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Internet Experts http://www.InternetExperts.info/ InternetExperts.info is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for Internet alerts. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Rare Pictographic Manuscripts Online http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2802 The Naxi people of China's Yunnan Province use the only living pictographic language (similar to ancient Egyptian or Mayan writing) in the world today, and the Library of Congress's collection of Naxi manuscripts is considered the finest in the world. One hundred eighty-five documents plus a 392-foot funerary scroll from that collection are now available online in "Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection," which can be found under the link "Individual Digital Collections" at http://international.loc.gov/. The Naxi Kingdom flourished from the eighth century until 1724, when it came under Chinese rule. Naxi priests created the manuscripts on coarse, handmade paper, bound them into booklets, and used them while conducting religious rituals and shamanistic ceremonies. The edges of the manuscripts were burned during the ceremonies so that the resulting smoke would transmit the book's message up to the heavens. Because the sacred books were then either buried with the priests when they died or were burned on their funeral pyre, relatively few Naxi manuscripts are known to be in existence. The Library of Congress's collection of 3,342 Naxi items is the largest outside of China and this is the first time that such a large number of Naxi manuscripts have been cataloged, selectively digitized and put on the Web. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Australian Centre for Astrobiology http://aca.mq.edu.au/ The Australian Centre for Astrobiology performs research in physics, astronomy, and cosmology, as well as investigates the possibility of life beyond Earth. After learning about the Centre's latest news and events, users can find summaries of the many current research projects including studies of ancient hydrothermal systems, remote sensing of the atmosphere of Venus, and varying constants. The website features the research, papers, and achievements of Professor Paul Davies and the Centre's other members. Students and educators can discover research and scholarship opportunities. This has been added to Astronomy Resources 2004-05 Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Tapped In http://ti2.sri.com/tappedin/ The online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another. This will be added to Educational and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Surfpack http://www.surfpack.com/ Surfpack builds a single HTML page that contains all your favorite web resources displayed in any way, form or shape you like - favorite URL links, newsfeeds, entire web pages etc. The page you create also comes with search tools, horoscopes, current weather conditions, LiveJournal diaries, humor, and other web modules. There are dozens of tools that make your online experience with Surfpack much more enjoyable than simple web surfing, cluttered with unwanted banners and pop-up ads. Unlike online portals, no registration required to open or modify your startpage! In addition, Surfpack supports many popular syndication formats - RSS, Atom, XML/XSL, JavaScript, HTML. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Corporations Still Not Cutting Web Pie By Jim Wagner http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3373151 The Web sites of too many Fortune 100 companies in the United States don't take customers seriously, an upcoming report by research and consulting firm The Customer Respect Group concludes. The 2004 Online Customer Respect Study shows that while companies like Microsoft (No. 1) and Hewlett-Packard (No. 2) performed very well across the board, most had inadequate privacy, operational or security measures in place to reassure customers. The study evaluates the top 100 U.S. companies in six categories -- simplicity, responsiveness, transparency, principles, attitude and privacy -- and elicits end-user feedback on their experiences of visits to the Web sites. Grading is done on a 0 (worst) to 10 (best) scale. Roger Fairchild, president of the Bellevue, Wash.-based consulting firm, said he finds it amazing that after three years of publishing report results, companies still don't take their online sites seriously. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, June 29, 2004 
Internet Demographics http://www.InternetDemographics.info/ InternetDemographics.info is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for Internet demographics. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/ The goal of this "visual sourcebook" is to add to the material teachers can use to help their students understand Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed to stand alone; we assume that teachers who use it will also assign a textbook with basic information about Chinese history. Several pedagogical concerns shaped the design of this website. Although some topics (e.g. philosophy, religion, social distinctions, historiography) are best taught through written texts, many facets of Chinese civilization are more easily conveyed through images (material culture, technology, visual and performing arts, and so on). We have therefore not attempted to illustrate all the major themes of a course on China. Moreover, rather than give a few pictures of many topics, as illustrated histories often do, we have instead prepared substantial units on ten important subject areas spanning the length of Chinese history: geography, archaeology, religion, calligraphy, military technology, painting, homes, gardens, clothing, and the graphic arts. Students should be able to view these units before coming to class, much as they would read texts in a sourcebook of primary sources. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM ResourceShelf's DocuTicker http://www.resourceshelf.com/docuticker DocuTicker posts daily listings of new full text reports from governments, think tanks, and other groups. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Pluck http://www.pluck.com/ Pluck's suite of integrated applications helps you search, retrieve, organize and share the best parts of the web. Pluck transforms Internet Explorer into a web workhorse and it’s free! This has been added to the research tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Gauging Impact With Digitometrics http://www.sciecom.org/sciecominfo/artiklar/brody_04_2.shtml While online publishing has the advantage of making an author's work instantly available to millions of people, it also diminishes the author's ability to gauge the impact of that work. Tim Brody, a Ph.D. candidate at the U.K.'s University of Southampton, has been working with a new field called Digitometrics, which combines the results from citation analysis with Web logs. By counting the number of times an article has been downloaded, it's possible to get an idea of its impact. Brody has set up a citation analysis service called Citebase, based on the content in arXiv, a physics subject archive. He anticipates numerous similar services springing up in the Open Access environment. One of the most important aspects of Digitometrics, says Brody, is that it will shift analysts' focus from rating journals to rating specific articles. This in turn may lead to a system of looking for patterns to predict the future impact of an article. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM SITrends.org http://www.SITrends.org/ The goal of Sitrends.org is to provide a clearinghouse for information about the world's service sectors. With virtually every country in the world having a service sector at, or over, 50% of employment and 50% of gross domestic product, this site fills, for the first time, a need to look at current events in those service sectors, whether that be the latest books and articles or the latest statistics. We hope that by making data, reading lists, ideas and information more readily available to the public we may motivate more research and discussion of service sector issues. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, June 28, 2004 
