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URL: http://2008floods.lee.net/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This is site covers all aspects of the 2008 floods of Iowa. It shows how the floods had a great impact on Iowa life and how deeply people were affected.

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URL: http://4goodnesssake.org/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: 4goodnesssake empowers individuals, organizations and businesses by providing unique up-to-date information. specialize in Online Donations , Fund Education , Fund For Animals , Donate Books , Animal Rescue

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URL: http://Dailykos.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Daily Kos is a renowned progressive blog. Kos allows fellow left-minded people to share ideas and media through an Internet culture.

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Subject:   Blogs

URL: http://Postsecret.blogspot.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Postsecret is an online community where people can anonymously send postcards with secrets on one side. The secrets and postcards are then posted online to create a diverse statement of human nature.

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Subject:   Internet Community

URL: http://abstrusegoose.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: A Web comic of science, math, and truth. The only description of content that could be found on the site is "A webcomic......... that is all."

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URL: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: The blog of Andrew Sullivan. Noted for his political independence, his blog nets millions of hits a year, and provides for discussion above standard red vs. blue fighting.

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Subject:   Blogs

URL: http://awesomepedia.org/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: This website has cartoons, videos, and is awesome all around. It exists solely to be entertaining. Much of what is found on this site is tinged with youthful sarcasm. It is all made by Jakob Burrows.

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URL: http://beta.wfp.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://buttersafe.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Buttersafe is a hilarious web comic full of ironies and the bizarre. It's updated Tuesdays and Thursdays by either Raynato Castro or Alex Culang. Culang is also responsible for handling all the technical issues.

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URL: http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Pearls Before Swine is a new bizarre web comic whose characters consist of mostly farm animals. It's author is Stephan Pastis.

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URL: http://crime.suite101.com/article.cfm/fbi_8_tips_to_avoid_internet_charity_fraud

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: article about FBI 8 Tips to Avoid Internet Charity Fraud

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URL: http://dilbert.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Dilbert is a very famous comic about the office. It's made by Scott Adams. The web site has not only cartoons, but animations and several blogs for avid fans as well.

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URL: http://fivethirtyeight.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Blog of statistics whiz-kid Nate Silver. Publishes data of different polling and tries to use statistics to predict the political future.

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Subject:   Blogs

URL: http://icanhascheezburger.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: A website devoted to "lolcatz," and internet phenomenon that has become extremely popular and well-known all around. People can send in their pictures of cats and put funny text on the pictures.

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Subject:   Internet Community

URL: http://internetcharity.blogspot.com/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: Internet Charity has a feature where all videos are posted

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URL: http://ontheissues.org/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Ontheissues provides unbiased quantitative listings of the viewpoints of politicians. Ontheissues lists how each politician votes on each issue to show where they are on the political spectrum. This service is possible due to the capabilities of the internet and being able to have constant updates.

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Subject:   News Aggregation

URL: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: The CNN political blog where different CNN analysts can discuss their own viewpoints on current situations.

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Subject:   Blogs

URL: http://qwantz.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Dinosaur Comics is a web comic whose main characters are the dinosaurs T-rex, Dromiceiomimus, Utahraptor. Apparently Dinosaurs Comics is all about the truth and beauty bombs, whatever that(they?) may be. It is made by Ryan North.

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URL: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: The New York Times political blog allows readers to keep updated with current politics through the eyes of the New York Times.

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Subject:   Blogs

URL: http://thinkprogress.org/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: A progressive news blog covering current political events from a left-minded point of view.

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Subject:   Blogs

URL: http://thp.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://truckbearingkibble.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Truck Bearing Kibble is a web comic by Eric Vaughn and Jeremy Kramer. It is not continuous, so there are no permanent characters.

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URL: http://www.419legal.org/blog/category/internet-charity-fraud/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: online site regarding internet fraud

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URL: http://www.actionaid.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.africanhunger.org/index.php

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.agdepartment.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This is the site of the North Dakota Department of Agriculture. It portrays strengths and weaknesses of the agriculture in North Dakota.

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URL: http://www.americanhumane.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.ames.k12.ia.us/AHS/MC/index.html

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.ames.k12.ia.us/AMS/AMS.html

Collection: test practice

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URL: http://www.amesart.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: Ames may not be seen first as a center for the arts, but this website is dedicated to the advertisement and glorification of art in Ames.

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URL: http://www.amestrib.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: The local paper of Ames, Iowa, is the Ames Tribune. This newspaper displays all the events and topics of concern for the citizens of Ames.

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URL: http://www.amnesty.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.asofterworld.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: A Softer World is a comic that was created by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau so that people would recognize them as important artistic geniuses. Sometimes the "comic" is sad or harsh. The comic is done entirely with photos.

