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The George Eastman House, home of the world’s oldest photography museum, has announced that it is developing a wiki for documenting the photographic process. This new wiki is being aimed for use by collectors, curators, archivists, and conservators.

The wiki, which owes its creation to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will include information on cameras, chemical processes, and other topics related to photography. What I found especially interesting is that the site will also facilitate a classification scheme for imaging materials. Criteria will include detail, type, condition, age, and process.

The wiki is expected to take up to two years to develop (you’ll pardon the pun) and once developed, is expected to be “closed”, with edits coming only from staff at the Eastman House and curators, scholars, and other experts.

While you’re waiting for the new Wiki, you can check out the Eastman house podcasts, view the digitized offerings, and take a virtual tour. (Don’t miss the samples from the Kodak advertising collection).

Trying to figure out what you’re going to do with half a leftover turkey and fifteen pounds of sweet potatoes? Yahoo wants to help you out with its newly-announced search shortcut for recipes.

The search is in the form of a syntax: just search for an ingredient and the word recipes and you’ll get links to recipes and cuisine types at the top of the search results page. A search for mushroom recipes, for example, returns Sausage and Mushroom Soup, Tofu with Tomato-Mushroom Sauce, and other recipes from Food & Wine and EatingWell.com. (Currently 14 different providers are being used for the recipes.) Recipes have ratings, and some of the listings I saw (beef recipes) broke out the available recipes into cuisines.

Multiple-word queries get mixed results. If, for example, I try chicken and mushroom recipes, I will get recipe links at the top of the results page. chicken and avocado recipes brings just regular search results, however.

In addition to searching for ingredients you can also search for types of cuisine. A search for Italian olive recipes found goodies like Rosemary Focaccia with Olives and Osso Buco with Tomatoes, Olives, and Gremolata. Alas, Italian olive and chicken recipes did not provide a shortcut.

There are also some special dietary considerations you can use in your search as well, though they appear more limited. Try low fat recipes, or vegan recipes, or kosher recipes, or gluten free recipes. You can search for types of recipes, within reason. Try stew recipes or greens recipes. I also had a limited amount of success searching by cooking method — broil recipes or deep fried recipes.

The only bad thing about this shortcut is that it doesn’t seem able to handle lots of ingredients. I guess if I look in the fridge and all I have is an onion, some leftover ham, and a half-a-jar of olives, I could use Cookin’ With Google or a regular Web search. On the other hand, if I need a quick recipe for a mud pie and don’t need to fool with ingredients, this Yahoo shortcut is fast and useful!

First public beta of Firefox 3 Released. But with the problems described I think I’ll skip it for now…

What URLs are being linked to on Twitter? TwitterBuzz.

Google Custom Search now available in 40 languages.

LiveMint (about which I know nothing, so I can’t draw any conclusions on credibility) grabbing more search.

More rumors: is Google gonna buy Skype?

Congrats to the AWS Start Up Challenge Finalists.

Awwww…. woogie woogie woogie! Congrats to Dan and Charlene!