Newspaper closes paper version, goes exclusively online.
WB returns to life as online video offering?
Google Custom Searching for Creative Commons content.
GovGab has an entire blog entry about road kill.
New: EB Green Digital Library.
Jeremy invites Microsoft and Yahoo to spit or get off the pot. With kittens. I can has merger?
If you have English ancestry, an interest in your family’s history, and some patience, do I have a site for you. It’s a Web site aggregating the proceeding of the trials at the Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court in England) from 1674-1913. This site covers almost 200,000 trials.
The site is running a bit slowly at the moment, and you may have to make several attempts before you can successfully run a search. . You can search by name, but you can also search by keyword or offense. A search for Smith found (after several attempts and lots of time outs) lots of results presented ten at a time, with the title and date of the case (” Judith Smith, defendant name in trial of Judith Smith, Theft > other, 11th December 1678.”) along with a bit of context.
The trial information page contains the content of the trial information. This can be as brief as a few paragraphs or as extensive as a lot of testimony. This selection concerning four eight-year-old boys who stole 48 bottles of ale is only one paragraph long.
In addition to seeing the transcript of legal proceedings, there’s also an option to see the original page of proceedings. (It’s a GIF image.) The one I managed to load was really really REALLY hard to read. I’ll stick to the transcripts.
This site is going to be a fun timesink, but it isn’t yet — it’s too slow and there are too many time out errors. I think I’ll come back in a week or so…
Handy! The Maine State Library has announced a new mobile-accessible library, now available at mobile.maine.gov/msl. Unlike some mobile sites, you can also access this one with a regular Web browser.
From the main menu of the Maine State Library mobile site you can quickly get to contact information for the library, FAQs, new audio book information, and — hey! — a list of Maine public libraries with wireless access.
The state of Maine itself also has a mobile site which is available at http://mobile.maine.gov/. This site contains pointers to the latest state news, the weather, voter information, links to public meetings, and lottery numbers.
