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  Do You Still Yahoo? Guardian Unlimited | Online | Ben Hammersley: Second Sight "Yahoo is the new Google. Google is the new Yahoo. Up is down, and black is white... Last month's launch of Google Maps was impressive, but not as cool as Yahoo's placing of live traffic conditions on its map this month....Yahoo has a rich site summary (RSS) aggregator, Google does not. Yahoo has a search engine for online movies, Google does not. " So maybe Yahoo is your new best friend. Sounds to me like Google searches MORE but Yahoo searches BETTER.   ¶ 3/31/2005 0 comments

  Estate Planning for Everyone From Nolo Press, this site is simple and clear about this difficult topic. For more than you ever wanted to know about Death and Dying, see the Yahoo Directory. Topics include Advance Directives, Cemetaries, Funerals, Memorials, Death of a Pet, and more. U.S. Living Will Registry "The U.S. Living Will Registry is a privately held organization that electronically stores advance directives, organ donor information and emergency contact information, and makes them available to health care providers across the country 24 hours a day through an automated system." This site is for consumers too, and while there are many sites to help in developing a Living Will, what is unusual here is the fact that it actually stores it for you." And if you think this may not apply to you, consider this 3/29/05 New York Times article, "The Best Way to Keep Control: Leave Instructions." With thanks to Jim Robinson, for suggesting some of these sites.   ¶ 3/30/2005 0 comments

  Tip! You can save any ProQuest article as a bookmark or favorite. Just right-click on it from your search result.   ¶ 3/29/2005 0 comments

  From ResourceShelf Personal Computers-- Statistics Source: Computer Industry Almanac PCs In-Use Surpassed 820M in 2004; PCs In-Use Will Top 1B in 2005 "The worldwide number of PCs in-use surpassed 820 million in 2004 and is projected to top 1 billion in 2007. PCs in-use growth is slowing as the industrialized world is approaching the top of the S-curve. Strong PC growth will continue in the developing countries for another decade. The U.S. has a large lead with over 220M PCs in-use--over 3X the number in Japan. The U.S. accounts for over 27% of all PCs in-use compared to 4.6% of worldwide population. PC usage is growing rapidly in China, which is expected to surpass Japan in 2007. PC usage is also growing strongly in many populous countries such as Brazil, India and Russia." While you're at it, check out the current population stats on the Census Population Clock  ¶ 3/24/2005 0 comments

  Mary Ellen Bates - Tip of the Month Is This For Real? Search Pro Mary Ellen reminds us "...how easy it is for people to rely on web sites that look authoritative but aren't necessarily accurate or up to date. (For an example of a site that, at first glance, looks reliable, see the web page for the RYT Hospital) Following are some of the techniques I use to figure out whether a site can be relied upon. .." Take a minute to review her tips, for yourself, your patrons or the sites you "own" on the library website.  ¶ 3/24/2005 0 comments

  ICARUS... the Santa Fe Public Library Blog Check out this new effort in blogging which blends news with chatty postings from everything to the latest drought to the books read this week in Storytimes. Since they also have a link to their library catlog, it's almost like this is a library website "lite."   ¶ 3/15/2005 0 comments

  "Since October 11, 2004, Mount St. Helens has been in a constant eruptive state." ... HOW eruptive, you ask? You need to see the VolcanoCam Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam - Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Also see the section for VolcanoCam Movies...with the VolcanoCam Images Archive and the Hall of Fame Images--impressive!  ¶ 3/08/2005 0 comments

  News: 'Half-Blood Prince' book jackets revealed Something for HP fans to drool over until the book is released....Countdown to Book 6: at this moment, it's 129 days, 9 hours, 37 minutes, and ....however many Seconds But did YOU know there is an entire news aggregator for Harry Potter? The Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator (HPANA) was created to monitor several of the top news sources on the Web and provide near-instant alerts when new information is published. It's lots more than The Leaky Cauldron and what's pretty cool is how many students participate. Check it out!  ¶ 3/08/2005 0 comments

  Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web Hard to believe, isn't it? Yahoo is TEN years old yes, but some folks may not realize that in 1995, Yahoo was one of the FEW directory/search engines around. The Netrospective is also fun to look at, and just click around...sort of a fancy photo album!   ¶ 3/07/2005 0 comments

  Books2Films Imagine that -- movies sometimes inspire viewers to read the book. Unfortunately, this blog won't help very much! Missing are most classics (Gone with the Wind) and as for alphabetical order...well, here it's really more of a guideline. Free advice: If you just want to browse a list of film titles which started out as a book, you are probably better off just using the power searches at IMDb.com So, bookmark this Power Search at IMDb, to locate books made into films. Also worth saving is link to the list of Keywords which INCLUDE "based on" where you'll find based on adapdation, based children's book, etc. (scroll down to this part of the index.)  ¶ 3/06/2005 0 comments

  RSS Compendium: "Welcome to the RSS Compendium, designed to link you to information about RSS readers, resources, tools, etc... This resource was originally a sub-set of files in my Weblogs Compendium resource, but it has grown so much that it now demands its own index." Wow! Peter Scott has created this clearinghouse for RSS, where you can learn more about the notion of RSS (see RSS History) or just find more feeds.  ¶ 3/06/2005 0 comments

  Amazon.com: Help / Amazon.com Services / Recommendations /How to Suppress If you shop or use Amazon.com to fiind product information, you may be frustrated at irrelevant reccomendations that pop up all the time. Here's the word straight from Amazon: How do I turn off recommendations? Simply click the link on our home page that says "If you're not (your name), click here." Then, leave the e-mail and password spaces blank and click the "Welcome" tab. This will remove our recommendations for you during your visit. If instead you want to stop your name from appearing on the site, and shop without our recommendations features present, you can accomplish this by logging out of our web site. On the Amazon.com home page, click the link that says "If you’re not ___, click here." Then, leave the e-mail and password spaces blank and click the "Welcome" tab at the top of the page. Doing so will remove your name and recommendations from all Amazon pages. The next time you identify yourself on the site by placing an order or entering your e-mail address and password, your personalized features will return. You can simply repeat the steps above to clear your name. So, this means you WILL have to sign in to your account, in order to view a Wisih List, or any saved addressed. The other thing I do is mark everything I purchase as a gift....which should keep it from prompting recommendations  ¶ 3/06/2005 0 comments

  Wired 13.03: The Book Stops Here: "In 2005, the nonprofit venture is the largest encyclopedia on the planet. Wikipedia offers 500,000 articles in English - compared with Britannica's 80,000 and Encarta's 4,500 - fashioned by more than 16,000 contributors. Tack on the editions in 75 other languages, including Esperanto and Kurdish, and the total Wikipedia article count tops 1.3 million." What's a wiki...not to mention a wikipedia? A wiki uses software which allows anybody with Web access to go to a site and edit, delete, or add to what's there. the wikipediai would be created not by paid experts and editors, but by whoever wanted to contribute. A revolutionary model for cooperative web efforts! Give it a look at the Wikipedia at http://www.wikipedia.org/ and choose a langugae.  ¶ 3/03/2005 0 comments

  The Video Game Librarian Special @ Gaming Target Wow - should we be adding video games? Food for thought!  ¶ 3/02/2005 0 comments