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« July 2003 | Main | September 2003 » August 28, 2003Couple of New RSS Resources
Couple of new RSS resources for those of you interested in RSS. Lockergnome's RSS Resource -- http://rss.lockergnome.com/ -- At first glance this looks like it's just a Weblog dealing with all things RSS. But look at the top of the...
CNN Offers New News Alert Service
CNET is reporting ( http://news.com.com/2110-1025_3-5067839.html ) that CNN has added a news alert service. CNN already had a breaking news service, but this new one lets you choose news by keyword. The new service is available at http://www.cnn.com/youralerts/ . You'll...
August 27, 2003Hot Dig! Yahoo Hits The RSS Bandwagon
After much much whining by ye olde editor in this forum, Yahoo has finally revved up their RSS feeds with a big news feed bonanza at http://news.yahoo.com/rss/. Feeds here include Top Stories, World, Business, Highest Rated, Most Viewed, and Most...
Fagan Releases Translation Tool
Tired of visiting all the online translation sites to find the one you need? Michael Fagan's Translation Wizard gathers up over 40 tools and puts them all together through one interface. It's available at http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/ . If you've ever used...
Retro Culture, in a Cool Flash Interface
Big thanks to reader C who pointed this out to me. Retrolounge ( http://www.bitlounge.net/retrolounge/advertising.htm ) is a collection of culture links from the last 50 years, but especially the 50s, 60s, and 70s. You'll need Flash to explore this site....
Continue reading "Retro Culture, in a Cool Flash Interface" » August 26, 2003Alabama Adds Several Archives Databases
The state of Alabama has added several archive databases to its archive search at http://www.archives.state.al.us/dataindex.html . There are four new databases in addition to the Civil War service database. The new databases are: Hardbound Newspapers Database -- Includes original newspapers...
Continue reading "Alabama Adds Several Archives Databases" » Illinois Makes Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database Available
The state of Illinois now has a database of public domain land tract sales available at http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/data_lan.html. This database contains information about around 550,000 land sales from the 54,740 square miles of the public domain sold within Illinois. The database...
Continue reading "Illinois Makes Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database Available" » August 25, 2003BBC To Put Huge Archive Online
Wow. The Independent ( http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=436915 ) is one of the many places reporting that the BBC is planning to put a giant television and radio archive online. This project will be called the BBC Creative Archive. According to the BBC's...
Index of E-Books Available Online
There's a huge index of over 73,000 English-language book texts available at http://www.digitalbookindex.com/ . There's a semi-registration required to use this site. The actual search page for this resource is at http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm , but before you get to that you'll...
Ask Jeeves Offering "Smart Answers"
Ask Jeeves ( http://www.ask.com/ ) is now offering what they're calling "Smart Search" tools for searches. From how they're described they're very similar to search shortcuts as you've seen on Yahoo, AltaVista, etc. Smart search tools were announced in April...
August 22, 2003Historical Photographs of Vancouver
Special Collections at the Vancouver Public Library has added 1500 new images to their Historical Photographs Database at http://collections.ic.gc.ca/vancouver/index.html . These new photographs depict life in Vancouver between 1900- 1910, though I saw photographs in my search of the collection...
Cook's Thesaurus Provides Food Information
Hungry? Need to work on a recipe? Check out http://foodsubs.com/ . This plain but extensive site offers a lot of information on a lot of different foods. The front page (and indeed the entire site) contains a keyword search ,...
Continue reading "Cook's Thesaurus Provides Food Information" » August 21, 2003Overture Announces An Even Bigger Index
Overture announced on August 21 ( http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030821/215091_1.html ) that they now have an index, developed by FAST, of over 3.2 billion Web documents. The press release says "In addition to increasing the size of the index by over 1 billion...
Continue reading "Overture Announces An Even Bigger Index" » Associations in Oklahoma
Oklahoma now offers a site for a list of associations in Oklahoma. It's available at http://www.youroklahoma.com/associations/. You can browse the list alphabetically or search by keyword. I searched for "medical" and got six results. Listings include name, postal address, phone,...
Films From India
The Films Division of India has put up 700 films on its Web site at http://www.filmsdivision.org/home.htm . If you've got Real or Windows Media Player and a half-decent connection, you can watch some films. I found this site worked best...
August 19, 2003Aviation Site Has Over 7000 Links
Airplane-heads! Check out the searchable subject index at http://www.avhome.com/search/ . This site contains over 7000 links to aviation links in a variety of categories, including Ground Support, Reference, Training, and Flight Simulation. Main and sub-categories are included on the front...
