Chris Sherman has a nice review of GuruNet, a standalone tool that puts information literally at your fingertips.
Useful Web Sites
Information wants to be free — doesn’t it?
Another great research tool begins charging for its services starting June 13. The New York Times News Tracker will begin charging for its e-mail alert service. $19.95/year is not too bad, but still…..
While we’re on the subject…
Chris Sherman admits that he’s a “full-fledged information geek” in yesterday’s SearchDay article, where he reviews the electronic journalInformation Research.
So near, and yet so far…
News aggregator site NewsIsFree reports that law portal FindLaw has set up several RSS feeds for its news stories. The trouble is, I can’t get any of them to work (does anybody else have this problem?)
I hope FindLaw gets this corrected soon — in the meantime, here are the links to the various feeds:…
Got a question? Ask Wondir
Internet answer service Wondir is hosting a beta test hour from 9-10 p.m. EDT this Tuesday, May 20. You are encouraged to visit and ask questions, or stick around and help answer questions that come across your screen.
Visualize your Thesaurus
Check out the Visual Thesaurus, which provides a graphic display of words and their connections. This is a cool utility.
How did your law school do?
U.S. News & World Report has published its 2004 rankings of the top 100 law schools. Of course, to see the good stuff you’ll have to have a subscription to the site, but you can at least see if your law school ranks.
The List of Lists
Back in 1998, Gary Price created the List of Lists, which is exactly what it says it is. Back in 2000, Gary asked Trip Wyckoff of SpecialIssues.com to take over the list, which he finally unveiled in October 2002. The new iteration of the List of Lists is a database of ranked listings of companies,…
Huh?
PC World has two stories on Internet war coverage — the first is Web Sites Keep Pace with War — the second is Military Web Sites Bog Down. Well, which is it?
War-watching via the Web
USA Today reports that the Internet will revolutionize media coverage of the war in Iraq. What the article doesn’t mention is that weblogs are also changing the way that war is covered. Here are three weblogs worth visiting for up-to-date perspectives on the war:
Kevin Sites, a CNN correspondent, has a weblog with…
