Category Archives: morningbuzz

Digital archive of Revolutionary War coverage? “In addition to the 400-page, full-color book, Todd Andrlik and Sourcebooks are launching a sensational multimedia package complete with website, digital archive of 300+ Revolutionary newspapers, interactive app, video, audio and educational lesson plans.”

Nice! HijackThis has been released as open source.

A new exhibit based on scrapbooks of African-American life by L.S. Alexander Gumby: “Now, examples from his life’s work are available online on the Unwritten History: Alexander Gumby’s African America website, which has digital reproductions of more than 60 pages from his scrapbooks.” (He did 161 scrapbooks total. Wow!)

Google, now with more privacy issues. “While one Google team was taking advantage of a little-known backdoor that could change the default Safari setting, the Google Chrome team was working to get Apple to close the backdoor–apparently with neither team having knowledge of the other’s actions.”

I didn’t even know that there WERE fifty thousand beers, much less that there was a database app for them.

Old article but still interesting: Five low-profile startups that could change the face of big data.

Search Engine Land takes a look at Volunia.

Vimeo has added Creative Commons browse and search capabilities.

Code Hero sounds like a great Kickstarter project.

Wondering about Pinterest? Here’s a 57-slide deck. Need an invite? Send me your e-mail address and I’ll send you one.

Handy: Five easy ways to find cheap gas. Good morning, Internet…

China has published a national bribery blacklist.

Whoopsie! Google.com was accidentally getting flagged as malware.

I know someone who will be very interested in this new archive about Polynesian voyaging. “If he had known what a complex undertaking it would be, Nainoa Thompson says now, he might not have asked Honolulu Community College to create a digital library of documents related to the Polynesian Voyaging Society.”

A new search engine oriented toward privacy: Stealth.

Heh, applying Google PageRank to chemistry: “Aurora Clark, an associate professor of chemistry at Washington State University, has adapted Google’s PageRank software to create moleculaRnetworks, which scientists can use to determine molecular shapes and chemical reactions without the expense, logistics and occasional danger of lab experiments.”

The new version of Twitter (the new new version of Twitter) has been rolled out for everybody.

Can’t get to Arizona? Now there’s virtual Arizona!

Ancestry is offering free access to its Japanese internment camp record collections from now through February 23.

Wow: a very interesting Civil War diary published: “Diaries belonging to a Civil War soldier who witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln have been digitized and published by UC Merced’s Kolligian Library.”

A new Web site provides information on New Jersey’s same-day surgery centers.

New Web site looks at Canada during the First and Second World Wars: “Wartime Canada is an online database that preserves historical Canadian documents from those wars and makes them accessible to the public….There are 400 documents online and an additional 3,000 to 4,000 to be uploaded in the coming months, with new material being added every day…”

Some amazing pictures: how Japan has rebuilt and cleaned up in the 11 months since the earthquake and tsunami. Astounding. Good morning, Internet…

Woo! A new Web site to rank privacy policies. “PrivacyChoice has analyzed more than a thousand of the most trafficked web sites to score them on a scale of 1 to 100 in their collection and use of personal data, as well as the collection and use practices of the third-party companies that they allow to track users on their sites.”

Google Maps: trouble in France.

TextPipe is now version 9.0. Sigh… love TextPipe.

The 2010 Mexico Earthquake: a 3-D map study of before and after.

The EPA has released a new tool for tracking greenhouse gases.

Bowdoin’s student body talks about mass deactivation of Facebook. “Last Monday, Tyler Patton ’12 and Ruiqi Tang ’13 launched massdeactivation.blogspot.com, the site of their self-proclaimed ‘social experiment’ that urges Bowdoin students to disable their Facebook profiles from February 8 to March 8.”

Motor Trend has launched its own YouTube channel. “The Motor Trend Channel’s programs have been developed to create content from the unique opportunities and insights offered by SIM’s large portfolio of automotive media brands, from Motor Trend to Hot Rod, Motorcyclist, Lowrider, FourWheeler, Dirt Rider, Car Craft, Automobile, Import Tuner and more. The programs cover first rides and drives and tests of the latest two- and four-wheeled machinery, as well as automotive lifestyle and documentary shows.”

Fipeo, a new video social network. The article describes it like this: “People with complementary interests find that video and respond in kind. Connection are formed and the new acquaintances carry on the relationship.” Sadly I can imagine this getting real weird (in a negative way) real quick….

Nice! The Montana State Library and its digitization effort.

The IRS has a new online tool to help low- and moderate- income tax payers find prep help. “The new tool, available 24 hours a day on IRS.gov, makes it easier than ever for qualified individuals to find free help through the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. Volunteers at VITA locations generally offer tax preparation for people with incomes of $50,000 or less free of charge.”

Interesting. A database of software made in Australia and New Zealand. Already over 100 entries.

Followup: the Pentagon Press Secretary and the Twitter Town Hall.

The 2012 Republican Convention has an official Twitter account. (Please note that I am including this for informative purposes, not as an endorsement. Don’t expect an endorsement unless the Silly Party has a convention….)

There’s a great blog that covers “forgotten” movies, as well as weekly DVD releases of old movies from Warner. Check it out at
http://forgottenfilmcast.wordpress.com/. Good stuff.

Twitter breaks down the Superbowl tweet numbers. “…in 2008, Twitter’s largest spike in Tweets per second (TPS) during the Super Bowl was just 27. Three years later, fans sent 4,064 TPS, which was the highest TPS for any sporting event at that time. This year, the TPS peak was 12,233 Tweets.”

Lady Gaga is launching her own social network. Closed beta. Good morning, Internet…

YouTube has FOUR BILLION video views a day — and I’m pretty sure they’re not all keyboard cat.

Interesting: a new Google search tool called Don’t be Evil.

Also interesting: a tool to calculate the cost of living abroad.

Some members of Congress have some questions about Google’s new privacy policy.

Huh, I didn’t know the White House was on Storify.

The oral histories of Yorkshire, will be digitized.

The UN has launched a new database to help businesses adapt to climate change.

About.com has launched a free cooking app.

A very article on vector images: where to find them and resources for editing them. Good morning, Internet…

Hey, The White House is on Google+!

Google Operating System takes a look at searching Google for punctuation marks and other special symbols.

GOS also notes that you can still find Google Code Search… you just have to know where to look.

The state of Maryland has created an online database of business incentives. “… an online database of the financial incentives that the state provides to companies when they promise to create jobs, open new facilities or otherwise contribute to the economy.”

Wow! A huge roundup of new APIs from ProgrammableWeb.

Congressional Facebook Hackathon: the report.

Archives.com has added a bunch of vital records.

News on Ireland’s national library going digital.

Check out Apple’s press release on its new offerings.

Who’s going to team up with National Geographic for a digital archive? Why, it’s Gale! Good morning, Internet…

There’s a new Q&A site to compete with Quora! Beepl is now out of private beta.

Temple University has a new archive chronicling the civil rights movement in Philadelphia.

Soon to be an online museum! “Darwin’s fossils rediscovered in cabinet”.

Stanford is going to digitize the Collier Collection. “The collection’s library owns 1 million items — rooms and rooms of archives. Those include every issue of some magazines, such as the hard-cover auto historian’s bible, Automotive Quarterly, and the first edition of the early British racing journal, Autocar.”

Google’s been busy mapping campuses! Yesterday I read announcements from SF State and the University of Delaware. (Nice pic, UD!)

Also speaking of Google: it’s teaming up with the World Bank.

Ever wanted to ask something of the US Department of State? Here’s your chance. Good morning, Internet…