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Sunday, October 31, 2004 Lightning 1) Lightning http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weather/weather.html 2) Key to Lightning Deaths: Location, Location, Location http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0522_030522_lightning.html 3) Colorado Lightning Resource Center http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/ltg.shtml 4) Research at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center http://thunder.nsstc.nasa.gov/ 5) Lightning: The Shocking Story http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lightning/ 6) Electrified Ben http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/electric.html 7) Lightning Photography http://www.stormguy.com/ 8) Lightning Safety http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/ First, Ron Hipschman at the Exploratorium introduces the formation of lightning and its power (1). Visitors can find a nice history of people's changing beliefs about occurrences of lightning. Next, the National Geographic provides an article about storm anatomy, the dangers of lightning, and the places most likely to be struck by lightning (2). Users can find continental maps presenting the relative numbers of lightning strikes. At the third web site, the Colorado Lightning Resource Center offers lightning fact sheets, safety guides, and statistics (3 ). Visitors can lean about lightning research and projects. This website is a great source of lightning images as well. Next, the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) discusses the GHCC Lightning Team's investigations of the causes and effects of lightning and analyses "of a wide variety of atmospheric measurements related to thunderstorms" (4). This expansive website offers access to data, documents, reports, and press releases as well as information on field programs and instrumentation. The fifth website, provided by the National Geographic, supplies educational information about lightning in a fun, kid-friendly learning environment (5). Users can play games, take quizzes, view images, and much more. Next, The Franklin Institute Online features a creative article about Benjamin Franklin's curiosities about lightning (6). Educators can find electricity activities and teaching tips. At the seventh website, severe weather photographer Dave Crowley provides countless lightning photographs (7). The images offer great examples of the power and wonder of lightning. Lastly, NOAA provides handouts, safety tips, photos, classroom presentations and more (8). Anyone searching for well-prepared general lightning materials should visit this website. [ From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Latin America Shows Rapid Rise in Published Science and Engineering Articles Press Release: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=15100000000129 Report: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/infbrief/nsf04336/start.htm The number of science and engineering (S&E) articles credited to Latin American authors almost tripled in the 13-year period from 1988-2001, significantly outpacing authors of other developing regions in the world. The output of Latin American authors grew by about 200 percent, by far the highest rate of increase during the period. A new National Science Foundation (NSF) report, Latin America Shows Rapid Rise in S&E Articles, reveals that the Latin American increase in scientific articles was concentrated in four countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico – which generated close to 90 percent of the region’s published articles in 2001 alone. The new NSF report, which provides data and analysis on science and engineering (S&E) articles produced by authors in developing countries, said that Latin American authors have been published in the world’s most influential journals, such as Science and Nature. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Full-Text State Statutes and Legislation On the Internet http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm This page seeks to link to sites containing full-text state constitutions, statutes (called codes or compiled laws in some states), legislation (bills, amendments, etc.), session laws (bills that have become laws), and administrative rules. Updated 9/12/04. The Internet is a good reference tool, but don't assume any information is accurate, complete or current; double-check it elsewhere before relying on it. This has been added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Open Season: News Sites Add Outside Links, Free Content by Mark Glaser http://ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1098225187.php News online has never been about just one site, but rather an array of options zig-zagged with links. Now sites such as the BBC and News.com are linking more outside their domains, and WSJ.com and NYTimes.com are opening up more free content in a nod to the "news conversation" online. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Custom eBay Searches Delivered by RSS http://www.rssauction.com/ Custom eBay searches delivered by RSS brought to you by Lockergnome and BidRobot. Simple as 1/2/3 .... (1) Complete the form to your satisfaction, (2) Press the 'Search' button or tap your Enter key, and (3) Subscribe to or syndicate the resulting RSS URL! Also a nice list of feeds already created for the most popular categories of eBay. This has been added to Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Xinhua News Agency http://www.chinaview.cn/ Sponsored by the Xinhua News Agency, the state and worldwide news agency in China, Xinhuanet.com is a backbone with global influence among key national websites. On the strength of Xinhua's 150 subsidiaries all over China and the world, Xinhuanet.com has formed a global news and information gathering network to provide authoritative, substantial and timely news and information, as well as a large amount of on-the-spot reports, exclusive reports and brilliant multi-media reports. Xinhuanet.com consists of the Beijing head network, 32 local channels throughout China and 10 subsidiary websites of the Xinhua News Agency. With sophisticated technology and equipment, and a safe and reliable system, Xinhuanet.com ranks first in China in the network platform and is known as an "aircraft carrier" for Chinese websites. Collecting news and information around the world and covering major events at home and abroad, Xinhuanet.com releases news around the clock in seven languages, namely, Chinese (GB, Big5), English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Japanese and updates more than 4,500 news items every day. It is thus known as the "collector of on-line news and information in China." This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, October 30, 2004 eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report http://www.eCurrentAwareness.com/ http://www.CurrentAwareness.net/ eCurrent Awareness Resources™ 2005 Business Intelligence Report is a forty three page report listing all the very latest current awareness resources and sites(URLs) on the World Wide Web that have been compiled over the last ten years by Internet Expert and Guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. . eCurrent Awareness Resources™ 2005 Business Intelligence Report is considered to be one of the most comprehensive reports on current awareness sources and sites on the Internet available today. It was updated October 13, 2004. Purchase eCurrent Awareness Resources™ 2005 Business Intelligence Report for $69.95 by clicking below:   
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Reader's Circle http://readerscircle.org/ If you've been looking for a way to connect with book-related groups, this is it. Reader's Circle is a free public directory that specializes in listings for book clubs and reader's circles. Anyone may post a listing or search for a group by zip code — all for free. But now to introduce the concept of a reader's circle. A reader's circle is a social gathering with a format much like a large, multi-stranded book club. Participants discuss what books to read and maintain a list of those currently being read by anyone in the group. The list is then used to announce the group's activities to itself and newcomers, and all books listed are considered optional. The intent is to loosen the usual format so participants can read more of what they want and attend meetings even if they're still in the middle of a book. In fact, with many reader's circles meetings are held twice a month because the focus is upon open-ended conversation, not a particular book that is up for discussion. Another feature of reader's circles is that there are three basic types: academic (being organized around a subject), civic (serving as a public forum), and social (being organized around an age range). Along with suggesting various possibilities for the groups, the different types are meant to provide additional structure in the absence of a specific book participants are reading together. The organization's purpose in introducing reader's circles and providing the directory is to help bring together a new, more inclusive community, one based on a shared interest in books and conversation. Reader's Circle is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 6:15 AM Double-Tongued Word Wrester http://www.doubletongued.org/ Double-Tongued Word Wrester records words as they enter and leave the English language. It focuses upon slang, jargon, and other niche categories which include new, foreign, hybrid, archaic, obsolete, and rare words. Special attention is paid to the lending and borrowing of words between the various Englishes and other languages, even where a word is not a fully naturalized citizen in its new language. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Herbal Safety http://www.herbalsafety.utep.edu/ In the past decade, there has been an increased interest in herbal medicines and treatments, both from the mainstream medical community and the general public. One need look no further than the cold drink section of the local supermarket to see the various herbal supplements that are prominently displayed on many drink labels. In an effort to provide critical evaluations of these various herbs and related products, the University of Texas at El Paso has created this important website in order to disseminate information about research findings related to herbal use and to provide these findings in both English and Spanish. There are a number of very helpful fact sheets presented here, including those that the deal with such commonly used medicinal herbs and plants, such as ginseng, chamomile, pumpkin seeds, and St. John's Wort. The Herbal Safety site also contains information on recent medical studies that examine the effectiveness of such medicinal treatments. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.[From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Music Library Association (MLA) http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/ Founded in 1931, MLA is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and all aspects of music materials in libraries. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM LibWeb - Library Servers via WWW http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/ Libweb - Library Servers via WWW is updated daily at midnight, Pacific Time. Libweb currently lists over 7100 pages from libraries in over 115 countries. An excellent current resource for discovering libraries from through the world! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM The Evolution of the Web http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3419141 The Web is growing up, transforming from a collection of linked pages to a network of interactive applications launched from Web platforms. "The first phase of the Web was about populating small pieces in the form of individual pages," says Excite co-founder Joe Kraus. "Phase two is about joining these individual pieces together." One example of this evolutionary process is JotSpot, a wiki-like application that serves as a platform for collaborative business data and applications. The key to the platform evolution is Web services, which provide companies with a standard protocol for outside machines to interact with corporate systems. A company can restrict outside access to only those services it wishes to "expose" -- for instance, access to a database or to an application such as search. Third parties "consume" these services by embedding them in their own applications or Web sites. An example would be a restaurant review site that embedded a tag that called up a third-party database when a user wanted directions to a specific eatery. As Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media puts it: "Customers build your business for you." posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, October 29, 2004  New York Times Technology News New York Time Technology News http://www.nytimes.com/tech/ The New York Times Technology News section continues to bring the latest current happenings in the technology sector and also has expanded it's content and availability now allowing access to Circuits and other areas within the technology news section. A must daily scan either from their email update or by visiting their site. The technology news site can be aggregated as it has RSS feeds that are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Global Security http://www.globalsecurity.org/ GlobalSecurity.org provides information dealing with "emerging security challenges the new millennium." The site includes government reports and documents, news articles from international as well as U.S. sources, guides and directories to national military capabilities and resources, and analysis of events and trends. Main security subject areas covered are: The Military, Intelligence, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Homeland Security, and Space. