Jimmy Wales Launches Wikia

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has just launched Wikia. Wikia offers open source searching that will, supposedly, be entirely free of commercial bias. To search on Wikia, hit the alpha version now live. Btw, Jimmy's blog makes for a great read for all those of you who believe information wants to be free! I just wish he'd update it a bit more frequently (although clearly he is VERY busy doing many other different things... :-)

Grey Literature

Came across a wonderful source of research today that I'd like to share with all. Grey literature.

According to Greynet, Grey Literature is "Information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body." (Luxembourg, 1997 - Expanded in New York, 2004)

GreyNet provides GreySource, which is a wonderful index to a multitude of Web-based resources on Grey Literature.