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October 2025

A Digital Archive for International Cold War History
The rebirth of the Wilson Center reminds me that the Center digitized and published much interesting material
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Michael J. Socolow
Brief Thoughts on a New AI Affordance
Artificial Intelligence is starting to make inroads in two industries I know well: journalism and academia.
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Michael J. Socolow
Notable New Yorkers: Searchable Oral History Interviews Hosted By Columbia University
Historical figures interviewed in the 1960s and 1970s by the Columbia Oral History Office. Digitized and available online, with excellent (hyperlinked…
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Michael J. Socolow
The Useful Digital Repository That's Hosted in a Bad Place: An Ethics Question.
A hate-filled website digitized an enormous amount of American journalism. How should researchers approach Unz.com ?
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Michael J. Socolow
The Half-Life of the Lint Trap
6 months in, 6 months to go ?
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Michael J. Socolow
Ken: The 1930s Journalism Experiment That Launched 3 Decades Too Early
The innovative magazine that encouraged new modes of reporting and writing, and anticipated "The New Journalism," was a bit too ahead of its time.
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Michael J. Socolow
Bari Weiss's Greatest Challenge at CBS
It's not the Murrow-Cronkite Legacy. It's not the newsrooms & bureaus filled with journalists more experienced than her. It's not the scale of the…
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Michael J. Socolow
Our World in Data: Catnip for the Curious
A Resource from Oxford University, filled with fascinating data
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Michael J. Socolow
Beta Gems: Another Youtube Channel Filled with Wonderful and Weird Lost Video Objects
Culled from over 1,000 videotapes, little snippets from a pop culture world that's disappeared
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Michael J. Socolow

September 2025

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