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Public information

Web technology provides a means of collating a huge volume of disparate information from official sources, and organizing it into an easily accessible form. A lot of this information is of the type that an individual might not consider important enough to go to a lot of trouble to obtain, but would still find very useful if it was instantly available. Here the Web excels.

• The United States Department of Commerce - STAT-USA
• Purdue Weather Processor

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.