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Information Trapping and TwitterJanuary 5
Ohai, I’m back. Yeah, gone for a while. That darned meatspace. All kinds of stuff can happen and the next thing you know you haven’t put anything on your Web site in six months and people are e-mailing you asking if you’ve lost the keyboard. But one of my 2009 resolutions was to get back [...]
New Collection of Worldwide Space Program ImageryJanuary 4
Image Fortress announced last week a new online digital library called the International Space Archives. This new collection not only covers still and video imagery produced by NASA but by the space programs of Russia, Japan, China, and other nations. It’s available at http://www.internationalspacearchives.com. I was expecting the usual “Big Blue Marble” type pictures, and I [...]
ResearchBuzz Roundup 071108July 11 2008
Here’s something you don’t see every day — a fax machine recall. Mapping the Northern California Wildfires. Discussion on the launch of LexMonitor. Steven is bitter. And I don’t blame him. Mozilla sets Firefox download record. Just over 8 million in 24 hours! Hm. Microsoft bought Powerset? Google talks about its new privacy link. AdSense [...]
ResearchBuzz Roundup 062808June 28 2008
Bibliothèque de Toulouse’s on Flickr! Terrific. I saw this screenshot and yelled “AAAH! It’s the first issue of Wired!” More real-time quotes on Google Finance. A Science Conference in World of Warcraft. Whee! Real Life Snail Mail. Is the Internet just out to prove how weird it is? Ask.com blog: Ask.com Makes More Moves on Privacy. I had [...]
ResearchBuzz Roundup 062508June 25 2008
Congrats to BabyBoomer Librarian for one thousand posts. University Presses are hooking up with Kindle. Jon Orwant and Jarkko Hietaniemi deserve a medal. Someone is going to do something wonderful with this. JupiterResearch: one quarter of world’s population will be online by 2012. LexisNexis expands its Congressional Digital Collection. FictionDB is now free. Rawk! What’s new with [...]