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Holy cow. How did I miss THIS? How-da-heck-did-I-miss-this? "This" is the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ . It contains information on information on over six million soldiers and sailors from 44 states and territories who were involved...
Bloglines Goes International
RSS reader Bloglines ( http://www.bloglines.com ) announced on December 1 that they have started an internationalized Web site that allows people who speak Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portugese and Spanish to join and navigate the service in their native languages....
November 29, 2004CiteULike Tracks Favorite Citations
So many lovely Web sites, so little time. So many intriguing research papers, so little time. You may be familiar with sites like furl.net, which help you track interesting Web sites. CiteULike ( http://www.citeulike.org/ ) lets you track interesting research...
Weblogs By Law Professors For Law Professors
Well, this is nifty. Law Professor Blogs http://www.lawprofessorblogs.com/ is a network of blogs by law professors. Current blogs include white collar crime, health law, and sentencing law. Others are scheduled to start in January 2005....
Continue reading "Weblogs By Law Professors For Law Professors" » New Mailing List for Those Managing Historical Photographs
There's a new mailing list available to serve as a discussion group for folks interested in issues relating to managing collections of historical photographs. Join by sending the words SUBSCRIBE PhotoArchives your name (Put your name where "your name" is,...
Continue reading "New Mailing List for Those Managing Historical Photographs" » Mamma Buys Copernic
Mamma.com's announced their intention to buy desktop search company Copernic. The announcement's at http://www.mammamediasolutions.com/corporate/pr/2004/11-25-04.html. Interesting....
Another Password Generator
A reader e-mailed me to let me know about a Winguides password generator at http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php. This version is also free to use. It allows you to generate up to 50 passwords at a time (holy cow) and offers a variety...
November 26, 2004Getcher Random Password Generator
Since you read ResearchBuzz and are one of the greatest readers on the planet, I know that you practice good password hygiene. I know you always use a random collection of numbers and letters and you never use something silly...
Presentations from Webmaster World Available from Yahoo
Yahoo's put up a couple of pix and the presentations from WebmasterWorld. The presentations are in Powerpoint. Topics include Search Friendly Design, PFI Topics and Issues, and Weblogs, Community, and Search. Pick 'em up at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000050.html....
Continue reading "Presentations from Webmaster World Available from Yahoo" » Patents, RSS Feeds, Keyword Searches, Oddball Certificates
It's thanks to good ol' Murphy's law, I think. Now that I'm deeply distracted by Real Life (tm), nifty sites and applications are crawling out of the woodwork. Now if I weren't busy, the most exciting thing going on would...
Continue reading "Patents, RSS Feeds, Keyword Searches, Oddball Certificates" » Law.com Launches Blog Network
Last week Law.com launched a blog network, providing pointers to a number of Weblogs on legal topics. Topics covered include constitutional law, law technology, and litigation. You can get a roundup of blog highlights and pointers at http://blogs.law.com . This...
Feedster Offering Calendar View
Thanks to J's Scratchpad for the pointer to Feedster's formatting of blog posts into a calendar -- see his/her (I don't know if they're a Mr. J or a Ms. J) blog as an example at http://about.feedster.net/?id=209048&zoom=1 . To find...
November 24, 2004Business Wire FINALLY Offers RSS Feeds
I follow PRNewswire and BusinessWire fairly religiously. I like PRNewswire a little bit better (it's easier to read) and I was very happy when PRNewswire started offering RSS feeds. And finally, finally, Business Wire is offering them. But theirs are...
Yahoo's New Front Page and Shortcuts
I know this kinda stuff has to happen, but it makes me very sad. Yahoo has a new front page. Go look at it. It's at http://www.yahoo.com. See anything odd about the page? The odd thing I see is that...
November 22, 2004EINfinder Searches Database of About 5 Million Federal Employer Identification Numbers
You'll need to register and you supposedly only get three free searches but EINfinder searches a database of almost 5 million EINs (that's Employer Identification Numbers.) It's available at http://www.einfinder.com . You'll need to register on the site. When you...
NEH Announces Mass Newspaper Digitzation Project
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced a massive project with the Library of Congress -- the National Digital Newspaper Program . This program will digitize tens of millions of historical newspaper pages and make them available online. The...
Continue reading "NEH Announces Mass Newspaper Digitzation Project" » Weblog Devoted to Google Scholar
It hadda happen. An entire Weblog devoted to Google Scholar....
Pluck Adds Product Monitoring to eBay and Amazon
Oh Pluck ( http://www.pluck.com ), why aren't you Firefox compatible? That way I could actually test instead of just announce the Pluck Perch feature that was announced last week. The new feature, as Pluck's release describes it, "allows individuals...
Continue reading "Pluck Adds Product Monitoring to eBay and Amazon" » gdSuite -- An Extension to Google Desktop
Air Bear Software has come up with an extension to the Google Desktop gdSuite. As it's described on the site, "gdSuite uses Google Desktop to find items. Then, gdSuite filters the results and displays them in any easy to use...
