Search Better With Gary

Gary is a renowned expert in search, particularly structured data search, and a respected leader within the search, library and education communities. In addition to his former position on the editorial team at Search Engine Watch, Price is the editor of ResourceShelf and Docuticker, online news sources for online researchers, librarians, journalists and educators. Price has been a frequent speaker at Search Engine Strategies, WebSearch University, Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian and numerous other industry conferences. Prior to joining Search Engine Watch and ResourceShelf, Price worked as a reference librarian at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He co-authored the book The Invisible Web with Chris Sherman and has compiled several well-known web research tools, including Price's List of Lists and Direct Search, a compilation of invisible Web databases. He has received numerous awards which include the Innovations in Technology award (2002) and the Anges Henebry award (2004) from the Special Libraries Association and Alumnus of the Year (2004) from Wayne State University. Gary's role at Ask.com is to help make search better for users and be a resource to the Ask.com community. See More: ResourceShelf | Gary's Bio

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Thursday, October 2, 2006

Need a Simple, Easy to Use Geocoder for U.S. Locations? Try This On?

Funny, but in the past week we received three email notes looking for a suggestion for a U.S. geocoder.

Our suggestion would be to begin with a look at the geocoder from Melissa Data. It’s free, easy to use, and is part (have you seen what else Melissa Data offers for free) of a superb collection of free look-up tools that Melissa provides. If you’ve never seen Melissa Data’s free collection, it’s MORE THAN worth a look.

Thursday, October 2, 2006

Research Report: Does Everyone Have Their Own “Clickprint” (a Web Signature) When they Browse the Web?

Clickprints on the Web: Are There Signatures in Web Browsing Data? (PDF; 34 pages)

"We address the question of whether humans have unique signatures - or clickprints - when they browse the Web. The importance of being able to answer this can be significant given applications to electronic commerce in general and in particular online fraud detection, a major problem in electronic commerce costing the economy billions of dollars annually. In this paper we present a data mining approach to answer this 'unique clickprint determination problem'. The solution technique is based on a simple yet% powerful idea of casting this problem as an aggregation problem. We develop formal methods to solve this problem and thereby determine the optimal amount of user data that must be aggregated before unique clickprints can be deemed to exist. Using some basic behavioral variables derived from real Web browsing data, our results suggest that the answer to the main question is 'most likely', given that we observe reasonably accurate user predictions using limited data."

Source: The Wharton School of Business/University of Pennsylvania & Graduate School of Management, University of California-Davis

See also: Does Your Web Browsing Create a Unique 'Clickprint'?
Source: (Knowledge@Wharton)

(via ResourceShelf’s DocuTicker)

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Some Mobile Web News and a Compilation of a Few Favorite Mobile Web Resources and Tools

Today, two news items and then a quick list of some great mobile resources. The list could be much longer but info overload is even an issue for mobile users. Of course, we will continue to share more on RS. No worries.

+ New Mobile Version of NY Times Now Online (via NY Times Co. News Release)
Direct to site at: http://mobile.nytimes.com

+ Search comes to Mobile
Wow, no mention of startups like Synfonic, UpSnap, and others. Don’t forget that mobile cameraphone searching is also just around the corner with services like Mobot, Semacode, and research from MS and others. In-depth overview in this RS post. Also, take a look at the Semapedia project, cameraphone and Wikipedia in one.

Now, our list of about 20 cool info sites for mobile. More to come. We post mobile info, sites, stats, and more here. For everyone we list here we could have listed four or five more. Here are a few (very few) favorite sites and tools optimized for mobile web (in random order) that might be of value to some of you. Enjoy. More to come.

1) The mobile version of the very important SeatGuru.com.

2) Hoover’s Business Research
Basic company info

3) TV Listings
UGuide (beta) app. Works on most Java phones and Treos. If you have a PC running Microsoft Windows XP Media Center (2005) you can also use your phone to program your PVR with UGuide. More on mobile tv listings here. Note: Wireless.tvguide.com does not seem to be working.
UPDATE: TiVo and TV Guide announce deal.

4) Amazon Anywhere or via SMS

5) Extremely localized (build your route(s)) via MSN Autos or Traffic.com
Delivered via SMS

6) Track Amtrak Trains, Make Reservations
New. Will recognize mobile browsers.