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM OneLook Reverse Dictionary http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the "Find words" button. (Keep it short to get the best results.) In most cases you'll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems http://www.mitacs.math.ca/ The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) is a Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) for the Mathematical Sciences in Canada. The organization's work focuses on "the imperatives of research, education and technology transfer" applied to "the fastest growing sectors of the nation's economy." Currently, its work involves developing mathematical solutions in the areas of Biomedical & Health, Environment & Natural Resources, Information Processing, Risk & Finance, and Communication, Networks & Security. The website describes each of these Scientific Programmes and provides a link to the project website, where the publications resulting from its work are posted. The website is also available in French.[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Tracker: Yahoo! Most eMailed Picture http://www.flatfeetpete.com/ytrack/index.html If you are in to tracking the latest happenings and current awareness in the form of pictures emailed through Yahoo .... then this tracker will allow you to easily visualize the top pictures of the day in the form of a nice graphical/picture format. This has been added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Shopping Bargains - Online Coupon Code and Discounts for 500+ Online Stores http://www.shopping-bargains.com/ Shopping-Bargains provides free coupon codes, discount codes, printable local store and grocery coupons, online discount coupons, online shopping discounts and special savings links. What Shopping-Bargains usually refers to as coupon codes are sometimes called promotional codes, promotion codes, promo codes, store codes, discount codes, key codes, voucher codes or shopping codes by online stores. Currently over 500 partner stores participating. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, October 28, 2004  Dublin Core Services Dublin Core Services http://www.describethis.com/ Dublin Core Services (DCS) turns the dissimilar content of Internet resources into Dublin Core metadata registers, making the web more manageable for information specialists and software applications. Giving to DCS the URLs of online documents, images, etc. or keywords, its engine parses the content and returns specific information about the resource, ex.: submitting dates, keywords, creators, extension and more. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Intranet Trends http://line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=5913 Internet consultant Shiv Singh of Avenue A/Razorfish sees the following trends for organizational intranets: 1) They will return to the domain of the departments, except when infrastructure issues are involved; 2) The records management and legal departments will develop organization-wide rules for managing and archiving the intranet and querying managers about content that they feel can be removed; 3) All employees will become intranet publishers using publishing tools that will let them directly communicate and efficiently distribute information via the intranet; 4) The corporate telephone directory will lose its importance as intranets finally become a lot more than a message board, a phone book and a fancy file server all rolled into one; 5) The new "killer app" will be knowledge management tools, and the corporate intranet will be the natural place to house them; 6) Real-time information delivery will become a top priority, with the hard question being how to determine what information is really needed in real time and for whom and how should it be delivered; 7) The emphasis of information retrieval will move away from searching for specific pieces of information occasionally to scanning information across a variety of sources (primarily weblogs) on a daily basis; and 8) Employees will increasingly demand a more aesthetic user experience, thereby forcing organizations to upgrade their intranet user experience to meet the emotional needs of their employees. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Exalead Beta Search Engine http://beta.exalead.com/search Exalead announces the availability of a new Internet search engine that makes the content of a billion Web pages immediately accessible. This is the beta site of this new search engine from their company in France with experience in both IR and IE. This will be added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2005. [ResearchBuzz] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM UKWizz http://www.ukwizz.com/ UKWizz is a UK based internet search engine. Our aim is to provide UK users with a search experience that is both Relevant and specific to the UK. There are many excellent search engines out there so what makes UKWizz different? UKWizz has been designed for and targeted at UK internet users. We try to keep our results as UK specific as possible. We believe this is a great benefit to the average UK searcher. When you use UKWizz you will see that almost all of the results returned are related to the UK. If you carry out a search on most search engines your results could be coming from anywhere in the world. Our index is not 100% UK specific, although our technology is designed to index as high a percentage of UK web content as possible. This has been added to the search engine section of Internet MiniGuides 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Science for the 21st Century http://www.ostp.gov/nstc/21stcentury/index.html This document was produced under the direction of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Science. The document details, from a Federal agency perspective, the science policies and accomplishments of the current Administration, and illustrates how today’s science sets the stage for benefits to the economy and national quality of life far into the future. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM GRID 2004 http://www.gridbus.org/grid2004/ In the last few years, the Grid community has been growing very rapidly and many new technologies and components have been proposed. This, along with the growing popularity Web-based technologies, and the availability of cheap commodity components is changing the way we do computing and business. There are now many ongoing grid projects with research and production-oriented goals. Grid 2004 is an international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with the Grid. The objective of Grid 2004 is to serve as a forum to present current and emerging work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. The previous events that are part of this series of events were Grid 2000, Bangalore, India; Grid 2001, Denver, CO; Grid 2002, Baltimore, MD; Grid 2003, Phoenix, USA. All of these events have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. Last years event attracted over 400 registered participants. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, October 27, 2004  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N11 November 2004 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N11 November 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N11.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The November 2004 V2N11 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 30 page .pdf document (520KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online Reference Resources. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources. The book review covers Tara Calishain's Web Search Garage and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subject: Entrepreneurial Resources. posted by Marcus | 6:00 PM  Experiments in Web Programming Experiments in Web Programming http://www.brainjar.com/ BrainJar.com features technical articles, tutorials and examples of programming for the web. It's not intended as a "cut and paste" site but rather a learning resource. Feel free to browse and experiment with the code samples found throughout. If you are tempted to just cut and paste, please see the terms of use first. All coding examples presented on the site are now available for use under the GNU General Public License. Notices will be added to the appropriate web pages as time permits. Some .Net code samples are now available. Most of the scripting examples found here are designed for modern, standards-compliant browsers such as Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape 6+ and IE 5.5+. All pages use a strict XHTML DOCTYPE with a few exceptions necessary for demonstration purposes. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Seize The Feed: Web Feeds for Enhanced Governmental Information Services http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SeizeTheFeed.ppt This is revised and corrected version of the PowerPoint presentation prepared and presented by Gerry McKiernan at the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC), Content Management Working Group, Brown Bag Series at the Library of Congress, Madison Building, this past Monday, October 18, 2004, Noon - 3 PM. The Menu includes: Why a Feed?, What's a Feed?, Where's the Feed?, How a Feed?, Who a Feed?, When a Feed?, RSS in Government, FLICC/Applications and Resources. This is an excellent presentation of 175+ powerpoint slides showing the current happenings with government information and atom/RSS feeds. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation sources. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM SocSciBot3 http://socscibot.wlv.ac.uk/ SocSciBot is a Web site crawler designed for research purposes. Together with its supporting programs SocSciBot Tools and Cyclist, it can be used to conduct link analysis on a site or collection of sites, or to run a search engine on a collection of sites. These programs can also be used in teaching, to illustrate how link analysis and search engines work. This Link crawler for the social sciences (new version online 4 Oct '04)has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Topic Maps http://www.computerworld.com/news/2004/story/0,11280,96350,00.html Although they're still not quite ready for prime time. topic maps are something everyone should be aware of. A topic map is simply a kind of data structure (just as an outline or a set of categories is) -- a structure standardized by the International Standards Organization in 2000 (ISO/IEC 13250) as XML Topic Maps, or XTM. The topic map model attaches three "characteristics" to any given topic: its names, its associations with other topics, and its occurrences or "resources." Russell Kay explains names, associations, and occurrences this way in Computerworld: "Names are mainly useful to people in dealing with topics, and a topic doesn't actually need a name: A typical cross-reference (e.g., "see page 12") points to an unnamed topic. Also, we typically group topics according to some notion of type... Associations are the conceptual heart of topic maps, indicating how one topic relates to another. For example, Book A (a topic) is written by (association) Author B (another topic)... Occurrences are the actual references pointers to relevant information resources. Occurrences could include articles, books, images, audio and video segments, application code routines or even people." Kay says that the biggest job in building a topic map lies in defining the set of topics and relationships, finding the relevant occurrences and then examining the data for cross-references, aliases and other helpful tools: "While some pieces of this job, as with book indexing, can be automated (especially for structured data), the biggest part still requires a human imagination to sort out." posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Subjex Platform http://www.subjex.com/ Subjex Corporation is an innovative provider of intelligent customer service solutions for both Internet and Intranet environments. Subjex Corporation, a publicly traded Minneapolis based software company, has developed the next generation artificial intelligence dialog communication platform, the Subjex Platform™. The artificial intelligence of the Subjex Platform uses natural dialog to communicate with users within a Frame of Knowledge. The Frame of Knowledge is a modular database of information pertaining to a narrow subject such as a company, its products, and its sales tools. The more information contained within the frame of knowledge, the more accurately the artificial intelligence can respond to users questions and further expand its knowledge base through self-learning. The Subjex Platform is licensable to business and freely available to developers. For web-connected organizations, Subjex offers tools and solutions that support customer contact with, fully automated, online virtual customer service representatives. This has been added to ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) http://www.pipa.org/ The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) carries out research on public opinion on foreign policy and international issues by conducting nationwide polls, focus groups and comprehensive reviews of polling conducted by other organizations. PIPA is a joint program of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, October 26, 2004  TRN Technology Research News Biochip Spots Single Viruses http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/102004/Biochip_spots_single_viruses_102004.html A nanowire transistor coated with antibody proteins can briefly snag individual viruses. This simple electronic device sets the stage for sensors and handheld devices that can spot pathogens in the early stages of an infection or attack. