Too busy to blog

Late weekend update: More research links from last week:

Just a few things of note, and a few good research links. Hope I get back to more timely blogging soon, after work and holiday stuff gets done. You may have seen some of these but a couple are fun:

Dick Cheney's Google Searches (Vanity Fair).

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year: "Truthiness".

Search Engine Land is now open.

Gabe Rivera's Rivers of News for his news sites Memeorandum, Techmeme, WeSmirch and Ballbug.

The links:
Reference:

Hurisearch, a human rights search engine from Huridocs, Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International.

Reports:

Livestock Impacts on the Environment, new report from FAO documents the increasing effect of meat-eating. Download full report, Livestock's Long Shadow.

Tools:

Swivel, data-sharing site.

Public Records:

CanLII: Canada Legal Information Institute, directory of Canadian law sites and case law searches, national and provincial.

BRB's Public Records Blog

Google Patent Search

Some interesting stories/blogs:

Johnny Apple's Lessons go beyond Journalism, lovely reminescense in the Oregonian from someone who worked for him.

If you badger, he will talk, thoughtful interview with Dan Lebatard in The Big Lead blog.