The Basics: phone numbers & addresses I wish I could tell you we had some super-duper special people-finder tools. But we don’t. Here are some decent free sites instead. Verizon (www.verizon.com, then click on People Pages). The source. This is an online white pages. No reverse lookup, though. Infospace (www.infospace.com). This was one of the […]
Category: Blogs & Resources
MediaCommons Scholarly Publishing Network
The Institute for the Future of the Book (if:book) yesterday introduced a new electronic scholarly publishing project focused on media studies. Dubbed MediaCommons, the project is described as “a wide-ranging scholarly network … in which folks working in media studies can write, publish, review, and discuss, in forms ranging from the blog to the monograph, […]
On Blogs and Blogging…
Romenesko finds an Advertising Age piece which states that U.S. workers essentially take daily 40-minute blog breaks (authentication required for access to Advertising Age). …And they say that baseball is the American pastime? 😉 […]
Google Maps Mania!
You thought Housing Maps was cool. Then you got all excited about the Google Maps Pedometer. But the insanity continues… To keep up, you can check in with Google Maps Mania, a blog that tracks websites, tools, and innovative ways that internet users are customizing Google maps. […]
Journalism: The Big Picture
While you are enrolled in the J-School, and hard at work on assignments, it can be difficult to look at the bigger picture. When you do have a moment, or once you have graduated, here are some sites to explore to continue learning, both about the field and about the consumers of journalism’s products. The […]
Free Government Information (FGI)
Free Government Information is a site (started by a few librarians) which tracks threats to government information’s freedom from “many economic and political forces,” and is also involved in raising public awareness about the importance of this type of information. Click on Delicious FGI to get FGI del.icio.us tags and bookmarks! […]