It is queer how many publishers do not know the meaning of the word "copyright." The Club Woman is copyrighted, which means that no other publisher has a right to reprint articles from this magazine without giving full credit to THE CLUB WOMAN. But we are continually coming across articles and paragraphs taken bodily from our columns and reprinted as original in some other periodical. In one case a Boston paper did this and the articles which was "lifted" (to put it politely) has been copied far and wide, with credit to the "lifting" publication—one which, by the way, stands for the best and highest advancement of woman!

A magazine from 1897 gives an unusual definition of copyright: no copying without attribution. CC BY avant la lettre. #ViralTexts

.@duncanfaherty : #AmST archives "far too canonical" & @ryancordell's #viraltexts project show "important" texts not always canon #fasi16

11yo applies to #ViralTexts:

Do you know Regular Expressions or R?

I can't watch R-rated movies, but I'm very good at expressing emotions

.@abbymullen seems to have figured out how to extract the citations from C19 newspapers—the initial idea that inspired #ViralTexts years ago

Going Viral in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers | Ryan C. Cordell Book history, digital humanities, old newspapers, and information sciences

An excerpt from my forthcoming Virtual Victorians article, “Viral Textuality in C19 Newspaper Exchanges” ryancordell.org/research/going-viral-in-... #ViralTexts

Excited to welcome @pfyfe to the @NUlabTMN Open Office Hours today, and afterwards to plot some #viraltexts collaboration...

Chronicling America - The Library of Congress

Now THAT’s a C19 pen name-“Coriolanus Cummingford”-both it & the poem title could work in C21 adult films chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024718/1878-02-... #ViralTexts

Elizabeth Akers Allen - Wikipedia

BTW Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen seems *fascinating*—looking forward to digging more into her bio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Chase_Allen #ViralTexts

Mapping w/@abbymullen an American woman’s poem—“Rock Me to Sleep”—attributed variously to her real & pen names over decades #ViralTexts

Charles M Dickinson’s poem “The Children” became for C19 readers Charles Dickens’ posthumous masterpiece #ViralTexts www.youtube.com/watch

Fitting that the final newspaper reprinting (we’ve found) of a disputed #ViralTexts poem calls it “A fugitive poem that many authors claim”

Finding fascinating responses by regional US authors whose poems were attributed to famous (often UK) writers as they circulated #ViralTexts

Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, September 08, 1870, Image 1 Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, September 08, 1870, Image 1, brought to you by Indiana State Library, and the National Digital Newspaper Program.

.@abbymullen finds newspapers likely sharing printing plates in our #ViralTexts data-see chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038034/1870-09-... & chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87075001/1870-09-...

I love the compound “error-full” @dasmiq uses to describe OCR in digital archives. It’s descriptive but strangely mellifluous #ViralTexts

OII Network Visualisation Example

How’s this for big(ish) humanities data? Network of #C19am newspaper reprinting. 473 nodes; 77,604 edges http://networks.viraltexts.org/1836to1899/index.html #ViralTexts

Quick network graph of the full C19 #ViralTexts data shows the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer w/highest degree of any node. Curiouser &c.

Book history nerds: “A Printer’s Epitaph” Winchester Home Journal 1843-05-06 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn97065088/1858-05-... #ViralTexts http://t.co/80WKiKrCcg

Trying to figure out what version of the #ViralTexts network graph could work in B&W, fairly small, in print…not a trivial question...

Have found widely-reprinted lists of pure information (e.g.):
Population stats
Ages of animals
Sizes of ancient cities
&c. &c.
#ViralTexts

Fascinated w/the many widely reprinted information squibs in C19 newspapers-which recall @laurenfklein’s work on C19 data viz #ViralTexts

No 2 persons…should habitually sleep together. 1 will thrive & the other will lose chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87075001/1869-04-... #ViralTexts http://t.co/0nlirEJ2of

Chronicling America - The Library of Congress

Need a listicle on healthy sleep habits to go w/that Fitbit? The Memphis Daily Appeal reprinted 1 in 1869 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045160/1869-09-... #ViralTexts

I’m thinking we should do a full comparison of our C19 newspaper reprints against brainyquote, thinkexist, &c. #ViralTexts

Interesting to see how many widely reprinted (often v. cliché) C19 newspaper squibs have since migrated to quotation websites #ViralTexts

Horse Dentists Hate Me for This One Weird Trick! #viraltexts chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038034/1856-10-... http://t.co/kRLqogbUDc

The moral of this story? Subscribe to the paper or *suffer a most painful death*
#ViralTexts chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042147/1841-05-... http://t.co/GOPnIKZEvj

Suddenly realize all these “to-do” or “advice” columns found in the #ViralTexts proj would today be called—for better or worse—“lifehacks”

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Huge thanks to @arnicas who helped me make a much nicer web-viewable version of some #ViralTexts network data viraltexts.org/networks/1836to1860Mags/...

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#f14tmn here’s a far more utilitarian graph from #viraltexts viraltexts.org/networks/1836-1860wMags/...

Sitting down to #ViralTexts & Techn'gies of Authorship in C19 US w @ryancordell at @BowdoinCollege -- we finally meet & for the best reason!