ResearchBuzz Roundup 071108

Here’s something you don’t see every day — a fax machine recall.

Mapping the Northern California Wildfires.

Discussion on the launch of LexMonitor.

Steven is bitter. And I don’t blame him.

Mozilla sets Firefox download record. Just over 8 million in 24 hours!

Hm. Microsoft bought Powerset?

Google talks about its new privacy link.

AdSense isn’t doing referrals anymore. Good.

Google learns to crawl Flash. I am annoyed because this gives me less reason to hate Flash. Okay, I exaggerate. I don’t really hate Flash. I just hate it when it’s the only thing on the site and you have no option to actually like, you know, view text.

ResearchBuzz Roundup 062808

Bibliothèque de Toulouse’s on Flickr! Terrific.

I saw this screenshot and yelled “AAAH! It’s the first issue of Wired!”

More real-time quotes on Google Finance.

A Science Conference in World of Warcraft. Whee!

Real Life Snail Mail. Is the Internet just out to prove how weird it is?

Ask.com blog: Ask.com Makes More Moves on Privacy.

I had no idea there was an online database of Bigfoot sightings.

The Georgia Official and Statistical Register has gone online.

ResearchBuzz Roundup 062508

Congrats to BabyBoomer Librarian for one thousand posts.

University Presses are hooking up with Kindle.

Jon Orwant and Jarkko Hietaniemi deserve a medal. Someone is going to do something wonderful with this.

JupiterResearch: one quarter of world’s population will be online by 2012.

LexisNexis expands its Congressional Digital Collection.

FictionDB is now free. Rawk!

What’s new with Google Maps: the MapMaker.

Matt Cutts is proving an unexpected and welcome source for cat product recommendations.