Books:
- Chandler, Stephanie. From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books, eBooks, and Information Products. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
- Curtis, Richard, and William Thomas Quick. How To Get Your eBook Published: An Insider’s Guide to the World of Electronic Publishing. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 2002.
- Edwards, Jim, and Joe Vitale. How To Write and Publish Your Own eBook . . . in as Little as 7 Days! Garden City, NY: Morgan James Publishing, 2007.
- Gomez, Jeff. Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age. New York: Macmillan, 2008.
- Henke, Harold. Electronic Books and ePublishing: A Practical Guide for Authors. New York: Springer, 2001.
- Rosenborg, Victoria. ePublishing for Dummies. Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide, 2001.
- Sykes, Timothy Sean. Self-Publishing eBooks & PODs: One Step at a Time. 2nd ed. Spring, TC: Forager Publications, 2006.
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Twines:
Articles:
Categories: Writing
Tagged: ebooks, electronic books, epublishing, publishing, self publishing
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MrTaggy is an experiment in web search and exploration built on top of a PARC algorithm called TagSearch. Think of MrTaggy as a cross between a search engine and a recommendation engine: it’s a web browsing guide constructed from social tagging data.
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WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about most. Whether it be your favorite sport, favorite food, celebrity, or your company’s brand name; Whostalkin.com can help you join in on the conversations that you care about most.
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ProProfs provides FREE knowledge sharing tools & FREE online education!
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Faviki is a tool that brings together social bookmarking and Wikipedia. It lets you tag your bookmarks using Wikipedia concepts as tags. In Faviki, everybody uses same tags from the world’s largest collection of knowledge!
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The web is alive with real-time information. So why search a stale archive? Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, so we can show you results as they happen. Give it a try.
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New content is being added to the web all the time. Line Spout searches this content in real time.
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Kngine is Knowledge Web search engine designed to provide meaningful search results, such as: semantic information about the keywords/concepts, answer the user’s questions, discover the relations between the keywords/concepts, and link the different kind of data together.
Categories: Bookmarks
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It’s a fascinating way to learn more about what the twitter universe thinks about almost anything.
Create and run ‘twerveys’ then tabulate the responses and automatically tweet the results.
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Refresh your memory on when you followed somebody
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Twitter Search
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JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world.
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Fagan Finder’s goal is to help people find what they are looking for: search engines, reference, tools, and more
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Floria Beaumont’s place on Renaissance Island
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meeting place for booklovers
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The Easy Way to Share Your Files via Twitter and other Social Networks
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Social Mention Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant social media results (blog, microblog, etc.) based on your choice of search phrase.
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The following tips, tools, and resources can assist any teacher with the basics about social media and ways to share that information with students.
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A search engine powered by tweets
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recommends books based on what you’ve been reading
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LaterThis lets you save and manage all the links you’d like to have a second look at, but don’t have time for now.
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I mingle all your feeds into one to produce a combined RSS, Atom, JSON and a widget
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Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, and Flickr
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Search3 was founded on the premise that three search engines are better than one: Google, Twitter, Bing
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Watch Free Videos Online, Funny Videos, TV Episodes, Movies and more
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Robin Good’s Collaborative Map
Categories: Bookmarks
Five hundred years ago today, Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon were jointly crowned at Westminster Abbey.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, Renaissance Island will enact the event on the weekend. The Parish is deep in the throes of cleaning the streets and polishing the Abbey! We hope that you will join us to take part in the pageantry, fun, food, and music, as the 16th century steps out of the history books to meet the 21st!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Saturday, June 27
11:30 am SLT (PDT) — Knighting
Location: Church
Two days before coronation at the Tower of London, 26 new Knights of the Bath, including proud fathers Thomas Boleyn and Thomas Parr, were made.
12:00 noon — Procession/Coronation/Banquet
Location: Lagswell Manor, Streets, Church
“The royal procession through the city the next day to Westminster followed a route hung with tapestries and cloth of gold. . . .” (1) The royals will process from Lagswell Manor through the streets to the “Abbey.” Scrumptious banquet to follow at the knot garden!
