H9808A 2009 07 Links

Return to UWO History 9808A Digital History Fall 2009

Nothing could be more clear than the fact that the web is built from links, from "small pieces loosely joined" in David Weinberger’s phrase. This network structure has implications for the ways that we present history and cite sources, the ways that others find and consume our historical work, and the ways that careers are made (or not).

• Anderson, "The Long Tail," Wired 12, no. 10 (Oct 2004).
  

• Ayers, "History in Hypertext," (1999).
  

• Cohen, "The Spider and the Web: A Crowdsourcing Experiment," "The Spider and the Web: What Is This?," and "The Spider and the Web: Results," DanCohen.org (16-29 Apr 2009).
  

• Darnton, "The New Age of the Book," The New York Review of Books 46, no. 5 (18 Mar 1999).
  

• Graham, "A Plan for Spam," (Aug 2002).
  

• Gralla, "Ch 20 How Hypertext Works (Ch 22 7th ed.)", "Ch 21 How URLs Work (Ch 23 7th ed.)", "Ch 22 How Image Maps and Interactive Forms Work (Ch 24 7th ed.)"
  

• Metamend, "Search Engine Bots," (2007).
  

• Robertson, "Doing History in Hypertext," Journal of the Association for History and Computing 7, no. 2 (Aug 2004).
  

• Shirky, "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality," Clay Shirky’s Writings about the Internet (10 Feb 2003).
  

• Turkel, "Teaching Young Historians to Search, Spider and Scrape," Digital History Hacks (26 Dec 2005).

• Petrik, "Top Ten Mistakes in Academic Web Design," (2000).

Create a professional website for yourself. Now that you've learned enough HTML and CSS to feel comfortable with the construction of a very basic website, you are going to use Google Sites to build something more elaborate. Create a new site to advertise yourself, your interests in (public) history and your familiarity with digital skills. The nature and scope of the site is up to you, but you should make sure to create bidirectional links between your blog, your twitter feed and your new site. You should also include links to other related sites, blogs, online repositories, news feeds, etc.