My brother, Chris Busse, has a great post, titled “The General’s Lament,” on his blog. He talks about how today’s rapid spread of information naturally leads to a rapid spread of misinformation.
It’s a good reminder that verification of facts should always trump speed.
A new site I made, Today in Wikipedia, takes you to the current date’s Wikipedia entry.
Each day’s entry is a list of links to Wikipedia articles about interesting events that happened on that day as well as notable births and deaths.
If you’re looking for a new home page, or just another site to add to your daily reading, check it out.
Continue reading “Today in Wikipedia shows you the Wikipedia entry for today’s date”
Duck Duck Go is a search engine created by “serial entrepreneur” Gabriel Weinberg. It’s at http://duckduckgo.com or http://dukgo.com.
Its search results are drawn from a combination of sources, including its own crawler, Bing and crowdsourced sites like Wikipedia.
I started using it May 11. Here are a few notes on my initial impressions in no particular order.
Continue reading “Duck Duck Go search engine promises privacy, delivers great search results”
I have my Web browser of choice, Firefox, set up in a minimalist fashion. It has everything I need and nothing more: only the necessary controls for browsing are visible and I can search my bookmarks, Web history and favorite search engines right from the address bar. Any extras are only a click or two away.
In November, I wrote about how you can use Google to read the Wall Street Journal for free.
In a nutshell, WSJ.com has some articles where you can only read the first few paragraphs for free before being prompted to subscribe.
However, you can read these same articles for free by coming to them via Google or Google News. I’ve made a Web browser bookmarklet that speeds up the process a bit.
Continue reading “Bypass the Wall Street Journal paywall faster with a browser bookmarklet”
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