7) Global Subway Routes and Data

8) Real Time Bus and Public Transit info for Several Cities (including SF Muni)

9) Mobile Flight Lookup (Basic Timetables)
Easy and fast.

10) Real Time Airplane Tracking and More
This should wow them. U.S. and Canadian flights and flights to and from both countries.
To track a specific flight go to:
Airport & Flight Delays >> Individual Flight Status >> Then Select airline and flight number.

Here’s what’s returned for a specific flight:

Airline: United Airlines
FlightNumber: 730
Departure City (Airport): KANSAS CITY, MO ( MCI) Departure Time: 2006-09-12 16:56:00 [Actual]
Arrival City (Airport): CHICAGO, IL ( ORD) Arrival Time: 2006-09-12 18:22:00 [Estimated]
Flight Status: InAir
Altitude: 11100 Speed: 310 Heading: 55

11) PubMed
They also offer an app.

12) CBC News

13) Radio4PDA
If you have enough bandwidth and the right type of device, stream LIVE radio stations to your phone. This is one site that can help save you time and clicks.

14) Bloglines Mobile

15) MerckMedicus

16) State Dept. Washington File (Mobile Edition)

17) News.com

We could go on and on and on but that’s enough to enjoy for a few hours. More on ResourceShelf along with mobile news and stats in this category.

Bonus: Many tools exist that will help take a regular web page and help make it more mobile friendly. We will list several of them over the next few weeks. One that we use regularly is Skweezer.

Bonus 2: Access Files from Your Hard Drive on Your SmartPhone with SoonR, Use Skype too! Mac version available.

Monday, September 12, 2006

PBS offers Several Tools (ALL FREE) that Allow You To Keyword Search Segments from Several Programs

Including:

+ PBS NewsHour
Over 6 years of content.

+ Washington Week

+ Scientific American Frontiers

+ American Field Guide

We’ve collected over 1400 video clips that enable you to experience America’s wilderness firsthand - simply browse the topics or search for your particular interests.

+ Nature Video Archive
Clips from many Nature programs.

+ Julia Child: Lessons from the Master Chef
Browse or search by chef, ingredient, series, or category. Material from several series.

+ Teachers Domain

High-quality multimedia from NOVA, American Experience, and other public television productions and partners
Video and audio clips, interactives, images, and document. Explanatory background articles for each resource.

ResourceShelf’s 2003 Overview of this Service.

+ Wide Angle: Browse. Find Program by Title, Theme, Geography

+ Note: Tavis Smiley on PBS offers a browsable archive, audio only

++ Not Searchable but Available Online: 54 Episodes (full programs) from Frontline

++ Not Searchable but Available Online: Now
Complete programs (video), audio, transcripts.

++ Not Searchable but Complete Programs Available Online: Nova
18 shows. For a complete list of all Nova programs (back to 1974) see this page. Browse by subject, title, year of broadcast. Also of interest, Nova Interactives Archive.

Monday, September 12, 2006

Aerial Imagery comes to Real Estate Engine, Reply.com; Heat Maps Come to Zillow.com

Reply.com

+ Database has been around for a few years, now with aerial imagery from GlobeXplorer.

+ Estimated home values, comparison prices, etc. You can also now make unsolicited offers on a property

+ Reply’s estimated price is called an R! valuation.

+ How an R! valuation confidence for each property is determined. We would like to know more than it being a “complex calculation.”

+ Other research info like neighborhood stats, recent home sales, property info is provided.
Most but not all of the specific property info for my home was correct.

Btw, Reply.com “your decision engine” also offers automobile pricing information.

See Also: Zillow.com
The Zillow estimate or Zestimate of my home was approx. $12,000 less than Reply.com. I think both are much higher (20-30K over what we would likely get for our home) when compared to recent sales in the neighborhood.

While mentioning Zillow.com, we need to point out that they now offer “Heat Maps” for several metro areas including:

+ Boston
+ Chicago
+ Cleveland
+ Denver
+ Houston
+ Los Angeles
+ Miami
+ NYC
+ San Francisco
+ Seattle
17 metros total. These maps allow you to compare neighborhood values (based on Zestimates per sq. foot).

See Also: HomePages.com
Homes for sale in over 30 markets plus aerial imagery and maps.

Friday, September 1, 2006

What’s Popular on Wikipedia?

