The twentieth episode of Digital Campus is now up and ready for you to download. In this episode, Tom, Dan, and I discuss what the open access movement means for higher education. We also have a few critical things to say about BigThink.com, some positive things to say about PublicDomanReprints.org, and decide that as much…
When Google Gets it Wrong
One of my colleagues, Mark Stoneman, recently wrote an interesting post in his blog Clio and Me on what happens when Google gets it wrong–or, more correctly, when Google users don’t think carefully about the results they get from their search query. The example that Mark cites is depressingly familiar. Someone with a historical question…
Asking the Public to Mark Up Images (cross post with hist.net)
[This post appeared originally on the collaborative blog hist.net.] The photo sharing website Flickr.com and the Library of Congress in the United States have created a very interesting collaboration between a Web 2.0 business and a major cultural institution. The Commons, as it is known, invites the general public to mark up (they say “describe”)…
Geographies of Terror in Poland
I am now a participant in the group blog hist.net based in Switzerland. Before writing anything for the blog, I perused the entries for the past year and was particularly excited by several of them. The one I want to feature today is a post by Marcin Wilkowski about two websites based in Poland that…