Google has announced on its blog that Google Groups has been taken out of beta. I reviewed the beta version of Google Groups last October, noting then that the new features included […]

Christian Science Monitor: Is this the end of the scholarly journal? Sad people eat more unhealthy comfort foods. Sad people might find themselves amused by the picture of Brian Wansink getting all […]

Lately I find myself interested in those tools and sites that track popularity or buzz. There are plenty of them for search engines, news, and places like that, but I have yet […]

More historical images of UC-Berkeley now online: http://dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=22554 . The (Robert E.) Lee Family Digital Archive: http://www.rockbridgeweekly.com/rw_article.php?ndx=6084 . More ex-Google Answers folks striking out on their own — this one focuses on […]

Ancestry ( http://www.ancestry.com ) recently announced a launch of a new historical records collection that covers over six million names from German a variety of collections. At the same time Ancestry has […]