4:00 pm — Coronation Ball
Location: Lagswell Manor/Knot Garden
Minstrel Gabrielle Riel will spin her magic music. There will be much merriment and dancing!
5:00pm — Fireworks
Location: in the sky
Sunday, June 28
11:00am — Concert by Atheene Dodonpa
Location: Church
Mistress Dodonpa is a minstrel maiden — a musical storyteller who uses various instruments to accompany her soprano voice: recorders and pipes, symphonie, bowed psaltery, rebec, bells and medieval harp.
12:00 noon — Jousting Tournament
Location: Tilting area
Lord Merlin and Knights of the Bath will joust in a tourney with His Majesty bestowing tokens to the winners.
(1) Lucy Wooding. Henry VIII. London: Routledge, 2008. Available through libraries and bookstores everywhere!!
Categories: Instructional Technology
Tagged: Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, Katherine of Aragon, Renaissance Island, second life, virtual worlds
Book:
- Schwarz, Arthur L. Vivat Rex!: An Exhibition Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII. New York: Grolier Club, 2009.
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Categories: Education
Tagged: England, Henry VIII, history, humanities, Renaissance, Tudor
AllPlus: “The AllPlus Universal Meta Search and Discovery Engine aims to identify and present the very best search results from the very best information sources on the Web. The allplus.com beta test demonstration site allows users to query all major Web content sources, including Google, Yahoo, MSN Live [Bing] and Ask.com Web pages, News, Images, Videos and Blogs. The results are compared and ranked and presented to the user in an intuitive and clearly organized way. We have developed and integrated powerful Natural Language Processing algorithms in query analysis and refinement, search strategy, relevancy ranking, focused drill-down and exploration of multi-dimensional information spaces. AllPlus also employs multiple spell checkers based on our comprehensive English, Medical and Scientific Dictionaries. The system dynamically generates Topic Clusters and visualizes the search results in the form of Cluster Graphs.”
Grade: A
Rationale for Grade: AllPlus’s weaknesses are typical of most meta search engines. The clustering, cluster graph, and display of results from all databases on the results page are particularly useful.
Strengths:
- searches four major search engines
- integrates social media: searches Twitter, has Facebook group, supports bookmarking and sharing on 44 different sites
- can be added to search engine box in browser
- provides code to add an AllPlus search box to a website
- provides fewer than 200 results
- displays results from all databases on results page
- clusters results by common keywords
- provides cluster graph
- lists search engines in which each result originally appeared
- suggests alternate search terms
- provides option of showing the number of hits from each search engine
- provides option of searching with results
Weaknesses:
- does not offer advanced search
- is slower than some search engines
- has no advance search options
Search Engines and Directories Searched:
Databases:
- web
- news
- Twitter
- images
- video
- blogs
Operators:
| Default operation |
AND |
| Search operators supported |
+, -, OR (AND, NOT, and NEAR are treated as search terms) |
| Proximity or exact phrase |
quotation marks |
| Truncation or stemming |
appears to work |
| Wildcard |
* appears to work |
| Other |
n/a |
Case Sensitivity: no
Stop Words: Yes, you can search for stop words.
Advanced Search Function: none available
Limits:
| Date |
n/a |
| File type |
n/a |
| Field searching |
n/a |
| Language |
n/a |
| Family filter |
n/a |
| Domain or site |
n/a |
| Other |
n/a |
Sorting: apparently by how many search engines brought back the site as a hit
Display:
| Number of hits |
yes |
| Open in new window or tab |
yes |
| Cached pages |
no |
| Clustering |
yes |
| Thumbnails |
no |
| Suggestions for refining/narrowing search |
yes |
| Spell check |
yes |
| Sponsored results identified |
no |
| Update date |
no |
| Other |
n/a |
Help Function: n/a
Special Features: clustering, cluster graph, display of top results from all databases on main page, search within results
Link to other meta and multi search engines and reviews of them here on the 4R x T Wetpaint wiki.
Categories: Research
Tagged: AllPlus, internet research, meta search engines, review
