It’s been hard to watch the events unfold in the South during and after Hurricane Katrina. It has also been interesting and heartening to see how the Internet community has created opportunities to help – demonstrating once again the global nature of the Internet: Craig’s List of New Orleans is a community bulletin board where … Continue reading →

Google has yet another new feature – Google Scholar. It indexes scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. It debuted late last year. I think it’s a neat tool – but it has some pros and cons: Pro – It filters out a ton … Continue reading →