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What I Learned When I Got Lost In The InternetAuthor: What I Learned When I Got Lost In The Internet
Welcome to What I Learned When I Got Lost on The Internet. Its the podcast which brings you the feeling of getting sucked down the internet rabbit hole. You know that feeling you get when you click on one link after another and before you know it, youve got so many tabs open that Google Chrome has stopped counting because you went past 99, and you have no idea why youre suddenly signing up for a free trial of Antarcticas Anglers Anonymous online magazine just so you can read that random hot take on the European Unions new fisheries policy post Brexit. And most crucially, the sun is setting, and have no idea what you wanted to search for online in the first place. Was is it a stuffed Baby Yoda for a comfort animal or a 48 bundle pack of toilet paper, also I suppose, for comfort. Some explanation for how the podcast will be doing this. Every day, Wikipedia has a daily featured article, which is basically a page that the online encyclopedias editors feel represent the best it has to offer. Theyre usually well sourced, written, and adhere to the guidelines on accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style. What theyre saying is if, to pick a random example, you copy and paste the featured article on say Wage reform in the Soviet Union, 19561962, for your economics or history lesson, your lecturer or professor will know that its too perfect to be your own work, and you will get done for plagiarism. WILWIGLITI the second W is silent will connect one daily featured article to the next days using a web app called Six Degrees of Wikipedia, created and maintained by Jacob Wenger, a veritable computer whiz. You can try it yourself, go to http://sixdegreesofwikipedia.com and put in two different Wikipedia entries, and click Go! Jacobs wonderful programme shows you all the ways that those two topics are connected. Ill give you two examples. On the 31st of March 2020, the featured article was the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defense Agreement and on April the 1st, it was an article on the Ge Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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