I am so excited to discover a new search engine that actually might be better than Google. Shocking I know but see for yourself. My coworker Max showed this site to me today and I was so impressed I had to blog about it. Cuil is actually an old Celtic word for knowledge and the site was created by a former Google engineer. I love the dynamic layout of the search results.

Visit Cuil.com here: http://www.cuil.com/

Learn more about the site here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

This quarter I am taking an excellent graduate class called "Storytelling Art and Techniques." We are exploring ways to create multimedia stories as a new and innovative way to tell stories. I have been a storyteller for the last year and I want to help others become storytellers. I wanted to share some resources and also some really cool open source software called "Alice," which was created by a Ph.D student. Here is the link http://www.cmu.edu/corporate/news/2007/features/alice.shtml

And just in time for this year’s summer reading theme "Catch the Reading Bug" here is a link to 125 bug stories. This book can be downloaded through April.

http://www.story-lovers.com/bugbookv.2.pdf

Additional storytelling resources:

http://www.storynet.org/

http://www.creativekeys.net/StorytellingPower/articles.html

http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/

Also, "The World of Digital Storytelling" by Jason Ohler is a great article to read. I will be posting more as the quarter progresses. Special thanks to my fabulous class and professor for all of these incredible resources. Happy Storytelling!

I just discovered this great new search tool. Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.

http://www.zotero.org/

This is a great site that Memo posted on Facebook: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100free.html

Today I learned about a great open source program today called Portable Apps. Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more. Use them on any Windows computer without leaving any personal data behind. You can save this program on a flash drive and have your favorite programs with you at all times. This is especially useful for people that work at places that won’t allow you download programs to your computer. To download this for free or to learn more go to:http://portableapps.com/

Special thanks to William Nation of BPL for telling me about this great program.