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Google’s new search features include: airline tracking by flight numbers and Search by Number, and includes UPS tracking numbers, FedEx tracking numbers, USPS tracking numbers, Vehicle ID (VIN) numbers, UPC codes, Telephone area codes, Patent numbers, FAA airplane registration numbers and FCC equipment IDs. Via Google Blogoscoped.
From the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, the Living Cities Databook Series “permits users to display and download data and rankings for the 100 largest cities in the U.S. on the full complement of indicators displayed in the printed databooks.” Categories include: Population, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Age, Households and Families, Education, …
From blogger, author, speaker Marcus P. Zillman, this well-vetted subject oriented resource guide to portals, websites and blogs on topics that include economics and business, government and statistics, law, medicine, news and engineering.
From AP, news on search engine alternatives to the ubiquitous Google, with features of interest to researchers. See Vivisimo and Grokker. See also this BBC article, “Technology analyst Bill Thompson wonders why he cannot stay away from Google, even though he has his doubts about it.”[Link]
The Natural Resources Defense Council announced their choices for the best environmental websites of 2003 here.
Happy Holidays to All, and just for good measure, here is the new issue of LLRX.com: Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research CyberAge Stalking Technology Bunny Hop: Two Bits Forward and One Byte Back Overview of Sources of Canadian Law on the Web, Revised A Guide to the Israeli Legal System Notes fom the …
Jackson Web Site Unites, Divides Legal Profession: The Santa Barbara prosecutor in the Michael Jackson case launched a website to disseminate key documents in what is described as an unusual action in such a high-profile criminal case. There is a growing interest in public access to court documents, and this article highlights several blogs, government …
This new book, Mexican Legal Dictionary and Desk Reference, by prolific author and international/comparative law scholar Professor Jorge Vargas, should be in the library collection of any organization that conducts research on Mexican law. The resource includes “over 3,000 legal terms, definitions, rules and legal principles taken from federal codes, federal statutes, regulations, bilateral treatises …
From Steven M. Cohen, Keeping Current, Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian Patron Needs. This book comprises five chapters, and focuses primarily on web-based current awareness strategies; resources for staying abreast of advances in search engines techniques and learning about new features; reviews of software for monitoring changes on websites; and how best to leverage …
An incisive news article from the December 12 Ohio Times-Reporter presents Congressional and advocacy group perspectives on public access to CRS reports, a controversial issue about which I have posted a number of times. CRS does not maintain a public access website, but online access to selected reports is available through several non-government websites, and …
From the Pew Internet and American Life Project: Wired for Health: How Californians compare to the rest of the nation: A case study sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation, released December 14, 2003: Table of Contents From the Summary of Findings: “Low-income Californians are more likely than other low-income Americans to go online and to …
Information Week reported yesterday that law firms are actively considering sending white collar jobs offshore, where paralegal salaries are between $6 and $8 per hour, while the average in the U.S. is over $17. The statistics for this article were obtained from a research report sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2003, titled …
