Searches for memoirs prove fruitful.

Collection of full-text documents from UNC. Strong coverage of memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, and narratives by slaves and white southerners.

Collection of full-text documents from UNC. Searches for memoirs or autobiographies prove fruitful.

OCLC announces strategy to move library management services to Web scale

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 23 April 2009-OCLC is connecting the content, technology and expert capabilities of its member libraries worldwide to create the first Web-scale, cooperative library management service. Member libraries can take the first step to realizing this cooperative service model with a new, "quick start" version of the OCLC WorldCat Local service.

 

Rayport’s Social Networks are the New Web Portals compares traditional online gatekeepers such as Google, Yahoo and MSN with the onslaught of social networking juggernauts like Myspace and Facebook.  Social networking sites, in comparison to search engines (the case in the example above) exist as one-stop shops, enriched with a social component.  From video and music sharing to mobile accessibility, social networking sites seek to be everything in every location: in other words, “users live their lives online.”  Another key differentiator between social networking and traditional gateways is the former’s attempt to create “constellations” rather than “destinations”: social networks seek to provide an already enriched – and often opinionative – community, while traditional search engines attempt to provide accurate and efficient data. 

I believe that when presented with accurate information or group information, users will usually opt for the former.  Of course, there are certain situations (especially those in which group influence is more prominent) that will select the latter, but generally I do believe that the intrinsic human pursuit of what we perceive to be true trumps ancillary endeavors.  Moreover, while I agree that social networks provide immediate information (albeit subjective) on a range of issues, organizing and managing such data is cumbersome and complex.  According to some professors, organizing such information and human behaviors online is impossible, rendering social networking a Sisyphean endeavor.  In conclusion, although social networks may be mediums to obtain accurate information or influence buying decisions, I believe that ultimate authority will remain in traditional search engines.

An annotated bibliography of some journal articles and other sources addressing the issue of remixing, mash-ups and sampling in the digital age.

Cuil (pronounced Cool) is a new search engine, which claims to index more content than Google and shows results in the magazine format (rather than list).

This is on the Wikipedia website. It has good information about capital punishment on it. It should help your thoughts on the matter and mold your thinking, but should not be used as fact information.

This website to shows its view points on the death penalty by using graphic pictures. This website is also very informational, it tells whose recieved the death penalty and what form was used on them.

This website talks about the history of capital punishment in the United States. It tells when it began, how it was done when it began, and how it has changed since it started.

This website explains the death penalty, how it works, what crimes you have to commit to get the electric chair, etc.

This page describes how the death penalty started and where it began. It also tells how its changed since the 1900's.

This website offers a lot of information about the death penalty such as history and the different methods of execution.

 

This website is on about.com. It's by Kimberly and Albrecht Powell. It talks about capital punishment in the state of Pennsylvania. It gives historic facts about lynching (hanging), the electric chair, and lethal injection.

This website is about abolishing the death penalty in the United States. It's view is to get rid of it because it goes against human rights.

"Both Lifehacker and Micro Persuasion have compiled excellent lists recommending useful bookmarklets to make your browsing experience more effective. These handy little applications are a combo of the bookmark and the applet (a small computer program) and they set up one-click buttons which appear on your browser and perform a specific function."

From NIH quick manual for EndNote Web

Collection of full-text documents from UNC. Especially strong coverage of diaries and narratives by slaves and white southerners.

Run a search for 'diary' in the search interface to see a list of the thousands of diaries and related materials that are available or browse through specific sections.

Click on the link for 'Diaries, Letter and Memoirs' to see a list of available items.

June 30, 2007
M.T.A. Web Site Went Dark, Too
By WILLIAM NEUMAN

When the power went out in a broad swath of the Upper East Side and the Bronx on Wednesday, a record number of commuters turned to the Internet to learn if their subway lines or commuter trains were running. But the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Web site provided no help.

The site became inaccessible shortly after the electricity went out at 3:41 p.m. and was down for about an hour, a little longer than the 49-minute power failure.

"Because the incident occurred right before people were getting ready to leave the office, we had a huge surge of traffic at one time, unlike anything we'd had before," Jeremy Soffin, a spokesman for the transportation authority, said yesterday.