AwarenessWatch™ Newsletter V2N7 July 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N7.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The July 2004 V2N7 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is available as a 32 page .pdf document (547KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of deep web and invisible web resources. Included sections: a) Articles, Papers, Forums, Audios and Videos; b) Cross Database Articles; c) Cross Database Search Services; d) Cross Database Search Tools; e) Peer to Peer, File Sharing, Grid and Matrix Search Engines; f) Presentations; g) Resources - Deep Web Research; and h) Resources - Semantic Web Research. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released current awareness and research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and alerts. The book review highlights Legal Issues Relating to Free and Open Source Software and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with three new subjects: Auction Resources, Employment Resources and Games Resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 11:04 AM 
This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. June 28, 2004 V2N26 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Games Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.GamesResources.info/  
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Internet Alerts http://www.InternetAlerts.info/ InternetAlerts.info is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for Internet alerts. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM African Online Digital Library http://www.africandl.org/ MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at MSU, and in partnership with premiere research institutions in Africa, is pioneering the African Online Digital Library. The goal of this fully accessible online digital repository is to adopt the emerging best practices of the American digital library community and apply them in an African context. AODL benefits a wide variety of scholars, students, and institutions by producing multilingual, multimedia materials for both scholarly research and public viewing audiences. AODL serves scholars and students conducting research and teaching about West and South Africa as well as teachers and students of African languages in both the United States and Africa. It also provides a valuable model for creating and distributing a diverse array of materials in a region with very limited electronic connectivity. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Bot A Blog http://www.BotABlog.com/ Bot A Blog: Free Blog Update Notifications By eMail. Bot A Blog is a free service where bots send you simple text emails when your favorite blogs are updated and new entries are added. Add a subscription form or button to your blog to allow your visitors to bot your blog! This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Evolutionary Intelligence http://www.neuroblast.net/EI/EI.html These pages show how to construct a dynamic virtual world of complex and interacting genes, genomes, organisms and populations that compete against one another in a rigorous selection regime in which fitness is judged by one criterion alone: intelligence. The genetic architecture underlying this evolutionary system is versatile, creative and powerful enough to engender a practically infinite variety of data processing and analysis capabilities, adaptable to almost any conceivable intellectual task. This virtual world could witness the emergence of our first learning, thinking machines, and provide a rich opportunity to study the nature of intelligence and foray into a vast, untapped technological market. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Teleporting Atoms http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20040624A5 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)have demonstrated "teleportation" by transferring key properties of one atom to another atom without using any physical link. The experiments used laser beam manipulations to transfer quantum states of one beryllium atom to another atom within a set of microscale traps, with a 78% success rate. The technique could be useful for transporting information in quantum computers of the future, which could use central processing elements smaller than a cube of sugar to carry out massively complex computations that are currently impossible. Someday, quantum computers might be used for applications such as code breaking of unprecedented power, optimizing complex systems such as airline schedules, much faster database searching and solving of complex mathematical problems, and even the development of novel products such as fraud-proof digital signatures. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM The Case of the Vanishing Links http://www.darwinmag.com/read/060104/links.html CalState Northridge business librarian Alan T. Schroeder Jr. calls attention to some research by Robert Dellavalle of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center on the phenomenon of so-called dynamic URLs. "In a recent issue of Science, Dellavalle and colleagues determined after only three months, the journals New England Journal of Medicine, Science and Nature had 3.8 percent of their article references inactive. After 15 months, 10 percent were found inactive and after 27 months, 13 percent were inactive. These journals are print staples in most research libraries and if references in these heavyweights are susceptible to incomplete research, imagine the percentages in less reputable publications related to URL longevity." He continues: "Incomplete repointing (or 'hardware reconfiguration') of servers leads many to a research dead end. If the required URL now has a new IP address with no legacy page or 'paper trail' created during repointing, you probably will never find that URL again. As server hosts come and go, mergers occur, data migrates to new systems and companies go bankrupt, expect this problem to continue. Expect URLs to continue to disappear with no explanation. And expect to see a lot of conflicting and duplicative research." What can be done in the short term? Schroeder urges researchers involved in ongoing, lengthy research to recheck URLs for accuracy and currency on a monthly or bi-weekly basis as their research progresses toward publication. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, June 27, 2004 
Information Quality Resources http://www.InformationQualityResources.info/ Information Quality Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis on information quality. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Waterfalls World Waterfall Database http://www.world-waterfalls.com Eastern Waterfall Guide http://www.aria-database.com/waterfall/ Facts About Niagara Falls http://www.niagarafallslive.com/Facts_about_Niagara_Falls.htm National Geographic: Lost Tibetan Waterfall http://www.nationalgeographic.com/events/releases/pr990111.html Waterfalls of Western North America http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/Waterfalls.html Waterfalls http://www.gowaterfalling.com/ Some of the most fascinating natural phenomena in the world are waterfalls. Cascading over and through the geological remnants of the earth's history, the water of the world falls, creating the familiar sounds of gurgling, crashing water. This topic in depth takes you on a tour of a few great websites devoted to waterfalls around the world and the U.S. The World Waterfall Database (1) site, from Bryan Swan and Dean Goss -- waterfall aficionados -- contains all sorts of great information about waterfalls of the world. They even include listings of the biggest falls, divided between the tallest and the most volume. The second (2) site, again from a waterfall aficionado, Robert Glaubitz, highlights the waterfalls of the eastern U.S. The third (3) site, from Niagarafallslive, features all sorts of great information about the several smaller falls that collectively make up Niagara Falls. Be sure to check out the live webcam of the falls. he fourth (4) site from National Geographic, includes a great story about a lost waterfall in Tibet. The final site, Waterfalls of Western North America, (5) website is offered by Dr. Stephen K. Wagner at Michigan State University. The site is an unbelievably well organized tour of the waterfalls of the U.S. