Fall 2009 Schedule of Classes

http://www.evansville.edu/docs/ClassSchedule-Fall2009.pdf

2009-2011 Undergraduate Catalog

http://www.evansville.edu/docs/CourseCatalog2009-2011.pdf

Does this Blog have an Audience of ONE?

Last week, the NY Times ran a story about orphaned and abandoned blogs. Some interesting quotes:

"According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled."

"Richard Jalichandra, chief executive of Technorati, said that at any given time there are 7 million to 10 million active blogs on the Internet, but “it’s probably between 50,000 and 100,000 blogs that are generating most of the page views.” He added, “There’s a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one.”"

Google Squared

Just read about a new service called Google Squared being developed in Google Labs. Search results are displayed in a table with data being populated by various sources, including Wikipedia.

Though not all tables are equal. My chocolate Squared search displayed the major players but didn't have data to conform to the preset table configuration.

Maybe Squared is a search tool for play...

19th Century British Pamphlet Project

JSTOR is offered FREE access to its 19th Century British Pamphlet Collection until 30 June 2009. Touted as the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries, the pamphlets provide users with a wide focus on the political, social, and economic issues of 19th century Britain. Let us know what you think!

JSTOR Journals Added in May

In case you missed it, JSTOR added some journals to the collections UE subscribes to. They are:

The Annual of the British School at Athens

Asian Ethnology

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Harvard Review

Jewish History

Journal of American Studies

Journal of Religion and Health

Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science

Revista de Historia de América

Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur

U.S. Catholic Historian

National Geographic & Smithsonian

You can now search the index to National Geographic at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngs/publications/explore.html. This excellent resource allows you to find articles on specific topics or by particular authors from 1888 to present. Wow!

The Smithsonian has launched a Galaxy of Images from its vast library. Over 10,000 images from a broad cross-section of the collection can be searched and viewed.