| EDITORIAL |
Searcher's Voice
Trust: A Bust?
What defines trust in a web world? bq compares it to a warm, but not housebroken, puppy. |
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| COLUMNS |
Internet Express
Baby, You Can Drive My Car (If You Can Get It to Start)
Ever
notice how a car that’s been running like a dream will start acting up
minutes after the warranty expires? This month, Irene McDermott helps
frustrated owners figure out when to repair and where, or if it’s time
to start looking for a new set of wheels instead. |
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| FEATURES |
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The 51st State: The State of Online
Tech Tools for the American Voter and the 2008 Congressional Elections
Americans
will be electing more than a president and vice president come
November: 435 House and 33 Senate seats are up for grabs. In Part 2 of
her continuing series, Laura Gordon-Murnane recommends sites for
finding biographies, voting records, campaign finance, and more about
the nation’s congressional candidates. |
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Web Only Special Feature!
The 51st State: The State of Online
Tech Tools for the American Voter and the 2008 Congressional Elections — The Tutorial
This tutorial is a visual walk-through of how to find what you need to
know for the upcoming Congressional elections. Use the tutorial to help
you find out if you are registered to vote, biographical information on
your Congressman or Senator, his or her voting records, and money
donations and campaign fundraising for the upcoming election. |
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Museum and Library Websites
Beautiful and Informative Across the Ages
Library
resources director Constance Vidor highlights a sampling of outstanding
sites, often hard or impossible to find using search engines, for
learning about art, history, and culture across the globe and across
the millennia.
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Searching to Find
Opening Up the World With Open WorldCat
Kimberly
Embleton and Helen Heinrich have collaborated to produce a helpful
guide to finding library materials through Open WorldCat. They share
the most effective search approaches, ranging from simple to
sophisticated, for locating needed books and articles.
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The Freebase Experience
Getting Addicted to the World’s Largest Open Database
David
Mattison is “freebasing” but he doesn’t want an intervention. He’s
hooked on Freebase, a free, easy-to-learn, web-based collaborative
database that makes creating structural relationships a snap. Why does
he love it so much? This in-depth review let him count the ways.
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Text Mining Patent Literature
A Case Scenario of a Methodology for Analyzing Unstructured Data
This
article by information scientist Robert March outlines a cost-effective
way to use common text-mining desktop apps to cluster unstructured
textual data on patent literature.
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| DEPARTMENTS |
Best Buys
Before you make those hardware, software, and internet-related purchases, check out Best Buys.
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Contacts
Find
the postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers for all the
companies, products, and people mentioned in this issue. |
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