Wayback Machine BETA. Updated 27.01.2011

Posted by Celia Walter | 21 Jan, 2011

Now Online: The Internet Archive Releases Wayback Machine BETA

From Resourceblog January 21, 2011 05:15

The Internet Archive is online with a new BETA version of one of the most important and useful web research tools, The Wayback Machine. The BETA is using open source software.

You can access the BETA at http://waybackmachine.org.

At this point, what's new?

1. Homepage
+ Two buttons are now found below the search box. The first takes you directly to the latest available archived version of the URL entered. For example, when we entered www.loc.gov and clicked "Latest" we went straight to this archived version of the LC homepage from July 22, 2010.

2. Calendar Interface to Browse for Archived Pages
+ We entered www.apple.com and clicked the "show all" button and ended up here. At the top of the page you'll notice what's referred to as the toolbar.

You'll read that the Apple homepage has been crawled (not the same thing as a page update) 2,185 times going all the way back to October 22, 1996.

+ Next, a clickable histogram showing when pages were crawled. So, if you select 2001 a complete 2001 calendar apperars directly below the histogram.

+ When you cursor over any day (that's shaded in a light blue) one the calendar you'll see how many pages were captured that day and the exact time(s) the crawler came to visit.

+ Select a date, click, and the desired page should appear. Here's the Apple homepage from November 29, 2001. Make sure to note the navigation arrows and a bit more info. We said earlier that 2,185 pages from this domain had been captured. Now, the number is 1937. Yes, it's a BETA so expect glitches and other problems.

More information about the Wayback Machine BETA in the FAQ.

Nice work by the Wayback/IA teams. A great way be begin the test. We're looking forward to more new features.

Btw, the "classic" version of Wayback remains online here.

Hat Tip and Thanks: Open Library Twitter Stream: @OpenLibrary

UPDATE: We just noticed that a BETA version of the Internet Archive homepage is also available.  See: http://beta.archive.org  The page is crisp, clean, and direct. Again, nice work.

 

Update 27.01.2011:

 Inside the Wayback Machine with George Oates By Bobbie Johnson

from: 

http://gigaom.com/

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Great Web Sites For Kids, a directory from the American Library Association.

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 Dec, 2010

 

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm

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What sort of web animal are you?

Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Feb, 2010

The Web Behaviour Test aims to find out what sort of web animal you are by surveying your web habits, as well as, testing your Internet searching and multi-tasking skills.

It is split into three main parts:

  • A survey of your web habits – how long you spend on various types of Internet activity, such as email, social networks etc.
  • Web search tasks – that look at how you formulate a search query, how long you take looking at search results and the sort of sites that you trust.
  • Multi-tasking tests -  a series of Flash games that seem to test your short term memory and ability to do more than one thing at a time.

At the end of the test you are assigned a web animal based on your answers – are you slow or fast moving, solitary or sociable, adaptable or specialised – to see if you are a Fox, Hedgehog, Octopus etc.

The test is part of the Virtual Revolution TV series from the BBC that has been looking at how the Internet has shaped politics, economics, society and people – the final episode Homo Interneticus – featured academic contributions from the CIBER centre at UCL who produced the Google Generation report that was based in part, on a user evaluation of Intute.

Having done the test – there are a few questions still in my mind …

Self-selecting sample? The main way of finding out about the test was by watching the Virtual Revolution programme and as Phil Bradley pointed out, there was such a high demand following the broadcast that the server fell over, but isn’t this a sample of people pre-disposed to be interested users of the Internet?

The science bit Some of the categories of Internet activity seemed to overlap, meaning that the survey results could be skewed and the Flash games seemed to be just a very basic way of testing short term memory – the science behind the test isn’t very enlightening and I’d like to know more about their thinking.

Who do you think you are? The majority of the people I know who have taken the test wound up as Foxes – just like me – perhaps it would have been interesting to get people to assign themselves to one of the categories after taking the test, but before revealing their results to see how good they were at assessing their own Internet activity.

… but feel free to make up your own mind by taking the Web Behaviour Test and perhaps letting us know in the comments – what sort of web animal are Intute users?

Intute features more resources aimed at improving your Internet research skills, including the Virtual Training Suite and the Internet Detective.

From Intute.ac.uk

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Idealist.org

Posted by Celia Walter | 19 May, 2009

Idealist is a project of Action Without Borders, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 with offices in the United States and Argentina. Idealist is an interactive site where people and organizations can exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities and supporters, and take steps toward building a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives.

     
 
With Idealist, you can:

Find: people, organizations, groups, jobs, volunteer opportunities, events, and more

Sign up: receive daily alerts with new opportunities matching your interests, create a personal profile to network with other Idealists

Share: invite friends and colleagues to join us here

Follow this story: read our blog, listen to our podcasts, get an RSS feed of any search result on the site

Post: list your organization on Idealist and post opportunities, program information, events, and more

Join: find or start an Idealist Group to connect with others

Link: display content from Idealist on your website

Explore: learn about community action, nonprofits, and more in our resource centers

Attend: nonprofit career fairs and graduate school fairs for the public good

Donate: make a contribution to support this work
 
From Celia: I have used it to find lists of NGOs in different countries
 
   

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Web 3.0, Linked Data, and the Semantic Web

Posted by Celia Walter | 19 May, 2009

 

Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb discusses a 3-part series of posts by Greg Boutin in Understanding the New Web Era: Web 3.0, Linked Data, Semantic Web. The article tackles three big post-Web 2.0 buzzwords, providing explanations on what each of these trends are and where they’re going.

