When I wrote my Wikipedia article last week, I did some poking around and playing with various tools to see how I could make my editing as painless and productive as possible. […]
Falling In a Rabbit Hole and Landing on Wikipedia
Some days ResearchBuzz feels like a process of deliberately setting out to find rabbit holes and then struggling not to fall down them. Case in point was recently when I read about […]
Saturday Morning Happy Pi Day Buzz, March 14th, 2015
NEW RESOURCES There’s a new Twitter bot for tracking edits made to Wikipedia. This one’s watching the NYPD. “The account was created Friday morning, after a Capital New York report detailed extensive […]
RPI, Dropbox, Mapping, More: Sunday Afternoon Buzz, March 2, 2014
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has digitized its newspaper archives. “Issues of The Poly from 1885 to 1976 can be searched online by anyone. An earlier iteration of The Poly that only lasted for […]
Vermont, DMOZ, Wikipedia, More: Tuesday Buzz, February 4, 2014
Thanks to PIBuzz for the pointer to VTDigger’s announcement that it has launched a searchable campaign finance database. “The database features complete lists of donations to candidates for Vermont House, Vermont Senate […]
