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 others find and consume our historical work, and the ways that careers are made (or not).
Readings for Discussion
Anderson, Chris. “![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
The Long Tail,” Wired 12, no. 10 (Oct 2004).
Ayers, Edward L. “History in Hypertext,” (1999).
Darnton, Robert. “The New Age of the Book,” The New York Review of Books 46, no. 5 (18 Mar 1999).
Graham, Paul. “A Plan for Spam,” (Aug 2002).
Metamend. “Search Engine Bots,” (2007).
Robertson, Stephen. “Doing History in Hypertext,” Journal of the Association for History and Computing 7, no. 2 (Aug 2004).
Shirky, Clay. “Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality,” Clay Shirky’s Writings about the Internet (10 Feb 2003).
