ACRLog: There’s More to “Finding” Than We Thought. Eye-opening. A Flickr collection of search patterns. Thanks Bloug! Press Release: WonderHowTo now has more than 100,000 videos. New federated search blog. Open Source […]
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Barnes & Noble Offers How To Guide Site
All the kids are doing it! Barnes & Noble recently announced Quamut.com, a how-to Web site. The twist here is that some of the how-tos are available as HTML and PDF and […]
ResearchBuzz Roundup 032408
Press Release: LinkedIn Now Supports Companies. There’s an online book repair manual at http://library.state.ak.us/hist/conman.html . Dipnote gives you the skinny on your passport file. Press Release: American Wine Blog Awards? Yahoo Maps […]
Missouri Death Certificate Database Released
Genealogy buffs! Now you can take a look at Missouri death certificates covering 1910 to 1957 — that’s over 2 million certificates available at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ . Access is free. The index is […]
Looking at Simple English Wikipedia
I knew about the regular Wikipedia, but I didn’t know about the Simple English Wikipedia until I stumbled across it at http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page . As you might suspect, the Simple English Wikipedia is […]