Readings, Readings, Readings

Is it just me, or did some of these readings seem a little technical?  The charts explaining the different bytes were very helpful though.  It’s amazing how much information is out there, and how much we are producing on a yearly basis.  Of course, classes like this one are helping to add to those never-ending [...]

Wiki Wiki

Editing Wikipedia was pretty easy, maybe a little too easy.  If I was a bad person, I could have typed anything in there.  Check out my edit to the Post-War years at Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_House%2C_The_Robert_E._Lee_Memorial

A note on the readings…

I find the concept of wiki’s very interesting.  It is a very neat way of getting information out there and contributing to the information already on the web, but I am still a little leary of open source web sites.  How do you know which post is legit?  Do they catch all the vandals on [...]

Reverse Engineering

I chose to reverse engineer www.colonialwilliamsburg.org for class.  The website is dynamic, you can roll over certain links and menus pop up for you to choose from.  The site also uses Adobe Flash player for slide shows and interactive menus.  The site also uses javascript for its events calendar.  Also, this site must have a [...]

Reactions to “Digital History”

The readings for this week really opened my eyes to the world of history on the Internet.  I always thougth that anyone could create a great website with little or no effort involved.  Cohen and Rosensweig made me understand that I really need to think about what I want the site to achieve, the easiest [...]