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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Statistics
Stat Abs 2007
Yes, you are a library geek if you understand that the title does not refer to a quick workout plan, but to one of the best statistics resource for the U.S. The Statistical Abstracts of the United States: 2007 is … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Statistics
Tagged United States
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Wordie
Do you have a favorite word? A favorite words list? Wordie is for you! Wordie is, according to their page, “Like Flickr, but without the photos.” You can look up words, create your own list of words you like, and … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, Statistics
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Diet Television
An interesting site for comparing and contrasting the many various diet offerings exists on the site called Diet Television. Adjust the sliders along the left side of the screen to show the relative importance of various diet-related issues (speed of … Continue reading
Neighboroo
Neighboroo is one of the many mashups that exist using the Google Maps as the user interface. What Neighboroo does is give you a visual geographic layout of a variety of statistics, while doing a great job explaining those stats, … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Maps, Online Databases, Politics, Search, Statistics, Travel, Web Design
Tagged Google
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Future of the Internet II
From the Pew Internet & American Life Project comes a report titled The Future of the Internet II, a look at what people think might happen between now and 2020 (a little over 13 years — think about trying to … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Access, Politics, Statistics, Web Design
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Evaluative study of major Internet bookshops
Published on E-LIS (E-Prints in Library and Information Science). this article compares and contrasts 10 online book retailers in a variety of ways. Amazon.com and Amazon.uk topped out the rankings, but the rankings themselves go a long way in explaining … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Search, Statistics, Web Design
Tagged Internet bookshops Published, online book retailers, online presence, retail
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WikiCharts
Want to know what the top 100 viewed sites on Wikipedia are? Check out WikiCharts! (warning, people view all sorts of information that you may not wish to view… be warned) from ResourceShelf
Posted in Search, Statistics
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U.S. Government Manual
The newest version of the U.S. Government Manual is available online. It is searchable and browsable. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Online Databases, Politics, Search, Statistics
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Toxnet – Toxicology Data Network
You don’t need to be searching for toxic substances (I tried a search for Aloe and got some interesting results) when using the National Library of Medicine’s Toxnet, but if you need to find info and articles on chemicals and … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Search, Statistics
Tagged chemicals, National Library of Medicine
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Da da-da da-da-Dah!
Zillow (a real estate mapping service) has created a gallery of famous locations on their site, including the home of Mike and Carol (and Greg and Marcia and Peter and Jan and Bobby and Cindy and Alice and Tiger and…) … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Search, Statistics
Tagged Alice, Bobby, Carol, Cindy, Greg, Jan, Marcia, Mike, Peter, real estate mapping service
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Worldmapper
Many of the maps remind me of those colorful balloons that one would mix, then blow up with a straw: http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/ If you don’t know what I was comparing, check out Balloon Mix
Posted in Maps, Statistics, Toys
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