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Use of Online Reputation and Rating Systems http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=140 Data memo on the use of online reputation and rating systems from Pew Internet. Twenty-six percent of adult internet users in the U.S. have rated a product, service, or person using an online rating system. That amounts to more than 33 million people. These systems, also referred to as “reputation systems,” are interactive word-of-mouth networks that assist people in making decisions about which users to trust, or to compare their opinions with the opinions expressed by others. Many Web sites utilize some form of this application, including eBay, Amazon, Moviefone and Amihot. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Govcom.org http://www.govcom.org/ Govcom.org has been conceived as a project to map debates on the Web on important social issues. In general they note that the major players in those debates come from government (.gov), industry (.com) and NGOs (.org), with science (.edu) often playing a lesser role than one would expect. Govcom.org is meant as the domain where one can follow some of these debates on societal issues by looking at maps that depict hyperlink and/or discursive relations between leading parties per issue. To map the relations between these parties, they found it necessary to chart country subdomains, so global relationships could be depicted between generic .gov's, .com's, .org's, as well as .edu's. For example, .gov.al (Albanian governmental sites) and .org.br (Brazilian NGOs) would be mapped as 'government' and 'NGO', respectively. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Digital Reference Services Bibliography http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html Bernie Sloan's excellent bibliography. The more than 700 items listed in this bibliography relate to the topic of online or virtual or digital reference services, i.e., the provision of reference services, involving collaboration between library user and librarian, in a computer-based medium. These services can utilize various media, including e-mail, Web forms, chat, video, Web customer call center software, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), etc. Approximately 40% of the items listed in this bibliography are available via the Web. Links have been provided to direct you to those resources. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM WebHosting.info http://www.WebHosting.info/ WebHosting.Info is the largest research and statistics portal primarily dedicated towards the web services industry. It's purpose is to continuously release data presenting micro and macro statistics about the Web Services industry -- Hosting Companies, Registries, Domain Registrars, Data centers etc across the world. It also provides statistical trends and patterns across Countries, IP Addresses, Domain Names, Web Servers, Operating Systems and other variables directly or indirectly related to the Web Services Industry. WebHosting.Info currently monitors over 35 million domain names, 1.3 million DNS servers, 35,000+ hosting companies, and approximately 2 billion IP Address on a regular basis; to arrive at statistics that exposes the entire web services industry for anyone to view, inspect and analyze. No other service or technology exists, worldwide; that offers comparable breadth and depth. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Internet Demographics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Mighty Goods http://mightygoods.com/ Mighty Goods is a shopping weblog. They look for things they really like, and then they put them there, right where you can find them. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, October 25, 2004  Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. October 25, 2004 V2N43 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Entrepreneurial Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing entrepreneurial resources and sites on the Internet. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.EntrepreneurialResources.info/   posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM Beef Up Your Browsers By Cade Metz http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1650380,00.asp Sixty-three million Americans use the Internet for academic research, and nearly as many use it for work-related research, says a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Among experienced computer users, according to the UCLA Center for Communication Policy, the Internet now ranks as more important than television, radio, magazines, newspapers, and even books as an information source. Too bad the browsers they use to gather their information are such weak research tools. This is a review by PC Magazine on 8 research tools. This has been added to my Online Research Tools White Paper Link Compilation and my Online Research Browsers Annotated White Paper Link Compilation. Both of these are available as well as other of my white papers on information retrieval and information extraction at WhitePapers.us. This has also been added to the research tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Ace OnLine http://faculty.gvsu.edu/patterna/aceonline This announces the launch of a new on-line journal--Ace OnLine, the peer reviewed journal of the Assembly on Computers in English, an assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English. Ace OnLine's focus is technology integration k-14. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Semantic Planet's RDF Library and Carp RDF Processor http://www.semanticplanet.com/ It has been announced that the first public release of Semantic Planet's RDF Library and Carp RDF Processor is now available. These are .NET/Mono libraries for fetching, parsing, munging and writing RDF and have been tested on win32, Linux and FreeBSD platforms. Both libraries are released under a liberal, attribution-only, open source license. SemPlan.RdfLib provides foundation RDF services for other applications such as parsing and writing RDF. Iyt can be downloaded here. SemPlan.Carp uses RdfLib and conceptually sits in a layer above it. Carp stands for Convenient API for RDF Programing and is designed to provide a simple API for programming with RDF without losing the power of the underlying model. Carp can be downloaded here. There is a longer introduction with some examples of usage here. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Blawg Republic http://www.blawgrepublic.com/ Blawg Republic is a real-time search engine that monitors the legal blogging community every hour. People can browse excerpts on discussions, from Appellate Law to Technology Law. They can keep up with their favorite legal bloggers and track evolving discussions moving through the blawgosphere - the world of legal oriented weblogs. All weblogs in the Blawg Republic Index have been categorized into one of over 30 law categories. Tracking a weblog or legal meme is easy via RSS feeds that are available for any search, and for each law category. Each weblog in the Blawg Republic Index is listed in the Directory along with its ATOM or RSS feed. Blawg Republic is committed to adding more sources and fine-tuning its algorithms. This has been added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Institute of Network Cultures (INC) http://www.networkcultures.org/ The Institute of Network Cultures (INC), which was set up in June 2004, caters to research, meetings and (online) initiatives in the area of internet and new media. Not only will the INC facilitate, but also initiate and produce a range of projects. Its goal is to create an open organizational form with a strong focus on content, within which ideas (emanating from both individuals and institutions) can be given an institutional context at an early stage. Based on the fusion of old and new media, the INC aims to organize both public and internal meetings and to formulate new research. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004 Entrepreneurial Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Entrepreneurial Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 16 page .pdf document 364KB. [Updated 12-10-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Bioinformatics Computational molecular biology, which now is commonly called bioinformatics, draws on mathematics and computer science to inform research in biology. This evolving area of research advances our knowledge of biological systems and contributes to medical research, but also raises ethical issues and demands increased collaboration among scientists. These issues are reviewed in this issue of Topic in Depth. 1) Biocomputing in a Nutshell http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/ForAll/Basics/welcome.html 2) NRC: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists http://books.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/10497.pdf 3) What is Bioinformatics? http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ppgardne/bioinformatics/Bioinformatics_Definitions.htm 4) Open Bioinformatics Foundation http://www.open-bio.org/ 5) University of British Columbia: Bioinformatics Links Directory http://www.bioinformatics.ubc.ca/resources/links_directory/ 6) European BioInformatics Institute http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/ 7) The American Journal of Bioethics http://www.bioethics.net/ The first website (1) offers a broad introduction to bioinformatics. The second website (2) provides a summary of a report from the National Research Council outlining some of the contributions of bioinformatics research and suggests ways to promote collaboration among the diverse disciplines within graduate and undergraduate programs. The author of this next website (3) provides links to various definitions of bioinformatics and offers a brief review of the origins of the field. Another interesting facet of this work, which can probably be traced to the field's history, is the sharing of tools and resources over the Internet. For example, researchers can share their open source code software on websites such as this one from the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (4) or search this directory from the University of British Columbia (5) to find everything from the genome of the SARS virus to basic guidelines and tools. Some interesting research projects are described on this website from the European bioInformatics Institute (6). Finally, a review of some of the ethical issues raised by this work are posted on this website (7).