Civil Engineering Virtual Library
http://www.ce.gatech.edu/WWW-CE/
This site is an extension of the WWW Virtual Library project from WWW Consortium specializing in information directly related to the field of Civil Engineering.
Connected Earth
http://www.connected-earth.com/
Connected Earth is the story of our ongoing quest to communicate better, from the first simple messages to today’s sophisticated global communications.
Evergreen
http://open-ils.org/
Evergreen is an enterprise-class library [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 29, 2008
Selected Websites
January 28, 2008
A Professor’s Tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom
from The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog
Twitter at first seemed like a bad idea to David Parry, an assistant professor of Emerging Media and Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas. For those not in the know, Twitter is a service that lets you micro-blog your life by dashing out very short notes (140 characters [...]
January 25, 2008
Welcome to the Friday Brainteaser from Credo Reference: Which Film?
Check your knowledge of cinema by naming the films in the clues below.
Questions:
1. Which 1954 film starred Marlon Brando as Terry, a former boxer who achieves heroic status in the struggle against the waterfront mafiosi?
2. In the 1976 remake of which 1933 film about a giant ape did Jessica Lange take the part originally played [...]
January 23, 2008
Author Uses Blog Comments to Peer Review Book
“Blogging has already changed how I work as a scholar and creator of digital media. Reading blogs started out as a way to keep up with the field between conferences — and I soon realized that blogs also contain raw research, early results, and other useful information that never gets presented at conferences,” said Wardrip-Fruin. [...]
January 23, 2008
Popular Desktop Apps And Their Online Alternatives
Outfitting your computer with the latest software can be expensive. Time and money aren’t things to be wasted. With sky rocketing prices for desktop applications, you need to arm yourself with the right alternatives.
Fortunately, there is a great alternative out there: the Internet. As hard as it is to believe, just by surfing around [...]