The failure cut power to signals on several subway lines. Service was disrupted, with delays extending well into the evening, making the trip home for many commuters even more uncomfortable on a hot and muggy day. Service on the Metro-North Railroad was also briefly interrupted.

LibSite.org is built around the premise that library-related projects need and deserve a higher profile, that the current technology allows us to engage this material in any number of creative ways.

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For that reason, the site features a blog, a wiki, RSS feeds and email alerts -- the last two being configurable down to individual tags. Users can rate sites and add them to a "favorites" page.

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Free to download.   Friefox extension.   Need to read to see if we might use for catalog link-checking

handy, intuitive page source viewing tool.  renders hierarchies and helps with debugging.  nice.

Custom filtering tools for unruly RSS feeds (akin to spam filters). Seems like an odd tool to me given that you typically opt in to view feeds.

plenty of RSS resources gathered by this year's evaluation squad.

my favorite web-based RSS reader.  simple, elegant, intuitive.

Fold is a portal or start page. The aim of Fold is to consolidate most of the tools and information you need every day into a single web page. No matter where you are in the world, each time you log in you'll feel right at home.

Open source web based email project using PHP/IMAP/MySQL.

In this class textbook, Sunstein reveals her fears about the "Daily Me", the process by which individuals today can filter ever more increasing amounts of electronic information to fit a highly personal profile, such that they can see only that information they wish to see in the world.  In addition, she speaks about the convergence and polarization of ideas and the groups which espouse them, on the internet to the extent that she uses the term "balkanization" for some online communities such as race hate groups or political sites.  When people of a like mind do get together on a newsgroup, bulletin board, website, or chat room, it is found that members tend to further gravitate to those who have strong, defined opinions on topics of interest and concern for those individuals.  If that is the case, if one believes that women's speech is quantitatively different from men's speech and that women may find more community by remaining in the online company of women, then it may be the case that women and men may divide their online participation among more gendered lines.  Also, the way that strong opinions, criticism, and conflict are handled online may have a direct relationship to whether or not women will espouse new ideas or new online venues outside of their known social spheres.

This very recent compilation (2005) contains 11 scholarly articles on the subject of adolescent girls and their use of the web, from perspectives of age, gender, ethnicity, and sociology/media theory.  With regard to the subject of teenage girls and fandom, I am interested in Scodari's work on the negotiation of age and gender in TV fan newsgroups, since I am also discussing women's speech in such groups.  Mazzarella continues this topic with her discussion of the "cultural economy" of teenage girls fandom on the internet.  Finally, Thiel takes on the description of the construction of identity and gender identification for girls over instant messaging, which she describes as both a cultural and an experimentation space.  While this text does not discuss specific linguistic topics, it does serve as an interesting sociological reference for young women's behavior on the internet, which could influence or inform linguisitic decisions online.

This text consists of three sections regarding women's use of the internet.  Part One deals with the definition of gender as part of a user's identity on the net, in particular for internet gamers (Paasonen) and female professionals (Dorer)  The second part concerns how women are addresses as consumers of the internet and networks, with examples from online communities like Oprah.Com (Cooks/Paredes/Scharrer) and other women's websites (Gustafson).  Part Three gives examples of everyday uses of the internet for bringing girls and women together, and also discusses the problems and strategies inherent for lesbians online (Poster).  Finally, the fourth and last part talks about gender and new media in the contexts of the school, politics, and television viewing.  This looks to be a very interesting text from a sociological perspective which can supplement the other linguistic texts in the bibliography.

"browser-based RSS aggregator" "Netvibes.com is a customizable web 2.0 homepage solution...This service is free and gives you the user the ability: to create a personalized page with the content you like; to put together data feeds and services from web 2.0 applications with a very simple interface; to access your page anytime and from any computer

report on internet activities of kids in the UK...and their skill sets

PDF version of a presentation given at Loyola University on November 3, 2005...discusses "how and why libraries should use blogs and RSS, especially to create community, encourage conversation, and make their web sites more dynamic."  found through Shifted Librarian.