http://www.veprek.com/cliowired/i-dream-of-color staying connected Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:44:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.veprek.com/cliowired/i-dream-of-color/comment-page-1#comment-20 Chris Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:10:57 +0000 http://www.veprek.com/2007/02/25/i-dream-of-color/#comment-20 You struck a chord with me, Laura, when you talk about not worrying about being the best at everything. That thought echoed a similar thought I had just posted on <a href="http://historiarum.org/2007/02/26/color/#comment-19" rel="nofollow">Ken's blog</a>. The beauty of the medium in which we are currently working is that we don't have to make everything from scratch. Progress is iterative on the web -- in fact, it is encouraged! As historians, we are constantly aware of the "p" word (plagiarism), but the web is built from that kind of collaboration! This should be freeing to us, allowing our focus to remain properly upon the content of our sites. I think we all need to remember that even the greatest minds have been iterative (Isaac Newton: "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."), and we should feel no shame allowing inspiration to flow from others. You struck a chord with me, Laura, when you talk about not worrying about being the best at everything. That thought echoed a similar thought I had just posted on Ken’s blog. The beauty of the medium in which we are currently working is that we don’t have to make everything from scratch. Progress is iterative on the web — in fact, it is encouraged! As historians, we are constantly aware of the “p” word (plagiarism), but the web is built from that kind of collaboration! This should be freeing to us, allowing our focus to remain properly upon the content of our sites. I think we all need to remember that even the greatest minds have been iterative (Isaac Newton: “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”), and we should feel no shame allowing inspiration to flow from others.

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