[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Wealthy New Lab Aims to Capture Dreams, Literally By Maggie Fox http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=6490987§ion=news Gerald Rubin is looking for someone who can take a picture of a thought. To do it, he and colleagues are harnessing the powerful force of cold, hard cash -- Howard Hughes' cash, to be exact. They are building a new $400 million laboratory in the green countryside outside Washington, D.C. and hope to attract the brightest and most unconventional minds in science to find a way to look into a person's brain and see what it is doing. And they want to take their time doing it. "In a 100-year timeframe we want to understand human consciousness," said Rubin. Rubin and colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute -- one of the world's richest philanthropies with an endowment worth $11.3 billion -- are approaching this ticklish problem backwards. They have bought a 280-acre farm in Ashburn, Virginia, and are building a new kind of research campus. Only now, halfway through its construction, are they settling on what kind of research they want to do and looking for the people to do it. "We are (like) a biotechnology company whose product is new knowledge and which has infinitely patient investors," Rubin told reporters on a recent tour, comparing the foundation to a corporation. How did they settle on imaging thought? "We wanted to pick an important biomedical problem but we wanted to pick a problem that wasn't easily addressed at academic campuses." One area that might meet these criteria was the question of how brain cells store and process information. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Educational Cyber PlayGround: Applications and Tutorials http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/apps.html This is an excellent site featuring numerous applications and tutorials covering a plethorea of sources and subjects. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Keyword Research http://www.stargeek.com/keyword_research.php To get more traffic to your site through search engine optimization you must first find out the most popular keywords for searchers to use when they are looking for content or products such as yours. For each of these top keywords that is commonly used to search for products and information in a given topical niche, it is important to gauge 3 statistics: keyword popularity, convertibility and competition. This has been added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Google Envy Is Fomenting Search Wars By John Markoff http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/technology/18search.html Propelled by Google envy, new players and Internet industry giants are rushing into the online search market, setting off a burst of activity that contrasts sharply with the lull after the dot-com collapse. To fend off its challengers, Google has furiously intensified efforts to add new services to its brand. Last week, it introduced Google Desktop Search, a program that is a direct challenge to Microsoft's control of desktop computing because it searches for information on a user's personal computer as well as on the Web. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Surpriv: RFID Surveillance and Privacy http://www.stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/ The Surpriv blog is for discussions of RFID-related surveillance and privacy issues. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, October 23, 2004  November 2004 Zillman Column November 2004 Zillman Column - Grant Resources http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Grant Resources Nov04 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The November 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Grant Resources. This November 2004 Zillman Column is a comprehensive listing of online resources and sites for grants. Download this excellent 10 page free .pdf column today and stay current in the ever changing world of grants for you personally or for your non for profit organization. posted by Marcus | 2:05 PM  Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide Security Resources 2005 - Internet MiniGuide http://SecurityResources.BlogSpot.com/ By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1539-9885 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 51 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources Security Resources URLs Personal Computer Security and Analysis Personal Computer Hard Drive Cleaning Personal Computer Firewalls Secure Havens Secured Documents and eMail Transmission "I'm personally recommending this MiniGuide to representatives of several US government agencies that are concerned with Internet health. ...Great work, Marcus!" Steve Thaler - CEO Imagination-Engines.com posted by Marcus | 10:11 AM  Google Desktop Beta http://desktop.google.com/ Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly. View web pages you've seen, even when you're not online. Search as easily as you do on Google. Google Desktop Search finds: Outlook/Outlook Express, Word, AOL Instant Messenger, Excel, Explorer Internet Explorer, PowerPoint and Text. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM TechWeb Network http://www.techweb.com/ The TechWeb Network is a uniquely valuable resource for IT professionals. TechWeb.com offers the best of both worlds: A distinctive combination of top-notch original content and one-stop, contextual access to the resources of CMP's network of industry-leading technology publications. TechWeb.com adds its own IT reporting to the best-of-breed news and information from InformationWeek, InternetWeek, Network Computing, Network Magazine, Optimize Magazine, The Open Enterprise, and the Financial Technology Network, thus creating the complete online resource for technology managers. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM IT Conversations http://www.itconversations.com/ IT Conversations is a network of high-end tech talk-radio interviews, discussions and presentations from major conferences delivered live and on-demand via the Internet. It's a one-person labor of love. Doug Kaye is ITC's host, producer, developer, writer, interviewer and engineer. He launched IT Conversations in June 2003 and produces three to five programs each week. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Artificial Intelligence May Aid Space Mission Technical Glitches By Ben Iannotta http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_041018.html NASA officials are reporting encouraging results from an experiment in which artificial intelligence software is being used to determine the root causes of simulated technical glitches aboard the agency’s Earth Observing-1 imaging satellite. The software, called Livingstone, was developed by computer scientists at Ames Research Center in California. The Ames team named the software after the 19th Century explorer and doctor, David Livingstone. The version being tested on Earth Observing-1, or EO-1, is a more powerful version of the Livingstone software that was first tested successfully on NASA’s Deep Space 1 spacecraft in 1999. Livingstone’s designers are convinced that artificial intelligence software will be the best way to prevent technical mishaps during future robotic or human missions into deep space. Continuous communications with Earth will be impossible on these missions due to signal-transit delays and planetary obstructions. Spacecraft therefore will have to self-diagnose technical failures, and if possible find a solution, said members of the Livingstone team. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM APME Survey: Newspaper Readers Use Blogs Cautiously By Ryan Pitts http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=72653 Newspaper readers who follow blogs say challenging traditional journalists is a vital new tool blogs posess. Newspaper readers who follow blogs remain cautious as they judge bloggers' credibility, but they say a willingness to challenge traditional journalists makes the network of personal sites a vital newcomer to the media scene. About 20 percent of readers told a national group of newspaper editors that they read blogs at least sometimes, if not regularly. The responses were gathered in an online survey by the Associated Press Managing Editors' National Credibility Roundtables Project. The survey targeted the most interactive of newspaper users. This compares with a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which measured blogging's readership at about 11 percent of overall U.S. Internet users. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Aging Internet Information Notes http://www.aoa.gov/prof/notes/notes.asp The Aging Internet Information Notes are intended to empower users to explore Internet resources and find information and sites beyond those identified. More than 60 aging topics are currently represented in this series. Notes begin with a brief description of the subject area, followed by two options for downloading: Portable Document Format (PDF) or a Microsoft WORD version. Both versions offer web pages with URLs and hyperlinks organized by public interest subtopic or intended audience. An effort is made to include sites with information useful to consumers, policy planners, program development staff, state service providers, professionals working with older adults, students, teachers and researchers, media and business. The development of Internet Information Notes is an on-going activity that benefits from the comments and suggestions of viewers. This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, October 22, 2004  Teaching.com Teaching.com http://www.Teaching.com/ Free non-commercial educational Web services for educators and students. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM ASC: Active Sequence Collection http://bioinformatica.isa.cnr.it/ASC/ ASC (Active Sequences Collection) is a set of seven databases of short amino acid sequences with known biological activity. ASC contains more than 2,349 different short amino acid sequences with record-links to external genomics/literature databanks: PubMed, SwissProt, PDB, PDBSum, PDF-FINDER, CATH, MMDB, IMB, PQS, and ENZYME. The seven database subfiles are: AIRS : Auto Immune Related Sequences (60);This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM International Association of Astronomical Artists http://www.iaaa.org A gallery of members work, newsletters, listing of workshops and a reference section with pertinent astronomical links and a handbook are part of this site. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Art and Science Collaborations http://www.asci.org Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. assists people in the fields of art and science to collaborate. To accomplish this ASCI presents the ArtSci Index which is a database of individuals who are interested in collaborating. Exhibition and publication opportunities and a newletter are also found here. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Implementing Digital Preservation Models http://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/2004-10-01.htm How are digital materials currently being preserved in the cultural heritage community? How should they be preserved in the future? PREMIS, a working group jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, recently issued a report on that subject. Based on survey responses from nearly 50 institutions in 13 countries, PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) discovered certain trends that may ultimately emerge as best practices. One is to store metadata redundantly in both an XML or relational database, as well as with the content data objects themselves. Database storage allows fast access, while storing them with the object makes the object self-defining outside the context of the preservation repository. Maintain multiple versions (originals and at least some normalized or migrated versions) in the repository, and store complete metadata for all versions. Retaining the original reduces risk in case better preservation treatments become available in the future. Another recurring trend noted in the report was using the OAIS model as a framework and starting point for designing the preservation repository, but retaining the flexibility to add functions and services that go beyond that model. The METS format was recommended for structural metadata and as a container for descriptive and administrative metadata, but Z39.87/MIX was preferred for technical metadata for still images. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM University of California-Davis Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center http://rics.ucdavis.edu/postharvest2/Pubs/index.shtml The Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center is housed in the Pomology Department at the University of California-Davis. Postharvest Center research focuses on improving the quality of horticultural crops, reducing post-harvest losses, improving marketing efficiency, and solving produce handling problems. This Publications website contains a wealth of downloadable articles organized by a wide range of crops and related issues. The numerous publication categories include: Apples, Nectarines, Lettuce, Postharvest IPM, Health Benefits, Storage, and many more. Visitors can locate articles by browsing the site index or by using a keyword search engine. Thia has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, October 21, 2004  WebJunction WebJunction http://www.WebJunction.org/ WebJunction is an online community of libraries and other agencies sharing knowledge and experience to provide the broadest public access to information technology. In 2002, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) a three-year grant to build a portal for public libraries and other organizations that provide open access to information. Building on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's five-year-old U.S. Library Program, which has provided over 40,000 computers with Internet access to more than 10,000 libraries across the United States and Canada, WebJunction is the work of five organizations, led by OCLC. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Reconciling the Order of the Library with the Chaos of the Web http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2004/pearce2.html Noting that the library has long been "a metaphor for order and rationality," where the search for information is aided by knowledgeable librarians, Judith Pearce, director of business analysis at the National Library of Australia, contrasts such structure with the "anarchy" of the Web: "The Web is free-associating, unrestricted and disorderly. Searching is secondary to finding and the process by which things are found is unimportant. Collections are temporary and subjective where a blog entry may be as valuable to the individual as an unpublished paper as are six pages of a book made available by Amazon. The individual searches alone without expert help and, not knowing what is undiscovered, is satisfied." Services like Google and Amazon have raised the expectations of library users. For others, they have introduced a "world of information in which libraries and their collections have new audiences and new roles to play." Pearce describes recent changes at the National Library, aimed at reducing the separation between the Web site and the library catalog in order to draw users into the collection. Visitors to the new color-coded site do not even need to know what a catalog is in order to find information, she says. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Hoaxes and Other Bad Information in the News http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/hoaxes_in_the_news.html Genie Tyburski has added an annotated compilation of articles, entitled "Hoaxes and Other Bad Information in the News," to her Information Quality guide. This has been added to Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Rich or Famous http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/3/2/1 Scientists who crave the recognition that comes from publishing important papers need to embrace some harsh realities if they also want to make money by commercializing their research. Business adviser Neil Kane explains how to overcome this apparent dilemma. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM H-Bot: Automated Historical Fact Finder http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/h-bot/ H-Bot is a chatterbot that discusses information on history taken from the Center for History and New Media. The description of this ChatterBot is: Automated Historical Fact Finder. I have added this to ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [ResearchBuzz] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Risk Models - APT http://www.apt.com/ APT provides investors with statistical market risk models, performance & risk analytics, and portfolio optimization & construction tools. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, October 20, 2004  BuzzMetrics BuzzMetrics - Word of Mouth Research and Planning http://www.buzzmetrics.com/ BuzzMetrics transforms the incredible mass of consumer word of mouth into actionable research findings and strategic plans — giving you precision-guided tools to help meet your business and brand goals. For years it’s been clear that person-to-person opinion sharing impacts consumer behavior more dramatically than either editorial or advertising. But word of mouth has historically remained a fuzzy medium – difficult for businesses to reliably capture or deploy. With millions of people now flocking online to share their experiences, everything has changed. The conversations people have – on message boards, listservs, blogs and chat rooms – represent the largest collection of consumer insight that has ever existed. And because these conversations happen online, where they are recorded and archived, we can help you listen in and participate. BuzzMetrics’ proprietary Discussion Miner software collects and processes hundreds of millions of data points. Their team of analysts then reveals the critical intelligence you need about the state of market sentiment surrounding your business. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Three Basic "Families" or Types of Search Tools http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/ToolsTables.html An excellent resource from the UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops describing three basic families or types of search tools. This tutorial explains these types of search tools and gives additional resources that are available. This has been added to Searching the Internet white paper. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Froogle U.K. Beta http://froogle.google.co.uk/ Google announced it latest shoopingbot for the United Kingdom called Froogle U.K. . It is in beta but performs shopping on the internet like its U.S. counterpart Google Froogle and even gives a list of items recently found using the shoppingbot. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM OQO model 01 http://www.oqo.com/ In 2000, Jory Bell (CEO) and Jonathan Betts-LaCroix (CTO), together with Andrew Popell, Michael Prichard, Nick Merz, and Robert Ford, founded OQO and set out to shrink a Windows XP computer into a pocketable device. Their vision was to transform personal computing in the same way mobile phones revolutionized telecommunications. San Francisco-based OQO demonstrated its initial proof of concept at WinHEC 2002, signaling the next era in personal computing. OQO unveiled its first product, the OQO model 01, at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where it won awards including TechTV's "Best of Show" award in the mobile computing and wireless category. Fundamental to OQO's philosophy is an integrated product development process. Experts in electrical and mechanical engineering, industrial design, software, and operations work together from conception through production. This functional structure has allowed OQO to rapidly advance the state-of-the-art in PC architecture. Click here for the PC Magazine review. My wish would be to trade in my Toshiba Libretto for this one to use in all my national speeches, presentations and workshops ... ;-) posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Farewell, Web 1.0! We Hardly Knew Ye by Steven Levy http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6214349/site/newsweek/ Web 1.0 was making the Net for people. Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for computers. Are you ready for the new Web? It's getting ready for you. It turns out that bidding on eBay, gathering with Meetup and Googling on, um, Google are only the opening scenes in a play whose running time will top "Mahabharata." While we've been happily browsing, buying and blogging, the tech set has been forging clever new tools and implementing powerful standards that boost the value of information stored on and generated by the Net. Things may look the same as the old Web, but under the hood there's been some serious tinkering, and after years of hype among propeller-heads, some of the effects are finally arriving. That was the big takeaway last week at a conference in San Francisco called Web 2.0. This article has been added to the article section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM National Centre for eSocial Science (NCeSS) http://www.ncess.ac.uk/ The National Centre for eSocial Science (NCeSS) aims to promote and facilitate eScience within social science research. We aim to stimulate the uptake and use by social scientists of new and emerging Grid-enabled computing and data infrastructure, both in quantitative and qualitative research. The centre is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and was formally established in April 2004. NCeSS will consist of a co-ordinating Hub and a set of research-based Nodes distributed across the UK. The Hub will be based at the University of Manchester, with support from the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex. The role of the Hub is to act as the central resource base for e-social science issues and activities in the UK, integrating them with ESRC research methods initiatives and the existing e-science core programme. The Hub will provide a one-stop shop for awareness raising, expertise, training, technical infrastructure, data resources, computer facilities and user-support for e-social science research. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, October 19, 2004  Information Hunters Information Hunters by by Juan C. Dürsteler http://www.infovis.net/E-zine/2004/num_153.htm The behaviour of human beings when searching for information intensively resembles that of the hunter-gatherers of our past and that of the foraging of animals. Information Visualisation tries to take advantage of this finding. This is the current newsletter from the Digital Magazine of InfoVis.net. This site will be included in my latest white paper titled Online Research Browsers. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM All of OCLC’s WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web by Barbara Quint http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041011-2.shtml Excited by the “resounding success” of the Open WorldCat pilot program, the management of OCLC, the world’s largest library vendor, has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items connected to 928.6 million library holdings for “harvesting” by Google and Yahoo! Search. A letter from Jay Jordan, president and CEO of OCLC, went out to members on Oct. 8. Currently, the Open WorldCat subset database contains about 2 million records, all items held by 100 or more academic, public, or school libraries—some 12,000 libraries all told. The new upgraded Open WorldCat program will automatically include all of the 15,000-plus OCLC libraries that contribute ownership information (holdings) to WorldCat, unless the library asks to have its holdings excluded. In January 2005, Open WorldCat will officially graduate from a pilot program to a permanent “ongoing program”; however, the database will be open for “harvesting” to Google and Yahoo! Search as early as late November 2004. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Find the Best RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators http://email.about.com/od/rssfeedreaders/ RSS feed readers and news aggregators let you follow news and blogs easily, comfortably and efficiently in a dedicated program, on a web site or in your email program. About.com has reviewed the top RSS feed readers to help you choose the best program for your needs. This has been added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Prescription Drugs Online - Pew Internet Project Report http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/139/report_display.asp Prescription Drugs Online: One in four Americans have looked online for drug information, but few have ventured into the online drug marketplace. The prescription drug market is enormous and now includes millions of Americans who go online to get information about the medicines they consume. According to the Pew Internet Project Report in their May-June 2004 telephone survey of 2,200 American adults, 64% of American households contain a regular user of prescription drugs. One in four Americans (26%) has used the internet to look for information about prescription drugs. Just 4% of Americans have ever purchased prescription drugs on the internet. Prescription drug spam plagues many internet users – especially men. This has been added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM List of Lists http://www.specialissues.com/lol/ Trip Wyckoff's SpecialIssues officially took over Gary Price's List of Lists (LOL) in Ocotber 2002. This is an excellent reference resource and offers a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet. Content comes from a number of sources including: Specialissues.com, Gary Price's "ResourceShelf" and individual users of the LOL. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM PSFK Collaborative Trend Spotting http://www.psfk.com/ PSFK is a community of trend spotters in Fashion, Design, Advertising, IT, Government, Art, You-Name-It around the world. Sightings of trends are fed to a group of 20 main site editors who then may or may not publish them on the site. They publish a digest weekly on the site and email a monthly newsletter to subscribers. PSFK is a collaborative trend spotting site run by Piers Fawkes and Simon King with a team of contributors in Europe, the US and Asia. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, October 18, 2004 This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. October 19, 2004 V2N42 discusses one of my latest annotated white paper link compilations titled Online Research Browsers. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest white paper. View this annotated white paper link compilation at: Online Research Browsers Annotated White Paper Link Compilation http://www.WhitePapers.us/
