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Ircworld is being retired...and reborn as knowbodies.blogspot.com . There are a couple of differences; while posting to ircworld was limited...

This report from the IBM Center for the Business of Government "examines the phenomenon of blogging in teh context of the larger revolu...

An annoyance that has prevented librarians from visiting New York City is the absence of a good, clean hotel laid out according to the Dewe...

Slate has now published Fred Kaplan's promised follow-up article to the piece he wrote last week calling for readers' ideas for futu...

"The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected lapt...

The invaluable online magazine Slate has run another article by Fred Kaplan, bemoaning the current state of US public diplomacy, and calling...

CQ Politics is a free service from the Congressional Quarterly group, with lots of information about the campaigns , Washington , and the...

If you've been putting off getting a life, and would like to tary a bit longer, Wikipedia vision is one place to hang out - strangely ...

Sometimes writing position descriptions or narratives about your accomplishments - or mine, at any rate - can be a real strain on the imagin...

A new site offering fast and easy voter registration was recently announced by the Overseas Vote Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organi...

CSIS published the report of the Embassy of the Future Commission earlier this month. The Commission co-chaired by former Ambassadors Fel...

Here's something from Virtual Library Cat . I confess I was no aware of Zimmerman's Research Guide - An Online Encyclopedia for Lega...

No excuses for not writing your Representative when it's this easy. A good link for an embassy's amcit pages...

Whydemocracy.net is a very interesting site, and an example of public diplomacy that transcends nations. I discoverd the project when one ...

The Spartan Internet Political Performance (SIPP) Index is the first quantitative metric to measure the Internet-wide performance of each Pr...

Here's a fact sheet from the European Commission on the European Digital Library project

Here's another screen cast. This one explains, in just under 2.5 minutes, how our website uses the Rakim freeware to provide online as...

Oxford Analytica, according to the company profile at www.oxan.com , "is an international, independent consulting firm drawing on a n...

From the "about this site" page This Wise Guide portal was designed to introduce you to the many fascinating, educational and use...

ontheissuesorg : every political leader on every issue. State and federal office holders, supreme court justices, and presidential candidate...

Thhe TouchGraph Google Browser provides a graphic representation of the semantic relationships between websites that Google reflects in its ...

Screencastomatic is is an entirely web-based screencasting application - you don't need to buy or download anything, just visit the web...

Although much of what is written in the blogosphere (sometimes termed "conversational media")is drivel, one might occasionally be ...

"Comment is free, but facts are sacred." -- C.P. Scott, editorManchester Guardian, 1921 The Washington Post offers The Fact Checke...

The Australian National Library has published a thorough report on the virtual reference services the library has been providing for the la...

The Wonkosphere cliams to be "the best place to keep a finger on the pulse of the 2008 Presidential election. We use patented technolog...

Enter a url and Keyword Density Checker will determine the site's keyword density and generate a tag cloud and list of words by frequen...

I was alerted to this site by its creator, librarian Woody Evans of Texas. It is a useful example of a Google Custom Search engine - this p...

The State Department has launched its first blog, Dipnote..here's what Sean McCormack has to say about it in his welcome message..: ...

Discussing the appearance of a webpage via email is one example of when a picture is worth a thousand words (or at least a hundred words) Wi...

This is kind of neat, especially if you're one of those people who is good at using a whiteboard for communicating ideas. I'm not, a...

This post from the "blog of the Augmented Social Cognition Research Group at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)" concerns Wiki Dash...

Mashable's 50 sites for booklovers!

If you need to post something on the web immediately, at no cost, and independently of your own website - Jottit is one solution. Just ...

Resource Shelf's resource of the week is this nice assortment of resources for teachers and students.

(from http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/015954.html) Public libraries are sole source of online employment and education information for...

Customize Google is a useful Firefox addon that lets you add wanted and remove unwanted features to your Google searches. Features ...

RL34163 The Death Penalty: Capital Punishment Legislation in the 110th Congress September 07, 2007. While most capital offenses are state c...

Statetris (tetris with a twist) is a game that teaches you (or pupils) where the 50 states are located - and for a test of your "U.S.ce...

FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by A...

Here , courtesy of Resource Shelf, are some 09/11 resources.

FactCheck.org will surely come in handy as the as the campaign trails become increasingly littered with facts during the coming year. No...

The Library of Congress page for teachers will soon sport a new look - here's a preview .

The promise of noöpolitik by David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla This is another interesting article from First Monday, about the noosphere - a...

I hate to interrupt, but this is important... "Infomania is the mental state of continuous stress and distraction caused by the combina...

This toolkit might be of interest to IRCs, and their library contacts, in some parts of the world; "To assist librarians and decision m...

A new Pew report examines perceptions of the press: "The American public continues to fault news organizations for a number of perceive...

The Cyberjournalist List is a very extensive list of blogs published by journalists. Includes blogs.. Published by news sites - ongoing Pub...

The Whereabill (discussed in the Garvin column mentioned in previous post) is a rare bird that shows WHERE a bill becomes a law, and where ...

A recent posting by the Sunlight Foundation on " insanely useful [government] websites " has inspired Peggy Garvin to write about ...

(an interesting post from Neat New Stuff ) "The news media never talk about government when it's working well, but in fact, state, ...

This sounds vaguely familiar; a new Rand report suggests that Madison Avenue advertising principles might be effective in winning hearts and...

For more on the issues raised by Andrew Keen in Cult of the Amateur , visit the Britannica blog's lively forum on web2.0 One of the bl...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report yesterday to Senator Richard Lugar on the evolving strategic communications an...

Andrew Keen's new book " The Cult of the Amateur " takes a dim view of the erosion of authority that is the hallmark of web2.0...

Peggy Garvin provides a useful overview of state government information resources at the LLRX.com website. And while you're at it, check...

Brookings and ABC News have partnered to create Opportunity08 , a website that focuses on issues that will shape the 2008 presidential elect...

You read about Legistorm's salary database here last November, and here's information about the travel database (if you've bee...

from Neat New Stuff ... VoterWatch - the Congressional Record You Always Wanted http://www.voterwatch.org/ Because the Congressional Record...

In the site's own words... " America at a Crossroads is a major public television event that premiered on PBS in April 2007. This ...