ESPN.com: a non-biased news source.

Looking for a reliable website to get the latest sports coverage ranging from football to gymnastics? ESPN.com, a website established by the producers of the Entertainment and Sports Production Network (ESPN), gives up to date sports related information to any followers across the world. By supplying news stories, video and audio coverage, forums, fantasy sports, and games all in one convenient website.
The website itself is easy to access for all of its users. The home page is convenient and information is very accessible, having all of the sports in which ESPN.com has coverage on in an information bar at the top of the screen. In this information bar, each sport has multiple newsworthy subcategories including scores of the latest games, rankings in each conference, individual and team statistics, and multiple other features.
Not into popular American sports including Football, Baseball, and NASCAR? That’s fine! ESPN.com has coverage on multiple other sports including international Futbol, Cricket, Rugby, Poker, and Mixed Martial Arts.
ESPN.com also has different websites for different continents that have extra coverage on the generally preferred sports of the area. ESPN Asia, United Kingdom, Australia and Brazil all have these said websites.
For those who prefer other forms of media to receive news, ESPN.com provides video and audio coverage for all sports. Popular talk show radio show Mike and Mike in the Morning speaks about a wide variety of sports on the show. In addition, radio coverage and commentating of sports game can be live streamed directly off of the website. Games, interviews, and press conferences are also regularly recorded and are available for live stream on the video section of the website.
For additional entertainment, ESPN.com supplies Fantasy Sports, a game involving individuals creating their own teams consisting of players in the professional league of their choice. Teams compete in a face-to-face match up where each player’s individual progress awards his or her team a certain amount of points.
ESPN.com is a great source of sports news for any type of coverage. Although many other websites may supply more information on a certain sport than ESPN.com does, it is a very consistent and non-biased sports website.

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Where should I look?

Looking for a credible search engine? Students at Wyoming Seminary Upper School in Kingston, Pa. are accessing Proquest Historical Newspapers, an Internet database that creates specialized information resources and technologies, for Historical research. Developed in the 1980’s, Proquest allows students to have access to billions of primary history sources inside newspapers dating back into the early twentieth century. With a simple click of a button, all of these sources can be in its users’ hands.

ProQuest Historical Newspaper has digital archived full text and image articles dating from the early 1900s. Ivy Miller, a Librarian at the Wyoming Seminary Upper School Kirby Library, admitted her appreciation of using an online database. With access to these sources, “Students can link to a lot of qualified sources [simultaneously],” said Miller. Every issue of these articles is complete with all bibliographical information and the complete newspaper cover-to-cover. All newspapers can also be easily downloaded into a preview format and printed. Students and teachers find Proquest as a useful source of relevant historical data. “No matter what the subject matter contains, I go to Proquest,” said Jack Cartwright, a senior at Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School in Kingston, Pa, when asked about the database. His reasons for using Proquest were simple. He said, “it is not only easy to use, but the articles on the database are also the most credible sources on the Internet.” Proquest’s unique collection of newspapers and other relevant sources is both authentic and sophisticated, because it provides the tools needed that to access information easy.

Proquest has been recognized on an international level one of the top databases in the world. This past November, ProQuest was named to the EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. Also in 2007, ProQuest won the distinguished Red Hat Innovation Award, which is given to the world’s leading provider of open source solutions overcoming technology challenges. The International Information Industry honored ProQuest Smart Search, one of the features of the database, with Best Specialist Search Product in 2006. With those credentials, why not give Proquest a chance for that next paper’s research? 

Make it short and sweet.

Do you only have a finite amount of time to read your daily news everyday on your favorite websites? Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds were developed in March 1999 by Netscape, and they are used to summarize news from websites that regularly are updated. Many news-related sites, web logs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. Through specific programming, RSS feeds can be made for one’s own website, but one can also find them across the web in various Online Newspapers, Social Networks, and other sources of e-News. There are many benefits to using this particular type of feed, because not only is news communicated much faster among individuals but also RSS feeds force users of these feeds to visit and read multiple other sites they would not have read before.

According to RSS Specifications, Netscape, the founder of the format, developed these feeds because they “wanted to use an XML Extensible Markup Language [XML] format to distribute news, stories and information.” On March 15, 1999, RSS 0.90 was designed by Netscape; it was the first successful version of RSS format. The second monumental update for the RSS was RSS version 1.0. Published on Aug. 14, 2000, was worked on Rael Dornfest and many of his acquaintances. Rather than using XML coding, Dornfest and his group based the new feed on Resource Description Framework (RDF) coding. "This coding was universal because it was a brand new format that was not similar to any of its previous kind," Dornfest commented about his new breakthrough. The final worldwide update of the RSS was the RSS 2.0, released Sept 18, 2002. While in development, this format was similar to a RSS 0.94 format in terms of its updates. During this update, RSS was controlled by Userland Software. However, on July 15, 2003, UserLand Software transferred ownership of its RSS 2.0 specification to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

RSS Feeds today are commonly used today on all types of computers, smart phones, and other forms of communication. The most common use for these RSS feeds are for either News or Entertainment. However, similar to how much the feeds developed, its uses branched as just as much, if not more. Amazon.com uses RSS feeds to transmit information about potential sales on products. On another note, Law Enforcement officers have used RSS feeds to inform communities about local sex offenders and their locations. It seems that there are hundreds of uses for RSS feeds. What will you use them for?