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May 28, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Google Blog: New ways to customize Chrome on your desktop. "Looking for more ways to make Chrome your own? With the latest updates to Chrome on desktop, it's easier […]
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May 27, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Lincoln Journal-Star: WanderNebraska kicks off second year with 150 sites across state. "This Memorial Day weekend, the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation will launch its 2023 WanderNebraska Travel Adventure Program […]
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May 26, 2023
NEW RESOURCES International Journalists' Network: New data storytelling tool available for journalists [Asia]. "Kontinentalist, a Singapore-based media that tells data stories about Asia, is launching Lapis, a no-code data storytelling tool that […]
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May 26, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Indiana University: Top FIBers dashboard tracks superspreaders of low-credibility information online. "With the goal of tracking superspreaders that are disseminating large quantities of low-credibility content, Indiana University's Observatory on Social […]
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May 25, 2023
NEW RESOURCES World Health Organization: WHO releases data.who.int. "Data.who.int provides open access to WHO's health data through a harmonized, consolidated and seamless experience. Starting with the data underlying WHO's annual World Health […]
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May 25, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Phys .org: Database stores names for family members in 1,200 languages. "Fiona Jordan, professor of anthropology from the University of Bristol, has been working with colleagues from Australia, Finland, and […]
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May 24, 2023
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Finland: The new website of the Jean Sibelius Works project. "The renewed trilingual website of the complete critical edition of Jean Sibelius's works (JSW) contains information about […]
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May 23, 2023
NEW RESOURCES TNW: OpenAI is offering a free class in prompt engineering for devs. "As with all skills, prompt engineering takes practice. And, seeing how quickly this technology has come into mainstream […]
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May 23, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Duke University: Wilson Center Creates Database to Track Police Use of Force Legislation. "In the first year following [George] Floyd's death, 1,489 bills relating to police violence were proposed. However, […]
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May 23, 2023
One of the problems with making Google search better is that much of its indexed content is unstructured data. It's easy to do deep search when all your data is nicely labeled. […]
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May 22, 2023
NEW RESOURCES News 9 (Oklahoma): New Service Helps Connect Veterans & Families Statewide. "The non-profit based in Owasso started a new website … to help veterans find events or programs to support […]
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May 22, 2023
Contemporary search is underrated! By contemporary search, I mean search that only spans the life of a person/place/thing. I don't think I have yet managed to fully appreciate the way media and […]
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May 22, 2023
NEW RESOURCES US Postal Service: U.S. Postal Service Launches Service Performance Dashboard. "After prompting users to enter only a ZIP Code, the website provides customers with a variety of useful information, including […]
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May 21, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Thrillist: New Website ‘See the Queens' Helps You Find Drag Shows Near You. "See The Queens offers folks in New York City, Fire Island, and Long Island an ultimate guide […]
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May 20, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Economics Observatory: The Economics Observatory's new Data Hub: a user's guide. "We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Data Hub. The new tool is demand-driven, which […]
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May 19, 2023
NEW RESOURCES CODART: Documents, Videos, and Aftermovie of CODART 24 Now Online. "From 12 to 14 March 2023, the CODART 24 congress took place in Antwerp. The theme of CODART 24 was […]
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May 19, 2023
NEW RESOURCES New from the UCLA Film & Television Archive: https://newsreels.net/. The Web site does not use an encryption certificate and I could not find any announcements anywhere but Facebook and Twitter, […]
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May 18, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Game World Observer: This free database of indie game publishers contains over 100 companies filtered by budget and more. "Unifiq Games founder Seyed Nasrollahi has created a free database of […]
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May 18, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Kyiv Independent: Investigative Stories from Ukraine: Journalists map military facilities in Russian-occupied Crimea . "Crimea.Realities, a project of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, launched an interactive map showing 233 active and […]
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May 17, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Greenwich Society for Historical Preservation: New Historic Image Collections Show Greenwich Village in the 1970s and More. "Our new Riccardo Spina Collection shows photos from a longtime resident who was […]
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May 17, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration: New Tool Launches: "Undocumented Student Communities of Practice" Network and Directory. "‘Undocumented Student Communities of Practice' [is] a new online tool and […]
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May 16, 2023
NEW RESOURCES British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog: Medieval and Renaissance Women: full list of the charters and rolls. "… we are thrilled to release a list of all the rolls and charters […]
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May 16, 2023
NEW RESOURCES CRL Global Resources Network: CRL and East View Release Two New In-Copyright Open Access Collections. "The complete archives of El Mundo (San Juan, Puerto Rico, est. 1919) and Daily Observer […]
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May 15, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Vij! (Bulgaria): "Kino Club Super 8" digitizes old home movies and they'll tell you why "For the team behind the project, the preservation of found family movies and amateur footage […]
