Category Archives: Online Services

What is Web 2.0?

Posted on 7 March 2007 by Rick Mason

I am not a big fan of the term, but What is Web 2.0? (pdf) details the ideas and technologies that I do support for libraries and many individuals. I especially like their six “Big Ideas behind Web 2.0”: Individual … Continue reading →

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Scribd

Posted on 6 March 2007 by Rick Mason

Scribd is a new website that is attempting to be like YouTube, but for documents. As in: Word, Pdf, Txt, Html, and so on. Do you have documents that people would find useful or interesting? This could be a means … Continue reading →

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LoudLit.org

Posted on 4 March 2007 by Rick Mason

LoutLit.org is a site with a collection of downloadable, CreativeCommons licensed audiobooks from the Gutenberg Project. Don’t forget these other sites as well! from MetaFilter

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Google: Suggest a Better Translation

Posted on 1 March 2007 by Rick Mason

It is only set up for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, but Google Translate has developed a nice, social web solution to the problem of awkward translations. from the Official Google Blog

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Nines

Posted on 24 February 2007 by Rick Mason

On the surface, Nines is a searchable database for nineteenth-century studies (their name stands for “a networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship”). When you go beneath the surface, however, there is a great deal of potential to be explored. The … Continue reading →

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PubMed PubReMiner

Posted on 24 February 2007 by Rick Mason

PubReMiner is an interesting tool that lets you see the metadata behind your PubMed search, and lets you narrow your search with quite a bit more understanding of the ways in which you can do so. This was included as … Continue reading →

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Bartleby

Posted on 21 February 2007 by Rick Mason

This has been around for quite a while, but is such a good place to find online resources (Reference, Verse, Fiction, and Nonfiction) that it is worth posting:  Bartleby.com.

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WorldCat Citations

Posted on 14 February 2007 by Rick Mason

WorldCat has now incorporated my favorite RedLightGreen (also this post) feature:  Citations! Click the “cite this item” link in the results page and you now have MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, and Harvard citation styles for that specific item.  Couple this … Continue reading →

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WorldCat Identities

Posted on 13 February 2007 by Rick Mason

WorldCat Identities is a beta site (don’t web tools all seem to be, anymore? perhaps a good thing, as continual tweaking is good for the soul, as well as a service) that is a focused search tool for authors. The … Continue reading →

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Phone Resources

Posted on 5 February 2007 by Rick Mason

Here are links to some interesting telephone number lookup services: Fone Finder Phone Validator World Telephone Numbering Guide from ResourceShelf

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Google Scholar Citations

Posted on 1 February 2007 by Rick Mason

Apparently this has been around for a while, but there is a nifty feature in Google Scholar that is turned off by default. If you follow the Scholar preferences link, you can find an option to export citations into one … Continue reading →

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Psychic Whois

Posted on 31 January 2007 by Rick Mason

With a name like that, it could be many wacky things, but Psychic Whois is simply a Whois lookup with an auto-complete feature.  Nifty if you are looking to create a new website and need a URL. from ResourceShelf

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Usability in the Library

Posted on 30 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Usability in the Library is a web site created by the University of Michigan that contains a smorgasbord of links and references relating to, you guessed rightly, usability in the library. I especially liked the Resources section of their site … Continue reading →

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RSS for Anything

Posted on 30 January 2007 by Rick Mason

RSS just became a bit more universal with Page2RSS.  Simply put, they allow you to enter a URL, and they will generate a feed for your RSS reader whenever the site changes; it doesn’t matter whether or not the site … Continue reading →

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FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov

Posted on 11 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Time to change your links… the site formerly known as FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov. The search page is USASearch.gov. Easier for people to remember, once they get used to the change! from ResourceShelf

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Reference Librarian as Technology Mediator

Posted on 7 January 2007 by Rick Mason

This article’s abstract: The Arizona Health Sciences Library has collaborated with clinical faculty to develop a federated search engine that is useful for meeting real-time clinical information needs. This article proposes a technology mediation role for the reference librarian that … Continue reading →

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WikiLeaks

Posted on 7 January 2007 by Rick Mason

The existence of this web site has been leaked early, so there isn’t much to see (yet), but WikiLeaks is striving to combine the principles of WikiPedia and The Smoking Gun. Have a document, or other information, that you feel … Continue reading →

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World E-Book Fair 2007

Posted on 4 January 2007 by Rick Mason

The World E-Book Library is holding an E-Book Fair starting on July 4th, 2007. In the two fairs it held in 2006, it made all of the content in the e-book library available for free for a one-month period. Mark … Continue reading →

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Sugarcode the Web

Posted on 3 January 2007 by Rick Mason

For those who like the power that is offered by the command line, there is Sugarcode The Web!, a site that lets you build search queries using keyboard entries that access many of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.).  … Continue reading →

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Wikiasari

Posted on 23 December 2006 by Rick Mason

Take the large number of people who work on Wikipedia and have them evaluate web pages, and what do you get? Wikisauri, a search engine from Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. The concept will be that the searches that … Continue reading →

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