Since you are looking at this article and it is on a Blog, I can only assume you know what a Blog is. But, what is the advantage to a Blog over traditional internet media sources or even traditional non-digital media? Blogs are able to harness the main advantage of the internet: worldwide instant communication. This video was made by the same people who made the RSS video I posted a while back and it is very informational.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
A True Digital Library
If you have been exposed to the internet for any length of time, you have more than likely heard of the analogy comparing the internet to a huge library. Well, I have found a few websites that are truly a digital library, providing classic literature, reference, and archives of all sorts.
The first site is a reference site of sorts: www.ibiblio.org. This site contains a plethora of reference information on topics from literature and theology to technology and mathematics. This site also offers scholastic news articles and many radio stations of a public nature.
The next two sites go together in their main purpose: www.librivox.org and www.gutenberg.org. The purpose of these sites is to disseminate classic literature in audio and print format respectively. Project Gutenberg (as the name implies) provides literature in print format. For the literary works used on this site copyright is not an issue, as all of the offerings have entered the public domain. Librivox is an extension of Project Gutenberg. Taking the print literature from Gutenberg, librivox uses millions of worldwide volunteers to read the literature and provide it in audio format for download on their website. All your favorite Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum are available for free in print and audio format.
The final website is a very general archive of all sorts of content: www.archive.org. To start out with, the Internet Archive offers a video library including many things from educational videos to full-lengthpublic domain movies. They also have a library of audio content which includes music, audio books, and much more. Like any good library, the Internet Archive has many thousands of articles on many subjects. In my opinion, the most valuable feature of the Internet Archive is the Wayback Machine (the name harkens to Adventures of Peabody and Sherman). This is a feature that allows you to search for versions of almost any website that may have existed in the last 15 or so years.
Check out all of these great useful websites. You might find something of interest to you.
The first site is a reference site of sorts: www.ibiblio.org. This site contains a plethora of reference information on topics from literature and theology to technology and mathematics. This site also offers scholastic news articles and many radio stations of a public nature.
The next two sites go together in their main purpose: www.librivox.org and www.gutenberg.org. The purpose of these sites is to disseminate classic literature in audio and print format respectively. Project Gutenberg (as the name implies) provides literature in print format. For the literary works used on this site copyright is not an issue, as all of the offerings have entered the public domain. Librivox is an extension of Project Gutenberg. Taking the print literature from Gutenberg, librivox uses millions of worldwide volunteers to read the literature and provide it in audio format for download on their website. All your favorite Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum are available for free in print and audio format.
The final website is a very general archive of all sorts of content: www.archive.org. To start out with, the Internet Archive offers a video library including many things from educational videos to full-lengthpublic domain movies. They also have a library of audio content which includes music, audio books, and much more. Like any good library, the Internet Archive has many thousands of articles on many subjects. In my opinion, the most valuable feature of the Internet Archive is the Wayback Machine (the name harkens to Adventures of Peabody and Sherman). This is a feature that allows you to search for versions of almost any website that may have existed in the last 15 or so years.
Check out all of these great useful websites. You might find something of interest to you.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Meeting Announcement
With the adverse weather and the prediction of up to 20 inches of snow on the way, we would like you to determine whether or not it is safe for you to travel to our meeting tonight, and plan accordingly. At this time Meagan will not be attending (babies and their mamma's are better off at home), and Dorene is going to try to make it in. She has a new toy that she wants to demo! At last word, Andy too was planning on attending.
If the weather gets worse than it is at 4pm, Dorene will stay home.
Tonight's presentation will be a practice presentation and will be given again in March, so please don't feel that you will miss something important if you decide not to attend. Happy traveling, or in my case, happy staying home! Have a lovely evening!
If the weather gets worse than it is at 4pm, Dorene will stay home.
Tonight's presentation will be a practice presentation and will be given again in March, so please don't feel that you will miss something important if you decide not to attend. Happy traveling, or in my case, happy staying home! Have a lovely evening!
Monday, February 4, 2008
Free Phone Services
Back in December we discussed some phone services that are available for use for FREE!!!!! Let recap what was covered.
First we covered a directory assistance phone number: 1-800-FREE-411. This is a great 411 (Directory Assistance) number. It allows you to look up any residential or business from any phone. It also allows free connection to any business (I became aware of this feature since the presentation).
Another 411 service we looked at was 1-800-GOOG-411. This is a service provided by Google. GOOG-411, unlike the FREE-411, is only able to search business listings. Google's service also offers the free connection. Even though GOOG-411 has less features than FREE-411, I am still holding out. Google has created some great products and I don't think they will leave GOOG-411 where it is.
The final service we spoke about was Google SMS. SMS (Short Message Service) is a technology used to send and receive text messages on cell phones. If you send a formatted text message to 466453 (the numeric value of GOOGLE), Google will send back information based on the message you sent. For information on how to format your text messages, go to www.google.com/sms/. This is a perfect example of some of the great services offered by Google.
First we covered a directory assistance phone number: 1-800-FREE-411. This is a great 411 (Directory Assistance) number. It allows you to look up any residential or business from any phone. It also allows free connection to any business (I became aware of this feature since the presentation).
Another 411 service we looked at was 1-800-GOOG-411. This is a service provided by Google. GOOG-411, unlike the FREE-411, is only able to search business listings. Google's service also offers the free connection. Even though GOOG-411 has less features than FREE-411, I am still holding out. Google has created some great products and I don't think they will leave GOOG-411 where it is.
The final service we spoke about was Google SMS. SMS (Short Message Service) is a technology used to send and receive text messages on cell phones. If you send a formatted text message to 466453 (the numeric value of GOOGLE), Google will send back information based on the message you sent. For information on how to format your text messages, go to www.google.com/sms/. This is a perfect example of some of the great services offered by Google.
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