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May 15, 2023
I have been sloooooowly pecking away at a document titled Make Your Own System For News Monitoring and Breaking Alerts With RSS, IFTTT, and Pushover . As the demise of Twitter appears […]
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May 15, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Globe Newswire: Gardens BC Kicks-Off Garden Tourism Season with the Launch of its New Website, Showcasing BC's Premier Garden Destinations (PRESS RELEASE). "From helping visitors identify popular amenities and activities […]
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May 14, 2023
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from the New York Times: Taking Photos to Change the Way We See the Bronx. "Everyday Bronx has been described as grass-roots storytelling that is changing the way the […]
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May 13, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Courtauld Institute of Art: One million rarely seen photographs from The Courtauld's collection unveiled thanks to major public project. "The Courtauld Institute of Art has completed a major five-year project […]
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May 12, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Agenda Georgia: New website on Georgia's travel destinations, events launched by national body for visitors. "The new gateway features around 3,200 articles in both Georgian and English about significant tourist […]
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May 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES CTV News: New searchable StatCan database lists Noah, Olivia top names in 2021. "Expectant parents and trend watchers have a new online tool to track Canada's most popular baby names. […]
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May 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Dialog: Unveiling of list of Catholic-run Native boarding schools allows for ‘subsequent generations to achieve healing'. "On May 9, [Maka] Black Elk and a group of archivists, historians, tribal […]
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May 10, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Cork Beo (Ireland): Cork genealogy database holds 57,000 burial records to help search for ancestors. "Volunteers in Cork have put together an impressive genealogy database to help people look into […]
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May 10, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Rest of World: The online repository that keeps the work of Mexico's murdered journalists alive. "In the past two decades, over 150 journalists have been killed in the country. Defensores […]
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May 09, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Concord Monitor: Zoning Atlas provides new tool to map state-wide housing needs and barriers to development . "A new tool from researchers at Saint Anselm College, the New Hampshire Zoning […]
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May 09, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Syracuse University: ‘Infodemic' Reporting Project Investigates Impact of Scams, Disinformation. "‘Infodemic' includes more than 30 stories packaged with photos, videos, illustrations, audio, data visualizations and other interactive media. The wide-ranging […]
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May 08, 2023
NEW RESOURCES British Library: Regal Reflections: Exploring a New UK Web Archive Collection on King Charles III. "As we bear witness to a new era of the British monarchy and reflect on […]
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May 08, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Carnegie Mellon University: Robotics Project Releases Toolkit, Digital Robotics Archive. "The website, which is hosted on the open-source digital repository system Islandora, allows users to click through historic robotics artifacts […]
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May 07, 2023
NEW RESOURCES BGR: See where your home was at the time of the dinosaurs using this interactive map. "A new website lets users pinpoint their home city and then see where it […]
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May 06, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Forward: Yiddish literature scholar David Roskies' extraordinary archive now accessible online. "This week marked the official unveiling of a new, freely accessible Yiddish archive composed of previously unpublished teaching materials, […]
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May 06, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Kent Stater: Mapping May 4 project connects history to its location. "The Mapping of May 4 is a website, and it takes short audio clips of stories from oral histories […]
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May 05, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Natural History Museum: Monitoring changes in Wikipedia pageviews could help save wildlife. " Monitoring changes in how people view the natural world could prove invaluable in gaining support for tackling […]
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May 05, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Moscow Times has announced that its archives are now available online.. From the home page: "The Moscow Times has been Russia's leading independent English-language media outlet since 1992, publishing […]
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May 04, 2023
NEW RESOURCES University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Chesnutt Archive adding author's correspondence. "The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities is now adding correspondence through […]
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May 04, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Daily Nous: New Video Archive of Mid-to-Late 20th Century British Philosophers. "Philosophy in the Open: The OU Philosophy Media Archive, contains over 30 hours of footage of interviews and debates […]
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May 03, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Motherboard: New Tool Shows if Your Car Might Be Tracking You, Selling Your Data. "A new tool that is free to use for consumers aims to better inform people about […]
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May 03, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Sheet-Shaped Wikipedia Turn Wikipedia category data into spreadsheet-ready text files. NEW RESOURCES Daily News-Record: Library of Virginia Creates A Digital Map Of Virginia's Deaf Communities. "The Library […]