Continue reading "gdSuite -- An Extension to Google Desktop" » Google Scholar Bookmarklet
Paul Pival has come up with a few Google Scholar bookmarklets. Go Paul!...
November 21, 2004The Google Deskbar API
Google's Deskbar ( http://deskbar.google.com/ ) now has an API ( http://deskbar.google.com/help/api/index.html ) which uses the .NET Framework. From Google's page: "The Google Deskbar plug-in is a simple extension mechanism for customizing your Google Deskbar. When you enter a search term...
MSN Search Engine Does Algebra
Hat tip to Jeremy who turned me on to the fact that MSN's new search engine ( http://beta.search.msn.com/ ) will do algebra. Try 2x+3=14 And see what the top of the search result looks like....
Gmail Generation Mailing List
Propburgers to Aimless Words for the pointer to Gmail Generation, a list to discuss all things related to Gmail. Membership is closed and by application....
November 19, 2004xmlhub Makes Tool for Generating RSS Feeds of MSN Search Results
They don't let any grass grow under THEIR feet. Xmlhub has a tool for making RSS feeds out of MSN search engine query results at http://www.xmlhub.com/rssmsn.php/. They warn that it might break, and they'll take it down as soon as...
Continue reading "xmlhub Makes Tool for Generating RSS Feeds of MSN Search Results" » MSN Blog: Why Didn't MSN Crawl My Site?
MSN's blog is openly answering some questions about crawling, etc. The post at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2004/11/18/266087.aspx gets into why a page would or would not have been crawled by MSN's search spider: "Thus, URL?s with many (definitely more than 5) query parameters...
Continue reading "MSN Blog: Why Didn't MSN Crawl My Site?" » PubSub Is Now Tracking 6.5 million Blogs
Congrats to PubSub ( http://www.pubsub.com ). They're now tracking 6.5 million blogs. Eeek. See their announcement at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041118/nyth043_1.html ....
Continue reading "PubSub Is Now Tracking 6.5 million Blogs" » November 18, 2004Another Travel Search Engine -- Mobissimo
The travel search engines just don't stop. A new one is Mobissimo, a travel meta-search source that searches over 80 search sources for airfare, hotel, and car rental information. The search engine is available at http://travel.mobissimo.com/travel/search_airfare.php . (To search hotel...
Continue reading "Another Travel Search Engine -- Mobissimo" » Google Offers Google Scholar
Google has released a new search tool for academic content called Google Scholar. It's in beta, it's got its own syntax, and it is available at http://scholar.google.com/ . You may search for a keyword or an author, using the author:...
November 17, 2004RocketNews Adds Personalization Features
News search engine RocketNews ( http://www.rocketnews.com ) has added some personalization features to their search. It doesn't appear that these require registration to work; it appears everything is cookiefied. The features appear when you're looking at the My RocketNews Portal...
Continue reading "RocketNews Adds Personalization Features" » Gallery of Victorian Prisoners Online
The National Archives of the UK is now offering an exhibit of photographs and case details of prisoners in Wandsworth Prison during the Victorian era. The photographs date from 1872 and 1873. While the case information is free, downloading the...
November 16, 2004Database of Missouri Soldiers Enhanced
The state of Missouri has updated their database of state soldiers to include soldiers from the War of 1812 through World War I, which means that the new database includes over 550,000 Missourians. It's available at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/soldiers/ . The site...
Cartoons of Welsh Cartoonist Illingworth Are Online In New Site
A collection of over 4,500 cartoons by the Welsh cartoonist Leslie Illingworth (1902-1979) are now available in a new Web site from the National Library of Wales. The English version of the site is available at http://www.llgc.org.uk/illingworth/index_s.htm . The site...
Continue reading "Cartoons of Welsh Cartoonist Illingworth Are Online In New Site" » November 15, 2004Feedster Offers a Way to Search Just Weblogs
Feedster now has an interface at http://blogs.feedster.com/ that restricts your search to just Weblogs. Otherwise it's just the same. So that's: blogs.feedster.com -- Weblogs politics.feedster.com -- Politics (though the entries on the front page are ranging far and wide) sports.feedster.com...
Continue reading "Feedster Offers a Way to Search Just Weblogs" » Developer Contests A Go-Go
Both Feedster ( http://www.feedster.com ) and Technorati ( http://www.technorati.com ) have developer contests going. Oh, if I weren't such a neophyte perl programmer... Information on Feedster's is at http://feedster.blogs.com/corporate/2004/11/feedster_is_giv.html (entries are due December 5, so hurry up. They're giving away...
Some Bookmarklets for the New MSN Service
I'm a bookmarklet wonk, so you know I had to wrangle up some bookmarklets for the new MSN search service. Here they are: Check MSN backlinks for the current URL -- Works in IE, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox Search MSN --...
