Phew, made it!
So, to evaluate.
Some of the things are great gadgets and I'm glad I've found out about them - Doodle's really good. Zotero and Delicious seem to have a lot to offer. My iGoogle page is useful and now I know what to do with RSS feeds.
Seeing the social networking stuff has been interesting, too. There has been discussion about the Darwin Correspondence Project having a presence in this area; but it seems to me that if you want to do this you have to do it properly. Running a Facebook page is a commitment - nobody's interested if you haven't posted anything for three months.
So - definite possibilities, but like most things it takes hard work to be really successful.
Showing posts with label Delicious. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Delicious. Show all posts
Friday, 13 August 2010
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Thing 12
Finally got round to having a good look at Delicious. Found the Fox Talbot letters project:
http://www.foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/
In its section on 'Project methodology' it says
"Some elements of the approach to the work of another of Talbot's contemporaries, that of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press), have been adopted. However, this excellent work follows conventions established for literary manuscripts that are unnecessarily complex for the Talbot letters."
From a quick investigation, it doesn't seem as if CD gets even a passing reference in Fox Talbot's correspondence, nor Fox Talbot in CD's (just a reference in a footnote about daguerrotypes).
And a site selling CD on the Beagle t-shirts
http://www.thebeagleproject.com/
Delicious is tempting, but I haven't signed up for an account yet: having to create an account with Yahoo! has put me off for the time being. More accounts, more passwords: I need to think this over.
http://www.foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/
In its section on 'Project methodology' it says
"Some elements of the approach to the work of another of Talbot's contemporaries, that of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press), have been adopted. However, this excellent work follows conventions established for literary manuscripts that are unnecessarily complex for the Talbot letters."
From a quick investigation, it doesn't seem as if CD gets even a passing reference in Fox Talbot's correspondence, nor Fox Talbot in CD's (just a reference in a footnote about daguerrotypes).
And a site selling CD on the Beagle t-shirts
http://www.thebeagleproject.com/
Delicious is tempting, but I haven't signed up for an account yet: having to create an account with Yahoo! has put me off for the time being. More accounts, more passwords: I need to think this over.
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