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Blogging With The Boss's Blessing By Michelle Conlin and Andrew Park BusinessWeek Online http://snipurl.com/7b1w More companies are helping employees to speak freely -- and bond with customers. Until recently, the thought of employees blabbing freely to the masses about their work on company time -- without the suits from PR hovering over them to stay "on message" -- would have created panic in the executive suite. But in the past year, employee blogs have begun to multiply across Corporate America -- and a growing number of companies approve. It started mostly as a techie thing when engineers and product developers at places such as Macromedia, Sun Microsystems (SUNW ), and Dell (DELL ) began posting first-draft free-for-alls of their own volition as a way of communicating with customers, each other, and the outside world. Though employees represent just a fraction of the 2.7 million bloggers today, experts predict they will grow robustly as consumers demand information in a more unvarnished way. Increasingly, execs see employee blogs as a way to transform a transaction with a faceless behemoth into a personal relationship with an employee. Blogs are also hyper efficient at driving product innovation. And they create loyal audiences. Once people get hooked, they keep coming back for more.[beSpacific 6-23-04] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM CRS Reports http://snipurl.com/7ahk The Congressional Research Service, an arm of the Library of Congress, serves the legislative process by providing Congress with non-partisan and in-depth legislative research and analysis on a variety of topics. CRS produces or updates more than 3,000 studies and other publications each year, none of which are distributed to the public. For more information about CRS and their reports, see Stephen Young, CRS Reports, LLRX.com (July 15, 2002). Because CRS reports are not readily accessible, the Thurgood Marshall Law Library has begun to create an online collection by providing links to CRS Reports available on the Web and by purchasing copies of relevant reports. Faculty and students who would like to see a particular report or reports on a particular topic here, please contact the library. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM NewsLookUp.com http://www.newslookup.com/ Crawling the world for the latest news articles and headlines 24x7x365. This will be added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM The Eisenhower Network http://www.mathsciencenetwork.org/ The National Network of Eisenhower Regional Consortia and Clearinghouse (The Eisenhower Network) works collaboratively to improve and strengthen K-12 mathematics and science education for all. It is a unique regional and national system that provides professional development, fosters collaboration, and disseminates exemplary products and resources. The Eisenhower Network’s activities include: • providing expert, research-based information and services to teachers, schools, and states to improve their mathematics and science programs • developing and supporting programs and activities designed for underrepresented and underserved students • facilitating educators’ professional development to improve knowledge and teaching skills • assisting states in developing and implementing best practices in curriculum frameworks, performance standards, and assessments • supporting an extensive electronic library of instructional resources and encouraging the use of technology in mathematics and science education • disseminating exemplary mathematics and science materials posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, June 26, 2004 
Information Futures Markets Portal http://www.InformationFuturesMarkets.com A Subject Tracer™ Information Blog that will bring the latest articles and resources on the Information Futures Markets is now freely available. This site will be continuously updated by the Virtual Private Library (VPL) Subject Tracer Bots™. Bookmark this site and return often to discover the markets of the future! An RSS News Feed is also available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM OpenOffice 1.1.2 Released http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/release_notes_1.1.2.html OpenOffice, the Open Source free Microsoft Office suite-compatible freeware, has a new stable release, version 1.1.2. OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 introduces the FontOOo Autopilot, which downloads and installs fonts; numerous bugs are also fixed. In addition to English, versions for Czech, Danish, French, German, Japanese and Slovak are ready now, with other localizations following shortly. OpenOffice provides an XML-based software platform for word processing, presentation software, HTML editing, database, and spreadsheet applications. Operating system support is catholic: Windows, Linux (both x86 and PPC), freeBSD, and Solaris (both SPARC and x86). posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Flawed Online Searches Cost Businesses $31 Billion Last Year http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1002877 Amid the excitement with search advertising revenue growth and the upcoming Google IPO, a study finds US executives dissatisfied with the performance of online search engines. According to a survey released by FIND/SVP, 84% of business executives feel that Web searches -- using the generally consumer-centric search engines now available --take longer than they should due to poor results. It is estimated that the loss of productive time using search engines to conduct online research cost businesses $31 billion last year. The study found that that not only are 71% of business executives frustrated with consumer search engines, 74% are not even confident that the results are reliable. However, despite this lack of confidence, 67% stated it would be difficult or impossible to do their jobs without Web-based search tools. Business professionals also question the reliability of search information, with 52% only "somewhat confident" that results originate from credible sources. Interesting article and it just happens that FIND/SVP announces their "new" business search engine this week!! Hmmmm...... posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM The Seven Steps of the Research Process http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill1.htm The following seven steps outline a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with the library, you may need to rearrange or recycle these steps. Adapt this outline to your needs. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Knowledge Management: A Guide To Resources On the Internet by Michael M. Smith http://snipurl.com/5i2z Knowledge Management (KM) is one of many important topics being addressed by companies in today’s complex business environment. KM has spawned a new legion of consultants, it has provided a new direction for many software companies, and it has given purpose to many technologies that previously appeared to be only expensive executive toys. However, KM is nothing new. It is a synthesis of many ideas which when brought together create an exciting new paradigm of research. KM is multidisciplinary and draws from communications theory, organizational dynamics, and information organization. KM incorporates the concepts of Senge’s Learning Organization, builds on the foundation of intellectual capital management, and draws from business intelligence practices. The underlying goal of KM is to use the knowledge embedded in the organization to maximize the effectiveness and competitiveness of the concern. This goal appears much too simple to have spawned such a massive movement. However, the current business environment requires new practices to accomplish this fundamental goal. There are many excellent resources on the Internet addressing the many aspects of KM. The resources listed below offer a wide variety of information on KM provided by academic/research organizations, information portals, consultants, and governmental and nonprofit organizations. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Assessing Student Learning: Available Resources by Amy E. Mark http://snipurl.com/6bsx The national attention on assessment in education is here to stay. Teaching librarians are focusing on assessing student learning both to justify library instruction to stakeholders and to improve student learning by working toward graduating entire classes of information literate students from colleges and universities. Librarians have become increasingly involved in assessment culture while searching for methods to assess information literacy. This column of Internet resources on student learning assessment differs from a list of information literacy assessment Web sites by embracing the paradigm shift away from evaluation and moving toward the assessment of student learning. Librarians are transitioning from skill-based measurements of evaluations to outcomes-based assessment. By reviewing the resources below librarians also open themselves up to research outside of librarianship, cognizant that other disciplines have expertise with measurement and instruments from which we can borrow. This has been added to the Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, June 25, 2004 
