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Monday, March 15, 2004
Local News
No matter what your beat is, the site I'm about to tell you about likely covers it. Topix.net takes the idea of news aggregation one step further than sites like Google News and 1stHeadlines.com , categorizing news stories on the Web into more than 150,000 pages.
I was impressed that Topix.net even has a page dedicated to news in my neighborhood (even though it included a story from halfway across the state!).
· A Local Google News
· Emedia [ via GoogleDork ]
· See Also Utility called Xpdf converts PDF documents into text files: available for Windows, Linux/Unix and OS X
Julianne Schultz gives an overview of the way the internet and information society has changed the way we understand the network society and the development of community level politics and activism.
· Networks: mates, nodes and cells
· See Also Graeme Hugo argues that much of the thinking and research on immigration in Australia neglects this new reality