Thanks to the newly married Phillip Lenssen* (congrats Philipp) for pointing to a new chart (upated daily) that lists the 100 most popular articles (in terms of hits) from the official English language site of Wikipedia. A pull-down menu (upper right) allows you to view rankings for other versions of the Wikipedia. It’s no real surprise to see sex related entries having lots of spots throughout the list (3 in the Top 10). For more Wikipedia stats, see this page. Item of note: The English language version of Wikipedia currently has about 1.3 million entries and received about 2100 new articles per day in June 2005. A year earlier (June 2004) Wikipedia (English) received 1256 new articles. The issue we wonder about is that with this type of growth can the checking, verification, etc., be effective? Will more people participate and those already participating devote more time to maintain (forget about the new content) what’s already available? Something worth watching over the next year or two.

See Also: Wikipedia founder seeks more quality (via AP)
Jimmy Wales talks about quality of an entry over quantity of entries.

We should continue to turn our attention away from growth and towards quality.

See Also: Kicking Wiki Out Of The Patent Office (via BusinessWeek)

On Aug. 15, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office yanked Wikipedia from the digital toolbox its examiners use to help determine a patent application’s validity. But over the past several years, examiners used the online encyclopedia, which allows users to edit entries, to inform their decisions. Wikipedia has been cited in patent decisions on everything from car parts to chip designs.

“The problem with Wikipedia is that it’s constantly changing,” Patents Commissioner John Doll said. “We’ve taken Wikipedia off our list of accepted sources of information.” An agency spokesperson said inquiries from BusinessWeek about the use of Wikipedia led to the policy shift.

* Philipp is the editor of Google Blogoscoped and the creator and developer of the wonderful and amazing Games for the Brain site that we just posted about on Friday. When you need some fun and challenging mind stimulation, GFTB is a must. The new SpeedType game is very addictive.

Friday, September 1, 2006

SBA Introduces Podcasts for Business Owners (PDF; 94 KB)

The SBA podcasts provide an introduction to various small business topics, and will deliver business information and advice for new and established entrepreneurs on all aspects of starting, expanding and financing a small business, as well as business protection. The current list of podcasts includes the following subjects:

Is Entrepreneurship for You?
The SBA Small Business Training Network - Log On!
Selecting a Business that Fits
Disaster Preparedness for Business Owners
Financing a Small Business

Download free from the SBA podcast library. New podcsts will be added monthly.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration

Friday, August 4, 2006

Just Released from NASA: Fires in the Western United States

This image of the fire was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite on July 30. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fire are outlined in red. The fire was active in many places on its perimeter. The burned land is dark brown. Areas of sparse vegetation or arid land are tan, while pockets of denser vegetation appear in shades of green.

More imagery from MODIS including this near real-time feed is available. Btw, MODIS imagery as well as other types can be downloaded daily and used with NASA’s 3D (free) mapping tool, World Wind.

Friday, August 4, 2006

Codex canadiensis

The Codex canadiensis is a 79-page document written circa 1700. Illustrated with 180 drawings, it describes the First Nations, plants, mammals, birds and fish of Canada, making it of great importance to our country’s ethnology and natural history. The text begins with a three-page dedication praising King Louis XIV of France and celebrating France’s victories over Holland during the War of Devolution (1668) and over Germany (1673-1674), as well as the ascension of Philip V to the throne of Spain (1700). It was this last event that enabled Baron Marc de Villiers, the first editor of the Codex, to date the document. However, the handwritten captions on each page seem to have been added later, making it difficult to determine the exact date of the drawings.

Visitors may browse the rare document page by page thanks to a virtual page-turning function. Although the material contained in the Codex canadiensis is of great value to many academic fields, the accompanying interpretive material has been created for a general audience.

Source: Library and Archives Canada

Friday, August 4, 2006

NVU is the wonderful, free and very easy to use web page editor.

PortableApps.com announces the great work of developer John Haller who takes popular apps and modifies them so you can take them with you on a CD, flash drive, etc.

Now, a new version of NVU is available for your portable memory device. Awesome.

Btw, a upgraded portable version of Firefox was also released yesterday.

To review all of Haller’s portable apps, visit: PortableApps.com. Well worth your time.

