"The Trend is your Friend!"
An Old Saying from my Trading Days
Simplify your Research
- Several Best Online Research Tools
The Fine Art Search Engine
BioMedCentral: An archive of over 170 biology, chemistry and medical journals. The articles published on BioMedCentral are all peer-reviewed
Digital History: A valuable resource for those who seek information on U.S. history,
FindArticles: The text of articles from about 500 print periodicals with coverage back to 1998, and usage is completely free of charge.
INFOMINE: A virtual library of Internet resources. It contains useful tools such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, and directories of researchers.
The Internet Public Library is the first public library of and for the internet community. The library is a collection of online resources that are organized by subject, everything from accounting to social sciences.
Intute - Intute provides access to Web-based resources for science, technology, arts, humanities, and social sciences. The database contains well over 100,000 records and continues to grow.
Librarians Internet Index - The Librarians Internet Index is a Website created and maintained by a group of librarians, very similar to the Internet Public Library.
Library of Congress - Most people have heard of the Library of Congress, but few realize the amount of information it offers online.
Perseus Digital Library - This digital library provides information on the ancient world, including archaeology, atlas, texts and translations as well as English Renaissance and the American Civil War. Not all the resources are in English, in fact a majority of the ancient texts remain in their original language..
Research Guide for Students - This Website might not appear to be much at first, as the layout is bare bones; but it's actually an extremely good resource for researchers. It provides guidelines for the technical aspects of writing a paper such as layout and style guides as well as a plethora of links to other research resources on just about every topic imaginable.
U.S. Government Manual - If you're looking for any information about the finer points of U.S. Government, your best bet for research is the U.S. Government Manual. It provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches as well as semi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, and boards, commissions, and committees.
- IT Happenings
- OK, This next site is well known but not perhaps the nice to know trend
“Most Popular Software Downloads”
- The Internets Current Health
- Everyone loves a Tech Bargain and coupons
- eBay Most Popular Searches
- Hot Trends at Google
- Don’t forget Yahoo as well
And then there’s These Guys… Yuck. Oh screw AOL, not going to list it, nope
The Nominations in the Video Category …. Envelope Please
Most Popular Video
- Most viewed "YouTube"
- Most viewed Google Video
- Oh Metacafe how I love thee
- Number 1 most Viral Video (Viral Video Chart)
Our TV and Film Nominees
- Television Ratings Who's #1
- Box Office Power Rankings
Let us not forget that step child of the written word. Articles
- Most Popular in Newspapers