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Clinton’s new campaign push: getting out the vote. Missing from the online version, but available in print, the following urls associated with the article: Clinton Center, the Jimmy Carter library, the Carter Center, George W. Bush library, and the Gerald R. Ford library.
BestBookBuys: “Compare prices on new and used books.” Search by author, title, subject, keyword, ISBN. Browse books by author name, and review books by special category (bestsellers, etc.) or by subject category.
Earlier this month I posted Maryland County Considers Regulating Cable Modem Service, and as a follow-up from today’s Washington Post, this article (reg. req’d) reports that Montgomery County has passed new consumer protections requiring that “cable companies must answer the phone within 30 seconds, complete repairs within 36 hours, and refund customers for Internet service …
A look at Internet Explorer alternatives (Part 1). This installment covers Mozilla and Opera.
Online used-book sales concern some publishers: “Is Amazon.com becoming the Napster of the book business?”
This article from yesterday’s Washington Post (reg. req’d, articles archived 14 days after publication) reviews the pioneering proposal under consideration by the Montgomery County Council to regulate service standards for cable service providers. See also this Council press release dated July 7: “Montgomery County is about to be the first local jurisdiction to put in …
From the New York Times today: Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (60 pages, PDF)
From the WSJ today ($$), A Guide to Some of the Internet’s Best — And Most Overlooked — Health Sites. For more substantive treatment of this issue (no pun intended), see the monthly column on LLRX.com, Metaforix@Health, and Gloria Miccioli’s Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2003 Update.
Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use. Democratic campaign party websites are using open source apps, and the Republicans are using Microsoft. See also Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, (56 pages, PDF), a study by GW’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) now provides users with keyword, Boolean and field search options. “This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1142 journals in the directory. Currently 302 journals are searchable on article level. As of …
“Artificial Intelligence Resources is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet on Artificial Intelligence on the Internet.” [from Marcus P. Zillman]
My PC power supply was zapped. Lesson learned. Turn everything off and just wait until it is all over.
