“Here is the only official, comprehensive list of all verified authentic Major Leaguer Baseball players on Twitter”–From the Web site.
50 Essential Free Open Courseware Classes for Web Designers December 15, 2009
http://bestwebdesignschools.com/2009/50-essential-free-open-courseware-classes-for-web-designers/
This is a list of free online classes from very reputable institutions for web designers and for others interested in free open courseware classes like these ones.
7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave November 1, 2009
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7055.pdf
Educause offers another entry in its 7 Things You Should Know… series here on a Google’s new form of electronic communication.
Doodle : Easy Scheduling October 18, 2009
An free online tool that requires no registration to help you in scheduling meetings, appointments, etc.
7 Things You Should Know About : Collaborative Annotation October 11, 2009
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutColla/182641
Educause offers in this addition to it “7 Things You Should Know About” series information on collaborative annotation tools that enhance the concept of social bookmarking. Educause lists Diigo, MyStickies, Reframe it, and Google Sidewiki as examples of collaborative annotation tools
Online Conversion Tools For Adobe PDF Documents September 3, 2009
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html
PDF files can be converted to text or html on this site.
How Big Is The Internet? August 8, 2009
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25857420-5018992,00.html
The new service news.com.au offers this article on the size of the Internet. The number of Internet users for major countries is incuded as well as some facts such as Google has already indexed over a trillion discrete web addresses.
Bing : Searching For Health Information July 10, 2009
http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/07/07/searching-for-health-information.aspx
This is a guide to searching for health information using the Bing search engine, which includes information on what Bing calls the “trusted resources” Bing gives searchers access to.
One of the best things since the remote control June 18, 2009
Not exactly sure where to look for your favorite sites? This one site has compiled a rather large group of various websites’ icons to direct users. Just “point and click” with your mouse, and you will be linked to the site itself.
Media College May 22, 2009
Media College “is a free educational and resource website for all forms of electronic media. Topics include video & television production, audio work, photography, graphics, web design and more. [They] have hundreds of exclusive tutorials with supporting illustrations, videos, sound bytes and interactive features. You’ll also find reference material, utilities and other useful goodies, as well as a helpful forum.”
The tutorials look pretty good, and the site even archives operating manuals for different types of equipment.
Wolfram|Alpha May 22, 2009
Wolfram|Alpha has been getting a lot of buzz lately, but if you haven’t come across it yet, it is a “computational knowledge engine.” What does that mean? Well, I could try to explain it to you, but Phil Bradley has done a much better job than I could: Phil Bradley’s post on Wolfram|Alpha.
Most important thing to note: This is NOT a search engine. But, really, please read the post above before trying it out. It will save you a number of frustrations.
Oh, and for the time being, you might want to confirm information you find here in a second source. I did a search for “Memphis” and noticed that the current time was incorrect.
GovFresh : Government 2.0 May 7, 2009
“GovFresh is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more, all in one place.”–From the web site.
Online Catalogs : What Users And Librarians Want, An OCLC Report April 30, 2009
http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/fullreport.pdf
This is OCLC’s report showing the results of the research its staff did in 2008 on online catalogs. The report includes the enhancements that both users and librarians would like to see in online catalogs. There is also an Executive Summary of the Report available.
Outreach for teens in need March 23, 2009
This site was brought to the attention of the Children’s Services and Teen Services Lists by Shelley Moore of Raleigh. The site was located by Doris Dixon, also of Raleigh.
Unfortunately, abusive teen relationships exist in our society, but perhaps, with all the links and resources stemming from the site itself, these upsetting encounters will disappear.
Thanks, Shelley, for promoting the site, and to Doris for locating the site!
Generations Online in 2009 March 5, 2009
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Generations_2009.pdf
This the Pew Report on online users for January, 2009, and it provides information on the generations, such as the baby-boomers and Generation x, and their use of the Internet.
