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Resources for Publishing eBooks

July 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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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Links for 2009-07-03 [delicious.com]

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Henry VIII’s Coronation

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Photos of Henry VIII’s coronation on Renaissance Island on 27 June 2009:

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Henry VIII Knighting New Knights of the Bath

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Photos of Henry VIII knighting new Knights of the Bath on Renaissance Island on 27 June 2009:

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Links for 2009-06-25 [delicious.com]

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Videos for MTH 110 6-24-09

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Celebration of 500th Anniversary of Henry VIII’s Coronation on Renaissance Island

June 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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!!

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Resources for Following the 500th Anniversary of Henry VIII’s Coronation

June 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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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Review: AllPlus

June 22, 2009 · 3 Comments

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:

  • Ask
  • Google
  • Bing
  • Yahoo!

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.

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Online Resources for Studying Algebra

June 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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