{"id":348,"date":"2002-07-27T23:44:03","date_gmt":"2002-07-27T23:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/07\/27\/managing_sources.html"},"modified":"2002-07-27T23:44:03","modified_gmt":"2002-07-27T23:44:03","slug":"managing_sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/07\/27\/managing_sources.html","title":{"rendered":"managing sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not surprising that everyone loves Google<\/a>, as it continues to be the topic of so much controversy. And personally, i love the controversy as it reflects so much on people. Yesterday<\/a>, i brought up that people were starting to think about its impact on privacy. Tonite, i ran into an article questioning whether or not Google was ruining students abilities to think<\/a>. Of course, i read this article as i was taking a food break from websurfing for sources for my thesis.<\/p>\n

I’ve got into the most hysterical of habits. I’m sitting in my room, surrounded by the 92 books that i deemed “thesis related” and did not move to my mother’s in preparation of my upcoming move. Yet, academics and other writers are *terrible* indexers. Thus, as an example, i just picked up one of Lacan’s books and Googled for the concept\/term that i knew he said at some point in the 296 page book. Much to my dismay, i learned a long time ago that magically waving my hands at a book and screaming “grep” will not result in figuring out what page a quote is on. Thus, i Google. Google gives me a page number from someone’s paper and i look it up in the text. Voila, i’ve got my source and can read the full context of what it was that i wanted.<\/p>\n

Google has definitely made me lazy, although i’m not sure how much. I’m a terrible note taker. In fact, i can’t read my own handwriting so unless it made it to the computer, i can’t read it. Thus, my books are all underlined but i can’t read the notes along the side, so i’ve stopped writing more than one word there. Regardless, sticky notes do not ease my problems in finding an idea from a book that i’ve read. But writing notes onto the computer has many other problems. So, i’ve given up on note taking for the most part. I read, voraciously, and never remember the source for something i’ve read. Thus, when i invariably need the source for something, i rely on Google. Some student, somewhere has referenced the idea in one of their papers. Thus, i find out what they are quoting and go back to the original source to reconsider that section of the text. (Of course i am also fundamentally aware that you cannot ever trust someone else’s source. And given my aversion to the library and my love of half.com<\/a>, this recognition resulted in my need to move 16 boxes of books home last weekend. But still…)<\/p>\n

Google may have made unmotivated schoolchildren unbelievably lazy, but it has also helped us lazy academics focus on the ideas and have our notetaking eased into oblivion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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