Category Archives: Internet

Blogging the Book Project

Posted on June 6, 2012 by LaDale Winling

It’s the summer of the book manuscript, so I’m going over my existing draft, looking through the primary research I’ve already conducted, reflecting on my existing publications, doing more secondary reading, and planning for new research. In short, I’m knee-deep … Continue reading →

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Using a Wiki to Keep Notes

Posted on May 19, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Murph, a friend of mine from graduate school, used to take notes on a wiki on his personal site, Common Monkeyflower. I was damned impressed and tried to implement a wiki on the cheap for a few years, to no … Continue reading →

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Dang

Posted on November 19, 2011 by LaDale Winling

Another abortive attempt at deploying Drupal. I want to love you, Drupal, but you make it so hard.

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National Building Museum

Posted on August 21, 2011 by LaDale Winling

This image I took of the Great Hall of the National Building Museum last year was posted on Reddit and got a flood of views, so perhaps its worth a bit of explanation. This building, designed by Montgomery Meigs and … Continue reading →

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People-Powered Digital History

Posted on February 2, 2011 by LaDale Winling

A great example of the kind of democratic historical work drawing on knowledgeable amateurs that is increasingly possible with digital tools like wikis and web content management systems — Camera-wiki.org. An old site, camerapedia (now on wikia), was the go-to … Continue reading →

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The Limitations of Digital History

Posted on May 17, 2010 by LaDale Winling

Earnest digital historian Adam Crymble offers a defense of the recent decision that LAC will replace a student visitation program with digitized documents. [Image]Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is cutting an on-site World War I workshop intended for high school … Continue reading →

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Journalism and the Web

Posted on August 4, 2009 by LaDale Winling

For some reason I missed Whet Moser’s recap and explanation of the Chicago Journalism Town Hall way back in the Febs. But I just read it tonight — maybe you should, too. My favorite idea that came out of the … Continue reading →

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If You’re Like Me

Posted on May 23, 2009 by LaDale Winling

You were awakened by the drunken yelling of your roommate’s girlfriend at 4 in the morning, surfed around the web to find the New York Review of Books excerpt from the NYRB PEN World Voices economics symposium and wanted to … Continue reading →

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Hanging On

Posted on May 11, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Via the Ann Arbor Chronicle comes a reminder about an account of going to college in the Depression, Edmund Love’s Hanging On. I came across this book as I did research on student housing for my masters thesis and Love’s … Continue reading →

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On the Beeb

Posted on February 4, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Desperate for a photo of the north end of the Monadnock Building, somebody from the BBC contacted me about using this photo on my flickr stream. I said “ok” and you can see a multimedia slideshow here. It takes an … Continue reading →

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