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Theology Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Theology Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 14 page .pdf document 472KB. [Updated 01-02-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Statistics Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Statistics Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 15 page .pdf document 487KB. [Updated 01-02-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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 Academic Reference and Research Index Academic Reference and Research Index http://www.academicindex.net/ A free metasearch engine and virtual reference desk accessing tens of thousands of academic reference and research sites recommended by teachers and librarians! The Academic Index was created and is maintained by Dr. Michael Bell, former chair, Texas Association of School Librarians. The Academic Index is a true meta-search tool that includes results from mega-information databases that index only research-quality reference and information sources selected by professional librarians, educators, and educational and library consortia. At the present time the Academic Index provides access to approximately 137,000 quality information web pages. This has been added to Student Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Four NETS for Better Searching http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm The perfect page is out there somewhere. It's the page that has exactly the information you're looking for and to you it's beautiful and unattainable like a faraway star. If only you had a super-sized net for capturing it! Most people use a search engine by simply typing a few words into the query box and then scrolling through whatever comes up. Sometimes their choice of words ends up narrowing the search unduly and causing them not to find what they're looking for. More often the end result of the search is a haystack of off-target web pages that must be combed through. You can do better than that, and that's what this page is about. This has been added to the search engines section of all the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Mars Global Surveyor: Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ The Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Image Gallery! This site contains all of the pictures of Mars acquired by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter through March 2004. Contains more than 175,000 Images! MOC is operated daily at Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS). MOC consists of three cameras: A narrow angle system that provides grayscale high resolution views of the planet's surface (typically, 1.5 to 12 meters/pixel), and red and blue wide angle cameras that provide daily global weather monitoring, context images to determine where the narrow angle views were actually acquired, and regional coverage to monitor variable surface features such as polar frost and wind streaks. Most of the high resolution images are obtained by careful planning and inspection of predicted MGS orbits by Mars scientists working at and/or visiting MSSS. The company is also responsible for archiving the data once they are received on Earth. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info/ Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and government settings. Welcome to the inaugural issue of Innovate, a peer-reviewed e-journal that lives up to its name in both content and design (ISSN 1552-3233). These pages feature cutting-edge research and practice in the field of information technology, but Innovate invites you to do more than simply read. Use their one-button features to comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, and participate in open forums. Join them in exploring the best uses of technology to improve the ways we think, learn, and live. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM RandomURL http://randomurl.com/ RandomURL provides a somewhat topical view of any random bit of information that happens to appeal to its creator at any given moment. You never know what you might find and it has been called the anti-search engine! Enjoy! posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Internet Insights - Thoughts about Federated Searching by Peter Jasco http://hypatia.slis.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/infotoday/federated/federated.htm Peter Jacso of Peter's Polysearch Engines has some excellent thoughts about Federated Searching. His Review Extras is also well worth the read. They are annotated screen shots and figures to enhance and complement some of the print-only articles, to provide or illustrate his points that text alone may not do sufficiently. The title links refer to the original articles. The full text is not reproduced here but a simple bibliographic citation is provided on the first screen of the linked page. You need to get the articles themselves from the library, the publisher, the publisher's Web-site or one of the full-text databases that you have access to. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, October 17, 2004 Mount St. Helens 1) Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/ 2) Mount St. Helens http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/ 3) Mount.St.Helens, Washington http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/framework.html 4) Mount St. Helens Seismicity Information http://www.pnsn.org/HELENS/welcome.html 5) Narrative of Mount Saint Helens http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/vnarrative1.html 6) NASA Infrared Images May Provide Volcano Clues http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/oct/HQ_04331_sthelens_images.html 7) Mount St. Helens Blows Steam, Ash http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0930_040930_mountsthelens.html#main 8) Mount St. Helens streams and swells http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6092368/ Mount St. Helens, the most active volcano in the Cascade Range, caught the public's attention when massive eruptions began in 1980. With new eruptions and earthquakes taking place recently, people are being reminded of the grave dangers associated with this volcano. The first website, provided by the USDA Forest Service, presents the research, recreational, and educational activities at the 110,000-acre National Volcanic Monument, created in 1982 (1). Users can find live pictures and videos of Mount St. Helens and read about the latest volcanic activity. Second, the University of North Dakota supplies great retrospective of the 1980 explosion (2). Through a series of incredible pictures, students can discover how a huge eruption can drastically change the surrounding landscape. Users can take a virtual trip up the volcano from the trailhead to the summit. At the next website, the USGS provides links to current seismicity and real-time eruption and hydrologic monitoring data (3). Educators can find numerous pictures and figures illustrating the physical features of a volcano. Next, the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network supplies seismographic and volcanic data for Mount St. Helens (4). While Mount St. Helens is considered the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest at the moment, visitors can also discover the potential for earthquakes and significant volcanic activity at other locations in the Pacific Northwest. At the fifth website, the Wheeling Jesuit University offers a historical narrative of the serenity of the volcano and its periodic rages (5). While this site does not provide in-depth materials and data like the other sites, the straightforward writing style may be more beneficial to younger audiences. The sixth website is a news release from NASA describing the possibility that infrared digital images could "provide valuable clues as to how" Mount St. Helens erupted on October 1, 2004 (6). Through the many enlightening images of the lava dome, users can learn about how digital infrared imagery's master bands and associated wavelengths are used to characterize different features of the volcano. Next, in a press release, the National Geographic describes the Mount St. Helens eruption this month (7). Students and educators can discover how earthquakes are caused as rainwater encounters hot rock in the fall and how this process may impact the activity of volcanoes. The web site also introduces individuals to the Ring of Fire. Lastly, MSNBC offers a news article and video on the molten magma rising in Mount St. Helens, the current activity levels, and the advisories (8). The web site features a link describing the newest sensors that may assist scientists in predicting explosions. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM NIOSHTIC - 2 http://www2.cdc.gov/nioshtic-2/default.html "NIOSHTIC-2 is a [searchable] bibliographic database of occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports, and other communication products supported in whole or in part by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health." Links to full-text of publication where available. This has been added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM United Nations Documentation: Research Guide http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/resguide/ This guide is designed for researchers and information professionals with an interest in United Nations documentation. It presents an overview of the various types of documents and publications issued by the Organization (e.g, reports, resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, press releases) and gives guidance on how to work with them. The Research Guide also provides information on actions taken by the General Assembly as well as the Security Council and introduces researchers to major fields of UN activities: human rights, international law and peacekeeping. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Behind the News http://edonovan.home.infionline.net/behind/behind.htm A news research and weblog directory created and maintained by Elisabeth Donovan. This is an excellent resource of news research links and related weblogs. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM The Virtual Learning Resources Center http://www.virtuallrc.com/ The Virtual Learning Resources Center facilitates students in their search for quality information for school and college academic projects. There are many quality sites on the Web that provide actual information or links to information covering a variety of subjects. Why not select the best of these and combine them into a single search engine, thereby assuring that the student will find only authorative "hits" as a result of her or his search? This is exactly what the Virtual LRC does by searching the following (and more!) excellent general information web sites with just one search: Infomine, Librarians' Index to the Internet, Galaxy Web Directory, My Virtual Reference Desk, Big Hub, Internet Public Library, Bibliomania, BUBL Information Service, Digital Librarian, Discovery School, Smithsonian, Suite101, InfoPlease.com, the LibrarySpot, the Awesome Library, and an increasing number of university and public library Internet subject guides. This site was create and is maintained by Dr. Michael Bell, former chair, Texas Association of School Librarians. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Media Matters with Bob McChesney http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/ Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests. Listeners may call with comments or questions. Every Sunday from 1 to 2 pm Central Time. Bob McChesney is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The media are central to all our lives,” he says. “Yet the media are the most frequently misunderstood parts of our lives. We want to help people understand the role of media in society.” Archives are available and well worth a visit and listen! This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, October 16, 2004  ingenious ingenious http://www.ingenious.org.uk/ ingenious is a new website that brings together images and viewpoints to create insights into science and culture. It weaves unusual and thought-provoking connections between people, innovations and ideas. Drawing on the resources of NMSI, the site contains over 30,000 images which are used to illustrate over 30 different subjects, topics and debates. You are invited on a voyage of discovery through the content, exploring new perspectives on human ingenuity. The rich resources offer authoritative re-interpretations, which challenge traditional views. You can contribute to these discussions, by offering fresh opinions on the issues that have changed our lives, thereby creating dialogues within communities and with the Museums. