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So I did a quick check on the usefulness of amazon’s SIPs. After our discussion of Foner’s A Short History of Reconstruction in Colloquium last week I wondered if amazon’s SIPs would have been able to help inform discussion on that book. So, Peter pointed out that “free labor ideology” was Foner’s big contribution and while amazon.com lists quite a few SIPs, free labor ideology is one of them. The nice thing is that you could then click on “free labor ideology” and see where it is mentioned in Foner’s book and other author’s books. It’s official - SIPs are a great resource.
#2 - Did anybody else wander off of the September 11 Digital Archive and onto the Hurricane Katrina, Rita, Wilma map? It’s great and gives such a sense of place to people’s stories/photos by integrating google maps. If I was ever to collect data online I would definitely want to add this kind of function. It’s just one more way that google maps can be used to make the world a cooler place.

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