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The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research
Links from the November/December 2011 Issue of
The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research
newsletter.

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The CyberSkeptic’s Guide to Internet Research: Cumulative Index
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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER CYBERSELECTION: Dummies.com
BY SUSANNE BJORNER (Page 1)

Dummies.com
www.dummies.com

International Data Group (IDG)
www.idg.com

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Brand/id-9.html

Etsy
www.etsy.com

Location-Based Marketing For Dummies Cheat Sheet (LBM)
www.dummies.com/how-to/content/locationbased-marketing-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html

20th Anniversary For Dummies Special Edition
http://media.wiley.com/assets/3202/71/20th_Anniversary_For_Dummies_ebook.pdf


THE CYBERSKEPTIC’S SPECIALTY SCANS (Page 3)

LEGAL/GOVERNMENT

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
www.cftc.gov

NEWS/MEDIA

memeorandum
www.memeorandum.com

INTERNATIONAL

WHO e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA)
www.who.int/elena/en
www.who.int/elena/about/contribute/en/index.html

TECHNICAL/MEDICAL

The National Academies Press (NAP)
www.nap.edu

BUSINESS/FINANCE

Footnoted
www.footnoted.com


GOVERNMENT GOODIES - Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
BY SUSAN FINGERMAN (Page 4)

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
www.fema.gov
www.fema.gov/about/history.shtm

FEMA Mobile Website
http://m.fema.gov

FloodSmart.gov
www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart


PAINT BY NUMBERS - Fishing for Marine Taxa
BY JACKIE SHANE (Page 5)

Census of Marine Life (CoML)
www.coml.org

First Census of Marine Life 2010: Highlights of a Decade of Discovery
www.coml.org/pressreleases/census2010/PDF/Highlights-2010-Report-Low-Res.pdf

Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
www.iobis.org

World Register of Marine Species ( WoRMS)
www.marinespecies.org


NET FOCUS - MERLOT: Top Shelf Resource for Education
BY NICK TOMAIUOLO (Page 6)

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
www.merlot.org

MERLOT Voices
http://voices.merlot.org

Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT)
http://jolt.merlot.org

MERLOT Virtual Speakers Bureau
www.merlot.org/merlot/vsbMembers.htm

MERLOT Learning Materials
www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?sort.property=overallRating

MERLOT FAQs
http://about.merlot.org/faq.html

MERLOTPlace’s Channel – YouTube
www.youtube.com/user/MERLOTPlace


WHATEVER HAPPENED TO….?
BY BRIAN SMITH MCCALLUM (Page 7)

AlltheWeb
www.allthweb.com

Internet Archive Wayback Machine
www.archive.org/web/web.php

Yahoo! Search
http://search.yahoo.com

The Merck Manuals
www.merckmanuals.com

Pandora
www.pandora.com

iTunes
www.apple.com/itunes

Spotify
www.spotify.com


SERIOUSLY SEARCH ENGINES -
GOOGLE RESULTS LISTINGS - MORE CONTENT, EASIER BROWSING
BY RANDOLPH HOCK (Page 7)

Google
www.google.com


READY REFERENCE - Missing Persons
BY BRIAN SMITH MCCALLUM (Page 8)

National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
http://namus.gov

NamUs Unidentified Persons Database
https://identifyus.org

NamUs Behind the Scenes: How It Works, Why It Matters
https://www.findthemissing.org/homes/how_it_works_video/small

America’s Most Wanted
www.amw.com

AMBER Alert
www.amberalert.gov

American Red Cross
www.redcross.org

Safe and Well - American Red Cross
https://safeandwell.communityos.org/zf/safesearch/search
https://safeandwell.communityos.org/zf/safe/add

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