From iLibrarian blog

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The World Wide Web in Plain English

Posted by Celia Walter | 9 Apr, 2009

The Common Craft Show has produced another in Plain English video - this time on how the World Wide Web works including explanations of browsers, packets, servers, addresses, and links.

From: iLibrarian blog

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100 Powerful Web Tools to Organize Your Thoughts and Ideas

Posted by Celia Walter | 6 Feb, 2009

Looking to amp up your personal productivity and get organized online? You might want to check out Alisa Miller’s 100 Powerful Web Tools to Organize Your Thoughts and Ideas. Miller categorizes one hundred handy tools into the following sections:

  • Note-Taking and Documents
  • Bookmarking
  • Mind Mapping
  • Personal Wikis
  • Highlighters and Sticky Notes
  • To-Do Lists
  • Collaboration
  • Calendars
  • Time Trackers
  • General Organizers and Task Managers
iLibrarian blog

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Generations Online in 2009. Pew Internet & American Life Project

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009

pew_generations

The  has published a new report titled Generations Online in 2009 which breaks down online activities by generation. After defining the scope of the generations, the study goes on to summarize that Teens and Generation Y are the most likely to utilize the Web for entertainment purposes while older generations use the Internet primarily for conducting information searches, email, and online shopping. However there are some universal activities that span the generation gaps such as downloading videos, online banking, travel reservations, and job searching. The report has an excellent chart which breaks down each activity type by generation.

From iLibrarian blog

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How Google Is Making Us Smarter

Posted by Celia Walter | 17 Jan, 2009

Humans are "natural-born cyborgs," and the Internet is our giant "extended mind."  by Carl Zimmer

Our minds are under attack. At least that’s what I keep hearing these days. Thumbing away at our text messages, we are becoming illiterate. (Or is that illiter8?) Blogs make us coarse, YouTube makes us shallow. Last summer the cover of The Atlantic posed a question: “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” Inside the magazine, author Nicholas Carr argued that the Internet is damaging our brains, robbing us of our memories and deep thoughts. “As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world,” he wrote, “it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.”

I have a hard time taking these Cassandras of the Computer Age seriously. For one thing, they are much more interested in our fears than in the facts. In his new book, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, the English linguist David Crystal demonstrates that many of the dire warnings about texting are little more than urban legends. Texting doesn’t lead to bad spelling, he finds. In fact, Crystal writes, “texting actually improves your literacy, as it gives you more practice in reading and writing.”...[more]

Discover: Science Technology and the Future 


 

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How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website

Posted by Celia Walter | 16 Jan, 2009

Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration provides detailed instructions for How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website. This helpful post explains the steps to embedding over 20 widgets and media items in your blog or website. Here are some of his most interesting suggestions:

  • Embed LinkedIn Profile
  • Embed your Lifestream in a Web Page
  • Embed Chat in your Blog
  • Embed High Quality or HD YouTube Videos
  • Embed Very Large Photographs
  • Embed Another Webpage in your Blog
  • Embed Google Maps in Web Pages
iLibrarian permalink

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Internet Resources newsletter, No. 168, December 2008

Posted by Celia Walter | 5 Dec, 2008

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn168/irn168.html

Partial Contents:

A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

 

NICE WEB SITES: TOCs of journals

SciFeeds
http://www.scifeeds.com/

ticTOCs - Tables of Contents Service
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

CiteULike Current Issues
http://www.citeulike.org/journals/

FeedNavigator
http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator/

MyJournals.org
http://www.myjournals.org/

 Zetoc RSS
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/rssjnllist.html

 

BLOGORAMA:  Selected interesting blogs, RSS feeds and news items

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Warning sounded on web's future By Pallab Ghosh

Posted by Celia Walter | 16 Sep, 2008

Science correspondent, BBC News talking to Tim Berners-Lee

The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web.

Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation. [more]

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Omeka 0.9.2 : web platform for publishing exhibitions and collections online.

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 Jun, 2008
Developed by The Center for History and New Media and the Minnesota Historical Society, Omeka is a web platform for publishing exhibitions and collections online. The design of the program is intended to be best utilized by educators, cultural institutions, and those who are just plain enthusiastic about a particular subject. Visitors can download the program and get started after looking over the "How To" area. For those who are curious, "omeka" is a Swahili word meaning "to display or lay out goods or wares". This particular application is compatible with all operating systems. [KMG] Scout Report

http://omeka.org/

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Webcast: The Anthropology of Digital Natives

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Apr, 2008

Webcast: The Anthropology of Digital Natives - "This is the first lecture in a four-lecture series which examines the generation that has been raised with the computer as a natural part of their lives, with emphasis on the young people currently in schools and colleges today. The series explores the practices and culture of these digital natives, the cultural implications of the phenomenon and the implications for education – schools, universities and libraries" April 7, 2008 at the Library of Congress
Peter Scott's Library blog 

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W3C Semantic Web Activity

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Apr, 2008

Background and updates about the semantic Web, which is a "web of data." It "provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries." Includes a FAQ, collection of documents pertaining to semantic Web specifications such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL), other publications and presentations, and related links. From the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
URL: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25720

Annotation copyright of LII.ORG 

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