Archive for June 2008

ResearchBuzz Roundup 062808

Bibliothèque de Toulouse’s on Flickr! Terrific.

I saw this screenshot and yelled “AAAH! It’s the first issue of Wired!”

More real-time quotes on Google Finance.

A Science Conference in World of Warcraft. Whee!

Real Life Snail Mail. Is the Internet just out to prove how weird it is?

Ask.com blog: Ask.com Makes More Moves on Privacy.

I had no idea there was an online database of Bigfoot sightings.

The Georgia Official and Statistical Register has gone online.

ResearchBuzz Roundup 062508

Congrats to BabyBoomer Librarian for one thousand posts.

University Presses are hooking up with Kindle.

Jon Orwant and Jarkko Hietaniemi deserve a medal. Someone is going to do something wonderful with this.

JupiterResearch: one quarter of world’s population will be online by 2012.

LexisNexis expands its Congressional Digital Collection.

FictionDB is now free. Rawk!

What’s new with Google Maps: the MapMaker.

Matt Cutts is proving an unexpected and welcome source for cat product recommendations.

ResearchBuzz Roundup 062408

Online Journalism Review goes away.

Safari Books Online has upgraded.

YouTube video for toddlers. Heh.

GovGab has some more information about the tomato recall and food recalls in general.

Gary got a hat tip! And well deserved too.

It’s the Return of Google Code Jam!

Good news for IE and del.icio.us.

Not long until November: it’s the Google Maps Elections Gallery.

Wow II: Jeremy is going to Craigslist. Best of luck to him.

Google Books vs. BISON.