NEW RESOURCES Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) has launched a new Web site called ThreatSearch. “ThreatSearch is the most comprehensive database of conservation assessments of plants. It contains over 242,000 conservation assessments, […]
Internet Archive, Facebook, Google BigQuery, More: Friday Afternoon Buzz, January 6, 2017
NEW RESOURCES The Internet Archive has launched a Trump Archive. “A work in progress, the growing collection now includes more than 520 hours of Trump video. The earliest excerpt dates from December […]
Dambudzo Marechera, Local News, MA Data Breaches, More: Thursday Afternoon Buzz, January 5, 2017
NEW RESOURCES Now available: a digital archive for Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera. The page I’m linking to is in German, which I’m translating via Chrome. Apologies for weirdness. “The collection consists of […]
Hot Rods, SoundCloud, Twitter Hashtags, More: Wednesday Afternoon Buzz, January 4, 2017
NEW RESOURCES New-to-Me: The American Hot Rod Foundation (yes, really) has redone its Web site, which contains lots of pictures, a few videos, and an audio section (oral histories?) “coming soon”. “The […]
Lifting Stones, Khmer Rouge, Comedy Central, More: Tuesday Afternoon Buzz, January 3, 2017
NEW RESOURCES Today I learned there were such things as Scottish lifting stones. And I also learned that there are some people who go around the world picking up these stones and […]
