{"id":330,"date":"2005-02-21T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=330"},"modified":"2005-02-21T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T23:33:00","slug":"blog-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Blog gems"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing lots of blog browsing – checking up for my host role in Carnivalesque<\/a>, so it counts as work, really!<\/p>\n

I’m saving the historical gems for the carnival, but three other glittering posts to share:<\/p>\n

1. A joke<\/a> to be enjoyed by anyone who has ever had any contact with “consultants”. (And in my UN development days I was one, at least part-time, which involved in one instance my advising a woman on a country about which I knew nothing, and she’d been doing a PhD in Sydney when I was in nappies – I’m afraid I didn’t “value-add” much there, and probably picked out a few “dogs”.)<\/p>\n

2. Dr Charles<\/a> muses on the potential medical risks of thongs. (I mean the underwear sort, not the rubber flip-flop sort, for Australian readers.)<\/p>\n

3. The serious one. MGK<\/a> was visiting a Microsoft project trying to realise Vannevar Bush’s truly revolutionary post-WWII vision of information management and pointing out some potential hitches in the plans. I find this fascinating because it is something I have wanted ever ince the internet started, and indeed before.<\/p>\n

I was one of those odd children who wanted to collect facts and figures and never to forget them – the wall above my desk when I was 11 or so was a sea of nails with folders of facts hang on them, and ever since I’ve been battling to keep track of everything I want to know. And as I said in my most recent thesis<\/a>, it is what the internet really needs. (Search for Vannevar to get to the relevant bit.)<\/p>\n

On that line, I was interested to read Clioweb’s<\/a> post on the “Scribe” notetaking programme, apparently specifically designed for historians, and a commenter’s reference to Endnotes.<\/p>\n

Some time soon, and yes I do mean pretty soon, I hope to create a lot more space in my life for historical research, and I will need to move on from my undergraduate-acquired method of research – photocopying everything that doesn’t move and scribbling all over it, and filling books with Stick-it notes. Any comments or recommendations would be most welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing lots of blog browsing – checking up for my host role in Carnivalesque, so it counts as work, really! I’m saving the historical gems for the carnival, but three other glittering posts to share: 1. A joke to be enjoyed by anyone who has ever had any contact with “consultants”. (And in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}