ResearchBuzz: Internet-Reference Archives

(Just out of curiosity, is "ables" the new "i" or "e"? Thisables, thatables. Whattheheckables?) Combine tagging with step-by-step instructions to make a wide variety of things and voila, you have Instructables, available at http://www.instructables.com/. Warning, monster timesink, fascinating, even for...

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Congratulations to The Scout Report on its ten year anniversary. You can read an overview article at http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2413 and get a retrospective at The Scout Report site: http://scout.wisc.edu/About/TenYears/. I've been subscribing to The Scout Report for at least seven years;...

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Michael Fagan continues his reign of awesomeness with a really nice tool for getting information on an URL. And I'm talking all kinds of information -- development, cache, everything. Check it out at http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/ . It starts out simple; enter...

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Pest Patrol announced this week a new library of spyware information and removal instructions. It's available at http://research.pestpatrol.com/ . When I heard about this my big interest was in the encyclopedia of pests, but there's plenty to see on the...

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Marcus Zillman must live on coffee or Water Joe or something. He's always putting together those Subject Tracer Information Blogs -- pointers to links on various topics. I'm bringing them up because he's up to 30 of the things, available...

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Phishing scams are when you get e-mails from alleged legitimate institutions (banks, eBay, whatever) saying that your account has been compromised or you've been charged a zillion dollars or whatever. You then visit the site, which is actually fake, fill...

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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...

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Marcus Zillman's put together another Subject Tracer Blog, this one called DeepWebResearch.info ( http://www.DeepWebResearch.info ). This one-page link list provides information about the "invisible Web" in a variety of categories, including articles and papers, cross-database search tools, and presentations. Be...

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Marcus Zillman has started a link list for Internet demographics at http://www.internetdemographics.info/ . So all those of you e-mailing me asking about Internet demographic angels-and-pinheads, start here. This site features an alphabetical list of Internet demographic resources, unfortunately without any...

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It's version 50! The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography has hit the big 5-0. It now covers over 1,950 articles, books, and other resources relevant to scholarly electronic publishing. It's available in HTML ( http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html ) and Acrobat ( http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf )...

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Gleason Sackmann has announced that Net-Happenings list, hosted by Classroom Connect., is shutting down. Gleason says, "Since I am no longer employed by Classroom Connect, I am shutting down this list... I have enjoyed the years that the list has...

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The ever-groovy Scout Report (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/ sr/current) has announced that due to a lack of funding they are discontinuing the subject- specific Scout Reports. The last issue of "Scout Report for Social Sciences & Humanities" will be May 29, the last...

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