~ Archive for January, 2005 ~

Federal legislative tracker

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GovTrack.us is a utility that enables one to follow a piece of federal
legislation via RSS.  (source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

Social bookmark service for scientists

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Randy points to
Connotea, a service for scientists that enables sharing bookmarks of
articles and websites.  Evidently Nature Publishing Group is
behind it.  You can browse categories and the site features an RSS
feed.  (Source: the Sci-Tech Library Question)

PBS starts Nova scienceNOW

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PBS has started an online news magazine, Nova scienceNOW (not to be
confused with AAAS’ ScienceNow daily news update.)  The first
“issue” contains a story on hurricanes, among other topics, and
features video and interviews.  (Source: beSpacific)

BusinessWeek technology blog

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BusinessWeek has what looks to be a lively collaborative blog on technology news.  (Source: Scripting News)

…and speaking of RSS feeds

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musings by Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Watch) on how RSS feeds might
be made easier to find and use… (Source; the Virtual Chase)

Science magazine RSS feeds

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Science magazine features RSS feeds for its weekly table-of-contents
and other material such as its ScienceNOW news service and Signal
Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE.)  (Source: beSpacific)

NY Times coverage of the Tsunami

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The New York Times has a page with links to all their recent articles about the Asian tsunami tragedy, as well as a page linking to a number of relief organizations

AIP retrospective journal digitization complete

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The American Institute of Physics has put all issues of their journals
online.  Subscribers to each journal can get to the full contents
dating back to volume 1 for each journal (for example, Review of
Scientific Instruments begins with v.1, 1932).  The AIP had begun
digitizing ten-year increments several years ago but now seems to have
completed the retrospective project.  (Source: PAMNET-L)

Postal service made simple

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Didn’t see this in time for the holidays, but lii.org points out a USPS
Customer’s Guide to Mailing, which explains different mailing options
and links to postage rate tables. 

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