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01
Jun

www.foundhistory.org

With help from Ammon, I have finally managed to give Found History the respectable URL it deserves, replacing the ponderous
27
May

TagLines

If you haven't done so already, visit Yahoo's TagLines now.  A rolling timeline of the eight
27
May

FuturesWatch Timeline

Here's another (crazy) example of how futurists (science fiction writers, etc.) look to history for process and inspiration.
25
May

"You Have Died of Dysentery"

More history on Rocketboom.  Check out Amanda's t-shirt.
23
May

Yellow Arrow

Here's another instance of amateurs beating professionals to the punch. There has been a lot of talk lately
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19
May

Amateur Historical Archaeology with Google Maps

He doesn't call it historical archaeology, and there's nothing to suggest he thinks of it that
12
May

The Big Foot Riders of Wounded Knee

Rocketboom had a piece this week on the Big Foot Riders of Wounded Knee.  For the past 19 years, a
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11
May

(retro)blogger

Predictably, the Harvard undergraduate plagiarism scandal has focused more attention on the thief—sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan—than on the thieved,
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08
May

Amazon History

Following on my earlier post, here are two additional examples of practitioner web histories, both concerning Amazon.com.  The first
05
May

Calendars as Timelines

Jeremy had a post yesterday about the buzz over timelines at CHNM.  For the last year or so, we have
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