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Could PR Bop get any weirder? Yes; I discover that every week. Learn about the folks planning to play golf in the artic in 2004, how to get Patty Duke's house for fahree (HINT: buy a software company), potty lights,...
Florida Unclaimed Property Database Is At Almost $1 Billion
The news that Florida's unclaimed property database has reached almost $1 billion in assets ($970 million, actually) is as good a reason as any to talk about it. Florida's unclaimed property database is available at http://up.dbf.state.fl.us/Isearch.cfm and is updated daily....
Continue reading "Florida Unclaimed Property Database Is At Almost $1 Billion" » January 29, 2004Google Offers Dutch Toolbar, New Interface Languages
Google is now offering a Dutch version of the popup-blockin', page-highlightin', pagerank-reportin', Web-searchin' toolbar. You can download it at http://www.google.nl/intl/nl/options.html . In other Google news, Google's offering nine new interface languages, including Serbo-Croatian, Yiddish (YIDDISH! WOO HOO!), Guarani, Sesotho, Turkmen,...
Continue reading "Google Offers Dutch Toolbar, New Interface Languages" » A Search Engine for Completed Online Auctions
I find this search engine strangely fascinating. Currently it lists searchable information for 75,000 completed auctions. What could you use this for? Price-setting in an online used goods shop? Cultural mining? Potential abounds with GoHook ( http://www.gohook.com/ ). GoHook has...
Continue reading "A Search Engine for Completed Online Auctions" » Why Yes, it Is Another 'Blog Directory.
But I find them useful so I'll cover it anyway. Blogarama ( http://www.blogarama.com/ ) is a searchable subject index of over 6800 Weblogs sorted by category. Front page categories are the standard ones with a bloggish bent -- including soapbox,...
Continue reading "Why Yes, it Is Another 'Blog Directory." » January 28, 2004Scale Model Web Sites
When you think scale models, you probably think about railroading, right? You probably don't think about doll houses, ships, wargaming, or paper models. Now you can think about all of them at the International List of Scale Model Related Web...
Historic Sites in Michigan
They're probably covered in snow this time of year, but the state of Michigan has an online database of historic sites; it's available at http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_19267_20363---,00.html . You may take a "photo tour" or you can use the search wizard. The...
A Directory of Place-Based Web Sites
There are zillions of place-based directories out there, but Places Online caught my eye for two reasons. First because it's administered by the Association of American Geographers. The second reason is because it has a published list of site criteria....
January 27, 2004MSN Releases a Toolbar
Microsoft announced on Monday ( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040126/sfm069_1.html ) that it was releasing a toolbar. The toolbar is available at http://toolbar.msn.com/ . The toolbar has a popup blocker and search term highlighter ala the Google toolbar, but also offers access to Hotmail,...
This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra
Every week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll find news and resources that you won't find in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article -- those lesser-known press release wires. Get more information on ResearchBuzz Extra at http://www.researchbuzz.com/buzzex.shtml....
A Caricature Collection from the Smithsonian
If you're interested in cartoons and caricatures, you'll like this collection. The Smithsonian has made available Drawing from Life: Caricatures and Cartoons from the American Art / Portrait Gallery Collection at http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/caricatures/ . Choose the "explore the caricatures & cartoons"...
Continue reading "A Caricature Collection from the Smithsonian" » January 26, 2004University System of Georgia's GALILEO announces Vanishing Georgia
The University System of Georgia's virtual library GALILEO is now offering a new collection of almost 18,000 images in the new online collection Vanishing Georgia. It's available at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu . These images span over 100 years of Georgia history. Click...
Continue reading "University System of Georgia's GALILEO announces Vanishing Georgia" » Morbus Iff Launches LibDB Media Cataloging Project
Morbus Iff, he of AmphetaDesk and the amazin' lead author of Spidering Hacks has announced LibDB, which is as he describes it as "An open-sourced Perl/MySQL library and asset management system based on and inspired by the Functional Requirements for...
Continue reading "Morbus Iff Launches LibDB Media Cataloging Project" » January 23, 2004Amazon Now Taking Presidential Donations
Yeah, this is off-base, but man is it interesting. Amazon is now letting you donate to US presidential candidates through its Web site. If you go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/misc/flag.html you'll see a list of over a dozen candidates, from Michael Badnarik...
Continue reading "Amazon Now Taking Presidential Donations" » Google Squeak -- Site: Search Now Works by Itself
GoogleGuy confirmed in a WebmasterWorld post ( http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum78/3697.htm ) that you can now do a Google site: search by itself to get a list of which pages for that domain are indexed by Google. Before you had to do a...
Continue reading "Google Squeak -- Site: Search Now Works by Itself" » Searchin' the Pigeon
Bert would be proud! There's a whole subject index devoted to pigeons at PigeonSearch ( http://www.pigeonsearch.com/ . ) And what could possibly make an entire index about pigeons? There are four main categories: forums & information, pigeons, products, and software....
