Specialists believe the actual number of cases in Brazil could be up to seven times higher than the official statistic. Johns Hopkins University says Brazil is performing an average of 14 tests per 100,000 people each day, and health experts say that number is up to 20 times less than needed to track the virus.

Ed Summers has written a thoughtful review essay of two recent web archiving books in the current issue of the American Archivist, which is presently free to access due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the essay, he reviews History in the Age of Abundance alongside Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder’s 2017 edited collection The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present.

Happy to say that Summers has positive things to say about the two books overall! For me, this quote popped out:

Two recently published books—one by Ian Milligan (2019) and one edited by Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder (2017)—provide essential guides to help answer the question of what web archives are by describing concrete, nonhypothetical examples of how social science and humanities researchers are using web archives today. For those who have participated in web archiving activity and pondered how the records would get used, and for those who are looking to get involved in web archiving but are not sure what it takes, these two books are essential reading.

I was curious how the book would be received within the archives profession. I take pains to note that the “web archive” of a web archive doesn’t line up nicely with the understanding of an “archive” within the profession, but there’s inevitably slippage in my work. Summers’ conclusion of the essay is essential reading as well, as it points towards a lot of cutting-edge scholarship – as well as a nice link to Emily Maemura’s great bibliography.

Anyways, you can read the full review here in HTML or as a downloadable PDF.

 Sacrificing a week of our lives is nothing for what Trump has done for us.”

3 Days of Talks & Workshops on JavaScript & WordPress

Austin been posting nerdy WordPress stuff again.

WordPress can be configured as a standalone site or a multisite network. Ever since I wrote about Dynamically Load WordPress Database, I kept wondering if that method could be used to create a hybrid WordPress mode. After a weekend of exploring the idea I came up with an experimental new mode which I’m calling stackable WordPress.

Look at that. Just look at it. Nunc et hendrerit arcu. There is also the fact that I didn’t create any GUI. Pellentesque at odio ornare, ultrices erat et, mollis nisl. Maecenas in commodo turpis. Curabitur a metus in odio facilisis luctus id ultricies ante. Sed rhoncus nulla massa, id luctus nulla blandit eget. Pellentesque faucibus nibh mi, et congue eros tincidunt eu. Mauris volutpat lobortis mauris et sollicitudin. Sed blandit dapibus dictum. Integer ut tempor magna. Vivamus sollicitudin mi at magna commodo, id dictum dui lobortis.

Some stuff before

He also defended the stay-at-home orders as having saved “millions of lives,” and drew attention to anti-science bias and the disproportionate impact the virus is having on the black community.

 

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BBC Reports: The family own a villa in Geneva’s wealthy neighbourhood of Cologny, and the charges against them all relate to their practice of importing servants from India to look after their children and household.

There are a lot of differences between the Koran and the Hebrew Bible. David is one thing. The Koran is — and this you should excuse me, for the home team, I like Judaism much better — the Koran is very unwilling to allow any sinfulness in its heroes.

COWEN: He’s much more heroic, David; as is Moses.

WOLPE: Much more, as is Moses, as is everyone in the story.

COWEN: Never so hesitant.

WOLPE: Right, exactly. I like the idea of flawed heroes. I like the notion that there isn’t this whitewashing. And I feel the Quran does that. But obviously, I’m not a Muslim.

John Fea says Brent Kavanaugh learned well at Yale.

“Kavanaugh was a history major at Yale. During his years studying history, he no doubt learned about Seneca Falls and Stonewall. He also learned to think critically,  make an argument, understand historical context, and reflect on the many ways the past relates to the present. He is now using those skills, guided by a particular judiciary philosophy, to make Supreme Court decisions.”

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