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May 02, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Dartmouth College: Interactive 3D Model Recreates Old Man of the Mountain. "Twenty years after the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed, people around the world will now be able to […]
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May 02, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Royal Horticultural Society: RHS launches digital library of over 10,000 items, including rare treasures from their collections. "Many of the items available through the Digital Collections are rare, fragile or […]
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May 01, 2023
For the last couple of weeks I've been putting together a Web site called Nosy Raleigh. On one hand I wanted a place where I could aggregate a lot of information about […]
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May 01, 2023
NEW RESOURCES University of Alabama: UA-Created Digital Exhibition of Alabama Artist Publicly Available. "[Joe] Minter, a found-object artist, tells the story of his life, and a cultural movement, in a collection he […]
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May 01, 2023
NEW RESOURCES WKMS: Kentucky think tank launches tool to track state incarceration. "The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy is tracking the increase and causes of incarceration in the state through a newly […]
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Apr 30, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Cape Gazette: DHS releases African American history resource guide. "The Delaware Historical Society announced the release of a new tool to direct researchers, teachers and interested parties toward resources surrounding […]
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Apr 29, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Deadline: The Roddenberry Archive & OTOY Unveil New Virtual ‘Star Trek' Experience Allowing Trekkies To Examine Every Evolution Of The Starship Enterprise Bridge & Even Walk Across It. "The web […]
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Apr 28, 2023
NEW RESOURCES KUOW: Seattle joins effort to give young readers access to banned books. "The initiative, called Books Unbanned, was started by the Brooklyn Public Library last year in response to an […]
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Apr 27, 2023
NEW RESOURCES YLE News: Espoo's modern art museum takes experiences online. "EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, is opening a digital online service it has dubbed the ‘EMMA Zone'. The museum said […]
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Apr 26, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Irish Central: Tales of ancient Irish heroes become more accessible in new online database. "The recently-launched Fionn Folklore Database aims to connect people around the world with approximately 3,500 orally-collected […]
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Apr 26, 2023
NEW RESOURCES White House Historical Association: New Digital Library Exhibit "Slavery and Freedom in the White House Collection". "The White House Historical Association debuted a new virtual exhibit today, , that explores […]
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Apr 25, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Royal Society: Years in the making. "As with the small sample originally contained in the pilot, the whopping 30,000 manuscripts now included in Science in the Making relate to the […]
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Apr 24, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Nursing Times: Historic archive of Nursing Times issues launched. "Nursing Times has launched an archive of its print issues published since 1905, meaning subscribers can now dip into the history […]
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Apr 22, 2023
NEW RESOURCES World Health Organization: Launch of the Health Inequality Data Repository. "The Health Inequality Data Repository is the largest global collection of disaggregated data about health and determinants of health - […]
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Apr 22, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Burnley Express: Historic Clitheroe Advertiser archive from 1888 to 2015 now online thanks to civic society efforts. "Digitised versions of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times have been been made free […]
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Apr 21, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES NOAA: New Oceaneye Partnership Brings Expansion to Microplastics Database. "NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and non-profit organization Oceaneye have created a partnership to improve and expand the […]
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Apr 21, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Wikidata Quick Dip WQD makes accessing Wikidata's over 10,000 data properties easier. Paste in a Wikipedia category name, and Quick Dip will process the information and generate […]
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Apr 20, 2023
NEW RESOURCES CTech: AI21 Labs vs. CTech: Human or Not? . "‘Human of Not?' is currently available via a web browser where users are asked to write prompts where the game - […]
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Apr 20, 2023
Today is ResearchBuzz' 25th anniversary. How can I thank you enough? Those of you who read, those of you who support via Patreon and kind words. These last three years have been […]
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Apr 19, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Mashable: National Weather Service accounts were not granted API exemptions by Twitter. "The NWS tells Mashable that Twitter's API policy changes will limit its accounts to 50 automated tweets […]
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Apr 19, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: MastoWindow Explore hashtags across Mastodon, a decentralized social network. No account or registration required; just find an instance and start exploring. TWEAKS AND UPDATES Middle East Eye: […]
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Apr 18, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Buenos Aires Herald: Government launches website following dictatorship trials in real time. "The Secretariat of Human Rights has launched its website Crimes Against Humanity with information on all the cases […]
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Apr 18, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: CountryFeed Make country-specific Bing News RSS feeds and save them as an OPML file. NEW RESOURCES National Archives of Australia: Paper to pixels, partnership digitises 95,000 First […]
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Apr 17, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Internet Archive Blog: Law Professor Makes Digital Copyright Book Open for All. "Geared for a general audience, the book chronicles how copyright laws were drafted, written, lobbied and enacted in […]