January 22, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #4: GoogleJack
When I'm in "brainstorming ideas for hacks" mode, I come up with some weird ideas. I thought about a random password generator using Google, and then a "Google Hangman" game, and a few other things. I was falling asleep one...
Continue reading "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #4: GoogleJack" » Another RSS Roundup
I know I just did one a few days ago, but I got more stuff to tell you about. First of all you should know that you can know get RSS feeds from iTunes! Visit http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/MRSS/rssGenerator for the feed generator....
What's New on LLRX.com
Hey, there's neewwwwwwwwwwww stuff at LLRX. Among the new articles: Public Libraries and the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA): Legal Sources ( http://www.llrx.com/features/cipabiblio.htm ), Electronic Guide to the Best Mexican Law Websites ( http://www.llrx.com/features/mexlaw.htm ), and Wisdom From the Grammar...
Extreeeeeeme ISBNs! OCLC and xISBN
The OCLC has a cool little project called xISBN. It lets you provide an ISBN and get a list of associated ISBNs (from reprints, other editions, etc.) It's available at http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/xisbn/ . Actually the link for the xISBN looks like...
January 21, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #3: LuckyMarklets
If you've spent any time munging around Google's search form, you know that the switch to get an "I'm Feeling Lucky" result without going to Google's search result list is &btnI. In other words, if you click on this URL:...
Continue reading "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #3: LuckyMarklets" » Expert Guides from Palm
Got Palm? Yes? Do you know what to do with it besides store all your phone numbers and play Bedazzled? Palmsource wants to help. Their expert guides, at ( http://www.palmsource.com/expertguides/ ) are designed to give you a boost no matter...
RSS Roundup
Yeehaw! Couple of notes for the RSS Roundup. First: The Librarians Index to the Internet now has an RSS feed and an instructional page about RSS. The feed is at http://lii.org/ntw.rss and covers the LII New This Week. Second, apparently...
January 20, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #2: Search Sinker
If you read Google Hacks you know that Google sorts results differently depending on an iteration of the same search word. You can try this for yourself. Search for baseball. Now search for baseball baseball. See? Search Sinker asks for...
Continue reading "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #2: Search Sinker" » This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra
Every week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources that you won't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article! whoopee! This week's article is about pops, picks, and buzzes -- what in the world is the...
Yahoo Announces Yahoo Labs
I knew you knew about Google Labs, but did you know about Yahoo Labs? Yahoo on Monday announced Yahoo Research Labs at http://labs.yahoo.com , describing it as " a research organization focused on inventing new technologies and solutions relevant to...
January 19, 2004Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #1: Wumwum
(Wumwum is short for "Watching Me Without Me", which is a nod to the Kate Bush song "Watching You Without Me," and why I'm thinking about 80s songs while writing Perl scripts is anybody's guess.) Didja ever want to check...
Continue reading "Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 #1: Wumwum" » West Virginia University Libraries Create Online Asimov Exhibit
An alumnus of West Virginia University donated his Asimov collection -- which totaled about 600 items including books, games, audio recordings, wall charts, etc. -- to WVU, and the WVU Libraries have put a lot of it into a digital...
Continue reading "West Virginia University Libraries Create Online Asimov Exhibit" » Feedster Now Listing Top 100 Feeds
RSS search engine Feedster ( http://www.feedster.com ) is now offering the top 100 feeds from their myFeedster RSS service. Wired News is #1. While you're browsing around Feedster don't forget to check out their interesting feeds of the day, at...
Mozilla 1.6 Is Now Available
Kudos to the Mozilla people -- Mozilla 1.6 is now on the air and available at http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ . It looks like most of the new features involve the mail/news portion of the browser, but Ask Jeeves searching has been added...
January 16, 2004This Week in PR Bop
PR Bop is back! ( http://www.prbop.com ) The newsletter starts going out today, but if you'd been reading the site all this week you would have read about the new reality show from A&E (set in a funeral home), the...
PRNewswire Finally Starts Offering RSS Feeds
PRNewswire is finally offering RSS feeds. (A tip of the nib to SC for mentioning this.) PRNewswire's RSS feed information page is at http://www.prnewswire.com/news/aboutrss/rss.shtml . The feeds themselves are at http://rss.prnewswire.com/ . I'm really glad that PRNewswire is getting into...
Continue reading "PRNewswire Finally Starts Offering RSS Feeds" » ADMIN: Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 Starts Monday!
Just a reminder that Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 starts on Monday. There will be new hacks all week. Look for the new Google Hacks category on this site!...
Continue reading "ADMIN: Happy Google Hacks Week 2004 Starts Monday!" » January 15, 2004Find Some Free Fonts
They're still recommending Christmas fonts, but I'm not going to hold that against Search Free Fonts ( http://www.searchfreefonts.com/ ). They got too much cool stuff to offer. As you might have gathered from the site name, Search Free Fronts allows...
Another Directory of RSS Feeds
You can't get too many RSS feeds. Oh no you can't. And to provide it I'm going to point you to a searchable-subject index of RSS feeds called 2RSS, at http://www.2rss.com/ . This site lists over three thousand feeds in...
