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An article that talks about how Yelp has incorporated SeatMe directly into the Yelp experience so users can now book restaurant and bar reservations from the venue's Yelp listing.

Here's a helpful youtube video that tells you how to create word clouds through wordle.net that can be added to the final project.

Helps understand different research methods and might help you understand how to make your research different.

Here is a little bit of information on the National Archive's release of the Watergate scandal related Records. I found this to be super interesting! It also tells you where you can find it, what box, and how many pages each source has.

Yes, indeed -- this was big news last year.

This article is from the perspective of a university instruction coordinator and details concerns about JSTOR and how it is limiting information to students.

A site that gives you different examples of SQL's and how to use them.

Thanks, Vincent, though learning SQL is a pretty advanced skill. It's unlikely you'll need it anytime soon, certainly not for this class. I do regret asking the question on the exam -- maybe I'll give everyone automatic credit!

This article discusses how US telephone companies (Verizon, AT&T, etc) constantly send phone records to the government without questioning their motives.

That term "metadata" (data about data!) is more interesting than you might think, and this article shows why ...

This website provides tutorials on HTML, CSS, PHP, and Java Script. Under each category you can learn a history and introduction into HTML or CSS and then learn how to create your own website using the step by step instructions.

Not a bad site, Lauren, though I still think http://w3schools.com is better. Heaven knows there are tons of tutorials all over the Internet. Tons of books, too, of course.

A tutorial on how to put RSS code into a website and basic information and history of RSS.

How to create a bibliography using Zotero.

In lieu of Turkey Day and Black Friday coming up... This article talks about how the internet has influenced and acted as a catalyst for Black Friday and cyber Monday sales...and the answer to the title is Amazon!

website on UMUC breaks down the difference in sources and how to use them

A site with some useful tips for people like me who never really learned how to study or are awful at memorizing things and information.

Generally useful. Thanks, Stephanie.

This is just a Wikipedia article about the history of music publishing but I shared it because I remember my music prof. at Mason talking about Stephan Foster being the first songwriter who got copyright over his material and he is mentioned in this post. Its interesting to see how far back the laws go in different countries.

Gives the definition of a Primary Source and how/when to use them! Plus it gives great examples of what a Primary Source actually is!

From the library of The City University of New York on the importance of peer review, features of a peer-reviewed article, and how to find peer-reviewed articles.