When I want to search the Internet for news in a local area, I do one of two things: One: Go to Google News and use their “location” syntax that allows me […]
WorldCat Launches With 10,000 Libraries Worldwide Searchable
Why yes, I am still catching up. I’m ALWAYS catching up. Anything else? Anyway, WorldCat.org has officially launched: http://www.worldcat.org . It’s in beta. Over 10,000 libraries in the OCLC cooperative are searchable […]
Google Starts New Resource Center for Webmasters
Google recently announced that they’ve created a new site with Webmaster resources, oddly enough called Google Webmaster Central. You can check it out at http://www.google.com/webmasters/. Normally I think of sites like this […]
Some New Features at PodZinger
Last February I reviewed a site called PodZinger. PodZinger, if you don’t remember, does machine transcription of podcasts and then makes the material searchable, which is just lovely. (And as far as […]
Digital Library for Teaching Engineering to K-12
If you’re a teacher and you’re looking for resources to teach engineering to pre-high school kids, you might want to check out TeachEngineering, a new library that, according to its home page, […]