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Article: "Open Government" by H Perritt

This article has a very interesting section on why open government is important to a democratic society.

Nice tips on searching from Lifehacker blog

I'm not sure that this is how most people use tumblr, but it occured to me that searching for images through a blogging service where people are handpicking these images may be a better system. How many of us have looked something up through google images with sheer frustration at the lack of variety of images? Maybe I'm the only one. All I'm saying is that you should try opening up tumblr, plugging in a word like "mountains" or something and see what rolls out. Keep in mind that an extract of the blogger's text entry is displayed with the image, so it is not a legitimate "image search." But I really feel that this way of people deciding what images should be showing up is a great one. That is all. Also--Don't get too distracted by the huge sign up form in the middle of the page.

A great set of starting points for serious academic online research

Prof. Burton, ceaseless amazement.

good digital literacy lab. under consume. search for academic sources and books. also books online.

This is a tool one may use to have a more specific searching experience for blogs regarding a desired topic. I wrote a blog post on what it's all about here: http://pucksonice.blogspot.com/2010/10/hubpagescom.html

I made a comment in class today about how there is a large industry that is kind of developing on the internet. That is an industry that is paid to give businesses higher profiles on the internet. My mother works at a company that inserts links onto benign blogs, just to get links to show up more often when you look things up on a search engine. Check out this guy's blog as an example. This guy isn't too sneaky about it: He puts his purpose in the title. Its just interesting to see the jobs that are opening up through the internet.

How handy!

project to digitize and categorize all of Locke's works into XML database. It is a little hard to navigate and search, but it is an interesting project to not.

A visually rich application that combines the Amazon API to show the relationship between movies, bands, actors, etc. You can go straight from interacting to making purchases

A very good aggregator of open educational content.

This is particularly useful for diversifying the kinds of content that you search for on a given topic

This is an article from the Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert. I clicked on it interested in how architecture was seen and got a quick history lesson!

This seems like an interesting step towards open government, if gentle. I read about the site on someone's blog and decided to check it out. It purports to present problems to the public for them to solve hand in hand with the government. 

An interesting paper on civil disobedience

A Brief history of Logarithms, as talked about by Dr. Zapata in class today