Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004  DigiCULT Resources - Resource Discovery & Information Retrieval DigiCULT Resources - Resource Discovery & Information Retrieval http://www.digicult.info/pages/resources.php?t=21 An excellent listing of resource discovery and information retrieval resources and sites compiled and annotated by DigiCULT. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Global Sources: Creating and Facilitating Global Trade http://www.globalsources.com/ Global Sources offers product and trade information for volume buyers including product search, supplier search and country search. Also available are product alerts, my catalog, sourcing magazines and market intelligence reports. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM The Electoral College, Political Parties, and Elections: Sites To Help You Through the Voting Process by Beth Jane Toren C&RL News, July/August 2004 Vol. 65, No. 7 http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/july04/elections.htm This article contains annotations to selected free sites and Internet resources that provide information about the electoral college, political parties, U.S. presidential elections, procedures and statistics, and international election monitoring. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Journal of Webology: An International Electronic Journal http://www.webology.itgo.com/ Webology is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular. Concerns include the production, gathering, recording, processing, storing, representing, sharing, transmitting, retrieving, distribution, and dissemination of information, as well as its social and cultural impacts. There is a strong emphasis on new information technologies and methodologies. The orientation is toward quantitative experimental work, but significant qualitative and historical research is also welcome. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM ez2Find - Global Meta Search Engine http://www.ez2find.com/ An interesting and comprehensive meta search engine with over 3.8 million sites listed in 460,000 categories and 1,000 specific search engines. Their translation capability as well as many country choices and guides make this warranted for your bookmarks. This will be added to the search engine section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Internet Guide To Chinese Studies http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ As China is the second fastest growing country on the Internet it is always good to have the resources appropriate to the country available. The China WWW Virtual Library Internet Guide to Chinese Studies has over 1,500 links to many excellent resources and is created by the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands with support from the Institute of Chinese Studies (Heidelberg University), the Berlin State Library, and the German Research Foundation. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, August 30, 2004  White Papers by Internet Expert Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. August 30, 2004 V2N35 discusses the latest Internet resource White Papers. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest resource for white papers. View this resource at: White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/   posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM  jux2 Search Tool jux2 Search Tool http://www.jux2.com/index.php As search aficionados, we have watched recent changes in the search industry with great interest. Yahoo! launched its own search algorithm in February 2004. MSN previewed its proprietary search algorithm in July 2004, and is expected to roll it out soon. That will give Internet searchers a choice of four different major search algorithms (Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, and Yahoo). It also made us wonder: how different are the search engines, and is one any better than the others? They created jux2 as a comparative research tool to answer these questions. Using jux2, theylearned that search engines are more different than people think, typically sharing fewer than 3.5 of their top 10 results (see the other statistical data). They also found that a comparative tool like jux2 gives users far more control over their searches and, in many cases, better search results than from any single search engine. Their hope is that the community of advanced search users finds jux2 an interesting and useful tool. This has been added to the search engine section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Openly Informatics http://www.openly.com/ Openly Informatics, Inc., has a mission: to help researchers, scholars, libraries, merchants and publishers link their information together. They build software, systems and services that link people to information more efficiently. The goal of 1cate (that's one-cate) is 1-Click Access To Everything. 1Cate is an OpenURL compatible link-server for libraries that integrates a user's information environment. Openly's Hosted 1Cate service delivers e-journal lists, links, and locations- and we do all the work! Knowledgebases help linking systems to know when and how to make links. The focus of the JournalSeek Database, which is bindled with our Link.Openly Software, knowing HOW to make links. The focus of their UHF Holdings Data Service is knowing WHEN to make links. Together, these products contain linking information for over 60,000 serial publications from over 900 publishers. LinkBaton is their link server for books. LinkBatons are user-customizable links for books that can be placed on any web site to enable user preference and to enhance website revenue. Openly developed eFirst XML to build one of the most innovative e-Journals in existence. Their expertise in XML and automated document conversion are available to assist on your projects. This has been added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Lycos Discussion Search http://discussion.lycos.com/ Lycos Discussion Search provides you the tools to search and retrieve information from millions of discussion threads and conversations taking place on the World Wide Web. These interactive conversations may include listings from some of the more popular community listings. If you have an interest or need some information about a person, place or thing - find out what other folks are saying and search for a discussion on your interested topic. Lycos is working to provide you ONE place to find information about all your interests and your friends, family and colleagues, both current and future. This has been added to Finding People Subject™ Tracer Information Blog. This also has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM URLinfo http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/ URLinfo beta by Fagan Finder is a tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc. To use it, type a URL (web page address) into the box in the top frame. Then choose a tab (such as General or Cache), and click on the name of the specific tool you wish to use. The Translate and Search tabs require a bit more, but should be self-explanatory. Click on the [info] link at the end of any tab for details about it. URLinfo includes 87 tools. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM IP Law Papers and Links http://techlawadvisor.com/papers/ A comprehensive list of white papers on IP Law and related links from the Tech Law Advisor. This will be added to Legal Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Webliographies from ISTL http://www.istl.org/webliographies.html Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship list their excellent webliographies coverings a number of scholarly academic areas. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, August 29, 2004 Information Technology and Healthcare 1) National Health Information Infrastructure http://aspe.hhs.gov/sp/nhii/ 2) PC World: Medical Records May Go Online http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117479,00.asp 3) CNET News: Human Chips More Than Skin Deep http://news.com.com/Human+chips+more+than+skin-deep/2009-7337_3-5318076.html 4) Medical Records Institute Survey http://www.medrecinst.com/pages/latestNews.asp?id=115 5) Ariadne Magazine: Interoperability http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/ 6) Connecting for Health Roadmap http://www.connectingforhealth.org/ 7) Electronic Record Development and Implementation Programme (ERDIP) http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/erdip/pages/default.asp In July 2004, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)launched its initiative to develop a National Health Information Infrastructure. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to create an electronic health record (EHR) for every American so that health records can be securely shared among health care providers. This Topic in Depth explores developments in electronic health records and technology. This first website (1) is the official site for the National Health Information Infrastructure 2004: Cornerstones for Electronic Healthcare. Some current ideas for how to share medical records, such as secured online postings or saving data on flash disks are discussed in this article from PCWorld (2). This next article (3) discusses another development in information technology, implantable electronic identification chips. The fourth website (4) presents findings from a recent Medical Records Institute survey of health providers on their current uses, future hopes and perceived barriers to electronic health record systems. One challenge for the initiative is interoperability, which is explained generally on this website (5). The issue of interoperability, as well as privacy and fragmentation in the health industry are addressed in the Preliminary Roadmap for Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare released by Connecting for Health (6). For more on current research on technology supporting the use of electronic records see this website from The Electronic Record Development and Implementation Programme (ERDIP) (7).[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Peer-to-Peer Topologies http://www-db.stanford.edu/~schloss/hypercup/ HyperCuP – Shaping Up Peer-to-Peer Networks. They present HyperCuP, a protocol implementing a distributed algorithm for organizing peers in a P2P network into a deterministic network topology. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM JournalSeek - A Searchable Database of Online Scholarly Journals http://journalseek.net/ Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 67008 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN. Searching this information allows the rapid identification of potential journals to publish your research in, as well as allow you to find new journals of interest to your field. The database does not contain articles or abstracts. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM The Chord Project http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/ The Chord project aims to build scalable, robust distributed systems using peer-to-peer ideas. The basis for much of our work is the Chord distributed hash lookup primitive. Chord is completely decentralized and symmetric, and can find data using only log(N) messages, where N is the number of nodes in the system. Chord's lookup mechanism is provably robust in the face of frequent node failures and re-joins. One way that we use Chord is as the basis for the CFS (Cooperative File System) storage system. CFS allows anyone to publish and update their own file system, and provides read-only access to others. CFS distributes the load of serving data very widely to achieve high performance despite flash crowds. It also replicates all data, and maintains that replication as nodes fail and re-join the system. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Designing Webliographies In an Effective and Simple Manner: A Step by Step Process http://www.webology.itgo.com/2004/v1n1/a2.html Abstract: This paper explains web-based information retrieval as one of the main research interests of information professionals during the last decade, and introduces machine-oriented and human-oriented approaches in the designing process of Internet search tools and concerns with the second approach as a basis for the discussion. Then it defines the concept of webliography as a special type human-edited search tools. It is in fact an enumerative list of hypertext links and a gateway to the scientific sources of information on the Net, whether annotated or not. The existence and development of webliographies on the Net are justified based on a brief literature review. 14 phases of webliography production process are also enumerated step by step and a conclusion is provided finally. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to the toold section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Web Finding Tools http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/netsearch.htm An excellent set of web finding tools links from the Dudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School. Tools include Glossary, Searching Techniques & Hints, Search Engines & Search Tools, Meta Search Engines, Specialized Search Sites, The Invisible Web, and Subject Directories & Webliographies. This will be added to my Searching the Internet resources list white paper. This will also be added to the search engines section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 28, 2004 FindArticles http://www.findarticles.com/ LookSmart's FindArticles — search and read 5.5 million articles from over 900 publications. This had been added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. This has also been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Infortmation Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM WideSource - Peer to Peer Search Engine http://www.widesource.com/ Widesource peer to peer sharing program features a powerful search engine to find web pages on the Internet. The search engine includes multiple criteria to enhance search quality, such as page size, opinion, date, language, keywords, connection speed, and other specifications. Other features of Widesource include bookmarks management, fast search on internet or in your own bookmarks, usefull macros, browsing other users bookmarks,password-protection and access restriction (on IP mask or name), a friends list, new version notification, wordwide chat, connected people list, user-friendly graphical interface, future availability of skins, and more. The program runs as a convenient icon in the System Tray area of the Windows taskbar. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM PeerMetrics http://www.peermetrics.org/ PeerMetrics is a cabal of open source developers and users interested in p2p and a furtive center for Peer System development. The vision is to build a container to run a lot of p2p plugins in, like The GIMP, push the work into the container like EJB, and hit a sweet spot of simplicity and power, like Unix. The biggest goal that is developers enjoy using and working with the Peer System. Making a peer service should be enjoyable coding that's satisfying. Where it is isn't, the peer should be fixed. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM TopoZone http://www.topozone.com/ TopoZone is the Web's center for professional and recreational map users. We've worked with the USGS to create the Web's first interactive topo map of the entire United States. And we've spent four years making our maps the best on the Web as well. In addition to serving maps on the TopoZone, we're also the Web's best source for custom digital topographic data for Web, GIS, and CAD applications, and our Web Services system can add our maps directly to your desktop or server through our ArcIMS and OGC WMS interfaces. [Net-Gold] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Science Search http://www.science-search.org/ Science Search focus is primarily on scientific issues. Science Search wants to make it possible to find accurate and helpful information in scientific areas. So, their goal is to find the best of educational and research information for you and deliver it to you in a skilful way. The Science Search Directory is based on DMOZ. Science Search has modified and enhanced this data. This will be added to the search engine section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Private Grid http://www.private-grid.nl/ Use a 10-node, 24Ghz machine for your own projects for free! With the advent of broadband, GPRS, UMTS, the world is becoming a more and more connected place. Ubiquitous computing is slowly permeating into normal day-to-day life. People are getting used to 'always being connected', and share the resources they have, sometimes with friends or acquintances, but mostly with total strangers, often living great distances away. Most of the time, the resources being shared are limited to audio- and/or video streams, webcams and filesharing with P2P software. What with home- and office systems becoming more and more powerful, high-performance computing for the masses is becoming a reality. The SETI@Home statistics prove that the Internet can be used as a large supercomputer. The idea of the private grid initiative is that people start using the very respectable, often unused, computing resources they have at their disposal for new and different projects they have not thought of before. This site is provided as a service, so academics and technical people can meet people who have ideas about what they could or would do if they could unlock the resources they have. On the other hand, it might help the sciences if they get feedback from people that are not yet locked into a certain way of thinking.This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, August 27, 2004  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N9 September 2004 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N9 September 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N9.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The September 2004 V2N9 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is available as a 28 page .pdf document (470KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of Information Alerts on the Internet and Anti-Virus, AntiHoax, AntiMyth, AntiFraud, AntiChain Letter and Anti-Spam sites on the Internet. