Links: Pew reports, Using Google, Wikis that work
Posted by Jacque on April 27th, 2007
Pew/Internet & American Life reports of Online Activities & Pursuits. Includes Wikipedia users, Tagging, Social Networking Websites and Teens, and more. Other Pew report topics you can link to here cover: Demographics, Internet Evolution, Technology & Media Use, Health, Family, Friends & Community, Major News Events, Public Policy, E-Gov & E-Policy, Education, and Work.
Add Website to Google: Screencast
Brief, instructive screencast on how to get Googlebot to visit your Website. If you follow the directions and enter your URL, you will get information from Google, including this: “Your site URL has been successfully added to our list of URLs to crawl. Please note that we do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.” [via eContent]
Using Google Desktop
Google Operating System blog gives tips on using Desktop’s features.
13 Popular Wikis that actually ‘WORK’
Makeuseof.com lists popular and successful wikis, focused on specific areas i.e, book summaries, cooking, and HowTo’s.