ResearchBuzz

How interesting! Using Wikipedia for information managment.

Selected parts of the Yale Daily News have been archived.

The Reference Desk Scratchpad. How cool!

CBS bought CNET?

Google News now offers related searches.

Student turns first-year law into tunage. “Cause I relied on you/And you screwed me through and through/So it’s promissory estoppel; We made plans far ahead/And now you say you want me dead/Well, too bad, it’s promissory estoppel.” Yeah! Rock on!

2007 National Recording Registry Announced. “Thriller” gets in.

Maine State Library offering newsletters with reading suggestions. You don’t have to be a patron of the library to get the newsletters.

Historical Travel Photographs from Oregon.

Firefox 3, RC1 now available.

Google Translate has ten new languages!

Twittering a birth. Wow.

Footnote.com adds 1860 Census.

Even adorable baby eaglets can get their own press releases.

USPTO adds some really old patents.

China news portal SINA has launched an English version.

Wow. I didn’t know that Amazon Web Services used more bandwidth than Amazon’s retail sites. Jeff posted a chart.

dLife launches search tool with over 10,000 diabetes-friendly recipes.

The New York Times has launched its Olympics section. You GO, Oscar Pistorius.

Ask.com buys up a lot of reference.

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.