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Feb 08, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Business Insider: The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet is launching his own flight-tracking website. "Jack Sweeney, the 20-year-old college student known for tracking Elon Musk's private jet […]
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Feb 08, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Western University: Western researchers unveil stunning stained-glass artwork in online gallery. "From Western's Law Library to city hall to one of the grandest cathedral churches in London, Ont., Christopher Wallis' […]
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Feb 07, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Jewish Telegraphic Agency: YIVO digitizes writer Chaim Grade's archive, a Yiddish treasure with a soap opera backstory. "This week YIVO and the NLI will announce the completion of the digitization […]
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Feb 07, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Fairly new, definitely new-to-me: Feedle. It's a search engine to find content from RSS feeds. Additionally, you can save searches as their own RSS feeds. I didn't like the full-page […]
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Feb 06, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Alabama Baptist: Historical TAB issues now available to view online. "Thanks to a new resource at Samford University's Special Collection, you can now view whole pages of every existing […]
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Feb 06, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress: Library Opens New Web Archive Collection, Features Programs for Black History Month. "A new web archive collection from the Library of Congress documents the civil unrest sparked […]
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Feb 05, 2023
NEW RESOURCES PRNewswire: Letterform Archive expands its Online Archive to include full, original publications from the Bauhaus School (PRESS RELEASE). "Letterform Archive announces a significant update to its Online Archive with the […]
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Feb 05, 2023
EVENTS TechCrunch: Roblox to host a free virtual Super Bowl concert featuring Saweetie. "Hip-hop artist Saweetie is performing exclusively in Roblox for the NFL's Super Bowl LVII pregame on February 10, the […]
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Feb 04, 2023
NEW RESOURCES San Francisco Chronicle: 50 years of powerful Bay Area posters collected by Oakland library go online. "Before the internet age, artists, community leaders and organizations in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood would […]
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Feb 04, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Washington Secretary of State: 41 Years of SGN now online at Washington Digital Newspapers; historic content available free to the public. "Washington State Library, a division of the Office of […]
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Feb 03, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Northern Virginia Daily: Belle Grove online exhibit. "Belle Grove has published its latest online exhibit …, The Jackson Family: A Story of Resilience & The Enduring Love of Family. It […]
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Feb 03, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Search Engine Land: OpenAI launches new tool to detect AI-generated text. "OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, today released an AI Text Classifier that might be able to help you determine […]
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Feb 02, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Bloomberg: USDA Launches Cattle-Sales Database to Check Meat Giants' Power. "The Biden administration introduced a public database on payment terms for private cattle sales, designed to give producers more leverage […]
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Feb 02, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Scientific Data: Caravan - A global community dataset for large-sample hydrology . "This paper introduces a dataset called Caravan (a series of CAMELS [Catchment Attributes and Meteorology for Large-sample Studies]) […]
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Feb 01, 2023
NEW RESOURCES BusinessWire: Encord Launches Open Source Active Learning Toolkit to Speed Up Real-World Applications of Computer Vision (PRESS RELEASE). "Encord, the platform for data-centric computer vision, has released Encord Active, a […]
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Feb 01, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Journal of Law and Courts: The CJEU Database Platform: Decisions and Decision-Makers. "This article presents the CJEU Database Platform, which provides scholars with an extensive collection of easily accessible, research-ready […]
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Jan 31, 2023
NEW RESOURCES San Antonio Express-News: Police accountability advocacy group launches online database of officer firings. "ACT 4 SA on Thursday announced its launch of the website… which contains information regarding San Antonio […]
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Jan 31, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Fast Company: This smart new search site is like a mashup of Google and ChatGPT. "Futuristic as that description may sound, Andi actually sits somewhere between the traditional search sites, […]
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Jan 30, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Datamuse Blog: Our 2022 Waterloo co-op term: In which organising words is a labour of love!. "This past Fall, Datamuse hired three talented computer science students from the University of […]
