Here's a link to a talk given by Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, at Berkeley on the Wikipedia. These days, Kapor is the President of the Open Source Applications Foundation....
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on December 14, 2005 07:42 PM
CNN has a story about the guy that wrote the fake bio. I thought this bit was interesting. "Chase said he didn't know the free Internet encyclopedia called Wikipedia was used as a serious reference tool." It certainly doesn't inspire...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on December 12, 2005 08:44 AM
Online encyclopedia tightens rules following false article http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/12/05/state/n122345S84.DTL Kurt...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on December 7, 2005 03:28 PM
I am interested in letting many people know that Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool....
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on December 1, 2005 10:07 AM
Hi: This is a response to Tai's question about images for her wiki entry. This image comes from the American Memory project of the Library of Congress and is drawn from one of McKenney's books (published in 1859 and so...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 29, 2005 03:54 PM
Sorry I missed you guys at Molly Malone's. I got Kurt's e-mail with the location, but it was a little late for me to drive from Fairfax. I also forgot that I had to pick up my dog from the...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 28, 2005 09:01 PM
I edited an existing article about Samuel Armstrong. You can read my edit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_C._Armstrong. I'll add some thoughts later, but now I have to rush to the meeting! See you soon....
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 28, 2005 03:29 PM
See my Wiki posting Thomas L. McKenney I was actually shocked at how easy it was to contribute to Wiki. I have a great picture I wanted to upload of His Hotness - Mr. McKenney, but then I felt marginally...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 28, 2005 03:15 PM
I have been working on a longer article about a black tanker who fought in World War II, but it's not quite finished yet. So instead, I inserted a portion of my writings into the article about Patton. Hopefully this...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 28, 2005 02:44 PM
Hi Everyone, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Arlington in a few hours. I did it! I created an account for myself in Wikipedia, and I added to the Further Readings section of the Great Awakening entry in less...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 28, 2005 12:48 PM
OK, another new experience for this "old dog." Glad to know I can learn at least one new trick: U-550 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterseeboot_550 After spending a couple of hours exploring the site and another hour figuring out how to edit pages and...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 28, 2005 12:01 PM
I started out not quite knowing what to do. So in true hypertext fashion, I bounced around from link to link until I found a link to a person with no entry. I created a brand new entry for that...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 28, 2005 11:17 AM
Seeing how the Bears are atop the NFC North (yay!), I decided to do some research on Chicago football teams, past and present....
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 28, 2005 08:06 AM
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Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 28, 2005 12:07 AM
I have no problem with Wikipedia as a possible source. I check each source I use from the web for authenticity anyhow. I think it would be a problem for users with no research experience who take for granted everything...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 27, 2005 09:39 PM
I searched Wikipedia's "article request" for a topic I might know something about and found a request for "see a man about a horse." Having done some research in Slang (and making a digital project on it), I figured this...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 27, 2005 09:20 PM
My wiki edit is on James Armistead Lafayette. I was going to do a couple of others but this took hours by the time I checked my research and figured out how to make external links. The links still don't...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 27, 2005 08:42 PM
I edited two Wikipedia entries; one on Woking (England) and the other on Sultan Shah Jehan, Begum of Bhopal. My entries clarified that: Shah Jehan was the Begum of Bhopal from 1868 to 1901 and she commissioned the Mosque in...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 27, 2005 07:49 PM
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Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 25, 2005 05:08 PM
Here are some of my initial thoughts on Wiki and our Wiki reading before the holiday (and the sleeping pill known as turkey!!) set in. To anyone on the blog before/during the holiday, Happy Thanksgiving!! Amy...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 23, 2005 08:45 PM
I was fairly surprised by how poorly the maritime archaeology section was written. I didn't rewrite the whole thing(though some day I might in all my spare time)but just corrected a couple of factual errors regarding how underwater sites are...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on November 22, 2005 08:33 PM
The etymology of the word encyclopedia reflects two Greek roots: enkuklios, meaning "cyclical, periodic," and paideia meaning"education." It has been interpreted as "general education" or "whole circle of knowledge." While its meaning has changed over time, it has generally referred...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on October 29, 2005 07:21 PM
"We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot" Abraham Lincoln “The Promise of Digital Scholarship”… was this a key phrase that I should have read somewhere and therefore recognize? Without...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on October 20, 2005 11:44 PM
Lev Manovich and Janet Murray both address the future of the narrative form in relation to emerging technologies. Both authors are also eminently well-equipped to do so. Manovich, who has work experience in computer animation along with an M.A. in...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on September 26, 2005 01:20 PM
Well, I found seven out of ten within thirty minutes. I was on the track of the 8th, but I doubt I would find the last two no matter how much time I was given. Here's how it went down:...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on September 5, 2005 02:56 PM
So, like De La Soul asked, what does it all mean? On probably the most obvious level, the ability to find resources answering ten (or nine in my case) questions of a fairly specific nature in under thirty minutes...
Posted in Clio Wired (History 696) on September 5, 2005 11:30 AM