The rest of my regular online reading has gone to hell in a handbasket, but I might as well kick out some new links on information slinging and wrangling.
- just in case you missed it when I linked it in the sidebar, here's a Q & A (on) Managing Information Overload; also of interest is a related article on Decoding Information-Worker Productivity
- visual types may appreciate this Search Strategy Chart
- ListGarden RSS Generator is program written in Perl for creating and maintaining RSS feeds; you can run it locally on your home machine (PC, Mac, or Linux) or on a web server (via NHS eLibraries)
- Practical Research, 7th Edition is a companion website to a textbook of the same name; the list of "Web Destinations" has all sorts of fun linkage for the discerning information junkie
- eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals is a "categorized registry of electronic journals that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds"; at the moment, journal offerings are from the anthropology, biosciences, chemistry, information and library science, medicine, physics, and social sciences disciplines only, but will possibly expand into other fields of academia in the future (via ResearchBuzz!)
- SortByDate is an meta-search tool for various news and blog sources that'll grab lists of the most recent postings by keyword (also via ResearchBuzz!)
- Vivisimo has added a 'Clustering Engine' to its arsenal of search tools; you can play with the clustering search functionality for Slashdot (yet another link from ResearchBuzz!)
- lastly, found on Slashdot (via the afore-mentioned clustering-thingy) is a discussion of Best To-Do List Software that's freeware/open-source and geek-friendly