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Jan 30, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Health IT Analytics: New Tool Provides Population Health Insights in US Congressional Districts. "Researchers from New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) […]
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Jan 29, 2023
NEW RESOURCES WDTV: New websites launch to distribute grants, infrastructure funds in W.Va.. "Gov. Jim Justice announced the launch of two new websites to improve the state's distribution of grants and infrastructure […]
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Jan 29, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Nature: A large dataset of scientific text reuse in Open-Access publications. "We present the Webis-STEREO-21 dataset, a massive collection of Scientific Text Reuse in Open-access publications. It contains 91 million […]
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Jan 28, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Fast Company: Nonprofits release free tool to detect AI-written student work. "The tool, called AI Writing Check, was developed by the writing nonprofits Quill and CommonLit using an open-source AI […]
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Jan 28, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Radio World: FCC Publishes Pirate Enforcement Database. "The PIRATE Act became law three years ago. But thanks to the pandemic and delays in funding, the Federal Communications Commission has been […]
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Jan 27, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Meat Poultry: New database provides information hub for meat processors. "The launch of a new resource allows meat processors to find answers to common industry questions. On Jan. 24, the Agricultural […]
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Jan 27, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Data Descriptor: An open database on global coal and metal mine production . "… presenting an open database on global coal and metal mine production on the level of individual […]
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Jan 26, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Drive: Mitsubishi Just Uploaded 40 Years of Spectacular Classic Rally Footage to YouTube. "Uploaded to the YouTube channel Mitsubishi Motors TV, the footage spans four decades from 1967 to […]
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Jan 26, 2023
Hey! Did you see my article about my Search Gizmos in ONLINE SEARCHER? Go look! https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jan23/Calishain-Creating-Search-Gizmos-to-Simplify-Web-Searching.shtml NEW RESOURCES Brussels Times: Tracing Belgian family trees made easier by massive new archive. "On this […]
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Jan 25, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: News release: New DNR tool provides health information for thousands of lakes. "The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has created a new online tool, called […]
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Jan 25, 2023
NEW RESOURCES US Government Publishing Office: GPO Digitizes Historic Congressional Directories From the 1800s. The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is digitizing historic volumes of the Congressional Directory from the 19th and […]
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Jan 24, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES 9to5 Google: Google Search gets ‘The Last of Us' easter egg. "Searching ‘The Last of Us' on both mobile and desktop today will show a red mushroom button at […]
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Jan 24, 2023
NEW RESOURCES WMUK: The Western Activist, a 1960s-era student newspaper published at WMU, is now online. "In the 1960s, students at Western Michigan University published an anti-war, countercultural newspaper. Now the Western […]
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Jan 23, 2023
NEW RESOURCES DRG News: Audio files from the State Archives collections now available online; Files include KGFX founder Ida McNeil. "The South Dakota State Archives has been working to digitize select audio […]
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Jan 23, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Bellingcat: Octosuite: A New Tool to Conduct Open Source Investigations on GitHub. "Octosuite is an advanced GitHub framework written in Python that uses GitHub's Public API to make the process […]
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Jan 22, 2023
EVENTS Lifehacker: You Can Attend Sundance Without Going to Utah. "The 2023 Sundance Film Festival returns to Park City, Utah this week, but you don't have to travel to enjoy a packed […]
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Jan 22, 2023
NEW RESOURCES International Criminal Court: International Criminal Court Launches French and Spanish Versions of Case Law Database. "Today, 20 January 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched the French and Spanish versions […]
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Jan 21, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Conversation: Inflation hasn't increased US food insecurity overall, according to our new tracker . "We are experts on food and agricultural economics. Together we have created a new data […]
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Jan 21, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Chicago Sun-Times: Preserving the legacy of Chicago's Black social culture. "In my high school senior memory book, several pluggers from early 1990s teen parties crowd a plastic sleeve. They are […]