August 18, 2003AltaVista Adds Toolbar
AltaVista has jumped onto the toolbar bandwagon with the addition of a new AltaVista toolbar, available from http://www.altavista.com/toolbar/default. As with most search engine toolbars, you'll need to be running IE to use it. Once you've gotten through agreeing to the...
General Motors Creates Photo Source
General Motors has teamed up with Getty Images to make an image archive and photo store at http://www.gmphotostore.com . The site currently contains a thousand images. Though the site is primarily intended as a store, the photos are large enough...
August 15, 2003Daypop Expands its Source List to over 55,000
Weblog and News search engine Daypop ( http://www.daypop.com ) now has over 55,000 sources -- Weblogs and news sites. ( http://www.danchan.com/weblog/daypop/71650 ). As you might remember, Daypop allows you to search Weblogs, news sites, and RSS headlines. Be sure to...
Continue reading "Daypop Expands its Source List to over 55,000" » A Roundup of Cool Researchy Things
The National Library of Scotland now has an RSS feed for its news ( http://www.nls.uk/news/feed.xml )... Feedster now offers Sherlock support (you can get it from the front page: http://www.feedster.com/ ...) Mozilla's got 1.5 Alpha! Awesome! http://www.mozilla.org/ ... hey! Go...
August 12, 2003Google Adds Calculator Function
That wacky Google. Now they're rolling out the calculators. As you can see from the explanation at http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator, you can turn an incredibly powerful search engine into a four-function calculator! Whoopee! All right, I'm getting a little sarcastic. Not to...
August 11, 2003A Yahoo Search Group and Yahoo Group ChangesCanadian Classical Music at New Site
The Canadian Music Centre has released a site containing information on classical composers of Canada. It's available at http://www.musiccentre.ca/. There's a variety of information on the front page, including composer and music news. There are also two finding aids. With...
Rodale Starts New Farm Database
The Rodale Institute has started a new database of farms at http://www.newfarm.org/farmlocator/index.php. Currently the database is sparsely populated so the site is inviting farms to add themselves to the database (getting listed in the database is free.) Searching options include...
August 07, 2003Commercial Archive Offers Commercials in a Variety of Categories
Isn't it weird how when you're watching a television show, you can't stand the commercials, but you can happily explore an online commercial archive for hours? Maybe it's just me anyway, there's a very extensive commercial archive at http://www.ad-rag.com. There...
Continue reading "Commercial Archive Offers Commercials in a Variety of Categories" » Search Engine For JavaScript
A Javascript metasearch is now available at http://www.javascript-2.com/. According to its front page it searches over 8,000 javascripts from over a dozen javascript sites. The front page of the site offers a search box along with a number of the...
August 06, 2003Survey Maps of Scotland Towns
The National Library of Scotland has released a digital library of over 1,900 sheets of surveys covering 62 towns surveyed between 1847 and 1895. It's available at http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/townplans/index.html . You may browse these surveys either from a map of Scotland...
Directory of Webrings
Are you familiar with Webrings? They're a way to browse a series of related Web sites via a "ring" (or circle or train or whatever) icon, usually at the bottom of a site. There's a directory available at http://ringdir.ringlink.org/ which...
August 05, 2003Online Database of Distance Learning Institutions Available
DegreeInfo ( http://www.degreeinfo.com ) is now offering a database of accredited schools and universities that offer distance learning opportunities. The database is searchable from http://search.degreeinfo.com/. From there you can choose a degree level (Associate, Master, etc.) and a field of...
Continue reading "Online Database of Distance Learning Institutions Available" » Google Now Offering News Alerts
We now pause for me to do a happy dance. Cue the Snoopy music! All right, why am I happy dancing? Because Google is finally offering news alerts, which may finally fill the giant hole left in my life by...
August 04, 2003National Library of Medicine Releases Ingredient Guide
The National Library of Medicine has released an online guide listing the ingredients of more than 4,000 products. It's available at http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov. There are three ways you can review this information. You can search by product, by ingredient, or by...
Continue reading "National Library of Medicine Releases Ingredient Guide" » Google Adds Operator to Search for Synonyms
Google ( http://www.google.com ) has just introduced a new operator to search for synonyms. You use it by adding a tilde -- it looks like ~ and is often found on the key to the left of the 1 on...
Continue reading "Google Adds Operator to Search for Synonyms" » LDS Church Announces Images for 1880 US Census
The LDS Church announced last week that their 1880 US Census index is now linked with digital images of the original census documents. You can search the census for free at http://www.familysearch.org, but unless you're a church member, viewing the...
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