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources. The book review highlights The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subjects: Grant Resources and Grid Resources. posted by Marcus | 4:35 AM  September 2004 Zillman Column September 2004 Zillman Column - Grid and Distributed Computing Resources on the Internet http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Grid Resources.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The September 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Grid and Distributed Computing Resources on the Internet. This September 2004 Zillman Column is a comprehensive listing of online grid resources, distributed computing resources, clusters, and parallel computing sites on the Internet. Download this excellent 14 page free .pdf column today and stay current in the ever changing exciting world of grid and distributing computing! Using freely available distributing computing you could discover the next prime number, discover the cure for AIDs, discover intelligent life from the universe and more ... posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM  Distributed Search Engines Distributed Search Engines http://www.openp2p.com/pub/t/74 A comprehensive annodated listing of 31 distributed search engines compiled by the OpenP2P organization. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Searchy - A Distributed Metainformation Search Engine http://jsearchy.sourceforge.net/ Searchy is a distributed metainformation search engine used to integrate the location of resources (resources may be understood in its widest meaning). It is useful to access different search systems like data base managers, directory services or information sources like local files with an uniform interface. Actually, Searchy may be seen from several points of view. It may be... * A distributed metainformation search engine. A key point is that Searchy performs the search in semantic terms, and returns the results also in semantic terms using RDF and Dublin Core. It makes Searchy ideal to be integrated in the future semantic web.It is written in Java with the goal to be neutral from a platform point of view and highly scalable. At the moment, its aim is to describe resources, but in a future we want to integrate it better with the semantic web by providing RDF full support, with the huge number of potential applications that it might have. Searchy is highly scalable, it can be used in small environments as long as in big ones. The key of its scalability is that Searchy is in fact a network of independent cooperant agents. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM TeraGrid http://www.teragrid.org/ TeraGrid is a multi-year effort to build and deploy the world's largest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. By 2004, the TeraGrid will include 20 teraflops of computing power distributed at nine sites, facilities capable of managing and storing nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution visualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing. Four new TeraGrid sites, announced in September 2003, will add more scientific instruments, large datasets, and additional computing power and storage capacity to the system. All the components will be tightly integrated and connected through a network that operates at 40 gigabits per second. Researchers may obtain a user's guide about access to the TeraGrid by clicking here. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM UNICORE (Uniform Interface to Computing Resources) http://unicore.sourceforge.net/ UNICORE (Uniform Interface to Computing Resources) offers a ready-to-run Grid system including client and server software. UNICORE makes distributed computing and data resources available in a seamless and secure way in intranets and the internet. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Word Count http://www.wordcount.org/ Words are used as invectives, toasts, and tirades, among other forms of human expression. As a type of artistic experiment, Jonathan Harris of Flaming Toast Productions decided to create this engaging website that documents the 86,000 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. Nay-sayers beware: This is no simple listing of the words, contained within a mundane series of connected web pages. As visitors quickly realize, this articulated end-to-end listing of these 86,000 words features scaled versions of each word, giving a "visual barometer of relevance." As the site notes, "The goal is for the user to feel embedded in the language, sifting through words like an archaeologist through sand, awaiting the unexpected find." Interestingly enough, the word "God" is one word from "began" (which is at number 375), and six words from "war." Budding urbanologists will find it interesting that the word "Chicago" is at number 6,692 and that "Shanghai" makes into the list at 18,242. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, August 26, 2004  OCEAN - Open Computation Exchange & Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network OCEAN - Open Computation Exchange & Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network Project http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/ocean/ OCEAN (Open Computation Exchange & Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network) is a major ongoing project at the University of Florida's CISE department to develop a fully functional infrastructure supporting the automated, commercial buying and selling of dynamic distributed computing resources over the internet. The idea is that anyone with spare cycles should be able to deploy an OCEAN server which can run other people's computing tasks for profit, and any developer should be able to easily write a distributed application which any user with a credit card number (or other means of automatic payment) should be able to deploy in distributed fashion using as many suitable OCEAN servers as they can afford to rent for their particular purpose. OCEAN will likely use a distributed, peer-to-peer double-auction mechanism to ensure that jobs are automatically contracted out to the cheapest suitable available bidders, and that OCEAN servers automatically contract themselves out to run the highest-paying available jobs. The OCEAN project had its roots at M.I.T. with a group of MIT and former Stanford students, led by Mike Frank. This has been added to Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:35 AM I have just completed my latest Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation titled "Online Social Networking" and this 13 page research paper lists many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to do information and knowledge research about online social networks currently available the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (675KB) at the below link from the Virtual Private Library™: [Updated 09-22-04] Online Social Networking an Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Online Social Networks.pdf
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Bio-GRID http://biogrid.icm.edu.pl/ Bio-GRID will develop interfaces to enable chemists and biologists to be able to submit work to HPC facilities. This task will focus on development of various interfaces to biomolecular applications and databases. The main task of Bio-GRID is to integrate selected applications with UNICORE infrastructure and provide easy tools for non experts in high performance computing. The toolsets and user interfaces for both simulations and visualization of biomolecules will be developed. As final step the computation portal will be established and tested with various biomolecular applications at ICM and a number of biomolecular projects and users. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM The Flamenco Search Interface Project http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html The Flamenco search interface framework has the primary design goal of allowing users to move through large information spaces in a flexible manner without feeling lost. A key property of the interface is the explicit exposure of category metadata, guide the user toward possible choices, and to organize the results of keyword searches. The interface uses metadata in a manner that allows users to both refine and expand the current query, while maintaining a consistent representation of the collection's structure. This use of metadata is integrated with free-text search, allowing the user to follow links, then add search terms, then follow more links, without interrupting the interaction flow. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center: Arecibo Observatory http://www.naic.edu/aomenu.htm The 305m radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory "is the largest single-dish radio telescope on our planet and is available to the global scientific community for astronomical observation at wavelengths between 6 m and 3 m." Researchers can search WAPP data and information about past, present, and future projects at the Observatory. The extensive website provides numerous data reduction packages and file formats. Users can find extensive materials on the planetary studies, space and atmospheric science, and astronomy occurring at the observatory. Students and educators can learn about Arecibo's summer program. The News link is filled with fascinating new accomplishments, employment opportunities, and upcoming astronomy talks and seminars. This has been added to the radio astronomy section of Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM QADPZ - Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem http://qadpz.sourceforge.net/ Q²ADPZ ['kwod "pi-'si] is an open source implementation of a system for distributed computing. The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. The users of the system can send computing tasks to these computers to be executed, which can be in the form of a dynamic library, an executable program or any program which can be interpreted (Java, Perl, etc.). Platforms supported are Linux, Unix, Win32 and MacOS X. The system is a client-master-slave architecture, using message based communication. Messages between the components of the system are in XML format, and can optionaly be crypted for security reasons. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 25, 2004  The Digital Learning Center The Digital Learning Center http://webs.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/index.jhtml The KODAK Digital Learning Center (DLC) is your digital reference solution. The DLC was developed to educate people about the digital world and to help them succeed with digital imaging. The site was built on the basics of educational instruction and has been utilized by thousands of people to Take Pictures. This site includes a glossary of digital imaging terms as well as chapters on such subjects as images for the web, video conferencing, color and storage issues. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Pronom - The File Format Registry http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/ PRONOM is an on-line information system about data file formats and their supporting software products. Originally developed to support the accession and long-term preservation of electronic records held by the National Archives, PRONOM is now being made available as a resource for anyone requiring access to this type of information. PRONOM holds information about software products, and the file formats which each product can read and write. A full description of the individual fields used by PRONOM is available in the system documentation. PRONOM is being made available as an information resource for anyone who needs authoritative information about software products, their support lifecycles and technical requirements, and about the file formats which they support. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM What Lies Beyond PDF? http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=6869 The PDF (Portable Document Format), Adobe's near-universal electronic distribution format, has undoubtedly come a good distance in the 11 years since its debut. But despite its inarguable position as the de facto standard for distributing documents on the Web, it has its share of critics who complain that it's not a particularly effective digital distribution method. Some complain that it's fine for printing out documents, but lousy for online reading. Others complain about its load time, particularly on Web sites. Although the PDF format will likely be with us for the foreseeable future, digital publishing continues to evolve, and there are a number of competing and complimentary technologies already on the market. The debate over whether online publishing should approximate print continues as well, with some competitors focused on creating a new paradigm for Web publishing, while others stress the need to maintain the integrity of the print layout. Spencer Ewald, NXTbook's CEO, explains, "There is a reason the way the book is laid out. We are conditioned to rest at the page flip. People get frustrated when scrolling because it's not laid out in the same way they are used to seeing and reading. Print is a type of interface, and we wanted to translate that onto the Web and marry the power of print with the assets of the Internet -- the depth, the quickness, the ease, and the distribution method." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Alchemi - Plug & Play Grid Computing http://www.alchemi.net/ Alchemi is an open source software framework that allows you to painlessly aggregate the computing power of networked machines into a virtual supercomputer computational grid and to develop applications to run on the grid. It has been designed with the primary goal of being easy to use without sacrificing power and flexibility. Alchemi includes: * The runtime machinery (Windows executables) to construct computational grids. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM EuroNews http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?page=home EuroNews is Europe's [television] news channel covering world news from a European perspective in a choice of seven languages. EuroNews broadcasts simultaneously in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish." The site provides video clips of recent stories in the areas of general news, business, sports, entertainment, technology, and more. Also provides weather information. Not searchable. [LII] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Information Wants To Be Shared http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0809/mgt-commune-08-09-04.asp Here's just a small sample of the many online "communities of practice" in government: CompanyCommand (an Army site to connect company commanders working to build combat-ready units); Emerging Leaders (sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services University); Highway Community Exchange (a Federal Highway Administration on transportation issues); IT Community of Practice (sponsored by the Defense Acquisition University's Acquisition Community Connection); and PlatoonLeader (an Army site to connect platoon leaders). CompanyCommand started out as a grass-roots effort yet now has more than 7,000 members and more than 50 topic areas. Maj. Peter Kilner, one of the four strategic leaders of the site, says: "People have tons of information, and people help their buddies. But really sharing their knowledge people need to be inspired and encouraged and then you need to enable it." Bob Turner, a workforce leadership strategist at the Federal Aviation Administration, adds: "One of the things that has stood out for me was that there are a lot of people in government willing to share their expertise, but it's hard for them to find each other." posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 24, 2004  The Night Sky in the World The Night Sky in the World http://www.lightpollution.it/dmsp/index.html The interest for the protection of the night sky from light pollution is growing every day. A global scale periodic monitoring of the situation is necessary. This site offers research on satellite monitoring of the artificial night sky brightness and the stellar visibility. They measure the upward light flux of sources on the Earth surface based on DMSP satellite data and then they compute the effects on the night sky modelling the light propagation in the atmosphere. Some excellent pictures and research. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Chatango http://www.Chatango.com/ Chatango is a new way to make contact with people online. It's the first tool for real-time, private, disposable, one-to-one communication. It works just like one of those IM products, but doesn't require a download, and is accessible from any computer! You may chat with me by clicking on the icon on the right side of this page. If the icon is green I am online and available for chat. If the icon is reddish brown I am not available for chat but a good chance of being online doing research or writing white paapers or updating my Subject Tracer Information Blogs and checking my eMails! posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Search Engines: Weblog Search Engines by Phil Bradley http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/search-engines/intro.html Another nice column by Phil listing some of the latest search engines for searching the rapidly expanding blogosphere. I posted an article a few days ago from the UK that stated there were over ten million blogs and growing at a rapid rate! Even if the number is less it still requires a good search engine to find out what you are looking for both on the web and on a blog! I also list a number of other searching entities for finding blogs in my latest white paper Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Commentary: Wikis http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1344426 NPR - All Things Considered (Audio) - It might sound a little crazy, letting just anyone write whatever they want on your Web site. But that's just what Wikis are designed for. Wikipedia.org, for example, lets the public collaborate to build a surprisingly accurate encyclopedia. Commentator David Weinberger says wikis are one example of "social software," intended to allow people to work together with ease. [Thanks for this audio recommendation from Gerry McKiernan, National Public Librarian, Iowa State University, Ames IA 50011] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Productscan Online http://www.productscan.com/ Productscan Online database of new products is the world's largest database of new consumer packaged goods with over a half million new skus spanning more than two decades, to the product retrieval service and new product publications that started it all, they literally eat, sleep and breathe new products. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Mainstream Media Project http://www.mainstream-media.net/ The Mainstream Media Project seeks to catalyze breakthrough conversations and connections between people of widely varying circumstances and beliefs by using the media to introduce new voices and innovative approaches to the most urgent challenges facing us as a nation and species. Founded in 1995, the Mainstream Media Project is a nonprofit public education organization that places top policy analysts and social innovators on radio stations across the country and around the world. To date, the project has booked and completed more than 12,978 interviews. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, August 23, 2004  Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. August 23, 2004 V2N34 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Grid Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing grid resources, distributed computing resources, clusters, and parallel computing sites on the Internet. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.GridResources.info/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM  Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Ponce de Leon Development Association Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 12:00pm Date: Monday, August 23, 2004 Location: Christy's in Coral Gables, Florida posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Last Call: IRI Internet-Drafts http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-duerst-iri-09.txt http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg00383.html http://www.w3.org/International/ The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has announced the Last Call Internet-Drafts important for Web addressing. "Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)" is written by Martin Dürst (W3C) and Michel Suignard (Microsoft) with involvement of the W3C Internationalization Working Group. Lifting the limitation to a subset of US-ASCII previously allowed in Web addresses, IRIs allow characters in the Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO 10646). Last Call ends 8 September. Visit the W3C Internationalization home page. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Last Call: URI Internet-Drafts http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-06.txt http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg00395.html http://www.w3.org/Addressing/ http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has announced the Last Call Internet-Drafts important for Web addressing. "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax" is written by Tim Berners-Lee (W3C), Roy Fielding (Day Software) and Larry Masinter (Adobe) with involvement of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Last Call ends 13 September. Simple text strings that refer to Internet resources, URIs may refer to documents, resources, to people, and indirectly to anything. URIs are a fundamental component of the Web. Read about the W3C URI Activity and visit the TAG home page. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Second Sight - PC Surveillance Software http://www.iquesoft-online.com/pdssight.htm Second Sight is a full-featured local and remote Windows surveillance application that keeps a complete record of all activities on your computer. Business managers can use Second Sight to monitor employees' activities, and parents can use it to keep track of their children's Internet travels, even from a different location. With Second Sight, you can determine which computer user is making inappropriate or costly use of local and Internet resources. As the amount of Internet content increases daily, so does the potential for abuse. The software works invisibly in the background, totally hidden from the computer's users. The program records the names of all open windows and web pages, and records all keys that were pressed. Second Sight can capture screen images, web cam and video camera stills, save them in its log files in full or compressed format. You can access these logs and images in real-time using any web browser. Optionally, have Second Sight notify you whenever the source PC is online and available for remote access. When reviewing Second Sight's log files, you can see everything that the user saw, and read everything that was typed, as well as perform keyword searches. The program can also be configured to silently e-mail the log files to another computer. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. New technologies create a constant struggle between our security and our privacy .... posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM A Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resource Management http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/elicensestudy/ A comprehensive resource covering reports, drafts, deliverables, projects and related initiatives for developing administrative metadata for electronic resource management. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Biological and Chemical Terrorism Information for Healthcare Professionals by Rachelle Ramsey http://www.istl.org/04-winter/internet.html Healthcare providers need up-to-date, reliable information on the types of agents and diseases they could be faced with during any type of chemical or biological event. This webliography provides links to information on biological and chemical agents as well as current news of importance to the medical community. Included are resources for treatment of diseases caused by these weapons and links to information on the make-up of these agents. While bioterrorism has been the topic of recent webliographies (Perkins 2002, and Hinegardner and May 2003), those articles have concentrated on general resources. This webliography provides access to information about specific biological and chemical agents, and a more comprehensive list of general resources than the other publications." This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, August 22, 2004  Selective Webliography for Health Sciences Authors Selective Webliography for Health Sciences Authors by Mark A. Spasser http://www.istl.org/04-summer/internet.html This selective webliography for health sciences authors is intended to gather together useful web-based resources that will facilitate the publication of professional materials. Authoring resources and tools are no exception. In fact, "lists" have been used since the beginning of literacy itself to order, reorganize, and store knowledge in a more useful, more 'logical', way (Goody 1977). It is important to remember that the web is loosely regulated and extremely fluid. Even resources from reputable publishers invariably come and go, depending on changing organizational missions and on who is charged with maintaining them. Information must be checked regularly for timeliness; while rules and procedures -- information -- change, sometimes web pages do not. All that being said, exercising a little common sense and considerable diligence, the web provides an unparalleled universe of high-quality resources literally at the fingertips of any enterprising health sciences author. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM Floods 1) FEMA: Floods http://www.fema.gov/hazards/floods/ 2) FEMA for Kids: Floods http://www.fema.gov/kids/floods.htm 3) USGS: Large Floods in the United States: Where They Happen and Why http://www.usgs.gov/themes/flood.html 4) National Weather Service: Significant River Flood Outlook http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/nationalfloodoutlook/ 5) NOAA: Flood Events http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Floods/ 6) EarthSat: FloodThreat http://www.earthsat.com/wx/flooding/floodthreat.html 7) Dartmouth Flood Observatory http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/ 8) National Park Service: Johnstown Flood National Memorial http://www.nps.gov/jofl/home.htm First, FEMA discusses the devastating impacts floods can have on communities (1). Users can find great tips on the steps to take before, during, and after a flood. The second website, also created by FEMA, offers a more colorful, animated introduction to floods for children (2). Users can read a children's story about flooding, take a disaster math quiz, view astonishing flood photographs, and more. Next, the USGS supplies a pdf document of its nineteen-page report addressing the largest floods and flows within the United States (3). The website contains many colorful pictures, figures, and graphs to help people understand the affect climatology, topography, and basin size have on flow volumes. The fourth site, created by the National Weather Service, offers a general view of significant river flooding for the United States (4). By clicking on different locations on the map, users are connected to local forecast centers where they can find a variety of flood and weather related information. The next site, by NOAA, presents high-resolution, multi-channel color composite and single-channel grayscale imagery of flood events from all over the world (5). Users can search through the images by year and location. Next, EarthSat provides a color map of the continental United States indication by county how much rain is needed within a three hour period over the next twenty four hours to cause flooding (6). The website furnishes an additional map of the precipitation forecast for the maximum amounts expected in a three hour period. The seventh website features the Dartmouth Flood Observatory's role in detecting, mapping, measuring, and analyzing extreme flood events (7). This vast site offers archived data from 1985 to the present, a world atlas of flood hazards, and much more. Lastly, the National Park Service explains one of the worst disasters in the history of the United States, the Johnstown flood of 1889 (8). Users can learn the grave consequences dam failures can create by viewing images of the flood and reading the bibliographies and eye witness accounts.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM When Search Engines Become Answer Engines http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040816.html From Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, August 16, 2004: When Search Engines Become Answer Engines. The website is becoming a less prominent locus of experience as people use search engines to bring up answers to their current questions. How can sites cope with masses of freeloaders? Increasingly, the Internet user experience is becoming one of dipping a toe into websites rather than truly "visiting" them. Using search engines as their Web interface, people simply grab query-related nuggets from sites, but don't engage with the sites themselves. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Internet Publishing Attracting Academics By Julie Bell, Baltimore Sun http://snipurl.com/8hhw Manuel Llinas knew his career was at stake. The young scientist had just finished work on an eye-catching paper on the genome of a parasite that causes malaria. Now he and his lab director faced a critical decision: where to submit the article for publication. A prestigious journal such as Science would draw attention and help Llinas when he interviewed for faculty jobs at top research institutions. But Llinas and Joseph DeRisi, his mentor at the University of California at San Francisco, chose a once unthinkable journal. They submitted the paper to PLoS Biology, a free online journal that had yet to publish its first edition. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Science Learning Network (SLN) http://www.sln.org/ The Science Learning Network (SLN) is an online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education. The SLN has recently expanded to include international members, outside of the framework of the original SLN project. These new museums are collaborating with the six founding SLN museums to create new resources for the SLN website. SLN originated as a three-year, $6.5M project funded by the National Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation. The project incorporates inquiry-based teaching approaches, telecomputing, collaboration among geographically dispersed teachers and classrooms, and Internet/World Wide Web content resources. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM U.S. Congressional Bibliographies http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/senatebibs/ The U.S. Congressional Bibliographies enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted. Its sources are the Congressional Record's "Daily Digest" and bibliographic information supplied by the U.S. Senate Library. Its primary goal is to be an authoritative, exhaustive reference source of meetings held and documents released by House and Senate committees. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 21, 2004  COLLATE COLLATE - Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material http://www.collate.de/ The R&D project COLLATE (IST-1999-20882) was funded by the EU within the "Digital Heritage and Cultural Content" activities. It ran from September 2000 until the end of 2003. Within COLLATE we designed, implemented and evaluated in real life a highly innovative Web-based collaboratory for archives, researchers and end-users working with digitized historic material. It is one of the first working collaboratories in the Humanities. COLLATE offers new ways of document-centered knowledge work to distributed user groups. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM StepUp - The Internet's Local Marketplace ShoppingBot http://www.stepup.com/ Our mission is to localize web shopping to help consumers instantly find products and book services near their current location, or if it is not available locally, to help the shopper purchase from a respectable business that will ship it promptly. We will make it easy for all businesses to leverage the web so they can prosper in localized commerce. StepUp.com is the Internet’s local marketplace for the 30 million web shoppers in the U.S. that want to purchase locally. StepUp.com will offer the best web commerce services to businesses with physical stores, so that they can sell online and also drive shoppers to their physical locations. This will enable StepUp.com to help shoppers find all their web store and physical store shopping options. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Stratfor - Predictive, Insightful Global Intelligence http://www.stratfor.com/ Stratfor provides strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs. Unlike news organizations that offer only reactive information, Stratfor delivers actionable intelligence on geopolitical, economic and security affairs. Stratfor provides in-depth analysis of what is happening in the world today and forecasts the results of tomorrow's events. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM What Our Web Searches Say about Us http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1002972 Over two-thirds of those polled by Harris Interactive and MSN feel Web searches are the fastest way to find information, though what they are searching for varies widely. Whether because of curiosity, boredom or perhaps the need to find someone from one's past, many people use search engines to find out about the activities and whereabouts of friends, family and ex-boyfriends or girlfriends (the practice is widespread enough that it has acquired a name — "googling" someone — though the sponsor of the survey, MSN, probably hopes to change that with its recently revamped search engine). The most popular person-search of all, however, is users looking up themselves. You know you just cannot get away from that EgoBot thing ;-)). This will be added to a number of my speeches available from Internet Speaker. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Shop Etc. http://www.shopetc.com Shop Etc. magazine has launched its website and among the features are: A daily blog, RSS feeds/syndication for key areas, e-commerce partnerships and the ability to link to and then buy items right from the (web) edit pages, etc. . This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:03 AM Collaboratory Raises the Curtain on Censored Movies http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/69245 Many of Europe's historic films -- censored in Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia during the 1920s and 1930s -- lie damaged, forgotten and largely unseen. Until recently, when a group of researchers mined three national archives and manually digitized 20,000 pages of documents about films, as well as related correspondence, press articles, photos and film clips. They then cataloged, indexed and annotated the pages and are using the results to demonstrate COLLATE, a new Web-based collaborative knowledge working system, dubbed a collaboratory (collaboration plus laboratory). The system allows researchers to work remotely using software tools such as databases, digital libraries and research results. The tool may for a limited time be freely downloaded or directly accessed at http://www.collate.de/. There, researchers may search historic and cultural sources by content, using existing tools and retrieval systems, some of which are open source. Visitors may, for example, download a version of the complete Austrian movie, "Café Electrik," prints of which no longer exist. Using the new system, researchers pieced together its story from related photos and subtitles. Its creators say COLLATE is the first collaboratory used in the humanities, but note it can be used in other domains, as well. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, August 20, 2004 I have just completed my latest research white paper link compilation titled "Web Data Extractors" and this 13 page research paper lists many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to do information and knowledge research about web data extraction currently available the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (493KB) at the below link from the Virtual Private Library™: [updated 09-10-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here. Web Data Extraction a White Paper Link Compilation by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Web Data Extractors.pdf
