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Welcome to "On the Net Today". Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we bring you a handpicked selection of three valuable and interesting online resources to help you get the most out of the internet and optimize your browsing time.

Here are the three resources we've prepared for this Friday:

• NotebookLM, Google’s note taking & research assistant powered by AI

• "Choose Truth", the slogan for World News Day (September 28)

• The Best College Towns in the U.S., according to Thrillist

NotebookLM, Google’s note taking & research assistant powered by AI

NotebookLM is a spectacular personalized artificial intelligence tool offered for free by Google that helps users organize and refine their ideas based on the documents they upload to the platform.

It is a very powerful personal assistant or collaborator that we can use as a creative support tool and works as follows:

• Uploading sources

  • First, we must upload a document or a presentation to create a new notebook that we want to work on. It can be a PDF, a Google document, copied text, or the URL of an open-access website, among other options. We can add new documents or sources to that notebook (up to a maximum of 500,000 words).

  • Immediately, NotebookLM creates a "Notebook Guide" as a starting point for the work, which includes a summary, suggestions for actions to take or questions to ask, and, recently, the option to create an audio summary (currently only in English) in the form of a conversation between two people, with AI-generated voices. A podcast that we can download. Try it because the result is truly incredible!

• Asking questions

  • From there, we can start interacting with the uploaded sources, asking questions or selecting instructions. NotebookLM works only with the information contained in our sources, so all answers and references will be based on the material we have uploaded.

  • For example, we can ask it to summarize a document, create a glossary of key terms, present it in the form of frequently asked questions, create a study guide from the document, or offer us an index, among other options.

  • In addition to offering objective answers, NotebookLM can also suggest creative ideas to improve a text or presentation, or propose possible titles for an article.

  • Every time we ask NotebookLM something, we can mark or unmark the sources we want it to use to give us the answer.
     

• Creating and using notes. There are several ways to create new notes in NotebookLM:

  • Save a model response to notes 

  • Save a quotation or summary from one of your sources 

  • Use existing notes to create a new note choosing one of the suggested actions

  • Write a new note

• Using writing tools

  • While writing a note, you can use NotebookLM’s suggested actions to help you improve both the style and substance of your prose.

Notes created in NotebookLM are private, but we can share them with other users.

When you have the chance, don't miss trying this spectacular and highly recommended tool! 

Link:

• NotebookLM

"Choose Truth", the slogan for World News Day (September 28)

This Saturday, September 28, marks World News Day, a global public awareness campaign driven by the World Editors Forum of WAN-IFRA, the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF), and the Project Kontinuum of the South African media outlet The Daily Maverick "to underline the value and importance of fact-based journalism, and the essential role it plays in our daily lives".

World News Day is supported by more than 500 media outlets worldwide.

For this year's edition of World News Day, the chosen slogan for the campaign is "Choose Truth".

Link:

• World News Day

The Best College Towns in the U.S., according to Thrillist

“America is full of fantastic college towns, but some have sports, traditions, food, and surroundings that make them extra special," says the introduction to this article from the digital magazine Thrillist, which presents, in alphabetical order, the 20 best college towns.

For each of these towns, the article briefly explains their main attractions.

The list includes locations such as Ann Arbor (Michigan), Boulder (Colorado), Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Eugene (Oregon), Knoxville (Tennessee), Rochester (New York), San Marcos (Texas), and Tucson (Arizona), among others.

Link:

• The Best College Towns in the U.S. - Thrillist

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