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Jan 20, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Confederation Centre of the Arts: New digital exhibition explores Anne of Green Gables manuscript. "The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery and the Creation of Anne officially launched online […]
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Jan 20, 2023
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Autism Science Foundation Launches Novel ‘Participate in Research' Website Directory (PRESS RELEASE). "ASF's new ‘Participate in Research' directory on its website makes it easier for families to find […]
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Jan 19, 2023
NEW RESOURCES United States Patent and Trademark Office: USPTO introduces new tool to help creators identify their intellectual property. "The IP Identifier is comprised of two modules: The Basic IP Identifier; and […]
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Jan 19, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Museums Association: Honouring the Ancient Dead completes database of ancient human remains. "Honouring the Ancient Dead (HAD) has completed the first major edition of its Your Local Museum database, which […]
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Jan 18, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: Online Exhibit: Night Train To Nashville. "The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum was recently awarded a grant from the National Endowment […]
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Jan 18, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNN: More than half of US states have cracked down on TikTok access from government devices. "More than half of all US states have partially or fully banned TikTok […]
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Jan 17, 2023
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Public Art Archive Launches New Website to Make Public Art Available for All (PRESS RELEASE). "A project of the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), a US Regional Arts […]
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Jan 17, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Endpoints News: Galderma drives diversity in dermatology with online photo gallery sponsorship. "[Misty] Eleryan and fellow dermatologist Adam Friedman co-edited ‘The Full Spectrum of Dermatology: A Diverse and Inclusive Atlas,' […]
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Jan 16, 2023
NEW RESOURCES United States International Trade Commission: USITC Launches New Investigations Database System . "The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) today deployed the Investigations Database System (IDS), an innovative new data […]
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Jan 16, 2023
NEW RESOURCES NiemanLab: "Canada's ProPublica" is sharing the databases behind its hard-hitting stories. "A week after launching, [Investigative Journalism Foundation] has shown some political leaders have been breaking their party's pledge to […]
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Jan 15, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Inside AFP: Fighting disinformation: AFP shares tools in videos. "From finding the origin of a video online to using archives to identify old versions of web pages, reading foreign languages […]
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Jan 15, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Detroit Free Press: Ford adds vintage pickup truck images to public website for free downloading. "Ford Motor Co. unveiled images so rare and popular for public viewing in June that […]
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Jan 14, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Hold the Front Page: Former editor creates dictionary of "lost language of newspapers". "Neil Benson has created a glossary of both current and extinct newspaper production terms after launching an […]
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Jan 14, 2023
NEW RESOURCES San Francisco Chamber of Commerce: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Invests in Downtown with Launch of NEW Data Dashboard and Urban Planning Initiative. "This dashboard is open to the public […]
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Jan 13, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Sent to me by my Twitter pal Mandy W: The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery . From the About page. "Welcome to the Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery! Here you will find […]
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Jan 13, 2023
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Nature: Hunting for the best bioscience software tool? Check this database. "Developed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a scientific funder based in Redwood City, California, the CZ […]
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Jan 12, 2023
NEW RESOURCES GameRant: Archivist Dumps Over 11 GB of Concept Art, Canceled Games, and More. "A video game archivist has just uploaded an 11 GB collection of concept art, footage, photos, and […]
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Jan 12, 2023
NEW RESOURCES ProPublica: Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains?. "The law, known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act or NAGPRA, sought to address this […]
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Jan 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Northeastern Global News: Rare rock star interviews ‘raw, complete and unedited' in new Northeastern digital archive . "Now, for the first time, [Larry] Katz's interviews with some of the most […]
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Jan 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES KTH Royal Institute of Technology: New database maps proteins that could predict cancer. "Announced by KTH Royal Institute of Technology Professor Mathias Uhle´n, the new open-access Disease Blood Atlas provides […]
