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| It’s SNOWING in the Sierras. Huzzah! The best thing we Californios could have at the end of 2015. |
Regular reader Fred had an excellent idea.
“Why not,” he wrote, “do a summary of the year in SearchResearch?” A kind of year-end look back at the best-of (and maybe worst of) the year.
In particular, my “over the holidays” project is to put together a small e-book on the “best-of” SearchResearch, which I hope to post to you sometime in January.
But in the meantime, I’d love to hear YOUR thoughts about this. This leads to this week’s not-really-a-Challenge question, but I hope you’ll take a couple of minutes to answer…
1. What was your favorite SearchResearch Search Challenge of 2015? (If you must, feel free to slip back into 2014–we never did a summary of that year.) Tell us what you liked about the Challenge you enjoyed the most, or what you learned from it.
2. What was the best / most-interesting thing you learned in 2015 about search or research? I’m looking for good ideas for future SearchResearch Challenges, but also I’m also looking for new information resources that we should all know about.
Pro tip: You can find all of the posts during a given month by using the inurl: operator. Do it like this to find all of the January, 2015 posts:
First, I found an archive collection of Boyton’s letters (nicely transcribed from their original handwritten forms). This collection includes his “Dear Jane” letter, breaking off their relationship, to Elise (Feb 21, 1893) where he tells her “…my life is one full of danger and I fear I have done you wrong to ask you to share it…” It’s an odd letter; he’s letting her down partly by saying that his new “secret” job (apparently a reference to his job as a human torpedo delivery man for the Peruvian navy) is too dangerous, and anyway, the letter he had received from Elise’s father had “caused me great pain…”
