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Please take a look at my image assignment a tell me what you think.
I didn’t change the design too much besides the head banner and border (rug free). I am wondering if anyone knows how to turn of the blue borders around my images in IE6 I would really appreciate it. I made them links and did the following in CSS
a:link {
color: same as background color ;
}
and
a:visited {
color: same as background ;
}
This works in Safari and Firefox, but not IE. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Another issue in IE is that a huge distance is created between my first h3 (Restored Photo) and my first paragraph. I honestly have no idea where to begin in fixing this.
I wanted to respond to Kristin’s March 5th blog post concerning the ownership of ideas in websites. Some classmates from last semester’s Clio-Wired course probably remember the uproar caused over the website arxiv.org. Recall this site was a forum that housed unpublished articles in Physics, Mathematics and other hard sciences as a means of publication, albeit not peer-reviewed. Dr. Cohen argued that this method of posting new articles benefits a historian more than the traditional form of peer-reviewed submission, as reputation and dissemination are more important factors in finding a job than publication number. It is more important to get your name out there in academic circles quickly, which the net allows you to do, than wait for the slow review process. However an arxiv.org equivalent has yet to surface for the humanities. Why is that? Both disciplines rely on submission, collaboration, critique and re-submission. So what is the difference.
I believe the answer is two-fold. Primarily, in what might seem intuitive to most digitally inclined historians by now, the major establishments (such as universities and journals) don’t fully comprehend the importance of the web. We believe that since we study the past, we are allowed to live in it. Thus websites and blog posts are not taken seriously by many historians. One reason may deal with the idea we have of the written word as seemingly more final than spoken language. We should use the web as a forum for collaboration and revision similar to what we currently do, on a much smaller scale with our mentors and professors. The scary part now is that everyone has access to our ideas and can pilfer them at will if we give too much.
I personally believe that arxiv.org could work for the humanities, but we are more reluctant to adopt this as the major players in the field have yet to embrace digital technology as legitimate. Maybe this means that we create sites that are not completely open-access, similar to online databases accessible only through academic institutions that can be monitored. If we did this I don’t think we would actually have as big a problem with stealing ideas as we think, since we will have records (including dates) of who posted an idea first.
