More Noted Things

Both Meg at xoom and Another Damned Medievalist are challenging the practice of Medievalists.net and Medieval News of picking up stories (sometimes verbatim) from other sites, deleting author's names, and, of course, not linking to the original source of the story. ADM has carried the objection to Facebook, where the spokesperson for Medievalists.net refuses to acknowledge the unattributed theft and, elsewhere, claims to be"livid" about the charges. But these folk have been caught red-handed and flat-footed. They need to correct their practice before extending their territory to History of the Ancient World and Early Modern England.

Patricia Cohen,"Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit," NYT, 15 March, looks at the special problems of archiving electronic manuscripts.

Michael Kazin,"God and Woman at Wasilla," Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Spring, reviews Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life and Matthew Continetti'sThe Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down A Rising Star.

"Has Education Reform Gone Too Far?" TNR, 15 March, is a symposium, featuring Diane Ravitch, Richard Rothstein, and Ben Wildavsky.