Howell Related

Career Resource Center - it's located in the Media Center

Howell Carnegie Library

 

Images

Picnik - Edit your photos online! Sweet.

 

Audio/Video

The Internet Archive

This site is an amazing collection of preserved audio, music, moving images, and text. It also has a preserved "snapshot" of the internet so you can look up now defunct sites. This is a great way to perserve our electronic culture.

Folk Streams

"A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking. The site includes transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites. "

Librivox

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.

American Rhetoric

Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

Digitized versions of the first commercially produced sound recordings (on cylinder). An interesting snapshot of time.

National Recording Preservation Board (LOC)

If you're really into preserved audio then check out these links from the Library of Congress.

Wikimedia

The Wiki commons is a huge database of all kinds of free media.

NARA on Google Video

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has made archived video available through Google

Youtube

In case you are new to the internet, this is a little video sharing site...

Streaming Audio

- There are a ton of sites like this but these are my favorites because of ease of use. They are paid for by visual ads.

 

Deezer

Look up a song. Play the song. Create playlists. Amazing.

Slacker

Play stations or individual artists. Personalize your own stations.

Pandora

This is my favorite. It plays songs based on the "music genome", a project that categorizes music by similar sonic elements. Look at librariman's profile to see what I'm listening to.

 

Books

Wowio

It's what you say when you see how many free e-books they'll give you if you register.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

Reader^2

This site is a social list of books and a recommendation system that lets you classify what you like to read and connect to other people's interests.

Books Well Read

Another site that is focused on blogging your reading to keep track of your ideas and share.

Bookcrossing

n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.

Bookspot

This seems like a good starting point for reviews, best-seller lists, and award lists. If you are looking to buy, I always suggest starting with AddAll, an aggregator of common booksellers that adds up total shipping and cost for used titles.

 

Stuff

NNDB (Notable Names Database)

"NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead."

Google Guide and Google Hacks

So you think Google is the cat's meow? Learn how to make it roar...I know...that's cheesy. These sites are fun and informative though.

Snopes

The internet is filled with lies and urban legends. Check to see if an email fwd or ridiculous internet claim is fact or fiction using the snopes database.