If you want attention on YouTube, use Iraq

Yesterday I started playing around with my XO Laptop and recorded a quick documents blurb for a book called Battleground Iraq. Much to my surprise and shock there have been 1,098 views since yesterday! There have not been comments nor ratings for this video, so I can’t objectively say what people see in it.
The video [...]

DocsByte: Battleground Iraq

DocsByte: Battleground Iraq

I did a quick book blurb using my XO Laptop. Video quality isn’t great. If I do more, I’ll dispense with the sign with the SuDoc number. Otherwise I thought I got my point across.
If you’ve recorded videos with the XO, I’d love to hear your tips.

The More Things Changes: 1938 Biofuels

Getting energy from agricultural products might seem like a newfangled idea, but it has a long history as shown by this 1938 USDA publication:

Creator
Jacobs, P. Burke; Newton, Harry P.
 

Title
Motor fuels from farm products
 

Source
Miscellaneous Publication United States Department Agriculture
 

Year
1938
 

Volume_Info
no. 327
 

Pages
129 p.
 

DocID
mp0327
 

Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

http://naldr.nal.usda.gov/NALWeb/Agricola_Link.asp?Accession=CAT87206224 
Interestingly, the idea to create fuel from ag products wasn’t born from energy [...]

What’s Your Regiment’s History? Let the Army Tell You

If you’re a army vet or someone else interested in detailed US Army history, check out the US Army Heritage Collection Online at http://www.ahco.army.mil/site/finding_aids_brief.jsp.
As the URL implies, these are a collection of finding aids to articles, books and more about Army history, including the history of individual units. Some of the bibliographies they have include:

Subject [...]

Racism in America

Racism in America
Originally uploaded by CSB/SJU Government Documents

This is a cover to a 1970 booklet from the US Civil Rights Commission. It was posted by the College of St. Benedict / St. John University’s library. I’m very happy to see them promoting government documents in this way.

CIA Involvement in Guatemala

While researching sources for a church related class I’m teaching during Lent, I came across this resource that might be good for people interested in Latin American History:
CIA FOIA Reading Room - Guatemala
From the web site: “This collection — 5,120 documents (over 14,000 pages) — chronicles CIA involvement in the 1954 coup in Guatemala. These [...]

Let’s Cook with Government Documents!

Here’s a fun video that will add zest to your menu!

New FGI Discussions: January 14, 2008

This month the Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info) volunteers welcomed John Shuler, from the University of Illinois Chicago as our January Blogger of the Month.
John and the FGI volunteers posted these stories since the start of the year:
John’s Posts:
+Back to the future: Jefferson’s 1815 Library records and Preservation of 21st Century State Digital Information
Volunteers’ Posts:
+Improving Declassification [...]

New FGI Discusssions: December 31, 2007

This week the Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info)
volunteers posted these stories:
+ New CRS Report on Data Mining - Daniel
+ Happy 75th to UCLA! - Daniel
+ GovernmentDocs.org provides enhanced access to FOIA documents - Jim A.
+ How many government websites are there? - Jim A.
+ Most fed data is un-Googleable - Jim A.
+ Boston Public Library Digitization [...]

Canadian Analysis on Afghanistan

The Government of Canada recently published some briefing papers on Afghanistan that I thought would be of interest to people looking for another perspective. This being Canada, the publications are available in both English and French:
PRB 07-16E. –Afghanistan - history and system of government, [by] Michael Dewing. 9 October 2007. 4p. (317 KB). Adobe Acrobat.
URL: [...]