Specials @ Google

Google is doing a fine job of integrating new trends into its search facility and to keep competitive will continue to do so. And then of course the others will try to beat or improve on Google - can only be good for us end users if we can keep up!
The Google search for videos goes directly to Youtube but Blinx includes news and other sites and came up with a much more interesting hit list on Filey than Google or Exalead.
Google books is useful for finding a known publication when wanting full text for example I have searched for some hard to find works by Carl Jung for a customer.

All the magazines listed so far appear to be popular American titles and I couldn't get interested in exploring them. No marks for effort here.
Poetry is the perfect medium for digitisation and it is good to see the New Zealand electronic poetry centre has such an accessible site with clear pages, bibliographies and links.

A few words from old postcards by Elizabeth Smither

It's dark at 4.30pm. That's your
London cum continent trip in 1996.
I raise a glass to you. Paris, outdoors.
The latest kind of snow-resisting lamps.

Just come from evensong in the Abbey.
(Bath). You were descending through
the layers of tourism to antiquarian books and textiles.
If this sounds choleric I have a raging 'flu.

The British Library is efficient but not beautiful.
Your red scarf wraps your shoulders like a cloak.
Anxiety is simply us trying to control events
from a distance. Head bowed, I see you writing it.


Google maps is one facility that I use all the time - it takes the guesswork out of exploring new places but it does mean you can arrive on time! And anywhere around the world.