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URL: http://www.bicklaw.com/InternetCharityRules.htm

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

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URL: http://www.bread.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2008/tc20080722_430362.htm

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: article about the importance of online charity sites

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URL: http://www.caglecartoons.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Cagle Cartoons is owned and operated by Daryle Cagle. Approximately three million regular, unique users visit Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index site each month, making it the most popular cartoon site, of any kind, on the Internet. It is also the most widely used education site in Social Studies classrooms around the world.

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URL: http://www.centrepoint.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.charityfolks.com/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: Charity Folks is an online marketplace for nonprofit fundraising, corporate cause-marketing campaigns and celebrity-driven charity initiatives. Charity Folks manages hundreds of charity auctions

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URL: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/content.view/cpid/540.htm

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: Charity Navigator has become the nation's largest and most utililed evalutor of charites. Charity Navigator creates a numbers-based rating system to assess financial health of numerous american charities

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URL: http://www.charitywatch.org/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP), a nonprofit charity watchdog and information service, providing donors with the information they need to make more informed giving decisions.

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URL: http://www.ci.des-moines.ia.us/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: Des Moines is the capital city of Iowa. It offers a lot of cultural and buisness opportunities to the state of Iowa and has been vital to the growth of the state. This site in particular displays all the opportunities that may be found in Des Moines.

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URL: http://www.cityofames.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: The city of Ames website provides information about the city goverment as well as information about upcoming events and and important information about Ames.

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URL: http://www.clarksd.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: The website of Clark, SD. A small town not unlike the hundreds of other small towns in the Heartland.

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URL: http://www.compassion.org/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

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URL: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This is the website for one of the most popular newspapers in Iowa, the Des Moines Register. It covers local as well as national and global issues, and it portrays the values that people in Iowa deem as important.

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URL: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This is the site of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. It displays Minnesota's resources and lists many activities that are popular in Minnesota. It also allows for user input, which is important because that way it can show what daily life in Minnesota is like.

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URL: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.drudgereport.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Drudgereport is a new aggregation website run by Matt Drudge that provides a right-wing viewpoint on current events.

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Subject:   News Aggregation

URL: http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: EcologyFund is owned and operated by The Hunger Site Network as a way to get new funds for critical habitat and wilderness preservation using the power of the internet.

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URL: http://www.exploreminnesota.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This site focuses on promoting tourism in Minnesota. It portrays life in Minnesota, and it helps people understand what values are important to Minnesota's people.

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URL: http://www.explosm.net/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Explosm.net has movies, articles, interactive stories, and above all, the comic Cyanide and Happiness. Sometimes upbeat, often bitter, rarely nonviolent, but always hilarious Cyanide and Happiness pokes fun at all that is a part of human experience. It is made by individuals going only by their first names, Kris, Dave, Matt, and Rob. Not much other information on the author's was available.

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URL: http://www.fao.org/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger, serving both developed and developing countries. The FAO help countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices.

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URL: http://www.forbes.com/1999/11/06/feat.html

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: article about the use of online charities during the holdiays

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URL: http://www.freetibet.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.goodsearch.com/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users

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URL: http://www.hast.org.uk/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.heifer.org/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: Heifer international believes that a holistic approach is necessary to build sustainable communities. They believe in giving families a source of food rather than short-term relief. Hiefer works with communities to end hunger and poverty.

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URL: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-615632.html

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: article about online charity

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URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: The Huffington Post has the blogs of multiple progressively minded activists. The website is at the forefront of progressive news activism.

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Subject:   Blogs

URL: http://www.ifad.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.ifbf.org/

Collection: test practice

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URL: http://www.ifbf.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: Since our topic is the heartland, we needed to show a very important part of the midwest: agriculture. The Iowa Farm Bureau has all the updates involved in modern agriculture as well as other current events that are important to farmers in the state of Iowa.

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URL: http://www.ifrc.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.imcharityparty.com/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: The Internet Marketer’s Charity Party started in 2007, aims to raise and provide financial support for various non-profit organizations while broadening awareness within the internet community

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URL: http://www.iowa.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This website provides a litle bit of everything when it comes to information about iowa. It has information about the government, popular dining and the floods of 2008 that ravaged the state of Iowa.

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URL: http://www.iowa.gov/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This website was crawled because of its excellent description of the system of government in Iowa. It also provides information and resources to Iowa's citizens.

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URL: http://www.iowacaucus.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: The Iowa Caucus is the first in the nation. It is definitly a determining factor in national elections and ignites the political race at a lightning pace. It is one of the biggest events in Iowa and is a huge opportunity for politicians.

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URL: http://www.iowaculturalcoalition.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: The Iowa Cultural Coalition serves as the main advocacy, technical assistance and communications network available to people and organizations who create and appreciate all forms of art, historic preservation, museums, science, and culture.

