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Eric Wardell

Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past - 0 views

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history open source wikipedia future

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  • possessive individualism
  • A historical work without owners and with multiple, anonymous authors is thus almost unimaginable in our professional culture
  • freedom
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  • “avoid bias.”
  • Are Wikipedians good historians? As in the old tale of the blind men and the elephant, your assessment of Wikipedia as history depends a great deal on what part you touch. It also depends, as we shall see, on how you define “history.”
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      Eric Wardell on 04 Apr 12
       
      A parable often used to describe the different interpretations of religion.
  • You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided … you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License.”
  • Wikipedia as History
  • online historical writing
  • Part of the problem is that such broad synthetic writing is not easily done collaboratively.
  • Yet what is most impressive is that Wikipedia has found unpaid volunteers to write surprisingly detailed and reliable portraits of relatively obscure historical figures—for example, 900 words on the Union general Romeyn B. Ayres.
  • whatever-centric,” they acknowledge in one of their many self-critical commentaries.
  • Wikipedia can act as a megaphone, amplifying the (sometimes incorrect) conventional wisdom.
  • great democratic triumph of Wikipedia—its demonstration that people are eager for free and accessible information resources.
  • Even Jimmy Wales, who has been more tolerant of “difficult people” than Sanger, complained about “an unfortunate tendency of disrespect for history as a professional discipline.”
  • Wikipedia's view of history is not only more anecdotal and colorful than professional history, it is also—again like much popular history—more factualist.
  • the problem of Wikipedian history is not that it disregards the facts but that it elevates them above everything else and spends too much time and energy (in the manner of many collectors) on organizing those facts into categories and lists.
  • also affect how scholarly work is produced, shared, and debated
  • Eric Wardell on 04 Apr 12
     
    This is an article that discusses the views of professional historians regarding wikipedia. I think it makes a number of interesting claims both regarding the management or historical data and wikipedia's role in promoting a particular historical paradigm.
Jessica Murphy

Vigilant Schools or Invasion of Privacy? - 0 views

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web social politics policy school privacy Facebook media networking students

shared by Jessica Murphy on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Jessica Murphy on 01 May 12
     
    A school district in Delaware recently proposed a rule that would require teachers to unfriend students, a district in Maine is banning all social networking, chat sites, forums, and other sites from state-provided laptops, and now the New York City Department of Education will now monitor teachers' interactions with students on professional social networking services. Teachers were warned not to expect any privacy and that administrators and officials should have access to the professional accounts. This makes me wonder if now workplaces and universities will require employees to loosen their privacy settings on their accounts.
Rachel Henderson

Twitter Is All in Good Fun, Until It Isn't - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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nytimes social networking twitter

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  • Rachel Henderson on 17 Feb 12
     
    Twitter etiquette - knowing when to be personal and when to be professional - or recognizing the lack of a line between the two.
jessi lew

Don't see the value in LinkedIn? You're not alone | Social networking - InfoWorld - 0 views

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linkedin social networking

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  • jessi lew on 13 Mar 12
     
    This article questions the value of LinkedIn, noting that many users are members without involvement. This raises questions about professional identity in a social media atmosphere-- is it worth it for the user to create a brand for herself here?
Bonnie Thibodeau

SMHollingsworth the Copywriter - 1 views

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blog philospohy web design digital writing

shared by Bonnie Thibodeau on 31 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Bonnie Thibodeau on 31 Mar 12
     
    This is a web site of a friend I used to work with, and thought it was a nice example of designing a web site for a professional portfolio as well as including personal interests and links.
anonymous

I am SEO and so can you: tool helps tweak content for search, Twitter - 1 views

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SEO professional writing search

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  • anonymous on 16 Apr 12
     
    An article about Inbound Writer, software that helps writers revise their content to maximize search engine optimization. The author's conclusion: "Just like the Internet it is served across, InboundWriter is just an information source, and it can be used for good or evil."
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