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Jan 10, 2023
NEW RESOURCES NPR: A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay. "Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now […]
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Jan 10, 2023
Are you rethinking your social platforms of choice lately? You're not the only one. Betwe
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Jan 10, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Cornell Chronicle: Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage. "The Cornell ILR Wage Atlas is designed to help New York state policymakers, economic development officials, nonprofits, academics […]
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Jan 09, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Sky News: Westminster Accounts: How to explore the database for yourself. "Sky News and Tortoise Media have programmatically collected and analysed thousands of public records to create this extensive record […]
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Jan 09, 2023
A few weeks ago I created a Search Gizmo called Marion's Monocle. It lets you create lists of TV stations by state (using the FCC license database) and then search groups of […]
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Jan 09, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh tech company makes 401(k) data free and open to all. "More than two decades after the idea came up during a party conversation, [Raul Valdes-Perez] has launched […]
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Jan 08, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: Google Stadia is shutting down soon, so transfer your games and saves while you can. "Google Stadia, the company's not-long-for-this-world cloud gaming service, will be shutting down […]
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Jan 08, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Connacht Tribune: New website makes Aran's folklore accessible to all. "When Bailiúchán Béaloidis Árann was founded, it had two primary objectives: to preserve island folklore for future generations of islanders; […]
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Jan 07, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Mashable: Picsart's new SketchAI app is transforming images into digital art. "SketchAI provides users with the tools to draw an image or upload an existing image, then apply various aesthetics […]
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Jan 07, 2023
NEW RESOURCES NHK World Japan: JMA launches website on 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. "The website presents photos and data related to the 7.9-magnitude Great Kanto Earthquake, which struck on September 1, 1923. […]
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Jan 06, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Christian Science Monitor: It took decades: Now there's a photo for each name on Vietnam wall. "Volunteers have now tracked down at least one photo for every one of the […]
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Jan 06, 2023
NEW RESOURCES The Guardian: Snowflake Bentley's 19th-century images of snow crystals put online. "For most farming families in 19th-century rural Vermont, winter snowstorms were dreaded and endured. But for Wilson Bentley, snow […]
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Jan 05, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Vietnam : Rich biodiversity database debuts. "A web portal collecting data of natural resources and wildlife conservation in Da Nang City has been introduced. It will provide information, documents, photographs and […]
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Jan 05, 2023
NEW RESOURCES BBC: Coventry photographer's archive saved from a skip catalogued by volunteers. "Thousands of photographs taken by Coventry photographer Arthur Cooper from the 1940s up to the 1960s have been digitized […]
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Jan 04, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Bay Area Reporter: Because of a song: Holly Near celebrates Oakland's women's music scene with new online archive. "Music is one of the connecting forces for women in the Women's […]
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Jan 04, 2023
I didn't think I'd get much done with Search Gizmos in December, but the opposite was true: I got some quality thinking time and came up with some really good puzzles, which […]
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Jan 04, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle: New Rauh website provides virtual archive of Oct. 27. "Eric Lidji was facing a challenge. As director of the Rauh Jewish History Program and Archives at the […]
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Jan 03, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNET: Twitch Coming Back Online After Suffering Major Outage. "Twitch, the livestreaming platform, is up again after being down in a major outage. The Twitch Status page shows the […]
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Jan 03, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES How-To Geek: These Features Are Coming to Mastodon in 2023 And Beyond. "Mastodon is the open-source and federated social media network that shot up in popularity in 2022, largely […]
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Jan 02, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Roundtable: Google Tests New Cleaner Knowledge Panel Feedback Interface. "Google Knowledge Panels are fun and when they are wrong, you can submit feedback to Google directly in […]
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Jan 02, 2023
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on Twitter: a new Web site housing the January 6 report. There's a chaptered and searchable version of the report, of course, but there's also an "Attack Timeline" which […]