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 SBC Knowledge Network Explorer - Blue Web'n SBC Knowledge Network Explorer: Blue Web'n Homepage http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800 + outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are added. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Recovering from a Trojan Horse or Virus by Michael D. Durkota http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/trojan-recovery.pdf A three page guide written by Michael D. Durkota, US-CERT, Carnegie Mellon spelling out the steps and resources needed in recovering from a Trojan Horse or Virus. This has been added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. [beSpacific August 12, 2004] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM CharityChannel http://charitychannel.com/ CharityChannel is a resource that connects you to your nonprofit colleagues across town, across the country, and around the world. The CharityChannel community is comprised of nonprofit sector professionals from around the world who volunteer their time, advice, information, tips and articles for the benefit of the community. CharityChannel directs (or "channels") this information through their vast network, approves, edits and/or packages it up, and directs it back out to you by way of: Forum discussion lists, enewsletters, updated news links, book reviews, interviews, job postings, consultants listings and product/service listings. This has been added to Grants Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Public Records Online Directory http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm The Public Records Online Directory is a Portal to official state web sites, and those Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices that have developed web sites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet. For example, some Recorders' offices have marriage and birth records available online. Although not every county and parish has data online, many have home pages, and where neither is available a phone number has been provided. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM The Blog Busters by Sean Hargrave http://snipurl.com/8g4k Mighty corporations ignore the whispers on web diaries at their peril. Sean Hargrave reports on how the big brands are logging on to save face. They were once seen as the preserve of the geek, but nowadays personal opinion and diary pages - weblogs or "blogs" - are so powerful that huge corporations are taking an interest. The sites that started as observational home pages for enthusiasts have become so powerful that they are starting a new industry of blog monitoring in which media companies scour the net to advise brands on how their name is being talked about online, away from the traditional newspaper and broadcast media sites. The thinking behind this emerging service industry is simple. While there were only 130,000 sites four years ago, today there are about 10m. These web pages can make or break a company's reputation because they provide links to one another and allow people to comment on postings posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, August 19, 2004 %208%2014%202004%209%2022%2030%20AM.jpg) Ask a Librarian - Library of Congress Online Reference Service Ask a Librarian - An Online Reference Service from the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ The primary mission of the Library of Congress is to serve Members of the Congress and thereafter, the needs of the government, other libraries, and members of the public. The Library's staff will respond to reference and information requests in accordance with this mission. Correspondents are encouraged to use local and online resources. For those seeking further assistance from the Library of Congress, the staff will respond to their reference and information needs to the extent possible. Because the Library participates in a global network of librarians working electronically to answer questions, your online reference question may be submitted to this global network for reply. Please note that the scope of the services does not include: compilation of extensive bibliographies, requests for information connected with contests, completion of school or work assignments, translations or research in heraldry or family history. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the reference section of all the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM A World Connected http://www.aworldconnected.org Site addresses issues relating to world trade and globalization. State of the debate reports give overviews on topics such as sweatshops, labor standards, outsourcing, and the impacts of globalization on culture, religion, and the environment. Also provides a book listing, links to web resources, anecdotes, and news articles. This has been added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Library of Economics and Liberty : The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html Contains articles on many aspects of economics, from basic concepts, to taxes, to money and banking. There are articles in more than one dozen categories, as well as biographies and a full index. Articles are also cross-linked. This will be added to the Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a provisional series based on the compilation of data on specific diseases reported by United States government agencies and on reports about infectious and chronic diseases disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and other injuries. Users can download current and archived MMWR reports as well as reports on topics of international interest and events of interest to the public health community. Students and educators can learn about MMWR's Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program. Individuals searching for statistics can appreciate a series of morbidity and mortality tables. The website offers links to local public health departments where they can obtain additional public health materials. Users can subscribe to receive the reports electronically. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: Highlights http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html Data on the monthly changes in import and export activity, covering goods and services in general, goods by category, and goods by geographic area. Includes related links and a chart showing the trade balance over a two-year period. From the U.S. Census Bureau. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM EconWPA http://econwpa.wustl.edu/wpawelcome.html This award winning service (provided by the Economics Department of Washington University), is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in economics. There are 22 subject areas, along with a test posting area, a meetings area, an area for programs and an area for data. Other areas are added when demand dictates. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 18, 2004  BigChampagne BigChampagne http://www.bigchampagne.com/ BigChampagne is the leading provider of information about popular entertainment online. Their focus is on the world’s most popular "download" communities, file sharing networks. These are the download "sites" (actually networks) first made famous by Napster and now including clients like Limewire, Bearshare, KaZaA, Morpheus, and hundreds of others. BigChampagne was founded in 2000 as a technology-driven market research and marketing consulting firm, specializing in peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. The "TopSwaps" chart services were introduced early in 2002. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM MindSwap http://www.mindswap.org/ MindSwap is the website for a research group within the University of Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory (MIND LAB). They claim to be "the first site on the Semantic web." They explain that they are first because: a) their website builds on an older website that used a toolkit based on a web ontology language called SHOE, developed at the University of Maryland; b) they hope you will start here for all your semantic web needs, since this site "harnesses many Web technologies (HTML, XHTML, XML, PHP, CSS, etc.) and couples them with Semantic Web languages (RDF, RDFS, DAML+OIL, OWL)" as well as other tools; and, c) it is the first "Owl-compliant" website to date. From this website, visitors can learn more about the Semantic Web and projects of MindSwap. Various papers, photos, demos and downloads are available. Links from many of the pages will let you either let you see the Semantic Web markup or take you to pages describing how the pages are created and the tools that were used. It's a great way to learn about "many of the ways Semantic Web technology can be used to provide new capabilities on the Web. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM H-Net's Discussion Network http://www.h-net.org/lists/ H-Net's Discussion Network over 100 email lists spanning various fields of study. H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas and materials. Every aspect of academic life--research, teaching, controversies new and old--is open for discussion; decorum is maintained by H-Net's dedicated editors. Subscribers and editors communicate through electronic mail messages sent to the group. These messages can be saved, discarded, downloaded to a local computer, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. Otherwise, the lists are all public, and can be quoted and cited with proper attribution. The lists are connected to their own sites on the World Wide Web, that store discussion threads, important documents, and links to related sites on the web. H-Net lists reach over 100,000 subscribers in more than 90 countries. Subscriptions are screened by the list's editors to promote a diverse readership dedicated to friendly, productive, scholarly communications. Each list publishes between 15 and 60 messages a week. Subscription applications are solicited from scholars, teachers, professors, researchers, graduate students, journalists, librarians and archivists. Each network has its own "personality," is edited by a team of scholars, and has a board of editors; most are cosponsored by a professional society. The editors control the flow of messages, commission reviews, and reject flames and items unsuitable for a scholarly discussion group. The goals of H-Net lists are to enable scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comments on the literature in their fields. This will be added to Academic Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Useful Websites for AV Catalogers http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/websites.html A set of links for librarians, catalogers, and those who work with metadata and electronic resources. Includes internet resources on cataloging standards organizations, manuals, and tutorials. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Searching Using eMail I can easily remember a number of years ago when using eMail to retun your searches was one way around the slow modem speed. With the advent of DSL and cable we do not hear to much abut searches being returned via eMail. The other day I was reading ResearchBuzz and noticed a posting by Tara on a search engine offering the results via eMail and I decided to check on other search engines that I had bookmarked in the years past. Here are the search engines that you can use that will return results via eMail and some will even allow you to email your search query and then respond with the search answer via eMail: GoogleMail http://www.capescience.com/google/index.shtml IceRocket Search http://www.icerocket.com/ ILIAD - An Offline Search Engine http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/iliad/index.html Interesting how technology seems to return ...... If anyone knows of other email based search engines please email me and I will add to this posting. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM The Bioinformatics Organization http://bioinformatics.org/ The Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org) was founded to facilitate world-wide communications and collaborations between practicing and neophyte bioinformatic scientists and technicians. The Organization provides these individuals, as well as the public at large, free and open access to methods and materials for and from scientific research, software development, and education. We advocate and promote freedom and openness in the field as well as provide a forum for activities which facilitate the development of such resources. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Executives' Association of Greater Miami http://www.eagmiami.com/ Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 7:30am Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Location: Miami Airport Marriott Hotel, 1201 N.W. LeJune Road, Miami, Florida posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM  Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE) Resources for Economists on the Internet by Bill Goffe http://rfe.wustl.edu/ This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists 1,538 resources in 97 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also described. In selecting these resources, Bill Goffe exercised some editorial judgment and selected items that either offer a substantial amount of information, or are specialized to a given area. A particularly good place to look for a broader array of business and economic resources is WebEc. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Virtual Data Center http://thedata.org/ The Virtual Data Center Project: An Operational Social Science Digital Data Library. An operational, open-source, digital library to enable the sharing of quantitative research data, and the development of distributed virtual collections of data and documentation. A joint project of the Harvard-MIT Data Center and the Harvard University Library Harvard. The Virtual Data Center (VDC) software is now in "Release Candidate" stage, and available for download as easy-to-install RPM's. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Open Access STM Literature http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3061258 The more than 2,000 publishers offering STM (scientific, technological and medical) literature collectively publish 1.2 million articles a year in about 16,000 periodical journals, but their success is being challenged by the "open access" movement. In the U.K., the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee says that the country's universities should be required to ensure that all their research papers are available free online, and that government-funded research grants ought to include free access to the findings a condition of the awards. In the U.S., the House of Representatives' Committee on Appropriations approved a provision in a bill that backs open access to material published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and the leading research associations of Germany, France and Switzerland have signed the so-called Berlin Declaration calling for free access to research findings. Barbara Meredith, a vice-president at the Association of American Publishers, a trade group, says that the open access movement could undermine the sustainability of the publishing industry, even though the entire open access literature currently represents less than 1% of what is published. The Economist magazine comments: "Prestige has its uses and the open-access journals will, no doubt, establish a pecking-order among themselves fairly quickly. But for prestige at any price, time is probably up. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Kozoru Search Engine http://www.kozoru.com/ kozoru is a word, of Japanese origin, meaning "gather" or "bringing everything together." They believe in the power of fusing different ideas, from different disciplines, to create something better than anything previously available. kozoru is also a new way of looking at search technology. They focus not on the ability to index information and produce results, but on the deeper questions around providing meaningful information in the form of answers. This will be an interesting company with excellent credentials and background to monitor for the next generation search platform..... stay tuned to Kozoru as kozoru is in the initial stages of research and development. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Artificial Intelligence from the Bible http://users.adelphia.net/~lilavois/Seven/bible.html According to this site, the secret of AI can be found in the Bible. The author seems to have gone to great lengths to support his theory that some biblical metaphors, especially in the book of Revelation, represent a description of how the brain works. He makes several predictions about the internal organization of the brain based on his interpretation of the metaphors. He seems to be confident that his predictions will be confirmed in the lab. He even has an experimental program which he is using to test his hypothesis. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Perfect Information http://www.perfectinfo.com/ Perfect Information, established in 1991, is the premier online global provider of financial information. Investment banks, brokerage firms, consultancies and law firms use Perfect Information solutions. Perfect Information has offices in London, New York and Hong Kong and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Centaur Holdings plc, one of the U.K.'s largest independent business publishing and information companies. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, August 16, 2004  Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators White Paper This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. August 16, 2004 V2N33 discusses my latest white paper titled Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest white paper. View the site that discusses and makes available this free white paper: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators http://www.BotsBlogs.com/
