Google's new killer feature!
In Google book search you can now save the books you own. So that you can have your personal library listed in your account. Well, this feature is still behind more web 2.0 based personal library sites like LibraryThing or Shelfari but i believe it is a matter of time Book Search might add new features. And i started to use Google Book Search for an account of my personal library...
Your Own Google Books Library, and More
by Philipp Lenssen
VIA And check out the new group in Facebook: Dissertation Monsters
Ten 'most polluted places' named
A list of the world's 10 most polluted towns and cities is published by a US-based environmental group.
WORST POLLUTED
* Sumgayit, Azerbaijan; Potentially 275,000 affected
* Linfen, China; Potentially 3m affected
* Tianying, China; Potentially 140,000 affected
* Sukinda, India; Potentially 2.6m affected
* Vapi, India; Potentially 71,000 affected
* La Oroya, Peru; Potentially 35,000 affected
* Dzerzhinsk, Russia; Potentially 300,000 affected
* Norilsk, Russia; Potentially 134,000 affected
* Chernobyl, Ukraine; Potentially 5.5m affected
* Kabwe, Zambia; Potentially 255,000 affected
Data: Blacksmith Institute
Who Needs Hackers?
Lou Beach
NSF-Funded "Dark Web" to Battle Terrorists
Seven Wonders of the IT World
Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments
Why Myths Persist
98% newspaper mistakes go uncorrected
by EditorsWeblog
Bloggers crowd the media scene
by EditorsWeblog
5 myths about young readers debunked
Anselm Kiefer Opens at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 
Anselm Kiefer, Black Flakes (Schwarze Flocken), 2006
Race for 'next big thing' in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley's annual coming-out season for tech start-ups is about to turn into a stampede as, over the next few weeks, the wraps are removed from some 150 new companies and products competing to identify the tech industry's Next Big ThingWeb rivals plot the answer to Wikipedia Citizendium drops the 'wiki' model in bid to overtake Wikipedia as the most reliable and trustworthy source of online information
How Facebook's founder aims to use it
As the three-year old Harvard-born site approaches 50m active users, it must find ways to boost revenues while avoiding breaching privacyFacebook Growth Continues While MySpace Suffers
by Nick O'Neill
Political and Religious Controversy on Facebook
by Nick O'Neill
The New York Times has published an article regarding a highly controversial group on Facebook. The group denounces Islam and as of this posting has 760 members. The groups states the following:.........
Comments
Thanks for mentioning Shelfari. I like your comic, it helps when the distraction, is your work.
At any rate, we just launched a new blog widget at www.shelfari.com/widget
Try it out and let me know what you think.
--Dave from Shelfari
Posted by: Dave | October 9, 2007 10:52 PM