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Jan 01, 2023
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Axios: Fidelity slashes Twitter value by 56% . "Fidelity slashed its carrying value of Twitter by 56% during the first month of Elon Musk's ownership, according to a new […]
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Jan 01, 2023
NEW RESOURCES My Modern Met: 80 Documentaries From Kino Lorber Are Free to Watch on YouTube. "Now, anyone interested in discovering more about their favorite artists, musicians, and cultural icons, can check […]
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Dec 31, 2022
NEW RESOURCES In Compliance Magazine: FCC Opens Portal for Reporting Illegal Robocalls. "The FCC's new Private Entity Robocall and Spoofing Portal allows privately-held enterprises, such as small businesses or private hospitals, to […]
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Dec 31, 2022
NEW RESOURCES State of Montana Newsroom: Montana State Library Digital Collection Of Current and Historic Montana Law Means More Access and Research Possibilities. "The Montana State Library recently partnered with the State […]
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Dec 30, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Antara Indonesia News Agency: Minangkabau-Indonesian dictionary digitized. "West Sumatra Language Development and Fostering Agency has digitized the Minangkabau-Indonesian dictionary to allow more residents to access the dictionary…. Apart from the […]
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Dec 30, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Techdirt: Tom Lehrer Puts Whatever He Hadn't Already Donated To The Public Domain Into The Public Domain. "Back in 2014, we wrote about how a fan had basically put all […]
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Dec 29, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Richmond Times-Dispatch: New database tracks Virginia eviction numbers. "The RVA Eviction Lab and the University of Virginia Equity Center have created the Virginia Evictor Catalog, which collects eviction data from […]
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Dec 29, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Goshen College: Shetler's lifelong research enters new stage: Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library website goes live. "Jan Bender Shetler, director of global engagement and professor of history at Goshen College, […]
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Dec 28, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Hindu Business Line: Database on medicinal plants. "A group of scientists from the North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, Assam, have created a database of 6,959 medicinal […]
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Dec 28, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Bookseller: BooksForTopics relaunches children's book listing website. "BooksForTopics has relaunched its website which features children's booklists sorted by age or topic. The BooksForTopics website is popular among primary schools, […]
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Dec 27, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on Mastodon: FediScope. "FediScope lets you find fediverse accounts for people in a field using Wikidata. You can then compile a custom CSV and import it into Mastodon." TWEAKS […]
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Dec 27, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Ars Technica: Make your noisy recording sound like pro audio with Adobe's free AI tool. "Recently, Adobe released a free AI-powered audio processing tool that can enhance some poor-quality voice […]
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Dec 26, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: Twitter says paying Blue subscribers now get ‘prioritized rankings in conversations'. "Twitter has updated its list of features for Twitter Blue, saying subscribers paying for the $8-a-month […]
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Dec 26, 2022
NEW RESOURCES The Marshall Project: The Books Banned in Your State's Prisons. "Over the past year, reporters for The Marshall Project asked every state prison system for book policies and lists of […]
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Dec 25, 2022
EVENTS Techdirt: Gaming Like It's 1927: Get Ready For Our Next Public Domain Game Jam. "It's that time of year! Ever since works in the US finally started entering the public domain […]
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Dec 25, 2022
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: a database of apple reviews. The fruit, not the tech. They absolutely savaged my favorite (Granny Smith) but to their credit they also slagged the SugarBee, an apple purchase […]
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Dec 24, 2022
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Guardian: Elon Musk ‘orders Twitter to remove suicide prevention feature'. "The removal of the feature, known as #ThereIsHelp, has not been previously reported. It had shown at the […]
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Dec 24, 2022
NEW RESOURCES Yale School of Public Health: National Heat Vulnerability Index Reveals Neighborhoods at High Vulnerability to Heat. "A team of researchers at the Yale School of Public Health has developed a […]
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Dec 23, 2022
NEW RESOURCES University of Hawaii News: Papers from nationally-recognized UH criminologist now available. "Research into the brutal shakedown of the O?ahu Community Correctional Center in 1981, and the experience and backgrounds of […]
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