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Another Search Engine for IRS.gov?

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:58:57 +0000

Whenever I have to do a search on a government Web site, whether it’s local, state, or federal, I almost always end up making the same noise: “Gghhhhhhhhhhh.” That’s the noise of getting eight zillion documents filled with legal- and bureaucracy-ese and having to figure out yet another set of search terms. I have never [...]

One Hundred Years of British Newspapers

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:46:28 +0000

You know, I’ve been covering Internet research and data collections for over a dozen years now, and I had no idea I was going to turn into such an old newspaper fan. Recently I was mesmerized by an incredible collection of digitized newspapers in Wyoming, and now I’m gaga for British Newspapers 1800-1900, at http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/. [...]

Google Books, Now Featuring Big Fluffy Clouds

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:40:42 +0000

Google Books announced today that it’s added a “Common Terms and Phrases” cloud on the overview page for some of its books. We can’t call it a tag cloud, because these aren’t tags, so I’ll call it a term cloud. For an example let’s look at Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp By John [...]

Wolfram|Alpha, Creeping into My Workday

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:52:58 +0000

Even after all the hype, Wolfram|Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/) didn’t do all that much for me. Yeah, I liked it, thought it was neat, and had used it a little bit as a reference engine, but it just hadn’t turned me into a rampaging evangelist. Then I found I was using it a lot because of the [...]

Squaring Up With Google

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:22:30 +0000

It’s amazing to see all the search engine development that’s been taking place in the last couple of months. It’s like 1999 all over again, in a good way. Google Labs is humming with all kinds of neat stuff. When Google Squared came out earlier this month, I was pretty excited, but I think right [...]

CIA Gives World Factbook a Makeover

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:51:58 +0000

This is how much of a nerd I am: I have the CIA World Factbook on my Kindle. Pretty nerdy, huh? But it’s not a bad thing; I’ve been fascinated with the Factbook for years. So much information. So easily navigable. Recently the CIA announced what it called “the first major redesign of the Factbook [...]

CiteSeerX Now Holds Over One Million Journal Articles

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:34:01 +0000

UPI had a brief article on CiteSeerX, the article and citation search engine, on June 2 so I thought I’d mosey over and see how it was doing. Pennsylvania State University runs CiteSeerX and it’s available to anybody at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu. It’s in beta, but isn’t everything? The front page notes how many article and citations [...]

TechTarget Launches SearchCloudComputing.com

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:18:24 +0000

Wow, I haven’t covered one of these in a while. TechTarget has launched another information site for a technology: cloud computing. SearchCloudComputing.com (http://www.searchcloudcomputing.com”>) was made available on June 5. The site includes information on several aspects of cloud computing (including security, data management, infrastructure, and applications) as well as news. There’s also a webcast and [...]

Goofing Around with Google Elements

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:40:38 +0000

Google Elements has been out for just over a month. And though I still mourn the loss of the old Google API, I’m kind of encouraged by offerings like this. You might not program, you might not be interested in SOAP and REST and all that, but you just want to get some Google (in [...]

Twitter Tweets about Twitter Quick Search News as of June 22, 2009

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:38:34 +0000

ResearchBuzz: Announcing http://www.CraneFacts.com – the New Industry Standard for Tracking Crane History lb (Construction cranes) http://bit.ly/rcnxA 2009-06-22 17:37:23 · Reply · View ResearchBuzz: A free TV site that beats Hulu, Veoh (great article on Museum of Broadcast Communications from Geoff Williams) — http://bit.ly/WOEaW lb 2009-06-21 13:42:12 · Reply · View ResearchBuzz: Collection of Indigenous Music Going Digital (Sub-Saharan [...]

Tech Talk: New online database from Wake Forest University now available [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:10:45 PDT

The Anthropology Museum at Wake Forest University now has an new online database that catalogs its entire collection -- that's more than 26,000 artifacts!

Tech Talk: Anti-social Gustav getting social treatment on the Web [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:32:12 PDT

Lots of channels being created for communication about oncoming Gustav.

Tech Talk: Fay, are you ever leaving? [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:56:54 PDT

Florida posts a hurricane photo exhibits and reclaiming documents from water damage

Tech Talk: DTV -- It's Happening in Wilmington! [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:26:41 PDT

Wilmington NC goes DTV on September 8

Tech Talk: Gas Milage Tool [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:51:33 PDT

Tech Talk: CustomGuide offers free "cheat sheets" [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:26:10 PDT

Tech Talk: Ancestry.com offering free access to its military ancestor research [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:56 PDT

Tech Talk: Gas Prices All Over The Map... Literally [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:04:45 PDT

Tech Talk: SearchScanning With Yahoo and McAfee [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:56:39 PDT

Tech Talk: Fun With Baby Names [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:55:24 PDT

Tech Talk: Free Golf Lessons! (For Ten Minutes) [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:21:24 PDT

Tech Talk: Send Your Name to the Moon! [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:23:15 PDT

Tech Talk: NCSU Wants To Help You Go Native [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:53:55 PDT

Tech Talk: TVLand Launches Huge Movie Trailer Database [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:56:06 PDT

Tech Talk: In Pictures Now Apparently All Free [del.icio.us]

ResearchBuzz — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:15:38 PDT