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August 27, 2005ResearchBuzz.com Domain Used in Spam
The ResearchBuzz.com domain has been spoofed in what looks like a pretty massive spam. After getting crushed beneath the weight of the bounces, I am having to seriously revamp the way I receive e-mail. Because of that you may get...
August 25, 2005US Government RSS Feed Page
Just so I can remember it later, the US Government has a roundup page of RSS feeds available across several agencies at www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/RSS_Library.shtml...
Negative-Only Searches in Google
I was inspired by another 'blog post to confirm that Google allows negative-only searching. And they do. I can't fathom this ever being useful except to build odd games (Google slap fight?) but it's possible. Just omit a word from...
August 21, 2005Amazon Goes to Ground in Online Map Battle
Not content to show you an address from x feet up in the air, Amazon is offering street-level views of business addresses. That's the good news. The bad news is that you can only get the views from a limited...
Continue reading "Amazon Goes to Ground in Online Map Battle" » Getting Random Google Videos
Google pointed out that there's now a page for random Google videos at http://video.google.com/videorandom . Go to the page and you'll see links to 20 random videos. You can reload it for a different set. As long as you're looking...
August 20, 2005Kludging AND Tag Searches in Technorati
Reader John Tropea has been doing some tag searches in Technorati and has come to the conclusion that the tag searches are forced phrase searches and not AND searches at all. In response he's come up with a horrible kludgy...
Continue reading "Kludging AND Tag Searches in Technorati" » Google Launches Adsense Blog
Those of you using Adsense may want to check out the new Adsense blog, at http://adsense.blogspot.com/ . It appears to be official. Not heavily populated but useful, straight-from-Google type information, with pointers to other AdSense resources....
What's New in LLRX 20 August 2005
LLRX has updated again! Woo hoo! There are several new articles here including Copyright and Licensing Digital Materials - A Resource Guide ( http://www.llrx.com/features/digitalmaterials.htm ), Researching Intellectual Property Law In The Russian Federation ( http://www.llrx.com/features/russiaiplaw.htm ), The Government Domain: Back...
August 19, 2005More RSS Feeds By E-Mail
My posts on RSS feeds by e-mail prompted reader AH to e-mail me and tell me about RSSFwd, another service that lets you read your RSS feeds by e-mail. It's free (though donations are appreciated) and available at http://www.rssfwd.com/ ....
Turn Flickr Images into Magazine Covers
Oh, this is so adorable. Ever had a Flickr image that you thought would look great as a magazine cover? Let the ol' imagination run wild with Magazine Cover Maker at http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/magazine.php . Pick a Flickr picture (it must be...
Continue reading "Turn Flickr Images into Magazine Covers" » Google In 116 Languages
Google has announced that Google is now available in 116 languages, including Cambodia, Tonga, and Yoruba. I'm surprised we haven't seen any Native American languages yet -- Cherokee? Navajo?...
August 18, 2005Idaho Offering Trademark Search
The state of Idaho is now offering a search engine for trademarks registered in the state of Idaho. You can access it at http://www.accessidaho.org/public/sos/trademark/search.html . You can search in several ways, including keyword, name, or status (active, denied, abandoned, canceled,...
Presentations from Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach
Several presentations from the Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach conference are available online. The presentations in the one-day conference were divided into several broad categories, including Technical Issues and Options, Approaches to Funding, and Copyright Considerations. Most of the...
Continue reading "Presentations from Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach" » Government Podcasts
A reader pointed me toward a site that's gathering links to government podcasts. (That's podcasts FROM the government, not podcasts ABOUT the government.) It's available at http://freegovinfo.info/node/174 . There are rather more links here than I would have expected. Current...
August 17, 2005Technorati Adds OR Search to Tags
Technorati has announced at you can now use OR with their tag search. Their blog entry on the subject is available at http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/08/42.html . The tags search is at http://www.technorati.com/tags/ ; you can keyword search or browse the tags listed...
Yahoo Releases New Version of Yahoo Local
Yahoo has announced some new features to their local search offering, Yahoo Local ( http://local.yahoo.com ) The new features include the ability to search by neighborhood and a recent search history and suggestions based on the search history. I went...
Continue reading "Yahoo Releases New Version of Yahoo Local" » Yow! MSN Newsbot has a SOURCE LIST!
Posted here as a reminder to myself so later when I have more time I can groove endlessly to the fact that MSN Newsbot actually has a SOURCE LIST. You go MSN! It's at http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com/s/publishers.aspx. It goes from #!/usr/bin/geek to...
August 16, 2005Icerocket Offers Tag Searching
Search engine Icerocket is now offering tag searching for its blog search. You can search by specific tag or browse a listing of tags at http://blogs.icerocket.com/tag/ . I don't know how other tagging sites get their tags, but Icerocket says...