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Apr 17, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: MegaGladys Your own personal Wikipedia-based nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz. Enter a Wikipedia topic and get a brief overview, potential newsy days, and a list of official communication […]
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Apr 16, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Vox: Is Twitter finally dying?. "Vox spoke with over half a dozen current and former Twitter employees, advertising and marketing experts, and users about the current state of the […]
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Apr 15, 2023
NEW RESOURCES National Geographic: National Geographic Society and Utrecht University Launch World Water Map . "The Map provides an interactive view of the sectors of water use; how much water people consume […]
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Apr 14, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Adam Matthew Digital: New digital archive expands awareness of Baptist society's mission. "With some material pre-dating the Virginia-based society's creation in 1845, the [International Mission Board]'s extensive archives reveal the […]
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Apr 14, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Clumpy Bounce Topic Search Clumpy Bounce uses Wikipedia categories to make lists of popular pages within a category. It then builds hyperfocused Google queries based on the […]
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Apr 13, 2023
NEW RESOURCES CNN: FBI launches app to help identify stolen art. "On Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released an app-based version of the US National Stolen Art File (NSAF), its […]
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Apr 13, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Category Cheat Sheet CCC takes a Wikipedia category, reviews the first 500 pages in it, and gets their page view counts for the past month. Then the […]
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Apr 12, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Library of Congress: National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Madonna, Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, Daddy Yankee. "Madonna's cultural ascent with ‘Like a Virgin,' Mariah Carey's perennial No. 1 Christmas […]
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Apr 12, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Backyard Scholarship Enter a name and a birthplace in America, and Backyard converts the city state to a zip code and finds all higher education institutions within […]
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Apr 11, 2023
EVENTS Internet Archive: Supporters Rally For Library Digital Rights on the Steps of the Internet Archive. "More than one hundred supporters gathered on the steps of the Internet Archive last Saturday to […]
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Apr 11, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Shuffle Search Google's search results look different depending on the order of your query words! Shuffle Search takes a 2-, 3-, or 4-word query and creates a […]
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Apr 10, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Euronews: Russia mulls lifting Twitter ban after Musk reinstates Kremlin account. "Russia is considering lifting its ban on Twitter after the social media network reinstated access to accounts of […]
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Apr 10, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Contemporary Biography Builder Use Wikipedia data to create lifespan-bounded searches for historical and contemporary figures. Creates searches for Google Books, Internet Archive, Digital Public Library of America […]
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Apr 09, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Block: Decentraland Metaverse Fashion Week attendance plummets 76% amid ‘worrisome' trading volume. "While the metaverse platform attracted 108,000 ‘unique attendees' last year, the company said only 26,000 attended […]
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Apr 09, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Techdirt: Everything Stadia Is Now Officially Dead, Project Head Exits Google. "The tech industry is absolutely lousy with failure, of course. Ambitious projects and ideas are entertained all the […]
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Apr 08, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Iowa Workforce Development: New IowaWorks Portal Will Ease Path For Veterans In Search Of New Careers. "Iowa Workforce Development today announced the launch of a new online portal that will […]
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Apr 08, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Local 3 News: TDOT launches new tool making transportation data more accessible. "The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has launched a new County Profile Tool you can use to see […]
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Apr 07, 2023
NEW RESOURCES University of Wollongong: Pacific Food Trade Database supports food system sustainability. "Researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW) based Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), led by […]
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Apr 07, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Gossip Machine Gossip Machine uses Wikipedia page views to surface potential "news days" in a given year (2016-2023) for any topic with a Wikipedia page. It analyzes […]
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Apr 06, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Ballotpedia News: Ballotpedia launches database of asset management companies that contract with state pensions. "Ballotpedia publicly launched a new database on April 4 designed to help interested parties better understand […]
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Apr 06, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Pam's Pin Convert a street address to a location-based Twitter search. NEW RESOURCES Caltech: Scientists Unveil a 5.7 Terapixel Global Image of Mars. "The mosaicked image—comprising more […]
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Apr 05, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Minnesota Department of Transportation: MnDOT Library launches digital library. "The MnDOT Digital Library is a public repository of publications produced by MnDOT, including documents originally created in a digital format […]
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Apr 05, 2023
SEARCH GIZMO OF THE DAY: Twitter Receipts. "Twitter Receipts has you enter a Twitter handle and a date, then queries The Wayback Machine for the closest snapshot of the Twitter handle to […]
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