Friday, August 4, 2006

Resource of the Week: Sustainable Tourism Database
By Shirl Kennedy

Sometimes, it’s just amazing what you find as a “by-product” of looking for something else. This week’s resource popped up in a web search I did for “green power“. The title looked so interesting that I just had to click on it and explore further. You’ll want to check this one out if you work with environmental information or are environmentally conscious.

The Sustainable Tourism Resource Database
Source: North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
“The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Sustainable Tourism Resource Database is a searchable online database containing information on tourism services and facilities in North America that link tourism activities with the conservation of natural areas.” Depending upon where you look, you can find all sorts of statistics about ecotourism and its share of the overall tourism market worldwide. (A good place to start is The International Ecotourism Society.) But all sources are in agreement that this particular niche keeps right on growing.

The whole topic is not without its share of controversy. Long story short: While ecotourism can bring in badly needed income to developing countries that have few other resources, it may result in undesirable environmental and cultural impacts. Also, ecotourism, nature-based travel and sustainable tourism are not all the same. According to a Sustainable Tourism Info-Sheet found via the WWW Virtual Library on Urban and Environmental Management:

Ecotourism is “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and sustains the well-being of local people.” Sometimes it is defined as a sub-category of sustainable tourism or a segment of the larger nature tourism market.

While nature-based tourism is just travel to natural places, ecotourism provides local benefits - environmentally, culturally and economically. A nature-based tourist may just go bird watching; an ecotourist goes bird watching with a local guide, stays in a locally operated ecolodge and contributes to the local economy.

Sustainable Tourism embraces all segments of the industry with guidelines and criteria that seek to reduce environmental impacts, particularly the use of non-renewable resources, using measurable benchmarks, and to improve tourism’s contribution to sustainable development and environmental conservation.

Which brings us to this week’s resource. It’s actually quite easy to use this database, which “includes over 50 certification schemes, guidelines, codes of conduct or charters that are relevant to the sustainable tourism market in North America.” In the left navigation frame, you’ll see the various topics; click the small plus signs to expand the topics until you find what you want. Note that these are divided into four main categories (in boldface):

1. “Activity-specific codes of conduct which comprise principles for either the tourist engaged in a specific activity or for the tour operator who is involved in showcasing the activity.”
Example: American Birding Association Code of Birding Ethics
2. “Certification programs or lodging associations, that list the criteria for third party certification programs and/or ‘green’ lodging associations.”
Example: Sample Guidelines and Ideas for Guestrooms from the Green Hotels Association
3. “Global/general codes of conduct, principles and charters that are either developed at a global scale or general scope that can be applied to any destination worldwide.”
Example: Dos and Don’ts for Environmentally Conscious Eco-Tourists from the World Resources Institute
4. “Region specific codes of conduct and guidelines that relate to a specific geographic area location or geologic setting.”
Example: 8 Ecotourism Guidelines from the Alaska Wilderness Recreation and Tourism Association

Note that I found the left navigation frame somewhat quirky using Firefox/Mac OS X. When I scrolled down and clicked on a plus sign to expand a topic, the page jumped to the top so that I had to scroll down again; this happened every time I clicked on something. I’m not a big fan of frame navigation anyhow, and will generally use a context menu to open frames in their own windows.

Oh, and in case you missed it, there is a keyword search box in the top righthand corner of the main frame. You’ll find it on every page as you navigate through the database.

Related resources:

+ Conservation International: Ecotourism
+ The International Ecotourism Society Online Library
+ National Geographic Society Center for Sustainable Destinations
+ The Nature Conservancy: Nature Ecotourism and Conservation
+ Sustainable Tourism (WWW Virtual Library)
+ United Nations Environmental Programme: Sustainable Tourism Home Page
+ World Tourism Organization: Sustainable Development of Tourism

Friday, August 4, 2006

“DailyMed” Logs 500th Label

DailyMed provides a standard, up-to-date source for look-up and download of drug information found in medication package inserts for use by clinicians, patients, and health information providers. Users may choose to be notified electronically when new or updated label information is released. The goal is for DailyMed to contain standard label information for all FDA-approved medications. One benefit will be to aid the development of personal electronic health records.

Direct to DailyMed

Monday, July 24, 2006

Plan Ahead! Calendars, Calendars, Calendars and Some Schedules

ResourceShelf has started (slowly but surely) to update a 2003 post containing links calendars and schedules of upcoming events. Use this link to have fast access to each ResourceShelf post in this series.

