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The Anthropology Museum at Wake Forest University now has an new online database that catalogs its entire collection -- that's more than 26,000 artifacts!
Lots of channels being created for communication about oncoming Gustav.
Florida posts a hurricane photo exhibits and reclaiming documents from water damage
Wilmington NC goes DTV on September 8
Here’s something you don’t see every day — a fax machine recall.
Mapping the Northern California Wildfires.
Discussion on the launch of LexMonitor.
Steven is bitter. And I don’t blame him.
Mozilla sets Firefox download record. Just over 8 million in 24 hours!
Hm. Microsoft bought Powerset?
Google talks about its new privacy link.
AdSense [...]
Bibliothèque de Toulouse’s on Flickr! Terrific.
I saw this screenshot and yelled “AAAH! It’s the first issue of Wired!”
More real-time quotes on Google Finance.
A Science Conference in World of Warcraft. Whee!
Real Life Snail Mail. Is the Internet just out to prove how weird it is?
Ask.com blog: Ask.com Makes More Moves on Privacy.
I had [...]
Congrats to BabyBoomer Librarian for one thousand posts.
University Presses are hooking up with Kindle.
Jon Orwant and Jarkko Hietaniemi deserve a medal. Someone is going to do something wonderful with this.
JupiterResearch: one quarter of world’s population will be online by 2012.
LexisNexis expands its Congressional Digital Collection.
FictionDB is now free. Rawk!
What’s new with [...]
Online Journalism Review goes away.
Safari Books Online has upgraded.
YouTube video for toddlers. Heh.
GovGab has some more information about the tomato recall and food recalls in general.
Gary got a hat tip! And well deserved too.
It’s the Return of Google Code Jam!
Good news for IE and del.icio.us.
Not long until November: it’s [...]
WOW. Jeremy is leaving Yahoo.
Wiki launched for data modeling.
Wikis for procedure manuals. I tried something like this work and couldn’t get much interest…
ProQuest will acquire Dialog.
Wow. If it happens this planned BBC archive is going to be awesome.
Firefox 3 coming out on Tuesday.
70+ Videos of Google I/O sessions.
New online [...]
Google has announced on its official page that there’s a new version of Google Trends available. If you have a Google Account you can now download trend information in CSV format. Very cool.
You can trend multiple search terms. I was curious about a term that’s been bumping around my radar for the last couple [...]
New search engine available for Tanzania.
California has developed a database of “green” buildings.
Indiana History Magazine, 1905-2006, now available online.
Because it’s the INTERNET, that’s why — a social media site for collecting information about zombies. The kind that shuffle around and aggressively request brains, not the computer kind.
eBay ends Media Marketplace experiment.
Del.icio.us [...]
Google Maps for Mobile — now with transit directions.
Founding Fathers papers to go digital.
Greatest Defunct Web Sites. What about Flooz?
How to get and keep Windows XP after June 30.
New group tools in Flickr.
The NAL Blog: The Farm Bill Fix Is In.
The Wiki of legit P2P uses.
New Research Guide on Public [...]
The Pennsylvania Legislative Journals go online back to 1993.
News from Australia in Google Earth.
Interesting: Getting crafty with Google Book Search.
Yahoo Developer Network hiring a technical evangelist. Does Yahoo have a consumer applications evangelist? Not enough folks know about the Cool Stuff.
25 Ways Libraries Can Serve Book Groups.
Rhode Island now has an [...]
Coming this fall: The Blackfoot Digital Library.
CNN and the NYT are Twittering.
Google Book Search bibliography now available.
FeedBurner talks about AdSense for feeds.
Amazon and Borders, officially broke up.
Interactive Web sites and shaping public perception.
The Brooklyn Museum is now in the Flickr Commons!
I was wondering if that was new. Google has [...]
AWS has an article about the New York Times TimesMachine. Unfortunately it’s for Times print subscribers only…
Condoleeza Rice at Google.
Google has tool to check for malware.
News mapped on Google Earth.
Hey! Cory’s in a comic strip.
US Airways: No More Free Snacks. I think eventually they’re just going to stack passengers like cordwood.
Google’s new? [...]
More instructional material on the Internet, this time wrapped up in a search engine. New engine HowDoYa.com (http://HowDoYa.com) gave me some odd results, but I like the way it offers additional topic keywords.
