NEW RESOURCES Diane Romm sent me a heads-up about a new site of hers: Jewish Digital Collections at http://www.jewishdigitalcollections.com/ . She described it in her email as “an annotated list of more […]
ResearchBuzz
News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such online information collections. Since 1998.
Ireland Pubs, Crowdsourced Marine Photography, Political Maps, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 27, 2018
NEW RESOURCES The Sunday Times: Photographer raises the bar by snapping every Irish pub. “Leopold Bloom, the fictional protagonist in James Joyce’s Ulysses, mused that a good puzzle would be to ‘cross […]
New Zealand Flu Epidemic, 1960s Brisbane, Sustainable Development, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, November 27, 2018
NEW RESOURCES New Zealand Herald: The killer that claimed more lives than WWI. “For decades, most of the influenza victims’ graves in Wellington’s Karori Cemetery lay neglected and overgrown. Many people lay […]
WikiTribune, Pakistan Social Media, Facebook, More: Monday Evening ResearchBuzz, November 26, 2018
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Columbia Journalism Review: Wikipedia’s co-founder wanted to let readers edit the news. What went wrong?. “IT’S BEEN ALMOST A YEAR since the launch of WikiTribune, the crowdsourced news site […]
Early Stuart England, Underground Radio Stations, Facebook, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, November 26, 2018
NEW RESOURCES University of Birmingham: University of Birmingham Research sheds light on Early Stuart England pamphleteering. “Hundreds of handwritten pamphlets detailing the news, politics, intrigue and scandals of pre-Civil War Britain are […]