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URL: http://www.iowademocrats.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This is the site of the Iowa Democratic Party. It shows the values of Iowa Democrats, and gives a user an insight into Iowa politics.

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URL: http://www.iowadnr.gov/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: Natural resources are a major concern today for any state. Iowa is no exception. This site not only provides information about hunting sites and licenses, but also adresses the environmental concerns of Iowans.

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URL: http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: Iowa Farmer Today is a site dedicated specifically to farming in Iowa. It provides informationa and current events that are important to Iowa farmers.

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URL: http://www.iowaflood.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This website shares the photos, videos and stories of Iowans affected by the floods of 2008. The floods of 2008 were the biggest natural disaster in Iowan history and displayed the Iowan sense of community and family with how the state came together to make a difference.

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URL: http://www.iowalifechanging.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This site's goal is to improve communities throughout Iowa. This site focuses on improving the daily life of Iowans who were left devastated after the floods.

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URL: http://www.iowansforvotingintegrity.org

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This is the site for the organization 'Iowans for Voting Integrity'. This organization warns against the dangers of electronic ballots, and wants to have accurate voting on paper.

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URL: http://www.justgive.org/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: JustGive is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase charitable giving by connecting people with the charities and causes they care most about.

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URL: http://www.justgiving.com/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: JustGiving's goal is to help people raise as much as they can for charity by providing an excellent service to as many people as possible.

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URL: http://www.lhf.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: History is very important to Iowans and that is shown at Living History Farms. Living History Farms is a place where visitors experience first-hand what it was like to live on an Ioway Indian farm, on a pioneer farmstead, in an early Iowa town, and other locations.

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URL: http://www.lifeintheusa.com/food/midwest.htm

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This website portrays how an average person in the midwest prepares foods. Food can really show how a culture lives and that is what this web page does.

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URL: http://www.lukesurl.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: A collection of comics drawn by Luke Surl. The punch line generally makes a pop reference, although there are also some great literary ones.

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URL: http://www.lwvia.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This is the site for the League of Women Voters of Iowa. This organization urges women to get involved in politics and are opening new opportunities for future generations.

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URL: http://www.minnesota-visitor.com/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This site focuses on the many activities that a person can participate in while in Minnesota, and really portrays life in Minnesota.

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URL: http://www.mnculturechange.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: The Minnesota Culture Change Coalition is an organization who is working on providing a long-term health program to improve the daily lives of people living in Minnesota.

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URL: http://www.mo.gov/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This website was chosen because it decribes the government of Missouri very accurately. It provides information and resources to the citizens of Missouri.

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URL: http://www.nasa.gov/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.nd.gov/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: Government is the most important part of any state. This is why we chose to archive the state government website for South Dakota. This site accurately describes the system of government in North Dakota and has resources for its citizens.

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URL: http://www.ndgop.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This is the site of the North Dakota Republican party. This site displays how politics plays a role in North Dakotan life, as well as offering opportunities for youth to get involved with politics.

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URL: http://www.networkforgood.org/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: Network for Good's goal is to make it as easy to donate and volunteer online as it is to shop online, and we make it simple and affordable for all nonprofits, of any size, to recruit donors and volunteers via the Internet.

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URL: http://www.newsnet5.com/sh/money/crankyconsumer/money-crankyconsumer-20001127-125709.html

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: article about charity frauds

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URL: http://www.nfo.org/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: Agriculture is obviously an important aspect of the Midwest. The National Farmers Organization is a website where farmers can be updated on current events that affect them. This website also offers information about crops and advice about how to run a farm.

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URL: http://www.npros.com/2008/3/12/amway-warns-of-bogus-internet-charity-scam/

Collection: International Humanitarian Aid

Description: article about Amway Corporation (Quixtar in the U.S. and Canada) has discovered an internet scam that uses a bogus Amway charity as a lure.

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URL: http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Rob and Elliot is a web comic copyrighted by Clay and Hampton Yount. The four main characters are Rob, Elliot, imonkey, and Noel.

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URL: http://www.rockfound.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/

Collection: Test Collection #1

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URL: http://www.sd.gov/

Collection: The Heartland

Description: This site describes the government of South Dakota. It provides information about topics of concern and other resources to the citizens of South Dakota.

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URL: http://www.shoeboxblog.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: The Shoebox blog is a site to blog about almost anything. It also has several different comic strips by an assortment of authors/drawers with an assortment of topics.

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URL: http://www.shortpacked.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Shortpacked is a web comic by David Willis focused around a toy store. There is a large assortment of characters, especially nerds because of the toys, and homosexuals for whatever reason. This is one of the first web comics to have homosexuality and still be popular.

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URL: http://www.slate.com/

Collection: Internet Culture

Description: Slate is an online magazine digging up stories on which the mainstream media does not report. Slate allows many independent-minded people a place to share opinions.

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Subject:   Online Magazines

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