Capitol Words

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by Heather Negley
 
Capitol Words is an interesting new tool from the Sunlight Foundation. The presentation of reminds me a little of  Wordle which is a good thing. It’s nice to see government information in an easy to asborb format. On Capitol Words users can view an image map or tag cloud of the top words of the [...]

Editorial Observer – With the Downturn, It’s Time to Rethink the Legal Profession – NYTimes.com

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Editorial Observer – With the Downturn, It’s Time to Rethink the Legal Profession – NYTimes.com.
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Wordle for Infoknot

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I played around with Wordle tonight and dropped the RSS feed for this blog into the Wordle tool. It made a pretty cool picture. Wordle is fun!
 

 
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Analysis: Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use?

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Analysis: Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use?.
by Danny Sullivan
URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are offered and new ones seem to appear each day? Below, issues to consider [...]

How libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem

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This speech pulls together Pew Internet Project data about how people’s use of the internet and cell phones has fundamentally changed the “information ecosystem” in 10 ways. Lee discusses how this has changed the role of libraries in the digital age and he points out ways that libraries can adapt to meet the expectations and [...]

Google Moderator

 It lets anyone ask a question and then people can vote up the questions that they’d like answered.
Google Moderator » a blog about Google’s Moderator .
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Scopus Info – Scopus in Detail – How does it work?

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Scopus Info – Scopus in Detail – How does it work?.
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ResearchBuzz » » LIFE Launches Its Own Photo Archive

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ResearchBuzz » » LIFE Launches Its Own Photo Archive .
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Seth Goldstein on Leadership in Social Media

Seth Goldstein
Feeds, Friends and Follows: On Leadership in Social Media
February 25th, 2009

A new paradigm is emerging for how people become valuable online.  I’ll call it “leadership.” It started about five years ago with the introduction of blogs, and has continued more recently through the advent of social media, typified by MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.  Central [...]

Amazon Mechanical Turk

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Earn money doing rote tasks.
Amazon Mechanical Turk Worksource initiative for tasks such as sorting or classification
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