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10 Novenber 2006 - INETER has made some really significant changes to their web site access. In the past, if you were to rank volcano web sites by speed of access, Montserrat's Volcano Observatory was only faster than INETER. INETER was only faster than any connection to Cuba; however, that is no longer true. If I click on the volcano cam for Mt. St. Helens and INETER's cam index page, it is a toss up to who would finish downloading first.
18 October 2006 - The Smithsonian has done something that goes beyond "cool". On their Global Volcanism Web Site they have a page called "Google Earth Placemarks". You download a placemark file for Google Earth and it has all of the major Holocene volcanoes identified. You click on a country and it moves the view point to the country. You can then zoom in on any of the volcanoes in their list.
17 August 2006 - An interesting web site is WOVO.org. The WOVO acronym stands for World Organization of Volcano Observatories. It has an interesting charter but the graphics used on many pages have been moved and are no longer available.
22 July 2006 - One of the places in the world that I think is extremely interesting is the Rift Valley in Africa. You have an island being created in modern times. There are 3 articles on the News by BBC that have raised my interest. They are titled "Volcanoes threaten to divide Africa(2002)", "Geologists witness 'ocean birth(2005)'", and "Secrets of ocean birth laid bare(2006)". There are many articles on the BBC that date back to 2002 or earlier.
10 July 2006 - I recently did a web search on one of the volcanoes that had recently done something and encountered VolcanoDiscovery. They are a volcano touring company simalar to John Seach's Volcano Live. They are much more graphically oriented. Their "Volcano News" is mostly out of date by many days or weeks but the site may show information that isn't available anywhere else. Their "Volcano Info" provides maps and photos that I haven't seen at any other site. What really caught my attention was a map of the Carribean volcanoes.
28 June 2006 - The Costa Rican Volcano Observatory reference in the "Volcano Links" was updated. The previous reference took you to an empty folder.
11 May 2006 - I added the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory to the cam section for Old Faithful.
I recently added a table of seismic sites and volcano sites. Since I am mainly interested in the volcanoes of the Americas, they mostly reference those areas. In addition, I added a link on the Mt. St. Helens webcam entry for the high resolution webcam at Paradise on Mt. Rainier. The UCOL web page for Volcán de Colima has been functionally dead for more than 2 months and my lose its position to the Paradise webcam. Mt. Rainier is an older and much prettier volcano. It is also only 200 miles (320 km) to the west of where I live.