Healthcare Resources http://www.HealthcareResources.info Healthcare Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet on healthcare. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. . Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM User Experience Design Honeycomb http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php An excellent resource from Peter Morville"s column Semantics about information architecture and strategy discussing the user experience design Honeycomb. The Honeycomb is broken down into seven facets of user experience: Useful, Usable, Desirable, Findable, Accessible, Credible and Valuable. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Academic Use of Digital Resources: Disciplinary Differences and the Issue of Progression by Chris Jones, Maria Zenios and Jill Griffiths http://www.shef.ac.uk/nlc2004/Proceedings/Symposia/Symposium9/Jones_et_al.htm ABSTRACT This paper examines the use of digital resources by academics in UK Higher education. The explosive growth of the Internet and in particular the Web has led to a growth in speculation about networked and e-learning (Steeples and Jones 2003, Brown and Duguid 2000). Increasingly researchers have become aware of the ways the university resists such changes and provides a ‘resourceful constraint’ to the changes surrounding the introduction of networked learning (Brown and Duguid 2000, Cornford 2002). The take-up and use of digital resources by academic staff will be a critical factor in the success of attempts to integrate networked technologies into university teaching. There has been little research work to date that investigates the ways in which academic practice varies in relation to digital resources although there is a significant tradition of research concerned more broadly with disciplinary differences amongst academics. Two key issues are identified, different discipline and subject areas show significant divergence in the types and uses of digital resources and progression seems to affect the use of resources within the different disciplines. The research supports the view that disciplinary and subject differences reported in other contexts have a significant influence in relation to the use of digital resources. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM A Crisis for Web Preservation by Florence Olsen http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0621/pol-crisis-06-21-04.asp The Federal Depository Library Program has fallen behind in cataloging and preserving access to government documents published only on the Web. As a result, public access to those publications is spotty at best. "This is not a problem; this is a crisis," said Daniel Greenstein, head of the California Digital Library, which serves the 10 universities in the University of California system. He said information is disappearing from government Web sites at an alarming rate. At the Government Printing Office, which runs the depository library program, officials are struggling with the problem, known as fugitive documents, said Judith Russell, superintendent of documents. Fugitive documents are electronic publications that remain outside the federal depository collections in 1,300 libraries nationwide. According to Greenstein, Web crawlers are fairly good at capturing documents from the Web surface, but the technology is not as good at capturing information from the Deep Web. The Deep Web is where databases and dynamic Web pages — pages that gather information in response to users' requests — reside. A recent California Digital Library study found that about 85 percent of the Deep Web is in the .gov domain. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM THE DEEP WEB http://snipurl.com/78rr Because search engines skim only the top layers of Web pages, they miss most of what's available on what is called the "deep Web," and there may be as many as 500 billion Web pages hidden from the view of most search engines. Paul Duguid, co-author of "The Social Life of Information," says: "Google searches an index at the first layers of any Web site it goes to, and as you delve beneath the surface, it starts to miss stuff. When you go deeper, the number of pages just becomes absolutely mind-boggling." Librarians are now working with Google and other search engines to solve that problem. Daniel Greenstein of the University of California's California Digital Library, the digital branch of the University of California notes: "If you could use Google to just look across digital libraries, into any digital library collection, now that would be cool. It would help libraries achieve something that we haven't yet been able to achieve by ourselves, which is to place all of our publicly accessible digital library collections in a common pool." (New York Times 21 Jun 2004)[NewsScan Daily, 21 June 2004] This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Introduction to Research: Online Resources http://www.nwc.cc.wy.us/id/koellind/2017/resources.htm Links to reliable, authoritative online resources for students of Introduction to Research. Includes links for style sheets, search engines and directories, and study skills, as well as the best free sources for reference and general knowledge on the Internet. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, June 24, 2004 
Genealogy Resources http://www.GenealogyResources.info GenealogyResources.info is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for genealogy resources. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) http://www.csiss.org/ The CSISS mission recognizes the growing significance of space, spatiality, location, and place in social science research. It seeks to develop unrestricted access to tools and resources that will advance the spatial analytic capabilities of researchers throughout the social sciences. CSISS is funded by the National Science Foundation under its program of support for infrastructure in the social and behavioral sciences. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and Why to Free the Refereed Research Literature Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm ABSTRACT: All refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that anyone will be able to access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be interconnected by citation, author, and keyword/subject links, allowing for unheard-of power and ease of access and navigability. Successive drafts of pre-refereeing preprints will be linked to the official refereed draft, as well as to any subsequent corrections, revisions, updates, comments, responses, and underlying empirical databases, all enhancing the self-correctiveness, interactivity and productivity of scholarly and scientific research and communication in remarkable new ways. New scientometric indicators of digital impact are also emerging (http://opcit.eprints.org) to chart the online course of knowledge. But there is still one last frontier to cross before science reaches the optimal and the inevitable: Just as there is no longer any need for research or researchers to be constrained by the access-blocking restrictions of paper distribution, there is no longer any need to be constrained by the impact-blocking financial fire-walls of Subscription/Site-License/Pay-Per-View (S/L/P) tolls for this give-away literature. Its author/researchers have always donated their research reports for free (and its referee/researchers have refereed for free), with the sole goal of maximizing their impact on subsequent research (by accessing the eyes and minds of fellow-researchers, present and future) and hence on society. Generic (OAi-compliant) software is now available free so that institutions can immediately create Eprint Archives in which their authors can self-archive all their refereed papers for free for all forever (http://www.eprints.org/). These interoperable Open Archives (http://www.openarchives.org) will then be harvested into global, jointly searchable "virtual archives" (e.g., http://arc.cs.odu.edu/). "Scholarly Skywriting" in this PostGutenberg Galaxy will be dramatically (and measurably) more interactive and productive, spawning its own new digital metrics of productivity and impact, allowing for an online "embryology of knowledge." This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM AJA - A Tool for Multi-Agent System Programming http://home.arcor.de/michal.badonsky/AJA/index.htm AJA is an acronym for Adaptable Java Agents. AJA tool consists of two programming languages: A higher-level language used for the description of the main agent parts. This language is called HADL, which is the acronym for Higher Agent Definition Language. A lower-level language used for the programming of the agent parts defined in HADL. This language is called Java+. It is actually Java enriched with the constructs for accessing higher-level agent parts defined in HADL. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer&Trade; Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Backflip http://www.Backflip.com/ Backflip gets you back to the good stuff. It's the easiest way to save and share important things you see on the Web. With Backflip's organization and powerful search, you'll never lose anything interesting again. You can use it from any computer. And it's totally free. As you discover interesting Web pages, use the Backflip it! button to save them and Backflip will organize them for you. Then, simply go to your Backflip account and you'll find all of your favorite pages filed in your personal directory -- which you can access from any computer. Backflipping is easy and fun to do. All it takes is a click, and whenever you find interesting Web pages, you can depend on easily getting back to them, no matter how many you save: Backflip saves your pages and organizes them. So go ahead and explore the Web. With Backflip, you'll always get back to the good stuff. Share folders with your friends! Now Backflip makes it easy to share and discuss the interesting things you find online with your friends. Simply enter the email addresses of anyone you'd like to share with, and Backflip takes care of the rest. Your friends are notified and they can view Web pages you select, whether they're Backflip members or not. They can make comments, view each other's comments, and if you choose, they can contribute more interesting pages. This has been added to the research tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Jakob Nielsen: Attempts At Web Personalization Have Failed http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/07/1086460217133.html User experience expert Jakob Nielsen, co-founder with Don Norman of the Nielsen Norman Group, decries the poor search capabilities within Web sites. "A lot of Web sites have search that doesn't prioritize results well and you couldn't make any sense of the results even if they were in the right order. We have relatively good search engines for the Internet but the sad thing is, within the Web sites the search engines have not really improved." The Nielsen Norman Group helps organizations design "human-centered" products and services by examining all aspects of the end-user's interaction with a company's services and products. Nielsen complains: "Web sites are also pretty bad at predicting what you want -- all the attempts at personalization have mainly failed." When a searcher's results are shown on a small display, the system's ability to predict what the searcher wants is extremely important, as is its ability to describe things concisely. Nielsen also thinks Web designers need to spend more energy find constructive ways to use this bandwidth: "We're now at a point where it's possible for many users to watch decent-quality video over the Internet. That's a technology question. But this then begs the question, what are you going to use it for in terms of content? Just because you can do it, doesn't mean it's a good idea to do it." (The Age 7 Jun 2004) posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, June 23, 2004 July 2004 Zillman Column - Data Mining Resources on the Internet http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Data Mining Resources.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The July 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Data Mining Resources on the Internet. This July 2004 Zillman Column is a comprehensive listing of online data mining sites and subject guides currently available on the Internet. Download this excellent 12 page free .pdf document today and stay current in the ever changing exciting data mining field! posted by Marcus Zillman | 12:29 PM 
Auction Resources http://www.AuctionResources.info/ Auction Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for auction information on the Internet. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and is maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM FX-Agents http://fxagents.stanford.edu/ Logic and agent based Information Technology for the next generation e-marketplace. FX-Mission is to construct an extensible open e-marketplace and populate it with working autonomous software agents for the financial domain. This has been added to eCommerce Resources and Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM The Nonsense of 'Knowledge Management' by T.D. Wilson http://www.informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html Abstract: Examines critically the origins and basis of 'knowledge management', its components and its development as a field of consultancy practice. Problems in the distinction between 'knowledge' and 'information' are explored, as well as Polanyi's concept of 'tacit knowing'. The concept is examined in the journal literature, the Web sites of consultancy companies, and in the presentation of business schools. The conclusion is reached that 'knowledge management' is an umbrella term for a variety of organizational activities, none of which are concerned with the management of knowledge. Those activities that are not concerned with the management of information are concerned with the management of work practices, in the expectation that changes in such areas as communication practice will enable information sharing. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM From KISS to KIDS – An ‘anti-simplistic’ Modelling Approach http://bruce.edmonds.name/kiss2kids/kiss2kids.html Abstract A new approach is suggested under the slogan “Keep it Descriptive Stupid” (KIDS) that encapsulates a trend in increasingly descriptive agent-based social simulation. The KIDS approach entails one starts with the simulation model that relates to the target phenomena in the most straight-forward way possible, taking into account the widest possible range of evidence, including anecdotal accounts and expert opinion. Simplification is only applied when and if the model and evidence justify this. This contrasts sharply with the KISS approach where one starts with the simplest possible model and only moves to a more complex one if forced to. An example multi-agent simulation of domestic water demand and social influence is described. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Learning Technology: The Myths and Facts by John A Finnis http://www.itdl.org/Journal/May_04/article07.htm Abstract This paper considers some of the major issues in the field of learning technology. It seeks to identify areas in which technology has greatest potential to contribute to the learning process, and also those areas in which the application of technology is inappropriate or detrimental. Issues include the support of different kinds of learner, learning environments, reusability and accessibility. Questions raised include the changing role of learning in the information age, extent to which learning materials may be re-used, and how misunderstandings between various contributors to learning technology projects may be overcome. The paper concludes with a hypothetical example of an effective application of learning technology. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning http://www.itdl.org/ This Journal was established to facilitate collaboration and communication among researchers, innovators, practitioners, and administrators of education and training programs involving technology and distance learning. An academic institution, Duquesne University, was chosen for its commitment to academic excellence and exemplary programs in instructional technology and distance learning. Duquesne University is supporting the Journal through its graduate program in Instructional Technology and its Center for Technology Education Innovation and Research (TEIR Center). In addition to its educational programs, Duquesne University has major training contracts for industry and government. The Journal is refereed, global, and focused on research and innovation in teaching and learning. Duquesne University and its partner, DonEl Learning Inc., are committed to publish significant writings of high academic stature. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, June 22, 2004 