A Little Update on the New Google Syntaxes
A couple of updates on the new Google Syntaxes: - Area Code: Search on an area code and you'll get a link to a map of that area code. While I was using this I wondered if you could search...
Continue reading "A Little Update on the New Google Syntaxes" » January 14, 2004New News Aggregating Site On the Horizon -- Topix
I rarely get site announcements describing the site as a "News Site of Doom," but what the hey. After viewing it, I'll give it props as a news site of doom, though a Beta news site of doom. (doomlet?) Anyway,...
Continue reading "New News Aggregating Site On the Horizon -- Topix" » WebSite-Watcher Goes to Version 3.60
WebSite-Watcher is a page monitoring application that I've used for a long time and I really like. I got an announcement this week that the software has been upgraded to version 3.60, which now includes -- wait for it --...
AlltheWeb Prepares To Change Privacy Policy
AlltheWeb has an announcement down at the bottom of their page that their privacy policy will change as of February 7. The new privacy policy and the old privacy policy are both available at http://www.alltheweb.com/info/about/privacy_policy_2004 . From a quick glance...
Continue reading "AlltheWeb Prepares To Change Privacy Policy" » January 13, 2004Genealogy and Genetics Search Engine
I've seen plenty of genealogy engines that let you search names, but this is the first public one I've seen that lets you search DNA results. It's called Ysearch and it's available at http://www.ysearch.org . This search engine allows two...
This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra
Every week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources that you won't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article: keeping an ear on the Google buzz. Get more information about ResearchBuzz Extra at...
LII Updates New Sites Guide
The Librarians Index to the Internet has updated their new sites page, a page of resources for those who like to keep up with new sites popping up on the Internet. It's available at http://lii.org/search/file/newsites . Resources here range from...
January 12, 2004Format an RSS Feed and Put It On Your Site
Periodically I get an e-mail from someone asking me how they can put an RSS feed on their Web site. There are tools which allow you to do it, but I haven't often seen online services designed to format RSS...
Continue reading "Format an RSS Feed and Put It On Your Site" » DMOZ Featuring A Little Red Dot
The Open Directory, otherwise known as DMOZ.org, now has thumbnail previews on their Web site! To access them you'll have to look for the little red dot. Start by visiting the Web site ( http://www.dmoz.org ) and pick a category....
New Google Features -- Travel and Tracking Numbers
Google is offering a couple new search features for specific kinds of information. TRAVEL INFORMATION -- Type in the three-letter code for an airport followed by the word airport ( jfk airport ). The first result you'll get is a...
Continue reading "New Google Features -- Travel and Tracking Numbers" » January 09, 2004Ten Plays from Zora Neale Hurston
I'm a Zora Neale Hurston fan. I got a copy of her short story collection, Spunk, when I was in high school and read it about a thousand times. Great writing. If you've never read any Hurston, now's your chance....
Watching Google Like a Hawk
Can't keep up with Google? It is tough. Watching Google Like a Hawk wants to help, but without axes to grind: its site subhead is "News & Commentary -- No Bias -- No Agenda" and its URL is http://www.watchinggooglelikeahawk.com/ ....
January 08, 2004Historic Markers In Utah
After I did the thing on historic markers in New York I got about a zillion e-mails saying, "Hey, my state has its historic markers online too!" I don't think I'll cover all of them, but I can cover a...
Chatterbots Information from Marcus Zillman
Marcus Zillman has started another Subject Tracer Blog, this time devoted to the subject of chatterbots (chatterbots are artificial intelligence programs which can interact with you.) It's available at http://www.chatterbots.info/ . This site features an unadorned list of chatterbots and...
Continue reading "Chatterbots Information from Marcus Zillman" » January 07, 2004St. Thomas University School of Law Diplomacy Monitor
Sometimes you just gotta let the title speak for itself. And the announcement. "The St. Thomas University School of Law Diplomacy Monitor utilizes specially developed proprietary software to monitor the global output of communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers,...
Continue reading "St. Thomas University School of Law Diplomacy Monitor" » NewsGator Launches Online Service for RSS Feeds
I am very selfishly covering this. I would like to request that everybody and their dog consider trying NewsGator. Yes, I stand to benefit directly. How? Because I've spent hours playing with this new RSS aggregator and if it sinks...
Continue reading "NewsGator Launches Online Service for RSS Feeds" » Portal to Information About Military Conflicts
The War Times Portal is a subject index providing links about wars and conflicts. It's available at http://www.wtj.com/portal/ . Categories on the front page include Wars & Periods, Fighting Forces, and Museums & Battlefields. There are subcategories here too. Click...
Continue reading "Portal to Information About Military Conflicts" » January 06, 2004A Few Quick Search Engines Notes
Haven't done a roundup in a while, but there are a few little things I wanted to address: Yahoo/Google -- News all over the place that Yahoo is getting ready to dump Google as their backup full-text search engine search...
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