Search Technology
Source: Information Week
Keyword Search Telephone Calls? Other Audio Material?
Absolutely! From the article, “Fast-Talk Communications Inc. this week plans to introduce a telephony version of its audio-search technology aimed at call-center operators who need to quickly search databases of customer-service calls. But Fast-Talk Telephony may also prove beneficial to customers using the vendor’s year-old audio search engine” This new technology can also be applied to conference calls and telephone based press conferences.
See Also: Direct to the Fast-Talk Web Site
See Also: You Can Demo Similar Search Technology That Converts Creates Mechanically Creates Searchable Transcripts Using Voice Recognition Technology
1) Speechbot (Demo From Compaq)
Search over 14,000 hours of radio broadcasts. Then listen online using RealAudio.
2) Demo of Virage Technology using PBS Lehrer NewsHour Programming
Keyword search content from the television program beginning in February, 2001. View online using RealVideo.

The Ephemeral Web
Source: Wired News
“Rotten Links Hamper Learning”
On the web one day, gone a few days later. A new study focusing on broken links used in science education. From the article, “Two researchers at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln tracked so-called link rot after they discovered that hyperlinks disappeared before they finished developing distance education courses.”
See Also: Direct to the Full-Text of the Study Discussed in the Article,
“Broken Links: Just How Rapidly Do Science Education Hyperlinks Go Extinct?”

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
E-Government–Worldwide
Full-Text Report, “eGovernment Leadership�Realizing the Vision”
From a Kablenet.Com article, “Canada has again outperformed the rest of the world when it comes to e-government, an influential annual global study has found. The United States and Singapore still trail Canada, with the UK in sixth place according to the report published by Accenture on 23 April 2002.”
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British Monarchy
Source: House of Commons Library
Full-Text Report, Queen and Country Fifty Years On: Facts and Figures for the Golden Jubilee 2002
22 pages .pdf
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U.S. Federal Government–Benefits
New Portal, GovBenefits.Gov
From a GCN article, “The portal, up and running at www.govbenefits.gov, is connected to the FirstGov portal and consolidates 55 benefits programs through one Web address.” From the actual site, GovBenefits is a free, easy-to-use, and confidential online screening tool. Just answer a series of questions about yourself and GovBenefits will return a list of government benefits you may be eligible to receive, along with information about how to apply. The official launch for the new portal is set for Monday.

News Briefs
Presidential Libraries–United States
“Presidential Libraries: Mines or Shrines?” (via The New York Times)
See Also: History and Directory of U.S. Presidential Libraries (via National Archives)

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