Wolfram Alpha

An interesting development in search engines is WolframAlpha. If you're interested in signing up for this go to www.wolframalpha.com. They are only going to give it out carefully in the beginning I guess, but it doesn't hurt to sign up. Apparently it is going to use a lot of data mining techniques to bring up more accurate search results.

10 Ways to Design a Web Site (NYT)

Here is a NYT article about web site design. It's got some good reminders, for those of you thinking of creating a site. http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/10-ways-to-design-a-good-web-site/?em

The Petabyte Age

This was written a year ago, but is still one of the best articles out there on information overload in our age.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_intro