Weekend update: More research links from the week

Here are some uncategorizable links that will make you think:

Wikirage: what Wikipedia entries are being edited most?

How to protect your privacy, useful article on getting info deleted from search engines, from Daniel Tynan at MacWorld.

Hugh Macleod: Why Microsoft should buy Facebook, interesting thoughts on search/recommendation. Hugh says: "because at the end of the day, all search begins and ends with people, not algorithms."

The other links:

Reference:

NFL Football 2007 Fast Facts, Stats, links compiled by Resourceshelf.

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, links to the entire library of digital documents, covering Africa to Women's Studies, with lots in between from an Icelandic dictionary to history collections.

Public Domain Books from Questia: 5000 available for free.

Statistics:

Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2006. Trends 2007, report from ECLAC/CEPAL.

United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, 2005

Governments, Politics:

Foreign Relations of the United States, the State Department record books, from Truman adminstration to Nixon administration. See also:
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections: Foreign Relations of the U.S., which covers 1861-1899 and 1900-1918. Here's the volume covering Cuba, 1958-1960.

Congressional trips database from Legistorm.

PolitiFact

Journalism:

Journalists' Toolkit 1, Syllabus for a class taught by Mindy McAdams at UF.

Business:

BusinessDictionary.com

Searching Dirty to Find What's Hidden; from The Virtual Chase, a guide to mining Web sources to find information about companies they don't want you to know.

News:

AllinOne News, a new search that claims to search 1800 news search engines from 200 countries.

Public Records:

Montana Criminal Record check, $11.50 per search.

Michigan ICHAT: The Internet Criminal History Access Tool, criminal records searches for $10.

AltLaw: fulltext searches of U.S. Supreme and Circuit Appeals Courts case reports from Columbia Law School.