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM The Information Architecture Library http://aifia.org/library/ The Information Architecture Library is a public service of the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture. The Library is intended to provide access to an international collection of the best articles, books, blogs, guides, reports, and other resources related to the field of information architecture. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Computer Assisted Reporting http://www.Computer-Assisted-Reporting.com Computer-Assisted-Reporting.Com, Stephen Lamble's computer-assisted reporting and freedom of information research pages for journalists, journalism educators and students. This website contains a carefully selected list of close to 600 links to computer-assisted reporting and freedom of information resources. There are also case study examples of how computer-assisted research and reporting techniques can help produce results for journalists and an article on the history of freedom of information (FoI). This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM CARinCanada http://www.carincanada.ca/ CARinCanada is a place where Canadian journalists, and those around the world, can find information about Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) north of the 49th parallel. A nice easy to navigate site with some excellent links for CAR. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Library Journals, Newsletters and Zines http://www.libdex.com/journals.html Peter Scott's comprehensive list of library journals, newsletters and zines is a must bookmark for all those interested in the latest technology and happenings within the library field. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM W3C Celebrates Ten Years Leading the Web http://www.w3.org/2004/09/W3C10.html http://www.w3.org/2004/09/birthdaycard/ This year, W3C celebrates its tenth anniversary. During a symposium for Members and invited guests in Boston, USA on 1 December, W3C will reflect on the progress of the Web, W3C's central role in its growth, and risks and opportunities facing the Web during W3C's second decade. Sign the greeting card and read about the W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, October 15, 2004  JotSpot JotSpot http://www.JotSpot.com/ JotSpot makes simple web applications simple to build by combining wikis and web applications in an easy-to-use hosted service for workgroups. Most wikis are great at organizing unstructured text: create and edit pages, create links and establish hierarchy, add attachments and comments and basic search. But they quickly reach their limits when you try to add structure. For example, a lot of folks use wikis for a shared task list. How would you assign a due date for a particular item? Can you assign priority? Could you assign a task to a group, not just a single person? Can you flag items for discussion? All of these are possible using this service because JotSpot allows you to easily add structure to unstructured data. JotSpot makes simple applications simple to build using wikis. This has been added to the online links of my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Human-Computer Interaction http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/BerkProd.asp?projID=29 Human-Computer Interaction--known as HCI--is a fast-growing field that draws upon several branches of social, behavioral, and information science, as well as medicine, computer science, and electrical engineering. It is the study of how we communicate with--and through--computers, robots, information systems, and the Internet. The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction is the first reference resource designed to meet the needs of researchers and scientists as well as students, business and marketing professionals, and interested non-experts. The encyclopedia is an essential resource for computer science, information science, psychology, sociology, and environmental design. It allows the reader to explore what's going on inside leading research labs and technology corporations, enabling us to understand the products and processes shaping the world we live in. Expert-written articles are accompanied by lively sidebars and a popular culture database of more than 300 novels, television shows, and movies. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM ATutor http://www.atutor.ca/ A number of helpful learning-content management system programs have been developed in recent years to assist educators with creating Web-based instructional content. One such program is ATutor, which has been "designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind". The application was designed in part by The Adaptive Technology Resource Center at the University of Toronto and allows users to quickly assemble, package, and redistribute important instructional materials with relative ease and minimal frustration. The program's main homepage also contains helpful tutorials, customizable themes (so that users can customize the look and feel of each course), and complete documentation. This latest version of ATutor is compatible with all operating systems. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Intellectual Property and Electronic Theses http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/publications/ethesesandrew.htm#content Converting paper-based theses to digital has implications for the way the materials are created, stored, organized, managed and accessed. Digital media open up both the examination and dissemination of theses, further blurring the distinctions between them. Dr. Theo Andrew of the University of Edinburgh points out that copyright issues are critical. It's often necessary to alter the existing copyright agreements between the rights holders, usually the primary author, and those responsible for theses management, usually the university library. Before entering into any agreements, Andrew says, it's important to determine who actually owns the copyright to the work. There are a number of key stakeholders in the production of theses, including the author, host institution and perhaps the funding bodies. Andrew also urges setting down an End User License Agreement to clearly define what rights end users have to access, downloaded and reproduce material, and to remind users of any restrictions placed on the item. This gives authors and institutions some protection against plagiarism or changes to the content. Andrew's online report includes a number of sample license agreements, covering a range of possible scenarios, including thesis deposition, restriction and use. These can replace the standard agreements sent with digital repository software. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Institute for Security Technology Studies http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/ISTS/research_programs.htm The Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS) at Dartmouth College "is dedicated to pursuing research that addresses critical national needs for security technology and policy in cyber and emergency response environments." Its interdisciplinary research draws from science, engineering, social science and policy perspectives to investigate critical security problems using existing technology and ideas, as well as by developing new technologies. A wealth of publications including journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports are available to download from the Library section. Also posted are descriptions and links to websites for the Institutes projects within the Cyber Security & Trust Research Center (CSTR Center), the Emergency Readiness & Response Research Center (ER3 Center), Cyber Security Exercise Development Center (CSED Center), and other Special Projects. Visitors interested in getting an overview of the organization's work can read the featured publications or check out news items, such as a project to develop "a mathematical technique to tell the difference between a 'real' image and one that's been fiddled with." [ From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] This has been added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Lazars Electronic Corner http://www.smps.us/ Switching power supply design resources- SMPS circuit, magnetics, pcb and thermal management basics, converter topologies, free simulation software, calculators, tutorials and guides. Maintained by Lazar Rozenblat. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, October 14, 2004  The R Project for Statistical Computing The R Project for Statistical Computing http://www.r-project.org/ R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity. One of R's strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in graphics, but the user retains full control. R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS. This has been aded to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Page Layout Drives Web Search By Kimberly Patch, Technology Research News http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/100604/Page_layout_drives_Web_search_100604.html Teaching search engines to see Web pages the way people do could improve their performance. Analyzing links based on content-specific blocks of text rather than whole pages promises to boost search result relevancy. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Google Print http://print.google.com/googleprint/about.html Google Print puts the content of books where you can find it most easily; right in Google search results. To use Google Print, just do searches on Google as you normally would. Whenever a book contains content that matches your search terms, we'll show links to that book in your search results. Click on the book title and you'll go to a "content page," where you can see the page containing your search terms and other information about the book. You can also search for other topics within the book. Click on the "Buy this Book" link and you'll go straight to a bookstore selling the book online. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Markle Foundation - Addressing Critical Public Needs in the Information Age http://www.markle.org/ Emerging information and communication technologies possess enormous potential to improve people's lives. The Markle Foundation works to realize this potential by accelerating the use of these technologies to address critical public needs, particularly in the areas of health and national security. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Web Services Models http://fanghorn.ws.utk.edu/ws This is a nice list of identify institutions of higher learning with a defined web services presence. Areas listed include: Accessibility, Mission Statements, Portals, Style Guides, Web Oversight, Web Policy, and Web Services Sites. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Snap http://www.snap.com/ Snap's search includes user control, where you get to change the order of search results, refine search results instantly, and hone in on exactly what you’re looking for. It works on any search, just refine by entering filter words in the field above any column, or click on any column to sort. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, October 13, 2004  Online Research Browsers Online Research Browsers  http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Online Research Browsers.pdf Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled "Online Research Browsers" is a 17 page research paper listing many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find information and knowledge research about online research browsers available on the Internet. These research browsers allow you to visualize information to find new relationships and associations to create knowledge discovery and obtain new and highly relevant research data. It is freely available as a .pdf file (431KB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated 09-12-06. Other white papers are available by clicking here.   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 1:31 PM %20Special%20Issue%20%20FQS%20Interviews%20I%2010%206%202004%209%2033%2035%20AM.jpg) Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS) Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS) http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-04-e.htm The 16th Issue of the open-access journal "Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research" (FQS) is now available online. The "Special Issue: FQS Interviews I" -- edited by Guenter Mey, Cesar A. Cisneros Puebla & Robert Faux -- provides 16 interviews with researchers, who have contributed to the development and promotion of qualitative research: Ron Chenail, Aaron Cicourel, Juliet Corbin, Bob Dick, Carolyn Ellis & Art Bochner, Ken Gergen, Mary Gergen, Gerhard Kleining, Janice Morse, Maya Nadig, Ian Parker, Judith Preissle, Michael Roth & Ken Tobin, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Anselm Strauss, Hans Thomae. From the Editors: "Those scholars interviewed in this issue … must be seen as being 'on the road', leading the way for the rest of us. Among our hopes is that the next generation of qualitative researchers will be educated, amused, and, most importantly, inspired by these colleagues." As always, FQS 5(3) additionally contains selected single contributions, texts, belonging to the FQS Debate: "Qualitative Research and Ethics," to FQS Reviews, and to FQS Conferences. