The National Archives of the United States have announced an agreement with Footnote to digitize selected documents from the National Archives. There are already 4.5 million pages available for a fee, but […]

The National Archives of Britain has released a new set of passenger manifests which cover British ports from 1890 to 1899 (with more lists to be added later — eventually the site […]

Hey, this is a pretty neat idea. Wikiseek searches Wikipedia, but it goes beyond that search only those sites referenced by Wikipedia. As it notes on its about page, this idea helps […]

The AAA has improved their TripTik online mapping tool to include gas prices and locations for about 100,000 places in the US. You can try TripTik free (you don’t have to be […]

Using Wikipedia to make computers smarter: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526330/?sc=dwtr. Really specialized job sites — http://comicjobz.com/ . Google to give out real-time stock quotes for free? Ikes. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/real-time-quotes-for-free.html . Congratulations to Grandmaster Flash and the […]