Internet Scout announces new weblog

The Internet Scout Project, the pioneering UW–Madison project that helps the online community surf smarter by scouring the Internet for the best of the Web, has launched a new service – the Internet Scout Weblog.

The Internet Scout Weblog is intended to complement the various Internet Scout Reports by compiling useful, interesting or humorous web resources that may not otherwise meet the selection criteria employed by Scout editors.

“In the course of our daily surfing for the Scout reports, we come across numerous interesting items that for some reason or another don’t quite fit our selection criteria,” according to Scout Report Editor Michael de Nie. “Rather than just sharing these items with each other or allowing them to sink unnoticed beneath the digital sands, we decided to create the Internet Scout Weblog to complement our reports.”

Items selected for the Internet Scout Weblog are culled primarily from academic sources, but may include general interest or humorous sites that appeal to the educators and librarians who filter web content for inclusion in the Scout Reports.

Scout Reports, although intended primarily for the higher education community, are available at no cost to anyone who’d like to subscribe. A weekly general report is published online and via e-mail as well as biweekly reports in the areas of science and engineering, the social sciences and humanities, and business and economics. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation and is part of the UW–Madison computer science department.