Google Announces Enhanced Froogle Mobile
The Google people have announced an enhanced version of Froogle Mobile at their blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/attention-froogle-shoppers.html. It supports price checking in the US and the UK. You'll need a phone that supports WAP 1.2. Additional information and pointers available at http://labs.google.com/frooglewml.html...
Continue reading "Google Announces Enhanced Froogle Mobile" » Michigan's RSS Feeds
The state of Michigan has a ton of RSS feeds; you can get a full listing of them at http://www.michigan.gov/som/0,1607,7-192----RA,00.html . The Governor's Office and History Arts & Libraries seem to have the lion's share of the feeds. And Governor...
August 15, 2005RSS Feeds for Universities
Peter Scott has a listing of University-based RSS feeds at http://ast.antville.org/. From the front page I saw pointers to Cambridge University Press and the IAAF. There are also a variety of non-university listings. It looks like there are lots and...
Yahoo Announces Big Honking Web Index
(Yes, I know, this was several days ago, I'm still catching up). Yahoo has announced in their blog a new index. The announcement's at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000172.html ....
Historic Colorado Newspapers
The Stephen H. Hart Library at the Colorado History Museum has made available online about a third of its historic newspaper collection. The newspapers span 1859-1923 and cover more than 75 newspapers across 20 Colorado cities. You can see the...
August 14, 2005Yahoo News RSS Feeds Now Got Pix
Hat tip to Jeff Boulter for noticing in his 'blog that Yahoo News RSS feeds now feature pictures. Examples and commentary at http://boulter.com/blog/2005/08/10/yahoo-news-rss-feeds-now-include-pictures/. Niftay....
Your Ancestors on a Google Map
Yes yes, I will shut up about mapping any second now. I just thought this was cool. It would be even more cool if it were do it yourself, but -- MapYourAncestors.com ( http://www.mapyourancestors.com/ ), will take a family tree...
Get Your RSS Feeds By E-Mail
After I mentioned the Perl tool for getting your RSS feeds by e-mail, which required a certain amount of geekiness and Perl-familiarity, a reader pointed me toward RMail, at http://www.kbcafe.com/Rmail.aspx . RMail allows you to subscribe to any RSS feed....
August 13, 2005See Where Your Site Visitors Are Coming From With gVisit
Want to know where your site visitors are in meatspace? (Meatspace: The "real world", where people live, as opposed to online space where they everybody drifts around reading blogs and playing Furious George.) gVisit can tell you, with a Google...
Continue reading "See Where Your Site Visitors Are Coming From With gVisit" » Using GMail as an RSS Feed Reader
If you're enough of a geek to know your way around Perl and be able to install a Perl progam, you might want to check out GMailRSS, a series of scripts that translate incoming RSS feeds into e-mail and then...
Mobile Search for MSN
Microsoft has announced in their MSN Search Blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/08/12 /450983.aspx) that there's now a local search for mobile devices. It's for Windows Mobile devices and phones with WAP 2.0 drivers. To try it out, phonesurf to http://mobile.msn.com/ and choose...
August 12, 2005Blog on Digital Audiovisual Archiving
Media Matters has launched DAVA, the Digital Audiovisual Archiving blog. It'll be updated once a week and will cover topics related to digitizing audiovisual materials. You can read it at http://av-archive.blogspot.com . It isn't heavily populated yet but the stories...
Flash Application for Browsing Flickr Tags
You know, I used to -- and it wasn't very long ago -- HATE FLASH. I couldn't stand it. I didn't see the point of using it. It took too long to load and rarely in my opinion added much...
Continue reading "Flash Application for Browsing Flickr Tags" » New Expert Resource -- Color Scientists
I have a couple of rough rules of thumb for deciding what I'm going to review. I generally prefer a narrower focus. Sometimes the focus is so narrow but the topic so interesting I know I'm going to have fun...
Continue reading "New Expert Resource -- Color Scientists" » August 11, 2005Google Tweaks Their Blank-Matching
While Google doesn't offer deliberate stemming in their searching, they do offer a full-word wildcard, which you can get by using an asterisk (*). Thus you can, if you search for "three * mice", find "three red mice," "three blue...
Google Maps and Virtual Earth, Mashed and Flashed
Flash Earth ( http://www.flashearth.com ) takes information from Google Maps and MSN's Virtual Earth, and mooshes them together in one flash- based interface. You start out with a map of the Earth. You can drag the map around and there's...
Continue reading "Google Maps and Virtual Earth, Mashed and Flashed" » FlickrFight
Can't we all just get along? Apparently not, because there's FlickrFight. FlickrFight, at http://www.netomer.de/flickrtagfight/fight , allows you to either enter two terms you want to see "fight", enter some pre-made terms, or rerun one of the last fifteen fights (some...
