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Draw Your Own Johnny Cash
At the Johnny Cash Project, you can draw a portrait of Johnny Cash which is then integrated with other people’s portraits. Which reminds me that today in 1969, Sesame Street debuted on National Educational Television. Oscar the Grouch: Say! Aren’t … Continue reading
This Day in Information: The Bodleian Library
Today in 1602, the Bodleian Library was officially inaugurated at Oxford University. “Thomas Bodley wanted his library to become ‘a notable treasure for the multitude of volumes: an excellent benefit for the use and ease of studentes: and a singular … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: Elections and the Media
Today in 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected U.S. President, taking over 55% of the popular vote and winning 39 of the 48 states. It was the first time two of the major television networks used computers to predict the … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: Informed Citizenry
Today in 1772, the town of Boston established a Committee of Correspondence as an agency to organize a public information network in Massachusetts; the Committee drafted a pamphlet and a cover letter which it circulated to 260 Massachusetts towns and … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: The Telegraph and Metcalfe’s Law
Today in 1870, the U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph. For the first time, weather observations from distant points could be “rapidly” collected, plotted, and analyzed at one location. A … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: First Newsreel
Today in 1927, the first Movietone newsreel was shown at the Roxy Theater in New York, 22 days after the opening of the feature-length film that ushered in the era of the “talkies.” In The Jazz Singer, Al Jolson spoke … Continue reading
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This Day In Information (Exxtra! Exxtra!): Transcontinental Telegraph
Today in 1861, the transcontinental telegraph, the first instant communications link between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, was completed. That evening, the first messages were sent to President Abraham Lincoln. The message from Horace W. Carpentier, president of the Overland … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Information for Development
Today is World Development Information Day. “The effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) holds the potential of boosting economies, improving healthcare delivery, enhancing education and learning processes, and strengthening democratic processes.”– UN Commission on Science and Technology for … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: World Statistics Day
Today is the first World Statistics Day. “Here he comes big with Statistics, Troubled and sharp about fac’s. He has heaps of the Form that is thinkable—The stuff that is feeling he lacks.” — Robert Louis Stevenson “Our modern reliance … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Earliest Surviving Film
Today in 1888, Louis Le Prince shot Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture.
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