Here are links to some of my most popular or noteworthy posts since I started my blog in August 2008, earliest to latest:
- Don’t believe everything you read
- Advice for writers about research
- Unforgiveable
- Spell-check is evil, but funny: The Cupertino Effect
- Porn for book lovers
- I’m shocked to discover there’s gambling in this casino…
- “Can’t decide which is more embarrassing — failing to cite Wikipedia as a source or using Wikipedia as a source.”
- “Laziness is not an excuse for plagiarism”
- “Never assume anything!”: Tips for greater accuracy
- In praise of browsing
- “When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books…”
- Time-traveling through the English language with the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
- How cutting and pasting can lead to plagiarism
- AP Stylebook surrenders the battle over “Web site” vs. “website”
- Interview about my “Creative Research for Writers” class
- A comparison of how the new style manuals treat tech words
- The CRAP test for evaluating sources
- The Cooks Source copyright infringement kerfuffle: No, the web is not “public domain”; But honestly, Cooks Source, your apology needs work; and A final post on Cooks Source
- The AP Stylebook is dropping the hyphen from “e-mail”
- NY Times ignores AP, clings to “e-mail” and “Web site”
- Yet another study shows that “digital natives” suck at searching
- Let’s talk about search
- The Great Gatsby was published 88 years ago today but won’t enter the public domain until 2021
- Lying to children about the past
- My talk about fact-checking
Here are links to posts on some of the subjects I frequently blog about:
- Research
- Evaluating sources
- Fact-checking
- Information literacy
- Editing
- Wikipedia
- Errors
- Plagiarism
- Google Book Settlement
For other subjects, see the list of post categories or use the search box to the right.
See my Sources page for links to posts about reference books and websites, digital collections, and information sources.
See my Tweets page for links to my Twitter feed and the public lists I’ve created.
Lisa Gold: Research Maven 