August 10, 2005Are You Being Cached?
Handy tool for finding out if your site is being cached by Google at http://www.webuildpages.com/cache/cachetoolpublic.pl . Enter a URL and it'll scan it for a list of internal links. Then it'll run a test on those links to see if...
RSS Feed Generator Program from Dan Bricklin
The question on Web4Lib came up on what to use to generate RSS feeds. I have an RSS feed that I hand-generate every week (not ResearchBuzz' -- all 200+ of ResearchBuzz' RSS feeds come courtesy of Movable Type), but it's...
Continue reading "RSS Feed Generator Program from Dan Bricklin" » Speaking of Google Wikis
I mentioned an unofficial Wiki for Google a little while ago. Now there's another one just for Google mapping applications at http://mapki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page. Look at the projects page. Wow. Couldn't this include Yahoo Maps as well? I mean, as long as...
Google Queries and Backlink Checking to Excel Spreadsheets
AutomateExcel, which I'm enjoying very much, has an article about downloading Google search results to a spreadsheet and then doing backlink checking for the top results....
Continue reading "Google Queries and Backlink Checking to Excel Spreadsheets" » Google News and RSS Feeds
My husband walked in as I was in the kitchen making lunch (hummus on rye and iced tea.) As I moved around the room I did a Jules Feifferesque dance. Slow with a lot of sway-ey bendy stuff....
August 09, 2005For Squidward: Setting up Auto-Discovery of Podcasts By Keyword
My friend Squidward really loves podcasts. In fact he loves podcasts so much he bought an iPod Shuffle for the exclusive purpose of getting and listening to podcasts....
Continue reading "For Squidward: Setting up Auto-Discovery of Podcasts By Keyword" » August 07, 2005Google Maps and Virtual Earth Side by Side
Get your comparisons on. Over at http://www.jonasson.org/maps/?ll=37.328664113811776,-122.02712059020996 you can get MSN's Virtual Earth and Google Maps side by side. looks like Google Maps defaults to the hybrid view....
Continue reading "Google Maps and Virtual Earth Side by Side" » Convert RSS to PDF
I'm not exactly sure why you'd use this, but http://rss2pdf.com allows you to convert RSS feeds to PDF files. You can import OPML files (that's pretty nifty) as well as choose whether or not to include images. PDF files generated...
Interesting Places on Google Maps
There's a directory of interesting Google Maps locations at http://explorer.altopix.com/ . The directory is user submitted and currently has over several hundred (at least) entries in a variety of categories including Urban, Nature, Landscape, and Countries. The listings include a...
Directory of Blogs by Tag or by Subject
There's an interesting directory of blogs available at Blogflux ( http://dir.blogflux.com/ ). Interesting because it bypasses the standard Yahooesque directory structure, and it incorporates tags. At this writing it has more than 950 blogs listed. The directory isn't that arts/sports/reference...
Continue reading "Directory of Blogs by Tag or by Subject" » Dave Taylor Unleashes Google Book Upon World
You extremely old-school geeks may remember Dave Taylor as the guy behind Elm. I first encountered him as the author of one of my mother's required books for a computer class she was taking. He's still a tech whiz but...
Continue reading "Dave Taylor Unleashes Google Book Upon World" » New Greasemonkey Available
Mozillazine is reporting that there's a new version of Greasemonkey available that addresses the security problems of the earlier Gmonkeys. This new version, 0.5, is in beta and you can get it from http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ . Information about the new version...
August 05, 2005Ask Jeeves and The Dan Band
I'm just blogging this so I'll remember it later: Ask Jeeves is having a party at SES complete with The Dan Band. I had never heard of The Dan Band until last Tuesday when I was working late and one...
YubNub Offers Command Line Searching
Okay, I call no more resource names that make me think of Warcraft. YubNub! Dabu! Lok'tar! Actually YubNub ( try it at http://www.yubnub.org/ ) has nothing to do with Warcraft and everything to do with "command-line" type searches. Which I'm...
Scrabble Tourneys on Google Maps
Reader MT sent this in because he knows I'm a mashup nut. And this is a good one. Scrabble tournaments mapped on Google Maps using those little letter square things! Woo hoo! Scrabble yourself at http://www.cross-tables.com/map.php ....
Catch a Feed and You're Sitting On Top of the World
I really hope I haven't set myself the standard of thinking up a song headline every time I write about the FeedShake people. I am not that creative. But I've managed it at least once more for a new feature...
Continue reading "Catch a Feed and You're Sitting On Top of the World" » August 04, 2005The Unofficial Google Wiki
If you're surprised by this, why? There's an unofficial Google Wiki now available at http://google.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page . There's not much to it yet (all of 9 articles available) but the front page has a roundup of some of the latest Google...
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