+ WTF! US Court Declares You Have No Privacy On YouTube (via SEL)

+ The July Issue of the Exalead Newsletter is Now Online

+ Ask.com Drops Map Product & Outsources To Microsoft Virtual Earth (via SEL)

Facts and stats relating to the holiday.

Including:

+ 2.5 million
In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the newly independent nation.

+ Please Pass the Potato Salad
Potato salad and potato chips are popular food items at Fourth of July barbecues. More than half (52 percent) of the nation’s spuds were produced in Idaho or Washington state in 2007.

+ $17.3 million
The value of U.S. manufacturers’ shipments of fireworks in 2002.

+ $4.7 million
In 2007, the dollar value of U.S. imports of American flags. The vast majority of this amount ($4.3 million) was for U.S. flags made in China.

…and many more

Source: U.S. Census

+ Searching for a health related grant? ScanGrants (via AltSearchEngines)

+ EBSCO Publishing and American Theological Library Association Announce Digital Archives - ATLA Historical Collections to Be Digitized and Made Available via EBSCOhost

+ Law Library of Congress Brochure Wins Award

+ Vivisimo Customer USASearch.gov Expands Search Capability to All Government Websites

+ Visa, Facebook unveil social network for small businesses (via Computerworld)

+ Zoho Show 2.0 Goes Live
WOW and it’s also free. A must see!!!

+ Ted Fons named Director, OCLC WorldCat Global Metadata Network

+ NY Times Rolls Out Social Network

+ Proceedings: Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval 2007

+ 20 Terabytes of Data Added to MS Virtual Earth

From the report:

Making digital audio recordings of courtroom proceedings publicly available online “has become an operational way of doing business” for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of North Carolina, said Judge J. Rich Leonard.

“It’s gone from a novel tool to an anticipated product, with fairly high usage,” he said. “I consider it a great advance in making our federal courts transparent.”

Providing digital audio recordings online has proved “extremely easy” for the U.S. District Court in Nebraska, reported Judge Richard Kopf. “Many lawyers think this is the best thing since sliced bread,” he said.

In a pilot project that began last August, five federal courts are docketing some digital audio recordings to Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) systems to make the audio files available in the same way written files have long been available on the Internet. The three other courts are the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Maine, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts Office of Public Affairs

Guidelines for National Bibliographies in the Electronic Age – IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for National Bibliographies.

Source: IFLA

From the news release:

The American Library Association (ALA) is collecting materials presented at this year’s Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif., and making them easier to find online.

You will be able to access all materials provided by presenters from the conference, which runs from June 25 to July 2, via the new Conference Materials Wiki at http://presentations.ala.org. All collateral conference material will be linked from this wiki, which already includes links to last year’s materials and similar content from ALA’s units.

Source: ALA

Posted 23 June 2008 on DocuTicker:
+ NIJ In-Custody Death Study: The Impact of Use of Conducted Energy Devices (National Institute of Justice)
+ Overdose of debt: Lenders push risky credit for everything from cancer to Botox (Consumer Reports)
+ The Hate Directory: Hate Groups on the Internet (Raymond A. Franklin)

From the news story:
Through a computer, a mobile or a PDA, users can define their needs, their artistic, cultural and gastronomic preferences, their lifestyle and their favourite hours.Thanks to this project, called SAMAP, travellers can customize their visit, indicating whether if they are disabled or not and their spending capacity.
Source: EurekaAlert
Hat Tip: Pete W.

From the news release:

Database producers H.W. Wilson and MLA have agreed to make article-level records available in WorldCat.org, increasing visibility and access to authoritative content licensed by libraries on the Web.

MLA and H.W. Wilson will permit a portion of their content to be indexed in WorldCat.org, the Web destination that allows information seekers to find what they need from a single source, online through OCLC’s cooperative organization of libraries.

The article-level metadata from H.W. Wilson and MLA will be added to the more than 50 million articles indexed from NLM MEDLINE, the Department of Education’s ERIC database, the British Library Inside serials, the GPO Monthly Catalog and the OCLC ArticleFirst database to expand access and discovery of authoritative content through WorldCat.org.

Source: OCLC

+ Google “Sometimes” Case Sensitive When Searching + The Rest (via SEL)

+ Boston.com to add geotagging technology (via Editor’s Weblog)
Thanks P.W. for the news tip!

+ Structured Abstracts in MEDLINE/PubMed

+ ProQuest Develops Revolutionary Web Resource for Business Creation and Growth with ProQuest Entrepreneurship

+ Newser Launches “NY Times in 60 Seconds”

+ New Day, New Features at Yahoo Video (via Yahoo Video Blog)

+ Measuring the impact of digitised resources (via JISC)

+ hakia Adds 10 million PubMed Articles to its Semantic Search Engine

+ Truveo Improves Video Search with Release of New Site

This database presents the number of offenses known to law enforcement for agencies having a resident population of 100,000 and over and providing 12 months of complete data for 2007. Not all agencies participate in the UCR program and therefore are not reflected in the data.

Source: Detroit Free Press / FBI

See Also: Just Released: Crime Statistics 2007