutes on this, Google, Wayback, no luck here. Skip it!
6.GMU Library website, electronic journal search for The Economic History Review; it's in JSTOR. 34 page article in JSTOR. 24 minutes have passed.
7. Google, many hits, first few are Texas, Virginia, Toball College, Cameron?
8. Using the Wayback Archive, found:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://chnm.gmu.edu That listed 4 pages from 1998, only one of which was “archived” but without graphics/images.
9. Who? Running out of time so: http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~murray/ didn’t see anything about photographs. Should have tried Alta Vista?
10. Google, search for Karl Jacoby and “student exchange” it is the third hit. I’m two minutes over my 30 minute allowance.
M/C
Prior to starting this I read through the searching tips from the Clio Wired index and also scanned the article “Finding Information on the Internet.” I’m pretty familiar with the Library of Congress material so anything regarding US history I was pretty sure I could find (given enough time). The Czech question left me befuddled and the Janet Murray one as well. Needed more time, probably 20 more minutes, maybe? Would not have been able to do even half if I tried this at home, however, as dial-up is a killer.
Back to work now. I’ll add more of my thoughts on Tuesday. Interesting experience overall.
Posted by sprice7 at September 2, 2005 12:35 PM