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 Nextaris™ - Your Personal Internet Information Toolkit™ Nextaris™ - Your Personal Internet Information Toolkit™ http://www.nextaris.com/ The tools you need to effectively use information on the Web: a) one-click Search across the major engines 100% web-based; nothing to download/install. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM State and Local Government on the Net Directory http://www.statelocalgov.net/ The State and Local Government on the Net Directory provides convenient one-stop access to the websites of thousands of state agencies and city and county governments. Only pages that are controlled and managed by state and local government agencies are included. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM The CSIP Data and Charting Page http://www.frbsf.org/csip/data.php The Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity CSIP Data and Charting Page. The CSIP database contains economic series related to innovation, technology, productivity, growth, and employment. The [charting icon] interactive charting application allows you to plot, view, and print charts of data series. You also can [downloading icon] download the data. This will be added to the Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Next-Generation Search Tools to Refine Results by Michael Kanellos http://snipurl.com/8di5 The vast corpus of human knowledge could soon be published on the Internet. The problem now is how to wade through it. Although search engines have greatly enhanced access to information, and storage technology has made it cheap to digitize nearly everything, search tools need to be refined to make it easier to digest information or conduct queries. That was the word from researchers and speakers at the New Paradigms for Using Computers Conference, held at IBM's Almaden research lab. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Near-Time Flow http://www.near-time.com/ Near-Time Flow is the first integrated peer to peer collaborative content and knowledge manager for individuals, groups, organizations, and enterprises using Mac OS X Panther. Flow's interface is intuitive and engaging, allowing you to begin creating, collecting, and integrating digital content immediately. With a powerful, standards-based peer-to-peer collaboration engine, Flow takes content sharing well beyond traditional publishing, email messaging, and shared folders. Flow affords real interaction through collective editing and context-driven discussion, keeping teams on the same page...literally. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Search Systems Free Public Records Directory http://www.searchsystems.net/ The largest directory of links to free public record databases on the Internet. Find business information, corporate filings, property records, unclaimed property, professional licenses, offenders, inmates, criminal and civil court filings, and much more. Click on the links below to browse the public record links by geographic location or use their "Public Record Locator" to search for a type of public record in a specific area. Now over 20,848 Free Searchable Public Record Databases! This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer&tradel Information Blog and Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, August 15, 2004 Information and Communication Technology 1) WordIQ Dictionary and Encyclopedia http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Communication 2) World History: Some Dates in the History of Cultural Technologies http://www.worldhistorysite.com/culttech.html 3) Wikipedia: Information Theory http://www.fact-index.com/i/in/information_theory.html 4) The Center for the Study of Technology and Society http://www.tecsoc.org/ 5) MediaLab Europe: Intimate Interfaces http://www.medialabeurope.org/research/ 6) NSF: Computer Information Science and Engineering (CISE) http://www.cise.nsf.gov/accomp/index.cfm?div=ccf 7) First Monday: E-Learning and Language Change http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/hansson/index.html Communication is a central aspect of all our lives. Today, our modes of communication are highly dependent on technologies such as the internet, wireless networks, phones, and computers. This issue of Topic in Depth explores the ways these forms of communication are part of our lives and highlights some new directions in communication technology. WordIQ Dictionary and Encyclopedia (1) offers this definition: "Communication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols." The website explains some of the key process involved in communication and describes different forms of communication, such as animal communication, interpersonal communication, and computer-mediated communication. Also taking a broad view on communication, this world history website (2) provides some background on the mathematical theories that are used in designing telecommunications systems. The articles highlighted on this website from the Center for the Study of Technology and Society (4) attest to the far reaching influence of communication technology. As research on the MediaLab Europe website suggests (5), we have moved into not just developing technology that mediates interpersonal communication (such as phones) but also creating "intimate and personal connections with and through new technologies." This NSF website (6) also highlights some recent discoveries in Computer Information Science and Engineering. Finally, this article from First Monday (7) discusses the far-reaching effects these new developments in technology and globalization are having on language and learning.[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM LabOnWeb by Compugen http://www.labonweb.com/ Compugen, a genomics-based drug and diagnostic discovery company, increases the probability of successful development of novel drug and diagnostic products by incorporating ideas and methods from mathematics, computer science, and physics into the disciplines of biology, organic chemistry, and medicine. Included are: Genecarta a comprehensive transcriptome database; OligoLibraries a comprehensive oligo collections; Z3 a fully automated 2-D gel analysis system; and Z4000 which enables automated analysis of large sets of gels on a standard PC. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Semantic Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for Current Research Information Systems (CRIS)by A. Lopatenko http://eprints.osti.gov/cgi-bin/dexpldcgi?qry1123892181;12 Abstract: The most exciting challenge for CRIS is to create a service for research information which should be wide-spread, distributed and actual like Google, but at the same time structured, trusted, with a complex search and navigation similar to today CRIS application. The core technology for such a "new" CRIS is the semantic web technology to integrate database contents with HTML and XML web pages for being provided to the research interested public. One (at the moment the best) possible way is to use RDF (Resource Description Framework) which is also recommended by the W3 consortium. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Information Technology Security Handbook http://www.infodev-security.net/ Information Technology Security Resource for Developing Countries ... The World Bank infoDev program has recently published an "Information Technology Security Handbook," oriented to the needs of individuals, small businesses, governments and system and network administrators in developing countries. The Handbook is now available on-line at the above listed web site. Associated with the handbook is the first of a number of discussion forums for communication between developing country network and computer users and persons knowledgeable in security in the developed world. It is hoped that the forums can evolve as developing country needs are identified and articulated on the web site. This will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Traffic-Based Feedback on the Web by Jonathan Aizen, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, and Antal Novak http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0307539100v1 Abstract: Usage data at a high-traffic web site can expose information about external events and surges in popularity that may not be accessible solely from analyses of content and link structure. We consider sites that are organized around a set of items available for purchase or download, consider, for example, an e-commerce site or collection of online research papers, and we study a simple indicator of collective user interest in an item, the batting average, defined as the fraction of visits to an item’s description that result in an acquisition of that item. We develop a stochastic model for identifying points in time at which an item’s batting average experiences significant change. In experiments with usage data from the Internet Archive, we find that such changes often occur in an abrupt, discrete fashion, and that these changes can be closely aligned with events such as the highlighting of an item on the site or the appearance of a link from an active external referrer. In this way, analyzing the dynamics of item popularity at an active web site can help characterize the impact of a range of events taking place both on and off the site. This has been added to the articles section Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM MagazinePriceSearch.com http://www.magazinepricesearch.com/ MagazinePriceSearch.com tracks the lowest price for 2369 magazines from 22 online magazine merchants, plus 35 coupons, making it easy for you to find the best deals. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 14, 2004  Free After Rebate Free After Rebate http://www.freeafterrebate.info/ Everyone loves to get free stuff. Free After Rebate will point you to stores that sell products that end up being free after you send in for a rebate. You’ll have to pay for the item up front, then submit the rebate materials. Some time later (usually six to eight weeks) you’ll receive a rebate check. We only list products with 100% rebates, but those rebates usually don’t reimburse for shipping and sales tax. This has been add to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM WBC-Wire http://ryoi.com/mailman/listinfo/wbc-wire_ryoi.com Your global discussion wire for members of the World Business Community, currently 15,000 in 200 countries. Ask questions, get help, share resources and make contacts in almost all the countries of our world. Members are required to use the highest degree of professionalism in using this wire. There will be no spam, unsolicited email, use of other members names/addresses except in reply to specific queries. The WBC-Wire will be THE worldwide business information, networking and help system to date. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM KDD-2004 http://www.kdd2004.com/ The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining will take place in Seattle, Washington, USA from August 22 through 25, with an optional trip to Rainier National Park on August 26. KDD is the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining. The conference will provide a forum for academic researchers and industry and government innovators to share in their results and experience. The program will include keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster presentations, workshops, tutorials, and panels, as well as the KDD Cup competition. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Computer and Internet Free Online Books Searchable Database http://hogan-productions.com/books/ This database contains links to free books available online. All their titles are full-text online editions unless otherwise indicated. Click on the title to view the free full-text online edition of a book. This has been added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM The Free Haven Project http://www.freehaven.net/index.html The Free Haven Project aims to deploy a system for distributed, anonymous, persistent data storage which is robust against attempts by powerful adversaries to find and destroy any stored data. This model of decentralized system has been classified as peer-to-peer by recent popular media. The Free Haven project began in December 1999 as a research project initially comprised of several MIT students to design, implement, and deploy a functional data haven. This has been added to the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and the Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration http://www.westga.edu/~distance/jmain11.html Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration is a peer-reviewed electronic journal offered free each quarter over the World Wide Web. The Journal welcomes manuscripts based on original work of practitioners and researchers with specific focus or implications for the management of distance education programs. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, August 13, 2004 I have just completed my latest research white paper link compilation titled "Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators" and this 21 page research paper lists many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to do information and knowledge research about bots, blogs and news aggregator tools currently available the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (1.42MB) at the below link from the Virtual Private Library™: [Updated 12-17-04] Other white papers are available by clicking here. Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators a White Paper Link Compilation by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/BotsBlogs.pdf
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 ActivShopper - Comparative Shopping Tool ActivShopper - Comparative Shopping Tool http://ActivShopper.com/ ActivShopper is a browser add-on that automatically scans, locates and compares prices for an item you’ve selected at an e-commerce site. ActivShopper brings you the best price from thousands of web sites for any item you choose. If it is less expensive elsewhere, ActivShopper will find it. No more browsing of comparative shopping sites and trying to understand complex comparison tables. No more jumping from site to site in order to find the best prices. You get the best prices on your browser instantly. Note: This is a beta site and is still being tested and is subject to change and fluctuations. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer Information Blog posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Onion Routing Averts Prying Eyes by Ann Harrison http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64464,00.html http://www.freehaven.net/tor/ Computer programmers are modifying a communications system, originally developed by the U.S. Naval Research Lab, to help Internet users surf the Web anonymously and shield their online activities from corporate or government eyes. The system is based on a concept called onion routing. It works like this: Messages, or packets of information, are sent through a distributed network of randomly selected servers, or nodes, each of which knows only its predecessor and successor. Messages flowing through this network are unwrapped by a symmetric encryption key at each server that peels off one layer and reveals instructions for the next downstream node. In contrast, messages traveling across the Internet are generally not encrypted, and the path of a message can be seen easily, linking users to activities like website visits. The Navy is financing the development of a second-generation onion-routing system called Tor, which addresses many of the flaws in the original design and makes it easier to use. The Tor client behaves like a SOCKS proxy (a common protocol for developing secure communication services), allowing applications like Mozilla, SSH and FTP clients to talk directly to Tor and route data streams through a network of onion routers, without long delays. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Data Memo on Search Engines http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Data_Memo_Searchengines.pdf On the probable eve of Google’s initial public offering, new surveys and traffic data confirm that search engines have become an essential and popular way for people to find information online. A nationwide phone survey of 1,399 Internet users between May 14 and June 17 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that 84% of online Americans have used search engines – that translates into more than 107 million people. On any given day online, more than half those using the Internet use search engines. And more than two-thirds of Internet users say they use search engines at least a couple of times per week. Furthermore, there is a substantial payoff as search engines improve and people become more adept at using them. Some 87% of search engine users say they find the information they want most of the time when they use search engines. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM EventJAR - Cultural and Entertainment Event Search Engine http://www.EventJar.com/ EventJAR.com is a search engine for accessing a large database of entertainment and cultural events. Constantly updated, it contains events from many venues and organizations. You will find events for a range of activities, including art, music, and theater. Each of the thousands of events listed in the EventJAR.com database are dynamically linked with related informational web sites and useful e-commerce web sites. This will be added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM BrainBoost™ - Question Answering Search Engine http://www.brainboost.com/ BrainBoost is a Question Answering search engine. It was specifically designed to answer questions, asked in plain English. BrainBoost is 100% automated. Unlike other Question Answering engines, BrainBoost does not rely on human editors to locate answers. Instead, BrainBoost employs cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technology to understand your question and match it with relevant answers it locates on the web. BrainBoost outputs actual sentences extracted from web pages. The BrainBoost engine determines that these sentences are potential answers to the original question. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. This will be added to the search engines section of all Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, August 12, 2004  MARSOWEB MARSOWEB http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/ NASA scientists have modified a scientific Web site so the general public can inspect big regions and smaller details of Mars' surface. After adding "computer tools" to the "Marsoweb" Internet site, NASA scientists plan to ask volunteers from the public to virtually survey the vast red planet to look for important geologic features hidden in thousands of images of the surface. Researchers hope that volunteers will help with an upcoming Mars imaging experiment. NASA scientists are getting ready for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) that will fly on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission, slated for launch in August 2005. The experiment's super high-resolution camera will be able to capture images of objects on Mars' surface measuring about a yard (one meter) wide. The current Marsoweb site includes animated 'fly-throughs' of some Mars locations. The site also permits users to fine-tune Mars images for brightness, contrast, and sharpness as well as make other adjustments. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM DNA From the Beginning http://dnaftb.org/ An animated primer on the basics of DNA, genes, and heredity. Funded by The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation; DNA from the Beginning is organized around key concepts. The science behind each concept is explained by: animation This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Free Public Record Sites- BRB Publications http://www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp At this web page, BRB provides a core group of links to FREE government searchable public records sites along with some important non-government sites. You will not find superfluous sites or multiple listings of the same link. We have indicated if a site is not searchable by name. The links list is updated weekly. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Informatiuon Blog. This has also been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Last Call: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-20040803/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-extensions-20040803/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-bindings-20040803/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ The Web Services Description Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: "Part 1: Core Language," "Part 2: Predefined Extensions" and "Part 3: Bindings." WSDL is an XML language for describing network services. The drafts describe functionality, and define sequence, cardinality and criteria for conformant processors. Comments are welcome through 4 October. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Votations - Free Polls, Surveys and Direct Marketing Tools http://www.votations.com/ They provide FREE professional web and email based polls, surveys and targeted newsletter tools and hosting solutions. No more technical worries, everything is hosted on their high capacity data centers and their user friendly interface will help you analyze and manage all your important data. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Change This http://www.changethis.com/bloggers.html Bloggers are special. A jumble of slanted, shouting voices have overcome our airwaves, infiltrated our newspapers, filled every corner of our waking lives, and they aren't going to stop. It's affecting all of us. You may have noticed that every argument seems just a little more heated than the last--is it any surprise, when each one of has been listening just a little bit less? It's a sign of more to come. But now, people are listening to bloggers instead. Blogging is the populist response to the media hegemony: a sea of independent voices. ChangeThis is aiming to disrupt the media pattern with powerful, rational arguments from leading thinkers. We know that we deserve better than what we've got. We know there's a thoughtful, caring, rational human inside every one of us. We're working with the brightest minds we can find. And we believe that bloggers are crucial to changing the tone of our collective dialogue. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 11, 2004  Development and Globalization : Facts and Figures Development and Globalization : Facts and Figures http://globstat.unctad.org/html/index.html This is a compact compendium of statistics on world development covering the past forty years. It contains tables and charts for regions,countries, and country groupings. Main topics covered include -- Population and economic trends -- Finance, debt and foreign investment -- Transnational corporations -- International trade -- Commodities -- Production -- Information technology. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM The Devil You Don’t Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access Publishing by Joseph J. Esposito http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/esposito/ With the advent of the Internet and online publishing, the notion has arisen that access to the world’s research publications could be made available to one and all for free, presumably by shifting the costs to other places in the value chain and disintermediating publishers, a circumstance called Open Access (OA) publishing. While there are many hopes embedded in this view (lower costs, wider access, etc.), it appears more likely that Open Access will come about not through a revolution in the world of legacy publishing, but through upstart media built with the innate characteristics of the Internet in mind. An unanticipated outcome of this situation will be that the overall cost of research publications will rise, though the costs will be borne by different players, primarily authors and their proxies. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Transterm : RNA Sequences and their Associated Motifs http://uther.otago.ac.nz/transterm.html Transterm is a database that facilitates studies of translation and the ranslational control of protein synthesis. It contains a curated collection of elements in mRNAs that control translation, and biologically relevant mRNA regions extracted from GenBank and RefSeq. It is organised largely on a taxonomic basis with files and summaries for each species. Global patterns that may affect translation in particular species, for example bias in the context of initiation codons (Kozak's consensus or Shine-Dalgarno sequences) or termination codons, can be detected in the consensus and information content bias summaries." The site requires Java to run. Output is in ASCII column-formatted reports; Help texts provide explanations of column-heading abbreviations. Users may use the pull-down menu to browse lists of species / genomes available. Database options include Genbank, RefSeq, and UTR-DB. Genbank and RefSeq searches can be narrowed (by Divisions or Categories, respectively). There is pull-down help on how to search initiation- and termination-regions, how to search classes of mRNA motifs (or run a pattern-search against a user-submitted sequence). Some menus allow limiting searches to CDS coding regions or 3' flanking regions or the 3'-UTRs. Each element indexed has an associated biological description with references. Last described in Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, Vol. 30, No. 1 310-311. This has been adderd to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Genome Gateway http://www.nature.com/genomics The Genome Gateway provides access to the latest genome information -Genome Research and genetics news. This site has been "created to mark the publication of the initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome." Provides access to research articles which are arranged by organism for easy reference. Includes a "set of links to the most useful and informative genomics sites on the web". This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM UNESCO Institute for Statistics http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?URL_ID=2867&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201 Established in 1999, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) was designed to meet both the needs of UNESCO Member States and to provide the international community with a wide range of statistical information in order to "analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of their programmes and to inform their policy decisions." The UIC is hosted by the University of Montreal, and performs work around four primary themes, including education, literacy, culture & communication, and science & technology. Overall, the site is a remarkable source of information, including databases, working papers, country profiles, statistical tables, and methodological material about the conduct of their research. Several of these works are featured prominently on their homepage including a working paper on financing the expansion of educational opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean and an electronic questionnaire on science and technology. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Journey Through the Galaxy http://home.cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/index.html This website, supported by Case Western University, "explores our solar system, stars, extra-solar planets, the theories about the past and future of the universe, and human exploration of space." The valuable materials are provided in two varieties: a regular version designed for grade school students and an advanced version intended for college students. The easily navigable website is first divided into five main topics and subsequently separated into a series of subtopics. For instance, under the Solar System link users can find five tabs containing data and tutorials on the sun, planets, asteroids, comets, and the edge of the solar system. With numerous helpful diagrams and images throughout the website, astronomy students are sure to benefit from this website. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 10, 2004  The Biz/ed Glossary and Diagram Bank The Biz/ed Glossary and Diagram Bank http://www.bized.ac.uk/glossary/ The Biz/ed glossary and diagram bank has over 1000 business and economics definitions and nearly 200 of the most common diagrams for you to search or browse. The glossary and the diagrams are all inter-linked so that a search in the glossary will also give you all related diagrams and glossary terms and vice versa. There is also an acronym finder, to help you check what all those economics and business abbreviations stand for! This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Something Else To Worry About: Format Obsolescence http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-07-26-longevity_x.htm Dan Koster, Web content manager for Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina, became a minor celebrity last spring when he reported that 15-20% of the 2,000 CDs in his properly stored collection suffered from what has loosely been called CD rot and would no longer play. As people entrust more and more of their valuable records -- everything from tax forms to family photos -- to digital media, the idea that those reliable-looking CDs and DVDs could be, well, less than reliable, is alarming. And history tells us that even if the media hold up, the technology needed to retrieve the files may not always be there. When was the last time you used a reel-to-reel tape player? Accelerated aging tests conducted by the Library of Congress and National Institute of Standards and Technology demonstrate that the poorest-quality CDs may last only four or five years; the best, more than 100. Consumers can hedge their bets by keeping hard copy printouts of valuable documents and uploading photos to online archiving services, but in the end, the simple truth is that nothing lasts forever. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM TESC Government Documents/Maps http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/ A very comprehensive set of links to sources of government information from the Evergreen State College of Olympia, Washington. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to reference section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Guide To World Population by Richard Jensen http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/populate.htm World Population: A Guide to the WWW by Richard Jensen is a comprehensive set of links to the following: Demographic Perspectives and General Resources This has been added to Internet Demographics and Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Ideology and Policy: Notes on the Shaping of the Internet by Katharine Sarikakis http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/sarikakis/ Abstract: This paper considers some of the ideologies that are shaping Internet policies. It addresses the priorities of international policy initiatives and identifies their discursive constructions. It takes stock of some of the most characteristic policy directions that seek to define the Internet and its uses within an agenda of predominant privatisation. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements Updated http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-dawg-uc-20040802/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The RDF Data Access Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements." The draft suggests how an RDF query language and data access protocol could be used in the construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like Web publishing, personal information management, transportation and tourism. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, August 09, 2004  Grant Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. August 9, 2004 V2N32 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Grant Resources. 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 Citation Machine Citation Machine http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/index.php Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people. You merely: 1. Click the type of resource you wish to cite, This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Nature RSS Newsfeeds http://www.nature.com/rss Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce the launch of its newest collection of RSS newsfeeds that delivers tables of content for its journals and other timely information to scientists' desktops. All Nature-branded journals in the life sciences now have associated RSS newsfeeds with rich metadata, while other Nature-branded and NPG titles are slated soon to follow. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM RSSknip http://www.rss-clipping.com/ RSSknip is a subscription service that tracks keywords in all known RSS news feeds. Every time RSSknip finds your personal selection of keywords in new text the results are filtered immediately and delivered by e-mail according to your wishes. You don't need to understand or install RSS readers and keep track of new RSS feeds; RSSknip does that for you continuously. This has been added to the search engines section of the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM The Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/avdind_0.mspx Although many organizations have deployed antivirus software, malicious software such as computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses continue to infect computer systems around the world. There is no single reason for this apparent contradiction, but the current situation indicates that the standard approach of deploying antivirus software on each computer in your environment may not be sufficient. The Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide provides an easy to understand overview of different types of malware, or malicious software, including information about the risks they pose, malware characteristics, means of replication, and payloads. The guide details considerations for planning and implementing a comprehensive antivirus defense for your organization, and provides information on defense-in-depth planning and related tools that you can use to help reduce your risk of infection. The final chapter of the guide provides a comprehensive methodology to help you quickly and effectively respond to and recover from malware outbreaks or incidents. This has been added to the anti-virus section of Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Understanding Metadata http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf NISO's newest publication is Understanding Metadata: a general introduction to metadata, that includes an overview of leading metadata contenders and examples of practical applications. You are invited to download Understanding Metadata as a free pdf. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, August 08, 2004  OverStock.com® - Your Online Outlet™ Overstock.com http://www.OverStock.com/ Overstock.com, is an Internet leader for name-brands at clearance prices. They help you shop smarter by offering top-quality name-brand merchandise at 40-80% off, every day of the week. At Overstock.com, you'll find a great selection on your favorite brands, all backed by the warranties and service you'd expect. