- Check out the Smithsonian Libraries’ extensive links to online exhibitions created by libraries and archives.
- Catch the spirit! The Gospel Music History Archive at University of Southern California has lots of inspiring images and video.
- Here's Johnny! All 3,300 hours of footage from the Johnny Carson show have been digitized and are available online [via LA Times].
- Moroccan hip-hop with Kanye and more: Television Without Borders provides “global perspectives on news, events, and culture,” and you can watch for free.
- Brian May's collection of stereoscopic photographs will rock you. May, who is better known for his role in Queen as a guitarist and songwriter, is an academic and recently published a book about the work of Thomas Richard Williams (1825-1871) [via the Huffington Post].
- Lots of anxiety about too much information lately . . . A new(ish) report estimates that the information universe will increase by a factor of 44, and claims that this kind of information overload can lead to poor decision making, and thus, economic problems [via resourceshelf]...
- ...and growing concerns (in a new study published by Northwestern University) that our media-savvy teenagers don't know how to be smart consumers of all that information [via ReadWriteWeb].
- "Magellans of the Sky": the National Archives' YouTube channel has a new "Inside the Vault" series, including this short on the group of US Army airmen that set out to be the first people to fly around the globe:
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