User:Christine Bush

Introduction
I'm an independent writer and researcher living in Mountain View, California. I earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Excelsior College. My earlier undergraduate work focused on English Literature, Philosophy and Cognitive Science at NC State University. I attended San Jose State University where I studied Geography and History at the graduate level. I have training and work experience in geospatial technologies and continue to enjoy creating maps for various projects using open source GIS tools. I have over 15 years of experience as a web developer. I am researching and writing a book about the intersection of embodiment and epistemology when not working on a botanically-related app. I have a blog at ideaspeak.us and paint watercolors to relax.

I have been awarded two "barnstars" for my contributions to Wikipedia. I am the primary contributor to the article on "Encyclopedic knowledge" and a major contributor to the article on "Open educational resources." I find the online culture at Wikipedia to be toxic. I hope to contribute original maps and articles relating postcolonial studies and postmodernism to CZ. I also want to help fill in the gaps.

I wish to continue to support Citizendium financially, and I am working to implement a safe, secure way for donations by check in addition to using PayPal. I want to see CZ grow and thrive because I think its article cluster schema is one of the most useful and scholarly available.

June 2014 Election
I am excited to have been given a chance to serve a one-year term on the Citizendium Council as an Author Representative. It was eye-opening, however, to discover just how few of us actually participated in this election. We have work to do.

During the current term, I intend to work to increase participation on CZ and to encourage more contributors to vote next year. I also want new users to feel welcome to contact me directly with any questions about writing articles. I make no claim to having all the answers, only to having the right experience to find them for you.

>> I now have a page dedicated to my work in this capacity. You should still find my 2014 Election Statement here.

Academic
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Open Syllabus Project (API access only)

WorldCat

WorldCat Lists

Archives
Ancestry.com

Internet Archive

British Library

Genealogy Bank

Project Gutenberg

Library of Congress

Prelinger Archives (over 60,000 "ephemeral" films)

Prelinger Library

WikiLeaks

Booksellers and Reviews
Advanced Book Exchange

Folio Society

GoodReads.com Non-Fiction list (2013)

New York Review of Books

New York Times Books section

Powell's Books (Portland, OR)

Broadcast Sources
Aljazeera America

Associated Press

British Broadcasting Service

Democracy Now!

National Public Radio

Reuters

Journals
DeepDyve (great for independents without access to university library) $

Nature (International Journal)

New England Journal of Medicine

Wiley Online Library $$

ProjectMuse (for those with access through your library)

Questia

Magazines
The Atlantic

The Economist

National Geographic Society

Science

Scientific American

Smithsonian

WIRED

Archives and Indexes
ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Newspaper Archive ("World's Largest Collection")

World-Newspapers.com

Daily
Financial Times

The Guardian (UK, US, AUS editions available)

International Herald Tribune

New York Times

The Telegraph

The Times

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Other Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclo.co.uk (Sources)

Scholarpedia

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

WorldBook

Software
Evernote

Google Ngram Viewer

Google Scholar

Unrecoverable and As-Yet-Unrealized Sources
''...But new materials are continually being scanned, and the same methods that build a compelling historical argument one year may undo the argument the next because of new fodder for the keyword searches. In some cases, the answers to historians’ questions may lie forever out of reach, because they were printed in very minor publications that will never be captured by Google or ProQuest; or printed in sources now lost, like the newspapers in the British Museum destroyed by a German bomb in World War II; or discussed orally without ever being printed anywhere; or printed and digitized but expressed in discourse whose semantics cannot be matched by Boolean searching of words and phrases.''

Fred R. Shapiro, Yale Law School

"Who Wrote The Serenity Prayer?"

The Chronicle Review (May 2, 2014)

Recommended Reading for Citizens of the Compendium
The Uses of Being Wrong by Daniel W. Drezner

Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein

Articles/Subject Areas I Am Researching
Arlington National Cemetery

Cartography

Children's Literature

Encyclopedia

Gender

Hegel

Imprisonment

Map

Joan Miro

Georgia O'Keefe

Responsive Web Design

Edward Said

Sex_(disambiguation)

Watercolor

James McNeill Whistler

Wolves