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM Rogue Waves 1) Rogue Waves http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/257.html 2) Ship-Sinking Monster Waves Revealed by ESA Satellites http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMOKQL26WD_index_0.html 3) MaxWave http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/257.html 4) Rogue Waves and Explorations of Coastal Wave Characteristics http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/Task_rpts/2002/ppliu02-3.html 5) Rogue Waves http://www.weathernotebook.org/transcripts/2003/10/10.php 6) Freak Waves http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageseas/neptune-side-waves.html 7) Joint Time-Frequency Properties of Freak Waves http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~thkim/Taek_files/isope04.pdf While many people in the nautical world have told stories of large freak ocean waves for years, in the past most people had dismissed the seemingly unlikely rogue waves as myths. New oceanographic research, however, has validated these tales. First, the Environmental Literacy Council provides an introduction to rogue waves (1). Students and educators can learn about the many mysteries that surround the giant waves. Next, the European Space Agency (ESA) describes its findings of the widespread existence of very large ocean waves that may actually be a leading cause of the sinking of large ships (2). Users can learn about the advantages of using radar satellites to investigate the oceans. The third website presents the MaxWave research project's investigations of low frequency wave fields, extreme individual waves, and wave groups for deep and shallow waters (3). While data is not yet available, users can download publications and find information on meetings, conferences, and international participants. At the fourth site, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) present its past and future investigations dealing with rogue waves (4). Visitors can learn how conventional wave measurements and their assumptions make it difficult to discover freak waves. The fifth site, produced by the Mount Washington Observatory, provides a text and audio report by Robin White on rogue waves and the destruction the deadly waves can create (5). Users can learn ways in which the waves may develop. Next, PBS furnishes a summary of rogue waves and identifies where they are more likely to occur (6). Visitors can find a variety of fun, educational animations including wave simulations. Lastly, the University of Texas at Austin provides a pdf scientific paper discussing research that has helped scientists to distinguish between freak and non-freak waves (7). Students and researchers can discover and view graphs of the joint time-frequency characteristics of a freak waves. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Generation5 http://www.generation5.org/ Generation5 aims to be the most comprehensive Artificial Intelligence site on the Internet. Community-orientated, Generation5 deals with all AI topics including robotics, neural networks, genetic algorithms, AI programming, home automation and much more. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Automatic Information Extraction From Semi-Structured Web Pages By Pattern Discovery http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=640423&dl=ACM&coll=portal Abstract: The World Wide Web is now undeniably the richest and most dense source of information; yet, its structure makes it difficult to make use of that information in a systematic way. This paper proposes a pattern discovery approach to the rapid generation of information extractors that can extract structured data from semi-structured Web documents. Previous work in wrapper induction aims at learning extraction rules from user-labeled training examples, which, however, can be expensive in some practical applications. In this paper, we introduce IEPAD (an acronym for Information Extraction based on PAttern Discovery), a system that discovers extraction patterns from Web pages without user-labeled examples. IEPAD applies several pattern discovery techniques, including PAT-trees, multiple string alignments and pattern matching algorithms. Extractors generated by IEPAD can be generalized over unseen pages from the same Web data source. We empirically evaluate the performance of IEPAD on an information extraction task from 14 real Web data sources. Experimental results show that with the extraction rules discovered from a single page, IEPAD achieves 96% average retrieval rate, and with less than five example pages, IEPAD achieves 100% retrieval rate for 10 of the sample Web data sources. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Clinical Trials Site Demystifies Medical Jargon http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19274-2004Jul27.html ClinicalTrials.gov is a federally funded database of clinical trials, open and accessible to the public. Part of the National Institutes of Health, it provides information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, even phone numbers for more details. Led by Alexa McCray, director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, the site has been embraced by millions of people trying to puzzle their way through the often Byzantine world of clinical trials. It currently includes information about 11,100 trials, including those carried out by NIH, other federal agencies and private industry. Trained in linguistics, McCray is a strong advocate of distilling complex medical terminology into simple, everyday language. The goal is to help prospective patients make informed choices, after weighing the benefits and risks of taking part in medical trials. Critics complain about the limited scope of the database, particularly when it comes to clinical trials carried out by the private drug industry. The American Medical Association, among others, say pharmaceutical companies should be forced to register details about the opening of a drug trial and its results, something which is currently optional. Some industry officials complain that such a requirement would compromise proprietary information. McCray believes mandatory registration would lead to more effective research. "Patients have the right to this kind of information, whether it's clinical trials data or the latest literature on medical breakthroughs or just getting a better understanding of some condition that you or a family member suffers from." posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Mergers and Acquisitions Super Searchers http://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/ssma.htm A very comprehensive set of links by the author of Super Searchers Mergers and Acquisitions Jan David Tudor covering resources and sites for mergers and acquisitions information and research on the Internet. This will be added to Business Resources Internet MiniGuide 2004-05 and has been added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 07, 2004  Top News Map by NewsIsFree NewsIsFree: News Maps http://www.newsisfree.com/newsmap/ NewsKnowledge and The Hive Group have joined forces to bring you News Maps, visual maps of the NewsIsFree headline database. News Maps allow you to quickly scan dozens of news articles and instantly understand what's being reported all over the world. Each square in the News Map is an article. You can obtain additional detail on each article by moving your mouse over it. You can read an article by clicking on it. The Hive Group's Honeycomb algorithm organizes news headlines by source. Size and Color information indicate article age and popularity (described below). You can easily filter and rearrange you results to view articles that meet certain criteria, or that contain certain text. This has been added to my previous posting on Research Browsers. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Searching Newsgroups by Jonathan Dube http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=3128 One of the handiest online tools for reporters is one of the least-used: Usenet newsgroups. They are basically a massive collection of topic-specific bulletin boards that people post millions of messages to every day. For years DejaNews.com made it easy for Web surfers to search and post to newsgroups, but that site went bankrupt last year. Fortunately, the popular search engine Google bought up DejaNews' archives and recently unveiled a new site that every reporter should know how to use. Google Groups is a searchable database of the past 20 years of Usenet archives -- that's more than 700 million messages dating back to 1981, divided into 35,000 topical categories! This will be added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Searching Usenet Newsgroups Tutorial and Templates http://www.fravia.com/usenet.htm A resource site for giving searching tutorials for understanding searching Usenet Newsgroups. Templates to search the various Usenet Newgroups are provided. This will be added to the search engines section of the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Feds Launch Bioinformatics Centers By Michael Hardy http://snipurl.com/88fk Feds Launch Bioinformatics Centers - Institute contracts for databases and portals to compile info on diseases. Officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are enlisting private companies and universities to help make data available about disease-causing organisms. Under eight five-year contracts, companies and academic institutions will develop databases and Web portals to compile information about a small number of pathogens, the germs that cause disease. Some of the pathogens are considered possible bioterrorism agents, while others are public health concerns unrelated to terrorism. With NIAID footing the bill, the data will be freely available to scientists, said Valentina Di Francesco, bioinformatics program director in NIAID's Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Officials at NIAID, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, have awarded seven Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) contracts, and one more is in negotiations, she said. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Citation Styles Online http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html Citation Styles Online is a comprehensive resource for using the various citation sources online with actual examples for various types of citations. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Gizmodo - The Gadgets Weblog http://www.gizmodo.com/ Gizmodo is an online review dedicated to gadgets, gizmos, and cutting-edge consumer electronics. I jsut could not pass this one up .... for all the gadget lovers out there!!! posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, August 06, 2004  National Science Digital Library Collections At A Glance NSDL Collections Interactive Visual View http://www.nsdl.org/collections/ NSDL At A Glance - Browse the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) collections by subject using an interactive visual view. Clicking a box centers it on the screen, and double-clicking a light blue box will open a new window* for the selected collection. Click the question mark for answers to more of your questions about the visual view. The visual view requires Java to be enabled in your web browser. This tool currently only works on Windows PCs with Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers and on Macintosh PCs with Safari and Netscape browsers. This is a neat and cool view and properly demonstrates what an "interactive visual view" is all about. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM W3C Open Source Software http://www.w3.org/Status.html The natural complement to W3C specifications is running code. Implementation and testing is an essential part of specification development and releasing the code promotes exchange of ideas in the developer community. All W3C software is Open Source / Free Software, and GPL compatible. See the license for details (and the following if you intend to contribute). Note that as this license is GPL compatible, it is possible to redistribute software based on W3C sources under a GPL license. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Zephyr http://www.zephyr.bvdep.com/cgi/template.dll?product=24¤cy= ZEPHYR is an information solution containing M&A, IPO and venture capital deals with links to detailed financial company information. ZEPHYR contains information on approaching 200,000 transactions. Approximately 60,000 new deals are added per year. The database is also expanding to cover more historical American and Asian transactions. Coverage post January 2003 is global. Various deal types are covered including: M&A activity, IPOs, joint ventures and private equity deals. There is no minimum deal value so you can analyse all deals in detail, irrespective of the transaction size. All deal information is translated into English. All deals are verified by a senior researcher before they are published on ZEPHYR to ensure consistently high quality information. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. While primarily virtual, RCCS's institutional framework and technological facilities reside at the University of Washington where it is hosted by the Department of Communication. RCCS was originally founded by David Silver in 1996 at the University of Maryland, where it received generous support from the Department of American Studies. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM NASA Tech Briefs Software Center http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20040802A6 The NASA Tech Briefs Software Center allows you to access NASA software programs available for commercial applications and development, ranging from aerodynamic analysis to artificial intelligence and bioinformatics. Additional features include Software Tech Briefs, feature articles, and the Software Store. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Logic Programming Associates - LPA http://www.lpa.co.uk LPA are leading suppliers of AI tools and solutions. In 1981, LPA released one of the first Prolog systems for micro-computers, micro-Prolog. Since then, LPA has developed a comprehensive range of AI tools for Windows-based PCs. In 2004, LPA announced VisiRule, a graphical KBS tool for drawing and executing decision-based charts. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:04 AM Thursday, August 05, 2004 Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Coconut Grove Rotary Club Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 12:00pm Date: Thursday, August 5, 2004 Location: Coconut Grove Sailing Club, 2990 South Bayshore Drive , Miami, Florida, 33133 posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Theory Edge Top Links http://vznuri.orgspace.com/theory-edge/ A listing of Theory Edge top links covering classifications of software, hardware, cyberspace, culture, theory, and etc. Each classification is broken down into sub-categories with links including title, description, rank and stats. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Total Recorder http://www.highcriteria.com/ Total Recorder records streaming audio, Mic input, Line-in input as well as CDs and DVDs. The resulting files are saved on your computer's hard-drive. The system also allows users to schedule any number of future recordings! [Net-Gold] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM August 2004 Web Server Survey http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/08/01/august_2004_web_server_survey.html The August 2004 survey received responses from 53,341,867 sites, a gain of more than 1.2 million sites from July. The August increased marked the sixth time in the past year that the survey has shown a monthly gain exceeding 1 million sites. In the last 12 months, the Internet has grown by 10.2 million hostnames. Interesting stats from the Netcraft folks ..... posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Sites for Teachers http://sitesforteachers.com/index.html A comprehensive listing of sites for teachers including title, description and ranking. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM The Adam Smith Institute Blog http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/ Adam Smith Institute Blog - Europe's favourite think tank blog. The Adam Smith Institute, the free-market think tank, is the UK's leading innovator of practical market-economic policies. For over 25 years it has been a pioneer in the worldwide movement towards free markets, public-sector reform, and free trade. The Institute focuses on promoting choice, competition, enterprise, and user-focus. It works through research, reports, conferences, advice, and media debate. This will be added to Academic Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 04, 2004  RSS Calendar RSSCalendar http://www.rsscalendar.com/ RSSCalendar is an exciting new way for individuals and organizations to share their calendars with family, friends, and colleagues - utilizing the latest in "Really Simple Syndication" (RSS) technology, including RSS channel creation and aggregation. Not only is RSSCalendar easy to use but it is also easy to administer, and setup is a snap. RSSCalendar is well-suited for a variety of uses, including: Individual calendarsposted by Marcus | 4:30 AM Business Blogging Goes Mainstream http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=5834827 Major technology companies such as Microsoft and IBM are endorsing blogging as a means of enhancing companies' communications channels while at the same time eyeing them as potential profit-boosters. At a recent conference held at the University of California Berkeley's Haas Business School, IBM Almaden Research Center director James Spohrer outlined his company's plans for integrating blogging into its employee communication strategies: "It's about decreasing social space between employees, and increasing the amount of knowledge shared between people." An example might contain some of an individual's educational background and work experience, as well as information on product development strategies that colleagues and customers can access around the clock. This sharing of information could spur feedback on efforts to produce new products and improve business processes, said Spohrer. Meanwhile, some analysts are looking at the marketing potential inherent in blogging. "Blogs are a way to put a human face on the company," because of the continuous interaction and relationships that employees can develop with blog-readers, says Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li. (Reuters 31 Jul 2004) [NewsScan Daily 2 August 2004] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Call for Participation: Public Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences http://www.w3.org/2004/07/swls-cfp.html http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Position papers are due 6 September for the W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences to be held in Cambridge, MA, USA on 27-28 October. Attendees will discuss how Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL and the Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) help to manage modern life sciences research, enable disease understanding and accelerate the development of therapies. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Search Engines: A Mixed Bag: A Review of Some New Search Engines by Phil Bradley http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue40/search-engines/ People are of course aware that Google isn't the only search engine out there, by any manner or means, and although many people regard it as the biggest and the best, this certainly isn't the case for those organisations who decide that they want a share of the search engine market. Phil Bradley looks at some of the new search engines that have appeared, and will see how many of them make the grade. Reviewed are: Euroclips: The Definitive European Directoryposted by Marcus | 4:15 AM AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin 1(2) July 2004 http://www.sigsemis.org/ AIS SIGSEMIS Vol. 1, Issue 2 (JULY) 2004 ISSUE 136 pages from the AIS Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Information Systems. Special Theme "Semantic Web Challenges for Knowledge Management". This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM NetNews Tracker http://www.netnewstracker.com/ NetNews Tracker is a clipping service for Usenet newsgroups. It will search newsgroups twice daily for any phrases that you choose, then delivers any hits to you via e-mail. You can use it to monitor newsgroups for your name, company, product, URL, or any other topic of interest, and never miss any discussions on that subject. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. This will be added to eCurrentAwareness Resources 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM CyberFiber http://www.cyberfiber.com CyberFiber is an unique tool that presents the thousands of newsgroups on the Internet in a directory format. Although the directory lists a broad range of topics, the subjects that may interest competitive intelligence professionals include: Business and Marketplace Once a user locates a category, CyberFiber provides access to a large collection of links to specific newsgroups. Each link prompts the user's browser to open the news reader application to peruse the countless number of postings that have been made since the group was created. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer7Trade; Information Blog. This will be added to Competitive Intelligence Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 03, 2004  A Bibliography of Recommended Websites for Global Research Issues Gumshoe Librarian: "Where in the World Is..." http://www.llrx.com/features/gumshoe.htm A Bibliography of Recommended Websites for Global Research Issues By Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici Abstract from Authors: This bibliography includes links to 73 websites that Barbara and Sabrina presented during their July 13 program at the 2004 AALL Annual Conference in Boston. These sites represent a broad but selective range of resources on topics that include business and corporate data, global news, search engines, guides to international and comparative law, country profiles and statistics, locating people, businesses, places and useful services around the world, banking resources, and data on terrorism and security issues. For the most part, the sites we chose are free, although several may have a fee-based component and/or require registration to obtain access to the full complement of data available. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Tek-Tips Forums http://www.tek-tips.com/ With 817,000 helpful members it's no wonder Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today! Members contribute over 116,000 technical posts per month making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet. This has been added to Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Net-Gold] posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center (ISRC) http://www.sandia.gov/isrc/ Sandia National Laboratory's Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center (ISRC)responds to "challenges impacting national security and US economic competitiveness." Research areas include: Economic competitiveness, engineered collectives, high consequence systems integration, intelligent systems modeling & simulation, and robotic vehicles. In other words, their technologies can be used for automated biomedical devices, mechatronic technology for oil and gas pipeline inspection, landmine detection and removal, and shipbuilding. The website includes descriptions and pictures of their robot vehicles, robot modeling and simulation projects, as well as other software and hardware technologies they have developed. Various publications and information on the facilities are also posted online. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Acronym Finder http://www.acronymfinder.com/ The Acronym Finder is a world wide web (WWW) searchable database of more than 357,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations. The Acronym Finder is not a glossary of terms, web search engine, dictionary, or a thesaurus -- it is only designed to search for and expand acronyms and abbreviations. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject™ Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Search Engine Comparison Chart http://www.llrx.com/features/searchenginechart.htm Diana Botluk has updated her popular guide to search engine features and results display features. [ LLRX.com for July 26, 2004 ] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Enter the World of the "Wiki" By Chris Hayes http://www.llrx.com/features/wiki.htm One of the hottest new concepts in the world of geeks and nerds is wiki software. You may not have run into a wiki website yet, but, no doubt, one day soon you will. They’ve been in use in the programming community for a number of years, and they are now becoming popular among companies as an in-house extranet application. Even BusinessWeek magazine touted the popularity of the wiki in a recent issue. This article has been added to my presentation sources for Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, August 02, 2004  Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog  Information Detective Online Streaming Tutorial Videos This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. August 2, 2004 V2N31 highlights Finding People Resources and Sites on the Internet. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this newly updated Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. View this site at: Finding People Resources and Sites on the Internet http://www.FindingPeople.info/ posted by Marcus | 1:34 PM Lockergnome's Search Engineer Channel http://channels.lockergnome.com/search/ It gives me great pleasure to be the editor of Lockergnome's Search Engineer Channel. This will be a daily update of six or more postings to maintain your current awareness in information retrieval, information extraction, bots, knowledge discovery and harvesting, data and Web mining, artificial intelligence, deep web research, semantic web research and general research and search sources on the Internet. I obtain this information from my bots, bookmarks, and listserv(r) subscriptions that I continually monitor and have monitored over many years. I also welcome all suggestions, sites, resources, and sources that you feel would be beneficial for this channel and my reviews. Feel free to e-mail these and any other suggestions or comments. I will also keep you updated to my happenings and the creation of new Subject Tracer Information Blogs, online streaming tutorial videos, white papers, miniguides, and publications related to searching the Internet. Additional information about who I am, my publications, workshops, speaking events, and more is available by clicking here. My first postings start today so please visit the above site and subscribe to the free daily email to receive the daily postings from yours truly the Lockergnome Search Engineer! Of course you may continue to visit my daily blog of latest resources as well!! posted by Marcus | 4:22 AM RFDump http://www.rfdump.org/ RFDump is a tool to detect RFID-Tags and show their meta information: Tag ID, Tag Type, manufacturer etc. The user data memory of a tag can be displayed and modified using either a Hex or an ASCII editor. In addition, the integrated cookie feature demonstrates how easy it is for a company to abuse RFID technology to spy on their customers. RFDump works with the ACG Multi-Tag Reader or similar card reader hardware. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Intelligent Portals http://www.intelligent-portals.com/ The premier Web Community for portal developers and managers responsible for delivering a dynamic, interactive user environment that is integrated with key underlying applications, processes, analytics, and data resources. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Intelligent Enterprise Research Library http://intelligententerprise.bitpipe.com/ Looking for timely technical information to help you plan, deploy, and manage your strategic applications? Look no further than the Intelligent Enterprise Research Library. Here you can search and browse on all the latest vendor and analyst information. Then, sign up for the KnowledgeAlert e-mail service to automatically stay informed on the topics that interest you most. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Comparing LIS Research Trends Around the World http://www.ifla.org/VII/s24/pub/iflapr-80-e.pdf A new report from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions looks at the differences in Library and Information Science research trends around the world. The study revealed what it called "a remarkable variation" in the emphases and trends in research among the countries studied, which included Scandinavia, Australia, China, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Each country has its own research profile, which does not closely follow the international trends. A strong interest in LIS services typified the research in Australia, Turkey and the UK. Research trends in Finland and the UK reflected most closely the profile in international core journals. A few research methods are commonly used, the report stated. Conceptual method and surveys are universally popular, and to a lesser extent, historical method. The IFLA report speculates that the popularity of these methods stems from their low cost and the ability of even individual researchers to employ them. Demanding research methods like experimental or qualitative are seldom used. Why the pronounced differences among countries? The report suggests that the social institutionalism of LIS affects research output. A well-developed social structure of the discipline has a positive impact on both the quality and quantity of research output. To understand further differences, the report says, look to the social and cultural differences of those countries. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=liblists This document is a compilation of electronic discussion lists, distribution lists and serials which are of interest to library professionals and staff. This document is based on the original compilation and work of Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems at the University of Houston Libraries. He maintained, revised, and frequently published it from 1990 to 1994. From August of 1994 to June of 1995, this document was compiled by Ann Thornton and Steve Bonario, both formerly of the University of Houston Libraries. They converted the original document to HTML format. From December of 1996 to the present, it has been compiled by Wei Wu, initially at the University of Houston Libraries and later at the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC). The document has been published on the WRLC Web server since September 1998. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, August 01, 2004 Energy Efficiency 1) U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency http://www.energy.gov/engine/content.do?BT_CODE=ENERGYEFFICIENCY 2) Pacific Gas and Electric: Energy-Saving Resources http://www.pge.com/res/energy_tools_resources/index.html 3) UC Berkeley: Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITIRS) http://www.citris.berkeley.edu/SmartEnergy/brainy.html 4) Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology http://solstice.crest.org/ 5) EPRI: Electricity Technology Roadmap Initiative http://snipurl.com/84wi 6) Smithsonian: Powering a Generation of Change http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/powering/index.htm 7) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Energy Crossroads http://eetd.lbl.gov/EnergyCrossroads/EnergyCrossroads.html As temperatures rise this summer and people turn on their air conditioners, the stakeholders in the electricity supply system worry about system overload. To help prevent overload, people can use less by conserving energy or find more efficient ways to use the energy they do. As researchers develop new technologies, and industry tries to promote those technologies, policy advocates look at long-term projections. This Topic in Depth explores the energy crisis and reviews some of the current technologies and energy-saving resources. This first site from the U.S. Department of Energy (1) offers an overview of some of the key issues surrounding current discussions of energy: "reducing America's dependence on foreign oil and developing energy efficient technologies for buildings, homes, transportation, power systems and industry." Given that any technology developed to make our energy-using appliances more efficient requires consumers' purchase and use of these new technologies, it makes sense that some industry stakeholders, such as Pacific Gas and Electric (2) describes the smart energy technology being developed by researchers at UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITIRS) that will monitor household energy usage so people know what energy they are using. Meanwhile, other researchers continue to pursue renewable energy technologies, such as those highlighted on this website from the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (4). This website (5) describes an initiative by EPRI to collaborate with various stakeholders to develop an Electricity Technology Roadmap for the next 25 years. This website from the Smithsonian (6) describes a project "to document the story of electrical power restructuring in North America as it unfolds over the coming years," offering electricity basics, a history of energy science and usage, an overview of deregulation, and an image gallery. Finally, this website from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (7) serves as an all-around resource on research, policy and other resources. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM HepLink -- Viral Hepatitis Deep Search Portal http://www.heplink.org/ A deep web search application that allows individuals dealing with hepatitis to spend more time finding answers to disease management issues and less time searching for them. The HepLink search portal was designed to aggregate information on viral hepatitis from a comprehensive collection of hepatitis specific sources, government websites and databases, consumer and patient resources, including complimentary and alternative medicine, transplant, clinical trials and health care provider resources, addiction resources, and legislation, advocacy/policy, education, research, clinical practice and current news sources. The information sources were prepared from private stores, public access information and the "deep web." This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide and Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM ChangingLinks http://www.changinglinks.com/ ChangingLINKS is a search engine that displays random links in the easiest way possible. All you have to do is click one button with your mouse, and we will help you discover cool, funny, interesting, weird & free reciprocal links. It is free to surf! posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM PolicyBot http://www.heartland.org/policybot.cfm PolicyBot is the Internet's most extensive clearinghouse for the work of free-market think tanks, with more than 13,000 studies, commentaries and public policy documents from over 350 think tanks and advocacy groups. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/area-dna-155ue40/morgan/ Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses. This article is an introduction to the "brother and sister" Web Service protocols named Search/Retrieve Web Service (SRW) and Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) with an emphasis on the later. More specifically, the article outlines the problems SRW/U are intended to solve, the similarities and differences between SRW and SRU, the complimentary nature of the protocols with OAI-PMH, and how SRU is being employed in a sponsored NSF (National Science Foundation) grant called OCKHAM to facilitate an alerting service. The article is seasoned with a bit of XML and Perl code to illustrate the points. The canonical home page describing SRW/U [1] is also a useful starting point. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Weblogs: Do They Belong in Libraries? http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/area-dna-155ue40/public-libraries/ Penny Garrod takes a look at weblogs and weblogging activities in libraries and considers some of the ways they can be used to support public library users. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM |
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