+ Global: BBC Monitoring Week Ahead Calendar (via BBC)

+ Global: Planned Coverage Calendar, Associated Press Television News

+ Global: NewsAhead World News Forecast Preview
Preview listings are free. Complete access to the database is fee-based.

+ Global: Election Calendar (via IFES)
Database of elections to 2011.

+ Global: MInd: The Meetings Index
“Free access to locate future conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia.”

+ Global: Trade Show Calendar
Searchable.

+ Global: NASA Space Calendar (via Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

+ Global: International Sports Calendar (via IOC)

+ Global: WhatsOnWhen.com
Searchable database containing thousands of events. WOW!!!
Make sure to check out the bizarre category (-:.

+ Global: Festivals.com
“Festivals.com today is the largest resource on the Internet for information about community festivals, fairs and special events. With more than 40,000 community events worldwide behind the pages of Festivals.com, we are the most popular and widely used web site devoted exclusively to the global festival industry.”

+ U.S.: 2006 Primary Schedule (via Stateline.org)

+ Key Dates and Upcoming Events (via Ascribe)
U.S. focus.

+ Observances and Commemerations Calendar (via Ascribe)

+ U.S.: The Note Futures Calendar (via ABCNews.com)
Various events, updated regularly, thru 2008.

+ International Events Calendar (U.S. Department of State)
See Also: Secretary of State Daily Appointment Schedule

+ U.S.: Upcoming Video Releases
Sort by title, genre, studio, release date. Over 2700 titles currently on the list.

+ 2006 National Football League Schedules (via NFL.com)
See Also: Preseason Schedule ||| Primetime TV Schedule ||| National TV Schedule ||| Team-by-Team Schedule

Remember: More Calendars and Schedules to Come in Future Posts. Need Real-Time Info? Check this collection of databases and tools.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Limit Your Search of the U.S. Goverment Catalog of Government Publications to ONLY Materials Available on the Internet

+ This interface allows you to limit your search of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) to only those accessible (full text) on the Internet. You can also browse new electronic titles here.

+ Direct to Main Database Interface

Monday, July 24, 2006

New From Ask.com: RSS Smart Answers, Latest Links Directly on Results Web Results Pages

Ask.com has released “RSS Smart Answers.” You can read a post about this new feature on their blog.

In a nutshell, when you now enter the title of a blog or feed, the three most current headlines are placed at the top of the Ask.com results page, before the ads and before the organic links. These headlines are updated in near real time. Of course, not each and every feed is in there but the SA team is working to add more feeds into the SA format in a timely manner. More info about the service will be available soon. Don’t confuse this new web search feature with Ask’s new feed/blog search.

Examples include:

Library Blogs

+ Library Stuff
+ LII What’s New
+ The Shifted Librarian
+ Librarian in Black
+ TVC Alert

Non-Library examples include:

+ Metafilter
+ Boing Boing
+ Daily Kos
+ Scoblelizer

Again, this is just an early release. Look for more sources and features in upcoming weeks.

Comment from Gary: A couple of people emailed me asking about this new Ask.com feature. It was in the works long before I joined Ask.com. That said, I think it’s very exciting. Why?
1) In the future we hope to use RSS feeds from not only blogs but from other types of info sources. Let’s say someone enters a library name, they might not only see web results (as expected) but other library info (new books might be one example) that’s being syndicated via RSS. With the growing amount of non-blog feeds/syndicated content out there, it’s easy to start thinking about the possibilities.
2) Access up to the minute content with no fuss, without even needing to know about a specialized interface or database. Remember, as statistics have shown, lots of people don’t know about RSS. It’s sometimes easy to forget this fact. A service like RSS Smart Answers makes as it as easy as simply typing in the name of the blog or feed into the search box. I think this is a useful way to not only get the content in the hands of more people but also (potentially) get more involved with RSS maybe moving on to an aggregator.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Mobile Site of the Week: Government of Canada Wireless Portal

Access this site optimized for mobile web browsers at: wap.gc.ca or www.gc.ca

Features include:
+ Canadian Company Capabilities (New Feature)
+ Government of Canada news releases, media advisories, background news, and more
+ Border Wait Times
+ Canadian Hurricane Centre
+ Currency Converter
+ Economic Indicators
+ Government of Canada Employee Phone Numbers
+ 1 800 O-Canada International Toll-free Numbers
For more info and instructions check this page.

