Archive for January, 2005

Federal legislative tracker

Monday, January 31st, 2005

GovTrack.us is a utility that enables one to follow a piece of federal
legislation via RSS.  (source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

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Social bookmark service for scientists

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Randy points to
Connotea, a service for scientists that enables sharing bookmarks of
articles and websites.  Evidently Nature Publishing Group is
behind it.  You can browse categories and the site features an RSS
feed.  (Source: the Sci-Tech Library Question)

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PBS starts Nova scienceNOW

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

PBS has started an online news magazine, Nova scienceNOW (not to be
confused with AAAS’ ScienceNow daily news update.)  The first
“issue” contains a story on hurricanes, among other topics, and
features video and interviews.  (Source: beSpacific)

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BusinessWeek technology blog

Friday, January 21st, 2005

BusinessWeek has what looks to be a lively collaborative blog on technology news.  (Source: Scripting News)

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…and speaking of RSS feeds

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

musings by Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Watch) on how RSS feeds might
be made easier to find and use… (Source; the Virtual Chase)

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Science magazine RSS feeds

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

Science magazine features RSS feeds for its weekly table-of-contents
and other material such as its ScienceNOW news service and Signal
Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE.)  (Source: beSpacific)

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NY Times coverage of the Tsunami

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

The New York Times has a page with links to all their recent articles about the Asian tsunami tragedy, as well as a page linking to a number of relief organizations. 

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AIP retrospective journal digitization complete

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

The American Institute of Physics has put all issues of their journals
online.  Subscribers to each journal can get to the full contents
dating back to volume 1 for each journal (for example, Review of
Scientific Instruments begins with v.1, 1932).  The AIP had begun
digitizing ten-year increments several years ago but now seems to have
completed the retrospective project.  (Source: PAMNET-L)

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Postal service made simple

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

Didn’t see this in time for the holidays, but lii.org points out a USPS
Customer’s Guide to Mailing, which explains different mailing options
and links to postage rate tables. 

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