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Library News & Notes —
October 3, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

The Changing Blogosphere
http://www.infotoday.com/ (Shortened url)

Datamob
"Datamob highlights the connection between public data
sources and the interfaces people are building for them."
http://www.datamob.org (Shortened url)
(Source: SPARC Open Access Newsletter)

E-mail accounts easy to break into
http://www.physorg.com/(Shortened url)

Financial chaos threatens to besiege universities
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008(Shortened url)
(Source: Harvard in the News)

Free Our Libraries, Cry University Presidents
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3362 (Shortened url)

The global-village pioneers
http://physicsworld.com/ (Shortened url)

iBreadCrumbs

"A Social Network for Researchers to Share Recorded URLs,
Track Websites, Review Notes Online,
and Encourage Online Collaborative Research."
http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com
(Source: SLA)

Knetwit
http://www.knetwit.com
(Source: Law Librarian Blog)

Reboot Your Workflow This Fall
http://lifehacker.com/(Shortened url)
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

Sandia lab tool puts Internet traffic on the map
http://losangeles.bizjournals.com/losangeles/ (Shortened url)

Scientists with funny bones
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Harvard in the News)

11 Options for Managing Money Online
http://financialsoft.about.com/od/morefinancial(Shortened url)

100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150897(Shortened url)
(Source: Washington Post)

 

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