A Few Web 2.0 Definitions

RSS: "Really Simple Syndication" a clickable content delivery subscription service that sends blog posts and other web page content to the reader of your choice.

Widget: pieces of HTML and other code used to create small freestanding programs that can be easily embedded into your web page. Horoscopes, visitor counters, customized search engines, clocks and weather forecasts are common widget applications that you might use everyday.

Wiki: a collaborative web page created by user-generated content using WYSIWYG, a program that generates HTML tags for you as you type and click.

80 Online Resources for Book Lovers

Kevin Bondelli's blog is geared to young Deomcrats but he has some excellent Online Tools, such as the one below.
cut and paste this url:
http://www.kevinbondelli.com/2008/03/15/80-online-resources-for-book-lovers/

RefEx: the Credible Search Engine

"Reference Extract will take hundreds of thousands of librarian recommendations and use them in a full scale search engine."~Mike Eisenberg, dean emeritus and professor at the University of Washington L-School.

"The initial focus is on free web, but the point is to build a technical infrastructure and partnership model so it can cover library referenced resources regardless of type." ~ R. David Lankes, director of the Information Institute of Syracuse and associate professor at Syracuse University School of Information Studies.
Hotline, Nov. 17, 2008,