My friend’s site (www.keatingreport.com) went live yesterday and I must admit it is living up to the hype. I highly suggest reading his rebuttal of Drudge’s xenophobic messages.
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Footnote.com presents itself as an online archive, geared towards helping people discover documents that one may otherwise have to visit College Park, Maryland to examine. Many of the National Archives Record Administration’s record holdings are becoming available online via Footnote, which could be a great thing to those who cannot afford to physically travel to NARA. To view such collections you can either pay a membership fee to gain access to everything, or take the free route and risk not getting access to the files you want. At first that sounds like great news for a historian. After perusing the Footnote site, however, one should be hit with the thought, why is there a fee attached to some of the record groups? Additionally, I do not recall having to pay for my NARA researchers card, so why pay to view the same files now? If this is truly about making more files readily available for historians, then they should follow the same practices as a National Archive’s facility and not charge a membership fee.
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So my good friend Michael Keating (www.keatingreport.com) has decided to challenge the Drudge Report’s (www.drudgereport.com) skewed take on the news. While my friend has not officially launched his site, I figured it could not hurt to get the word out there. Not too many people can argue as well as Michael, so his site should be a good read once he starts writing.
After finally feeling comfortable enough with WordPress, I endeavored to recreate my site. Having a growing appreciation for typography, it made sense to me that my redesign would move away from the heavy use of images and rely more on well thought out text. While I cannot say my typography skills are great, I am pleased with what I have been able to do. The use of Georgia as my primary font adds a touch of elegance and complexity to what was typically, and admittedly, a mundane site. I wanted to give my site such traits because I hope to focus more on my history related interests, while also showcasing my web design projects. Therefore, it made perfect sense to make this site appear far more professional, which necessitated the need for better typography and color choices.
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Synopsis
The purpose of Thompson-Werk is to exhibit my love of history and the web. This site is a repository of my musings concerning history and relevant web topics. My opinions should not be confused with those of my colleagues, employers, friends, family, or anyone else associated with me.
Contact me with any comments, complaints, and/or questions.
External
Good sites to visit...
- Abu Muqawama
- Airminded
- Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
- Corrina Thompson
- Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog
- History-ing
- In the Service of Clio
- Keating Report
- Kings of War
- Nunal
- Omar Multimedia
- On Violence
- PhDinHistory
- Progressive Historians
- Publick Occurences 2.0
- Stahlgewitter 1914-1918
- Strange Maps
- The Academy’s Bench Warmer
- The Edge of the American West
- Thoughts on Military History
- Trench Fever