Continue reading "Some Bookmarklets for the New MSN Service" » MSN Has Its Own Blog, Official Search Engine Blogs Abound
And did I mention that MSN now has its own blog for holding forth about search? For those of you playing along at home, the official search engine blogs go like this: MSN -- http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/ (read about the first MSN...
Continue reading "MSN Has Its Own Blog, Official Search Engine Blogs Abound" » November 14, 2004New Roundup of Connecticut History
New offerings from the state of Connecticut: * A bibliography of books on Connecticut history * Connecticut historical museum links * Connecticut historical societies...
November 11, 2004MSN Launches a Beta Version of the New MSN Search
Yesterday Google about doubled its index to eight billion pages. And I figured it was for competitive purposes but didn't really know why. When MSN announced a new search enigne, with an index of over five billion pages, things suddenly...
Continue reading "MSN Launches a Beta Version of the New MSN Search" » November 10, 2004Google Hits an Eight-Billion Page Index
There have been rumors swirling around for the past week or so about the Googlebot going mad and indexing tons and tons of Web sites. There was a lot of speculation -- was it an error? Google trying to outrun...
Continue reading "Google Hits an Eight-Billion Page Index" » Comparison Shopping Service Offers RSS Feeds
Dulance is offering a comparison shopping service with RSS feeds. It's free. You can check it out at http://www.dulance.com . You know the drill. Go to the site, it's a cute little search box, run a search. Make your search...
Continue reading "Comparison Shopping Service Offers RSS Feeds" » Firefox 1.0 Released
I was going to announce this yesterday, but the site wouldn't respond. Firefox 1.0 has been released. You can download your copy from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ . See the release note list at http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0.html for some interesting change notes here. You can...
November 09, 2004A Search Engine for Code
An article at Newsforge pointed me to Koders ( http://www.koders.com ) a search engine for finding programming code. Nifty. The front page allows you to specify keywords, sixteen languages (from ASP to VB.NET) and sixteen licenses (from AFL to ZPL...
World War I Records for British Soldiers w/ Service Medals Now Available
The National Archives of the United Kingdom has released a new Web site that contains information on over five million men and women of the British Army and Royal Flying Corps who won medals during World War I. It's available...
Continue reading "World War I Records for British Soldiers w/ Service Medals Now Available" » A9 Toolbar for Firefox
Last week Amazon announced that the toolbar for their A9 Web/Amazon search tool is now available for Firefox. You can download it at http://toolbar.a9.com/....
List of Shopping Bots
Marcus Zillman has a new list of shopping 'bots at http://www.shoppingbots.info/. Just a listing, not much annotation here. MAR-cus!...
November 08, 2004Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps
The UNLV Libraries have announced "Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps" which is a digital project featuring over 80 historical maps. It's available at http://www.library.unlv.edu/maps/index.html . You can search the collection by keywords or browse. I decided to...
Continue reading "Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps" » Electronic Journals With RSS Feeds
The University of Saskatchewan Library has a directory of ejournals at http://library.usask.ca/ejournals/ , and has added a cool new way to view them -- journals with RSS feeds. Use the link on the left to explore them. Feeds are listed...
Getty Images Adds Six Editorial Image Collections
Stock photo site Getty Images has announced the addition of six editorial image collections to its site at http://www.gettyimages.com . The new editorial image collections include Aurora, the CBS Photo Archive, Christian Science Monitor, Focus on Sports, PanAfrican News Agency,...
Continue reading "Getty Images Adds Six Editorial Image Collections" » Portable Firefox
An extremely clever human has come up with a version of Firefox called Portable Firefox. This version you can install on one of those keychain USB drives (aka nerdsticks) and have all your bookmarks and information right there. Niiiiiiice, especially...
November 07, 2004Oregon Soldiers in World War I
The state of Oregon has a new exhibit about the experiences of Oregonian soldiers in WWI. As it's described, the site is "an exhibit and learning resource exploring the experiences of Oregonians in World War I primarily as seen through...
Syndic8 Offering Better Feed Search
RSS information site Syndic8 is now providing better RSS feed search results by listing feeds in order of relevance. One more place to find RSS feeds.....
Everbody Talk About Pop Music
Technorati is now offering a list of the most popular MP3s of the last 48 hours. Not very populated yet. Kewl! I don't recognize anybody on the list except Frank Zappa. I'm old....
November 05, 2004Onfolio Offering a New Beta
Internet information organizing software Onfolio has announced that it's got a new beta coming up. This new version offers Firefox support (woot!) and an RSS reader; enter your e-mail address and you'll get a heads-up when the beta is available....
Extend Google Desktop
GDSPlus is an extension for Google Desktop which will allow it to index more kinds of content, including .rtf, .xml, .bat, and .vb. I think it's free....
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