Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:30:12 +0530 From: "Thapar, Amit" <amitt@niper.ac.in> 2006 Bloggie Awards http://2006.bloggies.com/ "Millions of blogs. Thousands of nominees. 151 finalists. 31 winners." This is your chance to find out what their readers consider to be the best blogs in a variety of subjects including best weblogs for crafts, food, politics, teens, humor, computers or technology, and more (including best blogs from Canada, Latin America, Britain or Ireland, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia). Not all of them are safe for work. Loomia http://www.loomia.com/ "a podcast and videocast search engine plus much more. Our goal is to help you discover, share, and manage things of interest to you. We make use of the likes and dislikes of an ever-increasing community to filter through thousands of channels to help you find good stuff." It invites you to add your own tags to the content. Librarians should check out some of the podcasts filed under the tag "library." National Biological Information Infrastructure: Your Home for Biological Information on the Web http://www.nbii.gov/index.html You can browse by major categories like Current Biological Issues, Biological Disciplines, Geographical Perspectives, or Teacher Resources; you can explore Data and Information Resources like reference works, tools and images; and you can simultaneously search databases of species information, maps & data, images, organizations, tools, journal articles, references & publications amit@niper Cell: 9855701060 e-mail: amit_thapar@yahoo.com URL: http://www.niper.gov.in/ "Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive." "Life is just Fun, like a scoop of Ice Cream, - Enjoy it before it melts ! "