Friday, July 14, 2006

Wildfire and Forest Fire Information

Our continuing series of real-time sites, tools, and feeds continues with another couple of entries.

+ Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination (GEOMAC)

Web mapping tool providing real-time wildland fire information to the public, fire managers, and fire personnel.

+ Current Wildland Fire Information
via the National Interagency Fire Center.
++ Incident Management Situation Report (Updated Daily, U.S.)

+ Canadian Wildland Fire Information System
++ Canada National Forest Fire Situation Report

The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System creates daily fire weather and fire behavior maps year-round and hot spot maps throughout the forest fire season, generally between May and September.

Includes interactive map.

See Also: Satellite Imagery of Fire Events (via NOAA, Global)

See Also: For More Real-Time Sources Click Here

Friday, July 14, 2006

UK’s Resource Discovery Network Now Known as Intute

Those of you who read ResourceShelf regularly know that the RDN (Resource Discovery Network) was a favorite resource and like other non-commercial web directories, an excellent illustration of the work librarians and other info pros, in this case from the UK, are doing to organize the web, focusing on quality of quantity. I’ll post a few of our most recent news items at the bottom. Wait, we used “was one.” Is the RDN gone? The good, no GREAT news is NO. So, what’s the story.

Earlier this year, March to be precise, ResourceShelf posted that RDN would get a name change. Well, today was the day.

RDN is now officially known as Intute (the RDN site remains live).

Next week, Shirl will take a closer look at the new site but the good news is that after a quick review all of the GREAT content and organization is still available and ready for use.

From the news release,

Caroline Williams, Executive Director of Intute said, “the environment in which we operate is rapidly changing. Issues of trust and quality are real concerns for our users, and we have responded to this by creating a new service which takes the best of the RDN and streamlines it into one easy to use interface.” She explains, “the Intute database makes it possible to discover the best and most relevant resources on the Internet. You can explore and discover trusted information, assured that it has been evaluated by subject specialists.”

A few things we noticed in our quick look. Again, just scratching the surface here.

+ More color and much cleaner look. Well done. One stop shopping of the various subject hubs exists from a search box in the middle of the home page.

+ Advanced Search, A-Z index and a wonderful color coded “new resources” page that compiles resources from all of the subject gateways.

+ Site is organized into four main subject areas: Science and Technology, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Health and Life Sciences. Browse or search each area.

For example:

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology has been created by bringing together three of the Hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN): EEVL (Engineering, Mathematics and Computing), GEsource (Geography and Environment), and PSIgate (Physical Sciences). The same team of experts, based at The University of Manchester and Heriot-Watt University, will maintain and develop the service.

+ Personalization with MyIntute

+ Easy access to the wonderful Virtual Training Suite

Again, much more next week. Congrats to the entire Intute team. Learn more about the organization on this excellent page. The only thing not listed is what and where the name Intute comes from.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Seattle: America’s "Smartest Cities"

Seattle is America’s smartest city according to a new study by Bizjournals.com.
Source: Bizjournals.com

An analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data puts Seattle’s No. 1 ranking in perspective:

• Forty-seven percent of Seattle’s adults hold bachelor’s degrees, the strongest proportion of college-educated residents in any big city. It’s nearly double the U.S. average of 24.4 percent.
• Seattle is second to Washington, D.C., in the share of people with advanced diplomas. Twenty-one percent of Washington’s adults have earned graduate or professional degrees, followed by Seattle at 17 percent. The national average is 8.9 percent.

San Francisco and Austin are the runners-up in the Bizjournals.com study, which ranks the relative brainpower of 53 large communities.

Profiles of the Top 10 Cities.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents

Newspaper Archives
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
Two New Newspaper Archives (Tens of Thousands of Articles) Now Available
The team at NewspaperArchive.com continue to impress with two new and totally free archives. They are free to search (full text and full image) and the content itself is also free. Pages can be printed and saved. The two new archives are:
Immigrationarchive.com - 50,000 articles from hundreds of papers. Also browse via this timeline.
Globalwarmingarchive.com - Search or browse.
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Iraq--Leadership
Source: USIP
Who are Iraq's new leaders? What do they want?
20 pages; PDF