This week Yahoo! Buzz provides a telling glimpse into the popular historical mind with a list of last Sunday’s top twenty “history” searches. Perhaps predictably the list leans towards the geeky (”History of the Computer” and “History of the Internet”), which probably reflects the technological and scientific biases of internet users, and towards the […]
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Searching History
July 5th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags Over Time
January 8th, 2007 · No Comments
There’s a new trend in online amateur history that digital history scholars would do well to notice. A few months ago I pointed to Yahoo’s Taglines, a Flash visualization of the changing use of Flickr tags over a 16 month period from June 2004 to September 2005. More recently Chirag Mehta, an IT […]
Tags: History of Technology · Microsoft · Timelines · Tools · Yahoo!
TagLines
May 27th, 2006 · No Comments
If you haven’t done so already, visit Yahoo’s TagLines now. A rolling timeline of the eight most popular Flickr tags for each day since 2004, TagLines is the most exciting piece of historical work—amateur or otherwise—I’ve seen a while. It is a provocative preview of what will be possible when historians manage fully […]
Tags: Timelines · Visualizations · Yahoo!