The first thing I did when I got to this site (simple keyword search) was run the Strawberry Shortcake Test. HowDoYa.com got [...]
Let’s just keep riding that multimedia indexing bandwagon, shall we? The next stop is Snipp.TV ( http://www.snipp.tv/search ), which allows you to search audio and media files for keywords. Snipp.TV describes what it is doing as “keyword spotting,” so I’m not sure if entire transcriptions of clips are being generated and searched. I did have [...]
Microsoft expands list of formats supported by Office. Including PDF.
American to start charging for all checked bags. Wrinkly twice-worn clothes are the new black.
Meryl’s blog is having a birthday celebration/contest and I’m kickin’ in a couple of books as prizes. There are other, much cooler, prizes as well, so check it out.
An [...]
I do not sit around and say to myself, “Wow, I sure would like an online resource featuring engravings of 17th century Scotland,” but this is a nice site. John Slezer published his drawings in a book called “Theatrum Scotiae”, which has been turned into a Web site called “Slezer’s Scotland”. This Web site is [...]
South Carolina State Parks now have wireless access. I’m jealous.
Malcom Gladwell has a new book coming out. Swoon.
Google responds to the earthquake in China.
Twitter and the BDA the legal profession.
RIT has a new Web site for extreme winter sports.
H’m. YouTomb.
Putting Google News on Google Earth.
“Unlike a doctor or [...]
Online memorial planned for China quake victims.
What a great technology term…. Creepy Treehouse!
Pandia interviews Northern Light.
OLPC is getting Windows???? WhatwhatWHAT?
Digital Image Resources on the Deep Web. Nicely done!
Walt Mossberg likes the Wii Fit.
Yahoo Maps have more traffic.
YouTube has some new search features.
How interesting! Using Wikipedia for information managment.
Selected parts of the Yale Daily News have been archived.
The Reference Desk Scratchpad. How cool!
CBS bought CNET?
Google News now offers related searches.
Student turns first-year law into tunage. “Cause I relied on you/And you screwed me through and through/So it’s promissory estoppel; We made plans far ahead/And [...]
Footnote.com adds 1860 Census.
Even adorable baby eaglets can get their own press releases.
USPTO adds some really old patents.
China news portal SINA has launched an English version.
Wow. I didn’t know that Amazon Web Services used more bandwidth than Amazon’s retail sites. Jeff posted a chart.
dLife launches search tool with over 10,000 diabetes-friendly recipes.
The [...]
Local directory for Burbank CA: http://justburbank.com/. No offense Burbank, but your house prices are making my head explode.
FeedBurner is moving to a Google Account system.
Sending scent over cell phones. Many horrible scenarios go through my mind.
Blogger now schedules future-date posts.
It’s probably just the fall of the blog cards, but I’m getting [...]
Newspaper closes paper version, goes exclusively online.
WB returns to life as online video offering?
Google Custom Searching for Creative Commons content.
GovGab has an entire blog entry about road kill.
New: EB Green Digital Library.
Jeremy invites Microsoft and Yahoo to spit or get off the pot. With kittens. I can has merger?
Study: How people are [...]
If you have English ancestry, an interest in your family’s history, and some patience, do I have a site for you. It’s a Web site aggregating the proceeding of the trials at the Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court in England) from 1674-1913. This site covers almost 200,000 trials.
The site is running a bit [...]
Handy! The Maine State Library has announced a new mobile-accessible library, now available at mobile.maine.gov/msl. Unlike some mobile sites, you can also access this one with a regular Web browser.
From the main menu of the Maine State Library mobile site you can quickly get to contact information for the library, FAQs, new audio book [...]
Snicker: Windows Vista = “New Coke”.
Library of Congress building gets a mash note.
Official Google Blog on World Book Day.
Steve Matthews is just sayin’.
St. Olaf history now online.
There’s a new Opera on the horizon.
The top healthy food blogs. These are blogs dedicated to healthy food, not food blogs which happen to [...]
New search engine for finding flights in Japan.
New List of Federally-Recognized Tribes Published. And wow, a nicely extensive set of resources for Native American legal searching.
Google Blog posts a tribute to Tom Lehrer.
1000 Rare Haggadahs Now Available Online.
New French-Canadian records on Ancestry.ca.
UCLA: our brains dig fairness.
Huh. Non-anonymous reviewers can [...]
