UNESCO Workshop on Information Literacy

Dear Collegue,

UNESCO has planned a series of Training the Trainer Workshops in Information Literacy (IL).

Following link may direct you for more details on the workshop series

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=25623&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Central & South Asian regional workshop will be held at the Punjabi University, Patiala, India on 5-7 November 2008. (http://tttw.patiala.googlepages.com/)

Regards,

Tharanga.

Create your own web page, quickly and easily

Dear friends,

Google has taken an another revolutionary step to help Internet community by letting them to create their web pages on Google and host them in Google.

Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.

• No technical knowledge required (Build high-quality web pages without having to learn HTML or use complex software)
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• Don't worry about hosting (Your web pages will live on your own site at http://yoursitename.googlepages.com)

Be hurry! Visit http://www.pages.google.com for more information.

Tharanga.

April 2008 Web Server Survey

Dear Friends,

The April 2008 survey received responses from 165,719,150 (165 million) sites. Most of this month's growth of 3.1 million sites is seen in the US, with Google's Blogger service alone adding 1.1 million extra sites.

Regards,

Tharanga.

February 2008 Web Server Survey

Dear All,

February 2008 survey received responses from 158,209,426 (158 million) websites.

This is an increase of 2.6 million sites, compared with last month's (Jan. '08) unusually low growth of only 354 thousand.

For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/

Tharanga.

January 2008 Web Survey - Slower Growth!!!

Dear all,

According to the January 2008 survey there 155,583,825 (155 million)sites, reflecting a much slower growth of only 354 thousand sites, compared with last month, where the increase was 5.4 million.

For more information visit: http://news.netcraft.com/

Tharanga.

Presentation on Wikis & Blogs

Dear all,

The following URL will lead you for a valuable .ppt presentation on above made by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian, Iowa State University Library, USA.

URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt

New issue of Information Research

The new issue of Information Research is released: http://InformationR.net/ir/12-4/infres124.html .

Tharanga .

October 2007 Web Survey

Dear Friends,

October 2007 survey received responses from 142,805,398 (142 million) sites, an increase of 7.6 million tes since last month. This continues the strong gains seen last month, a rate of over 5% monthly growth.

For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/

Tharanga.

August 2007 Web Survey

According to August 2007 survey there are 127,961,479 (127 million) websites, an increase of 2.3 million sites from last month.

For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/

Tharanga.

March 2007 Web Server Survey

The March 2007 survey received responses from 110,460,149 (110 million) sites, an increase of 1.64 million from last month. The Web crosses the 110 million mark just five months after reaching 100 million web sites in the November 2006 survey, continuing the strong growth trend seen in the last two years.

For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

Tharanga.