Explore Moon Images With New Web Site
Very cool story at Space.com a couple days ago — a new Web site from NASA that asks visitors to look around at new high resolution images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Moon Zoo Web...
View Article(Almost) One Million Giraffes
So there’s this guy. And he made a bet with his friend that he could collect one million giraffes by the end of 2010. And at the moment he has over 800,000 and the year’s not even half over. And he’s...
View ArticleWikipedia Trying a Different Editing Approach
If you don’t use Wikipedia much, you might think that it’s kept “open” all the time, and that any page may be edited at any time by any person. That’s not correct. Sometimes pages have to be locked...
View ArticleStanford, Getty ,Textiles, More: Evening Buzz, September 7th, 2014
Suffolk University has launched a new digital collections site. A new Facebook tool will give your privacy settings a checkup. (Warning! PC World!) Oregon State University is starting a crowdsourcing...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress Launches New Crowdsourcing Platform
The Library of Congress has launched a new crowdsourcing platform for transcribing the vast number of documents in its collection. As the new platform is supposed to start yielding transcribed...
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