Donna's List DirectoryYou are here » Donna's List » Links Directory » Business » Information (129)
Information RSS FeedsWyoming Newspaper Project, Complete! (Sorta) - Cheers to Online Historical Newspapers blog for the heads-up that the Wyoming Newspaper Project is complete! The project now contains 791,764 full pages covering the years 1849-1922. There are apparently still gaps in the coverage, however, and the state of Wyoming is teaming up with the Library of Congress to scan the Wyoming newspapers in [ ]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Online Hopi Petroglyph Archive Launched - CyArk, the World Monuments Fund, and the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office have gotten together with University of Redlands associate professor Dr. Wesley Bernardini to launch the Hopi Petroglyph Sites Digital Preservation Project Website. (Say that three times fast.) This site contains multimedia, a virtual tour, and educational plans related to Tutuveni, which means newspaper rock [ ]... Morning Buzz, December 20, 2011 - The LA Times is reporting that British Telecommunications is suing Google, accusing it of several counts of patent infringement. Ho ho ho! I guess it’s not the holiday season for these giant companies unless they’ve gotten a fruitcake and a lawsuit. Speaking of Google, it announced recently some improvments to its Google+ social network.. I [ ]... MIT Announces MITx Online Learning Initiative - MIT announced this morning an online learning initiative called MITx, which it describes as “a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform.” MITx is being combined with an MIT-wide research initiative on online learning and teaching. Online learning is nothing new to MIT; if you’re aware of online education at all you [ ]... Morning Buzz, August 17, 2011 - New Yorkers will soon have access to amusement park ride safety reports. The University of Toledo has a new digital archive to showcase its collection of Hungarian books. Wow, Stanford is offering three computer classes for free. A new digital atlas is available to trace population movement during Ireland famines. “Two new digitized atlases show [ ]... Afternoon Buzz, July 31, 2011 - Environmental law violators in British Columbia are now in an online database. “The free database includes a wide variety of compliance and enforcement actions taken by ministry staff and enforcement officers. It includes orders, administrative sanctions, tickets and court convictions covering hunting and fishing, open burning, mud bogging, dam safety, and pesticide and pollution violations.” [ ]... Evening Buzz, July 14, 2011 - Justia has launched free daily opinion summaries from the United States Supreme Court, all Federal Appellate Courts and all state supreme courts. “In addition to the daily offerings by jurisdiction, subscribers can sign up for summaries categorized by practice area that are delivered weekly. Practice areas and topics include Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Employment Law, [ ]... Morning Buzz, June 24, 2011 - Very specific: a database of information about early (pre-1800) southern sermons. “The database contains such information about the manuscripts as keywords, author, date of sermon, denomination of the author and the repository of the texts, where the full text is located.” Toledo Museum of Art puts 300 items from its collection online: “Via the eMuseum [ ]... Morning Buzz, June 15, 2011 - A nice analysis of why Google is paying up for Admeld. Warning: Adgeekery. Interesting: using Google searches as an economic indicator. FOOD! StLToday.com has started a recipe database. 600 at the moment with more added weekly. New: a Web site for beer recommendations. “The recommendations are generated from BrewGene?s extensive database of beers, which feature [ ]... Evening Buzz, June 13, 2011 - An NSF grant and a collection of specimens at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego, means a big expansion of the Marine Vertebrate Collection. Very nice British Library! “The British Library has released 1000 books from its 19th Century collection into a free iPad app …” The Salt Lake Tribune has made its [ ]... Copyright © 2012, Donna's List. All Rights Reserved. |