Finding People Resources and Sites http://www.FindingPeople.info Finding People is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on finding people. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM CINDOR (Conceptual INterlingua DOcument Retrieval) http://www.cindorsearch.com/ CINDOR enables users to enter a single query in their native language and retrieve documents in all supported languages. Current languages supported are: English, French and Spanish. Simplified Chinese, Russian and Arabic are currently under development. What makes CINDOR unique in the cross-language search arena? Our Conceptual Interlingua, a language neutral lexicon, removes monolingual and keyword search barriers. CINDOR has three core technology modules: Conceptual Interlingua, Language Analysis, and Search Management. These core technology modules may be part of a full solution tightly integrated with a third party search engine and storage solution, or sold with standard APIs and wrappers to aid integration as an embeddable solution in any third party search/storage engine. The system accepts user queries in free-form text, ranging from single words or phrases to full natural language sentences. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Dubai Internet City Announces Dubai Outsource Zone (DOZ) http://www.dubaiinternetcity.com/html/news_46.htm Dubai Internet City today announced the Dubai Outsource Zone (DOZ), the world’s first ’free zone’ dedicated to the outsourcing industry. The announcement was made by Dr. Omar Bin Sulaiman, CEO of Dubai Internet City at Europe’s biggest conference on outsourcing, Outsource World held in London. Dubai Outsource Zone will provide a comprehensive infrastructure and environment for outsourcing companies to set up global or regional hubs servicing the worldwide market. DOZ’s offering includes 100% exemption from taxes, arguably the world’s most reliable technology and communications infrastructure, a one-stop shop of support services and the best possible working environment. This has been added to OutSourcing/Offshoring Resources and Information Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Study Plans http://www.studyplans.com/ This Web site is designed for educators who want to find lessons, ideas, projects, and information on the internet fast. The links are arranged by subject and then divided into more specific areas so that things can be quickly located. This site could also be used by families, either for additional information on a topic of interest to the family or by families who have chosen to home-school their children. In addition, this site can be used by students who want to learn more about a topic or who are looking for a project to present at their school. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Countdown to RSS, the Gateway Technology http://idea.zanestate.edu/rss/ This is an attempt to explain RSS and its benefits to the casual Web-using instructor in 15 minutes or less. The reader will learn what RSS is, some advantages it offers, and how to find, subscribe to, and read RSS feeds. The reader is asked to complete three brief tasks to demonstrate the skills required to use an RSS aggregator. Suggestions for further exploration are offered. This has been addd to the RSS Resource links in my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM A Map of Languages in the United States http://www.mla.org/census_main The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and seven groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The Language Map illustrates the density of language speakers in zip codes and counties. The Data Center provides actual numbers and percentages of speakers. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, June 21, 2004
This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. June 21, 2004 V2N25 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Auction Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.AuctionResources.info/
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Financial Sources http://www.FinancialSources.info/ Financial Sources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for financial information. This Subject Tracer™ Information Blog is divided into the following sections: Corporate Conference Calls Sources, Financial Sources, Financial Sources Search Engines, Venture Capital Sources and Other Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and is maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:24 AM Entrez - The Life Sciences Cross-Database Search Engine http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Web/Newsltr/FallWinter03/index.html The Entrez search and retrieval system now offers a cross-database search that allows a single query to span the traditional NCBI-sequence databases; Nucleotide and Protein; the literature databases, such as PubMed®, PMC, Books, OMIM™, Journals, and MeSH; the structurally-oriented databases, Structures, the Conserved Domain Database, 3D-Domains; the NCBI Taxonomy, Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), Population Sets, Genomes, Sequence Tagged Sites, UniGene, Gene-centered information (Gene), and, finally, the NCBI Web site itself. The cross database search option, labeled “Entrez” on the NCBI homepage search menu, replaces 'GenBank' as the default. This has been added to Biological Informatics, Deep Web Research and Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Ethnomathematics Digital Library http://www.ethnomath.org A resource directory with more than 500 documents and web links on ethnomathematics, indigenous math, and mathematical expression in world cultures. Organized for browsing by subject, geographical area, cultural group, and language. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Web Sites Make UK Science and Industry Archives Available To All http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2775 http://snipurl.com/75ls Until now, visitors to the U.K.'s National Museum of Science & Industry (NMSI) could see only a small fraction of their vast collections at any one time. But virtual visitors now have unprecedented access to more than 30,000 objects, digitized and collected into two creatively organized Web sites. The first, www.ingenious.org.uk, offers a fascinating insight into science and contemporary culture, using images, stories, opinion pieces and online debates to explore the many feats of human ingenuity that shape our lives. The second, www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk, is based on the Science Museum's landmark gallery, Making the Modern World. It gives visitors a new way to explore the icons of invention by using animation, dramatic reconstructions and technical explanations to encourage visitors to find out more about the social implications of historical advances in science and technology. Lindsay Sharp, Director of NMSI, comments: "Through these Web sites, we are offering millions of virtual visitors the chance to see thousands of iconic objects that will help improve the understanding of the contribution of science, technology and invention to the material world around us and how they have changed our lives. As you'd expect from one of the world's leading science museums we've exploited the potential of new technology to make sure the experience for visitors is rich and exciting." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM IKNOW (Inquiring Knowledge Networks on the Web) http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/Projects/TECLAB/IKNOW/ In today's Knowledge intensive economy, it is not only important for organizations to focus on building their knowledge assets, but also to make sure that this knowledge is effectively identified, distributed, shared and used. IKNOW (Inquiring Knowledge Networks on the Web) is a Web based E-solution that was created to assist organizations, communities, or indivudal team to manage their knowledge assets. IKNOW helps an organization by putting in place a mapping, visualization, and measurement system that can help organizations to study the patterns of knowledge and information flow though an organizations informal network. This, in turn, can help enhance an organization’s capability to identify critical patterns of knowledge distribution and information flow, and thus, more effectively manage these knowledge assets. IKNOW provides the focus associated with mapping, measurement and visualization of knowledge networks and combines it with the power of structured collaboration. Further its ability to run on many popular Web platforms enhances its ease of use. In short, IKNOW will answer the following: 1) Who knows who?, 2) Who knows what? 3) Who knows who knows who? and 4) Who knows who knows what? This has been added Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and to my posting on Online Social Networks. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Research Connect - Connecting the World To Information http://www.ResearchConnect.com/ Research Connect™ is an integrated research database connecting the media and investors with leading independent financial, business, economic, political, technical, legal, medical, scientific, and social research. The Research Connect database was built with the goal of indexing the vast group of extraordinary minds that are conducting research throughout the world. Research that is shaping the world, the economies and the markets we live in. This has been added to Research Resources and Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, June 20, 2004 
Employment Resources http://www.EmploymentResources.info/ Employment Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for employment information. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and is maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Detroit News: Gas-electric vehicles surge in popularity http://www.detnews.com/2004/autosinsider/0403/29/a01-106310.htm Electric Vehicle History Online Archive http://sloan.stanford.edu/evonline/ Hybrid Electric Vehicle Program http://www.ott.doe.gov/hev/ Argonne Laboratories Transportation Technology R&D Center http://www.transportation.anl.gov/ California: Driveclean.gov http://www.zevinfo.com/en/gv/home/index.asp While Scout recently reported on hybrid automobiles from the current make and model point of view, this topic in depth explores the history and technology of electric and hybrid cars and considers the options available for car buyers and the future of fuel cell technology. This article from the Detroit News suggests electric vehicles are becoming popular (1). The second website (1) provides an interactive history and archived documents about the development of electric vehicles. The third link describes a specific program involving U.S. corporations and the Federal government (2). The fourth link takes you to Argonne Laboratories transportation website, which provides articles and reviews recent research developments (3). If you are looking to buy an electric or hybrid car this website provides information on the various alternative vehicles and, and California residents can find out about state government-sponsored incentives for car buyers (4). This last website from the Why Files offers an analysis of some of the pros and cons of electric vehicles and suggests fuel cells have more potential (5). [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM News Audiences Increasingly Politicized - Online News Audience Larger, More Diverse http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=215 Despite tumultuous events abroad, the public's news habits have been relatively stable over the past two years. Yet modest growth has continued in two important areas online news and cable news. Regarding the latter, the expanding audience for the Fox News Channel stands out. Since 2000, the number of Americans who regularly watch Fox News has increased by nearly half from 17% to 25% while audiences for other cable outlets have been flat at best. Fox's vitality comes as a consequence of another significant change in the media landscape. Political polarization is increasingly reflected in the public's news viewing habits. Since 2000, the Fox News Channel's gains have been greatest among political conservatives and Republicans. More than half of regular Fox viewers describe themselves as politically conservative (52%), up from 40% four years ago. At the same time, CNN, Fox's principal rival, has a more Democrat-leaning audience than in the past. This report by the Pew Research Center for the people and the press includes the following: I. Where Americans Go for News, II. The Changing Online News Audience, III. International News Audience Broader, Not Deeper, IV. Attitudes Toward the News, V. Media Credibility Declines, About the Surveys, Media Tables, Questionnaire Part 1, and Questionnaire Part 2. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Web Sites That Shorten Long URLs http://notlong.com/links/ These free web sites can take a long URL and give you back a shorter URL without requiring registration. Since these sites forward a click from one link to another, they are also known as URL forwarders and some do subdomain forwarding. Any of these services will do a decent job, but if you want to study them before you pick one, here is an informal survey of the competitive landscape. [beSpacific June 15, 2004] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Government Technology Offers RSS Newsfeeds http://www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=90558 Government Technology magazine -- in addition to Web site news and e-mail newsletters -- provides U.S. state and local government technology news through Really Simple Syndication (RSS), an XML-based format for content distribution. RSS feeds provide headlines, descriptions and links back to Government Technology for the full story. More data on RSS feeds and the most popular RSS Newsreaders are available online. The Government Technology RSS URL is: http://www.govtech.net/rss/topstories.php and content channels on the main site also contain RSS URLs. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Fractals Show Machine Intentions http://snipurl.com/74pt Someday machines could build themselves, which means they might not necessarily be designed to communicate with people. This could make interacting with machines difficult. One solution is to give people a means of interpreting machines that's similar to the way we read each other's body language. A team of researchers has proposed a way to do so that combines fractals with algorithms that automatically cluster data. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, June 19, 2004 
eCommerce Resources http://www.eCommerceResources.info eCommerce Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet on eCommerce. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. . Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:24 AM The Jukebox Mode of Innovation: a Model of Commercial Open Source Development by Joachim Henkel http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/henkel.pdf Abstract by author: In this paper, I explore the circumstances under which innovation processes without secrecy or intellectual property protection are viable, and where free revealing of innovations is a profit-maximizing strategy. Motivated by an empirical study of embedded Linux, I develop a duopoly model of quality competition. Firms require two complementary technologies as inputs, but differ with respect to the relative importance of these technologies. I find that a regime with compulsory revealing can lead to higher product qualities and higher profits than a proprietary regime. When the decision to reveal is endogenized, equilibria with voluntary revealing arise, again superior to the proprietary outcome. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM OpenTextBook.org http://www/OpenTextBook.org/ OpenTextBook.org is an effort to create a free textbook using methods developed by the F/OSS community. By open, they mean under the terms of the Gnu Free Documentation License. Currently they only have subversion access and a daily pdf snapshot of the same, which is mostly math but you can help by contributing work, writing, looking at FIXME's or helping port over stuff from the Incoming folder. They are very much going for a book rather than a purely online resource or reference. They are also actively looking to host opened textbooks, or provide resources for their creation. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Searching Vs. Finding by William A. Woods, Sun Microsystems Laboratories http://snipurl.com/73r2 Finding information and organizing it so that it can be found are two key aspects of any company's knowledge management strategy. Nearly everyone is familiar with the experience of searching with a Web search engine and using a search interface to search a particular Web site once you get there. (You may have even noticed that the latter often doesn't work as well as the former.) After you have a list of hits, you typically spend a significant amount of time following links, waiting for pages to download, reading through a page to see if it has what you want, deciding that it doesn't, backing up to try another link, deciding to try another way to phrase your request, et cetera. Eventually you may find what you want, or you may ultimately give up and decide that you can't find it. Why is this so difficult? posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/eFeeds.htm eFeeds(sm): Web Feeds from Electronic Journals is a categorized registry of electronic journals that offer RSS/XML, Atom, or other Web feeds. Publisher-specific and vendor Web feeds are categorized in a separate category. eFeeds(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library. Ames, IA 50011. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM SCRIPT-ed http://www.script-ed.org The second issue of SCRIPT-ed, the online, international, interdisciplinary and multi-lingual law and technology journal of the AHRB Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law is now live. This will be added to Legal Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, June 18, 2004 
Directory Resources http://www.DirectoryResources.info Directory Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis on Internet Directories. The goal of this site is to be the Internet's Directory of Directories! We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. . Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM How To Use the Federal FOI Act - 9th Edition http://www.rcfp.org/foiact/index.html This booklet is designed as a general "do-it-yourself" guide to using the federal Freedom of Information Act. This is the ninth edition of the guide, which was originally published in 1976 and has been updated and expanded to include recent court opinions that affect the FOI Act. This booklet was researched and edited by The FOI Service Center, a project of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It describes how to use the Act as an effective investigative tool, and provides sample letters, forms and directories to assist you in dealing with the government promptly and effectively. [beSpacific 06-14-04] This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM I have just updated the Research Tools section of my Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and the following is the latest listing of what I consider to be some of the very best Research Tools on the Internet. This is also available as a white paper link compilation by clicking here. RESEARCH TOOLS 1Jump® http://www.1jump.com/ Accurint http://www.accurint.com/ A Great Grabber http://www.crazypixels.com/grabber-feature.htm askSam - Free Form Database Software http://www.asksam.com/ Backflip http://www.Backflip.com/ Bibster http://bibster.semanticweb.org/index.htm BlogPulse™ http://www.BlogPulse.com/ CatchTheWeb - Web Research, Web Intelligence Collaboration, and Web Publishing http://www.catchtheweb.com/ Conducting Research Surveys via Email and the Web http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1480/ eGroupWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/ FindForward Search Engine http://www.findforward.com Finding People http://www.FindingPeople.info/ Furl - Your Web Page Filing Cabinet http://www.furl.net/index.jsp GalleryWatch http://www.GalleryWatch.com/ Google API Proximity Search (GAPS) http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi iBrarian http://www.ibrarian.com/homepage.html Internet Archives http://web.archive.org/ Investigator's Toolbox - Online Resources for Researchers http://www.virtuallibrarian.com/it/ Inventory of Research Methods for Librarianship and Informatics by Jonathan D. Eldredge, M.L.S., Ph.D., AHIP http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=314107 iRider Web Browser http://www.irider.com/ Keepoint: Your Personal Web Information Manager http://www.keepoint.com/ Library of Congress Research Tools http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/tools.html N-LITER http://www.n-liter.com/ Nesstar http://www.nesstar.com/ Net Snippets http://www.netsnippets.com/ netXtract - The Net-based Research Productivity Tool http://www.netxtract.com/ NoodleQuest http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/ Onfolio http://www.onfolio.com ORIONMagic - Knowledge Management Tools http://www.orionmagic.com/ Perseus WebResearcher http://www.perseus.com/softwareprod/webresearcher.html Pluck http://www.pluck.com/ Research Assistant http://www.translogik.com/products/ra/overview.asp Research Connect - Connecting the World To Information http://www.ResearchConnect.com/ ResearchIndex CiteSeer http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs Research-It! http://snipurl.com/6c4h Research Mapper http://www.xrefer.com/research/index.jsp Research Methods Resources on the WWW http://www.slais.ubc.ca/resources/research_methods/ Research Tools and Papers http://www.virtualpet.com/rtools.htm ResearchWorks http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/ Research WWW Browsers http://snipurl.com/73hr RocketInfo Desktop http://www.RocketDesktop.com/ SnagIt Screen Capture http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp Snippy by ResearchAgent http://www.researchagent.com/snippy/ SurfWax News http://news.surfwax.com The Academic Web Link Database Project http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/database/ The Spire Project http://www.spireproject.com/ The Verifier http://www.virtualref.com/_verifier/ Tools for Investigative Research http://www.virtualchase.com/tir/ TrackEngine http://www.TrackEngine.com/ TrademarkBots® - Monitor Trademarks and Brands on the Internet http://www.Trademarkbots.com/ TRAMMS http://tramss.data-archive.ac.uk/index.asp USBudget Services http://www.USBudget.com/ Watch That Page http://www.WatchThatPage.com/ Website-Watcher http://www.aignes.com/ Wysigot - Monitor the Web http://www.wysigot.com/ XanEdu ReSearch Engine http://www.xanedu.com/researchengine/students/ YellowPen Research Engine http://www.YellowPen.com/ posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Moon, Mars and Beyond http://www.moontomars.org/ The President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond. This site gives the latest reports, data and current information on the President's Commission "Moon, Mars and Beyond". This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM EconoPundit http://www.EconoPundit.com/ Steve Antler's excellent EconoPundit brings the latest economic news and views with a comprehensive listing of EconoWriters, EconoData and EconoPolitics. This has been added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ information Blog and Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will also be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM calcmaster.NET Anonymize http://www.calcmaster.net/ calcmaster.NET is an anonymous proxy service that allows you to visit websites that may be restricted by the computer or network that you are using (commonly done at schools and workplaces) and protects your ip address from these websites. The urls are encoded which prevents url filters from blocking sites. GET and POST are supported. SSL will also be added soon. In the near future, this anonymizer will support session url encoding which will prevent anyone from accessing a website you have visited by clicking on your history. Cookie support is also planned in the near future. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM |
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