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U.S. Government Channel on YouTube
Steve Grove at CitizenTube, has a posting about the federal government's use of YouTube:
- The U.S. Government Comes to YouTube (May 21, 2009)
Now, there are dozens of official federal YouTube channels where you can access footage from NASA, the State Department, the FBI, the CDC, and more. ...The U.S. Government channel is located at http://youtube.com/usgovernment, a nifty hub that links off to dozens of federal government channels on YouTube, from the Social Security Administration to the Environmental Protection Agency, with others to be added in the coming months.Continue reading
National Archives 2.0?
The National Security Archive at George Washington University has an overview article with good links on recent hearings focusing on the National Archives.
- Archive Testifies to House Oversight Committee About Challenges Facing National Archives, "Recommends New Archivist Have a Vision for Archives 2.0" (May 21, 2009)
Have you tried Google’s new search options?
I'm not talking about Google's advanced search. I'm talking about it's new search options like "timeline" and "wonder wheel." If not, check out the video:
- Google Search Options May 11, 2009. "Google's Search options let you slice and dice your search results, explore your search and generate different views of your results page to more easily and quickly find what you need."
Minority Business Blog
The Minority Business Development Agency (Dept. of Commerce) started a blog, Minority Biz Blog, in March. "The purpose of this blog is to facilitate an ongoing dialogue on minority entrepreneurship and business in the United States." Althought the blog is linked to from http://www.mbda.gov/blog/ , the actual blog is hosted at wordpress.com, not on a .gov server. Continue reading
Making the world’s knowledge computable
Wolfram alpha went online on Friday. After much hype in the press over the last couple of weeks (see, for example, The Google Killer, by Nicholas Ciarelli), it is certainly nice to finally see the product. It is definitely worth watching. See the screencast introduction to get an excellent sense of what it can do, and see the blog to keep up with developments. Biggest problem at this stage is the incomplete information about sources. When you get a result and click on the "sources" link, you get a list of sources that may or may not have been used to produce the results. Second biggest problem: everyone is looking at it and it is getting overloaded! Continue reading
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