The Librarians’ Index to the Internet, one of my favorite metasites and an important resource for librarians and Web surfers, is facing a 50% budget cut. They have a survey to try to figure out what to do. They’ll be gathering data through Thursday, March 16.
From Question 3:
"LII is facing a 50% budget cut in [...]
During Thursday’s blog meeting, one of our members gave us a tour of some cool Internet sites he’s found. Instead of rehashing them here, I’m just going to be lazy and tell you to follow the links from the Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog.
The one particularly worth noting is Retrievr because its a(n) unique image [...]
From NewspaperDirect, the subscription-based PressDisplay currently contains about 250 newspapers from 55 countries. Its content is based on images of the actual newspaper pages and allows browsing by page just as a reader would flip through a newspaper and searching.
beSpacific includes this free Wall Street Journal interview with Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart. Project Gutenberg, now almost 35 years old, is a source of thousands of electronic books. Many are public domain works typed or scanned by volunteers.
One of my fabulous news librarian colleagues posted this resource to Newslib. Newsmap shows the popularity of news items through tree maps. The site includes news for a few countries besides America, common news categories, and different days and times.
From their about page:
"Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the [...]
The Cornell Center for Materials Research hosts this service allowing people to ask scientists, well, science questions. The July 15 Internet Scout Report recommends perusing the hundreds of answered questions in the archives. The site tells who answered the question and what the person’s credentials are. The answers I read were written in a style [...]
I’m looking at a lot of sites about ergonomics, so it’s natural that some of them are going to end up here.
Claiming to be "the future of public tv and radio," Open Media Network offers "a broad selection of movies, public TV and radio, video blogs and podcasts while protecting producer’s copyrights." Through OMN, people can access audio and visual materials producers wish to distribute over the Internet.
Site visitors using Windows machines and Internet Explorer can [...]
The Naxos Music Library database features a number of recordings from the Naxos collection. Many people might know of Naxos because of their inexpensive, yet usually good, recordings of music available where classical music is sold. I have a number of their discs in my collection. I’m excited to know about this database to which [...]