In an effort to get my information traps back up to snuff, I’m spending some more time messing around with Google News to get the best searches possible. I keep information traps […]
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Harper’s Magazine to Put Ten Years of Its Indexes Online
I’m very excited about this! Harper’s Magazine, which publishes the Harper’s Index, will put the past ten years of its Index up for free starting on February 15th. Harper’s Web site is […]
Information Trapping: Follow 17 Press Release Wires with Google News
While I was away I was still writing the Tech Talk blog for WRAL, so I still had my information traps going. However while the traps still worked, I did notice that […]
Washington Post Launches WhoRunsGov.com in Beta
The Washington Post has announced WhoRunsGov.com, a collection of profiles of political officials. The full URL is http://whorunsgov.com, and the two things to bear in mind here are: “more features to come” […]
Compilation of Presidential Documents Goes Daily
Now that there’s a new President in DC, some of the online resources are changing a bit as well. I dropped by the Federal Digital System of US Government Printing Office Web […]