The Oregon Encyclopedia Project is now underway…
Jackie Gleason gets an online museum.
iTunes now number 2 music retailer in US. Behind Wal-Mart. Just Wow.
There is now a wiki devoted to LOLspeak.
FeedBurner talks about its (not so) new Help Center.
Gigablast pepsichallenges Google.
Hmm. YouTube as evidence.
William F. Buckley died this week. I knew that he hosted Firing Line, but I did not know that Stanford University had a database of Firing Line TV shows. The show ran from 1966 to 1999, and there were just over 1504 episodes of the program.
The database, at http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programList.php, appears to list something over 1200 episodes (and a couple of related specials.) They’re presented in a table which includes episode number, name, and two columns that show whether the first five minutes are available as streaming media, and whether the whole show is available and in what format (the only available format I saw was VHS.)
If you click on the name of the program you’ll get other information including the list of guests, taping date, duration, a summary of the program, and whether a copy of it is available. If you want to look at the first five minutes of a show (I would say less than ten percent of the shows listed have the first five minutes available as streaming media) you’ll need to have the RealOne video player.
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, which hosts the site at Stanford, is asking for suggestions on what shows to digitize and make available online. You can get more information on the database at http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/index.php .
SeattlePI.com has mentioned a search engine for message boards called Dipity (Dopity Doo?) It’s at http://www.dipiti.com/ .
Dipiti, according to its home page, indexes over 2300 communities and almost 29 million conversations. They’re divided broadly into health, legal, money, and pet care. (So this is not the search engine to find hockey conversations or discussions of politics.) There’s a tag cloud of topics or you can search within one of the aforementioned categories (or all of them if you like.)
I did a search for psoriasis (long story) and got 11 results. The results were for sites, and they included Topix.com, CureSearch, ButYouDontLookSick.com, and Self. Each listing contained a brief excerpt and a count of related conversations (from 1 to over 50.) A couple of the communities had user ratings while they all had a Dipiti score, which grades the sites based on a number of factors (explanation here.) If you want to pursue the related conversations, it looks like you go straight to the site.
I’ll try this search engine the next time I need to do some health searches, but I wish it offered some kind of RSS feed and that there was an easier way to go straight to relevant conversations.
