What's On When

Want to do something bizarre in Borneo in August? Check out What's On When Web site.

This is a travel and entertainment content service. Here is a list of their themes:
Themes: Adventure, Bizarre, Classical Music, Clubs & Parties, Film, Food & Drink, Gay & Lesbian, Heritage Jazz, Kids & Family, Lifestyle Literature, Mind, Body, Spirit, Music, Nature, Phenomena, Opera, Performing Arts, Religion, Spectacle Sport, Theatre, Visual Arts.

You can search these themes, or you can search a destination or even a combination. Their homepage highlights events by date.

Government Reporters: RSS Subscription Service

PubSub is a matching service that instantly notifies you when new content is created that matches your subscription. Using a proprietary Matching Engine, PubSub is able to read millions of data sources on your behalf and notify you instantly whenever a match is made.

A section of the PubSub site allows you to set up RSS feeds for any news about US or state government officials. PubSub Government has links to Congressional Committies, State elected officials, U.S. Supreme Court Judges, Cabinet members, George Bush and Richard Cheney.

American Shoppers

Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania conducted a study about American shopping habits and knowledge. Click on the link to see the report. There is also a Q&A of Seventeen Facts American Shoppers Need to Know - But Don't. For example: True or False:

WHEN I GIVE MONEY TO CHARITY, BY LAW THAT CHARITY CANNOT SELL MY NAME
TO ANOTHER CHARITY UNLESS I GIVE IT PERMISSION.

FALSE: Many charities buy, sell and trade mailing lists and no laws prohibit this.

Education Reporters

The National Center for Educational Statistics as just released the Condition of Education -2005 report. It includes a teacher mobility report, enrollment trends, student achievement, societal support (including public and private financial support). Some indicators have been updated for this online report.

Pod Casting

You all know what Pod Casting is, but do you know where to go to find content? Here are some pod cast directories:

Podcast Alley - this directory has the Top 10 Podcasts (as voted by the listeners). The site also has software, forums and general podcast information.

Doppler Radio is a podcast aggregator. It’s a tool to subscribe to RSS feeds which supply downloadable files. Doppler will go out and fetch the files enclosed in the RSS feed and will automatically add them to your preferred media player

Ipodder Directory is a decentralized, categorized directory of links to podcast feeds.

Dogpile Meta Search Engine

Chris Sherman at Search Engine Watch has written an article about the enhancements at Dogpile: "Dogpile Enhances Meta Search, Offers Comparison Tools"
"Dogpile has redesigned its meta search site and introduced a nifty new utility that visually displays the overlap (or lack thereof) of results from the multiple search engines it queries."

Star Wars' Fans

Did Vader rejoin the force when he died? Tish Wells, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Researcher answers your questions on the Star Wars series.