printfriendly : Save Money and the Environment
This website allows you to delete unnecessary frames, text, ads, images, etc. from webpages. It also creates a PDF version. It could be helpful for difficult to print webpages or just parsing down a page to just the necessary portions. Thanks to Alex Peyton at Cordova for the information on this site.
Common Sense Media
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/
Includes a database by the non-profit organization Common Sense Media of reviews on all types of media (movies, books, games, websites, apps, music, and TV) that parents and their children can use to find trustworthy information about all of these kinds of media.
Internet Archive Blog – Wayback Machine Updated
http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/09/updated-wayback/
“Today we updated the Wayback Machine with much more data and some code improvements. Now we cover from late 1996 to December 9, 2012 so you can surf the web as it was up until a month ago. Also, we have gone from having 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000 URLs, a total of about 5 petabytes of data.”–From the website. 240 billion websites!
Social Networking Popular Across the Globe : Survey Report
http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/12/12/social-networking-popular-across-globe/
“Social networking has spread around the world with remarkable speed. In countries such as Britain, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic and Spain, about half of all adults now use Facebook and similar websites. These sites are also popular in many lower-income nations, where, once people have access to the internet, they tend to use it for social networking.”–From the website. Website contains other information and statistics about social networking in countries around the world.
Electronic Literature Organization
“The Electronic Literature Organization was founded in 1999 to foster and promote the reading, writing, teaching, and understanding of literature as it develops and persists in a changing digital environment. A 501c(3) non-profit organization, the ELO includes writers, artists, teachers, scholars, and developers.”–From the website.
ClickZ : Marketing News & Expert Advice
http://www.clickz.com/static/about-us
“ClickZ is the largest resource of interactive marketing news, information, commentary, advice, opinion, research, and reference in the world, online or off-. From search to social, technology to trends, our coverage is expert, exclusive, and in-depth.”–From the website.
Internet Traffic Report
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
“The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.”–From the website.
Privacy Resources and Sites on the Internet
http://www.llrx.com/features/privacyresources.htm
This provides an extensive list of links to online privacy resources and sites.
Reuters Institute Digital News Report
http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/publications/risj-digital-report.html
“Reuters Institute Digital Report 2012 reveals new insights about digital news consumption across Europe and the United States. Based on a representative survey of online news consumers across five countries – UK, US, Germany, France and Denmark – the report is the start of an ambitious project to track changing digital news behaviour over the next decade.”–From the website.
Battle for the Internet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/series/battle-for-the-internet
Interesting series of articles on the future of the Internet.
Older Adults and the Internet
http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/68969
From the website: ”As of April 2012, 53% of American adults age 65 and older use the internet or email. Though these adults are still less likely than all other age groups to use the internet, the latest data represent the first time that half of seniors are going online. After several years of very little growth among this group, these gains are significant. ” This is from the Pew Internet Report.
“Libraries Make Room For High-Tech ‘Hackerspaces’
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/10/143401182/libraries-make-room-for-high-tech-hackerspaces
Interesting article from NPR on how some libraries are creating “hackerspaces” for their customers.
The World Wide Web Index
http://www.webfoundation.org/projects/the-web-index/
“The Web Index will be the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web and its impact on people and nations. It will cover a large number of developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that will assess the political, economic and social impact of the Web, as well as indicators of Web connectivity infrastructure. The Index will allow for comparisons of trends over time and benchmarking performance across countries, and should improve our understanding of the Web’s impact on humanity.”–From the website.
American Libraries E-Content Blog
http://americanlibraries.org/e-content
“Keeping up with the many varieties of digital content—and how libraries can offer them to their patrons—just got easier. American Libraries has launched an “E-Content” blog that provides information on e-books, e-readers, e-journals, databases, digital libraries, digital repositories, and other e-content issues. The blog complements the new section on e-content that appears in the weekly e-newsletter American Libraries Direct and focuses on similar issues.”–From ALA Website.