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Privacy International (PI) http://www.privacyinternational.org/ Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns and research throughout the world on issues ranging from wiretapping and national security, to ID cards, video surveillance, data matching, police information systems, medical privacy, and freedom of information and expression. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Gnod - Experimental AI Self Adapting System http://www.gnod.net/ Gnod is an experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. Its a self-adapting system, living on this server and 'talking' to everyone who comes along. Gnods intention is to learn about the outer world and to learn 'understanding' its visitors. This enables gnod to share all its wisdom with you in an intuitive and efficient way. You might call it a search-engine to find things you don't know about. Areas covered include music, books, movies and Flork. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Protecting Ourselves To Death: Canada, Copyright, and the Internet by Laura J. Murray http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/murray/ Abstract Canada is at a critical stage in the development of its copyright law: it has not yet ratified the 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization "Internet Treaties," but it is poised to do so. This article analyses the rhetoric of "protection" ubiquitous in Canadian discussions of copyright policy, and identifies among the various uses of the term both a problematic assumption that protection is or should be the primary function of copyright, and overblown claims about copyright's power to protect Canadian culture and creators. These "common sense" ideas, fostered by rights-holder lobbies, emerge out of a peculiar Canadian history of cultural nationalism(s), but they may not promote the interests of Canadians. Ironically, while professing fear for their cultural sovereignty, and following the paths of their own internal political, bureaucratic, and rhetorical culture, Canadians appear to be constructing a copyright policy in complete harmony with the needs of American and international capital. I explore a proposal to license educational Internet use, endorsed by parliamentary committee, as one example of the relationship between protection rhetoric and policy development. By casting the Internet as more of a threat than an opportunity, copyright policy developers in Canada are gravely misunderstanding and threatening Canadians' use of this medium. The participation of Canadians in national and global interaction is crucial to the Canadian public interest, and must not be forgotten in the rush to protection. Beyond its analysis of this specific proposal, this paper calls for a copyright policy in line with the Canadian tradition of balancing private and public interests. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM wordIQ http://www.wordIQ.com/ wordIQ.com is a comprehensive and searchable reference tool on the web. They offer search results from a diverse array of dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, and other valuable references. Their website is completely free with minimal amounts of advertising so that you can maximize your browsing experience. Their goal is to provide a valuable and free learning tool for students, parents, and teachers alike. They also hope to improve the literacy rate in the English-speaking world by providing useful tools that will get young adults interested in reading and learning. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Alibaba http://www.alibaba.com/ Alibaba.com is the world's largest marketplace for global trade and is the leading provider of online marketing services for importers and exporters. Alibaba.com is the number one destination for buyers and sellers to find trade opportunities and promote their businesses online. Alibaba's web properties have over 4,830,000 registered members from more than 240 countries, growing at a rate of over 18,740 members each day. Alibaba.com was named "Best of the Web: B2B" 4 years in a row by Forbes magazine and selected as the most popular B2B website by readers of the Far Eastern Economic Review. Alibaba's websites allow users to browse company information and trade leads by 27 industry categories and 1300 product sub-categories, ranging from textiles to electronics. This has been added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, October 12, 2004  Unwanted Links - Privacy and Spyware Information for Consumers and Webmasters Unwanted Links - Privacy and Spyware Information for Consumers and Webmasters http://www.unwantedlinks.com/ Free up to date news and information about spyware and consumer privacy. Find out how to protect your privacy both on and off line and how to protect your personal privacy from spyware programs and your web site from unwanted competitor contextual advertsing links. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM October 2004 Web Netcraft Server Survey http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/10/01/october_2004_web_server_survey.html Just five months after crossing the 50-million site threshold, their survey has topped 55 million sites for October 2004, receiving responses from 55,388,466 sites. That's a gain of 981K from the September survey, continuing the recent trend in which Internet growth has averaged roughly 1 million sites a month. It tracks the growth pattern seen during the expansion from 45 to 50 million sites, which also took just five months (December 2003 to May 2004). The first Netcraft survey in August 1995 found 18,957 hosts. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Design Timeline http://www.designtimeline.org/ In 1994 the world wide web entered the first phases of popular consciousness. At this point the web design explosion began. Ten years later, we are standing back to map something of these years of frenetic and inventive interdisciplinary work. DesignTimeline.org is an open research into the first decade of web design. On this site you can: # navigate a decade of webdesign guided by it's frequently answered or asked questionsposted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Between Rhizomes and Trees: P2P Information Systems by Bryn Loban http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/loban/index.html Abstract The aim of the first part of this paper is to provide an overview of information retrieval in Peer–to–Peer (P2P) information systems in the file–sharing domain. Starting with a general overview of the concept of P2P information systems, the paper then focuses on five desktop–accessible P2P information systems: Napster with its clones OpenNap and eDonkey, and Gnutella and FastTrack (i.e., Kazaa). A detailed description is given of the attributes and properties of each P2P file–sharing information system, followed by an evaluation of the respective P2P file–sharing applications, taking each in turn and examining their respective strengths and weaknesses. This paper concludes with a critical comparative analysis and gives some suggestions for further investigation. This has been added to the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines by Paul Wouters, Iina Hellsten, and Loet Leydesdorff http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/index.html Abstract Search engines are unreliable tools for data collection for research that aims to reconstruct the historical record. This unreliability is not caused by sudden instabilities of search engines. On the contrary, their operational stability in systematically updating the Internet is the cause. We show how both Google and Altavista systematically relocate the time stamp of Web documents in their databases from the more distant past into the present and the very recent past. They also delete documents. We show how this erodes the quality of information. The search engines continuously reconstruct competing presents that also extend to their perspectives on the past. This has major consequences for the use of search engine results in scholarly research, but gives us a view on the various presents and pasts living side by side in the Internet. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Public Knowledge http://www.publicknowledge.org/ Public Knowledge is a new public-interest advocacy organization dedicated to fortifying and defending a vibrant information commons. This Washington, D.C. based group works with wide spectrum of stakeholders—libraries, educators, scientists, artists, musicians, journalists, consumers, software programmers, civic groups and enlightened businesses—to promote the core conviction that some fundamental democratic principles and cultural values—openness, access, and the capacity to create and compete—must be given new embodiment in the digital age. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, October 11, 2004 Genealogy Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Genealogy Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 15 page .pdf document 352KB. [Updated 12-12-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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 V2N41 October 11, 2004 Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. October 11, 2004 V2N41 discusses Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs White Paper Link Compilations. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest addition to selected Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. View these selected Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs at: Subject Tracer™ Information Blog White Paper Link Compilations http://www.WhitePapers.us/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM  Dev Shed - Open Source Web Development Dev Shed - Open Source Web Development http://www.devshed.com/ Dev Shed's main focus is on Open Source technologies such as PHP and MySQL and contains fresh articles and tutorials written by acclaimed authors which are aimed at assisting developers with their programming needs. Dev Shed also boasts the most popular Developer forums on the internet. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM oss4lib - Open Sources Systems for Libraries http://www.oss4lib.org/ Their mission is to cultivate the collaborative power of open source software engineering to build better and free systems for use in libraries. Toward this end, they maintain a listing of free software and systems designed for libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and they track news about project updates or related issues of interest. oss4lib started at the Yale Medical Library in early February 1999 thinking there were probably other folks out there who might be working on free library software or looking for same. Their reasons for wanting to see Open Source take off in the library software arena are straightforward, fairly typical, and mostly outlined in the Open Source Systems for Libraries: Getting Started piece. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Search Engine Watch Blog http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/ Search Engine Watch now has an official blog and this is really very encouraging as Alan Meckler always has spotted trends and happenings when they are about to become mainstream. Danny and Gary have done an excellent job with Search Engine Watch over the years with the backing of Alan's company. Welcome to the exciting and ever changing world of blogs, aggregators and RSS/Atom! posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Ur I.T. Mate Group Freeware Library http://freeware.it-mate.co.uk/ Ur I.T. Mate Group Freeware Library is 100% freeware, no nags, no trials, no spyware, no registrations and founded, created and maintained by Steven Burn. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Special Issues http://www.SpecialIssues.com/ Specialissues.com is a solution for tracking and finding industrial and trade magazine special issues. Specialissues.com is an online database of editorial calendars, special issues and content "mined" from trade and industrial magazine websites. 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 | 4:05 AM Information Processing & Management Journal http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/244/description?navopenmenu=-2 Information Processing & Management Journal is devoted to refereed reporting of: 1. Basic and applied research in information science, computer science, cognitive science and related areas that deals with: the generation, representation, organization, storage, retrieval, and use of information; the nature, manifestations, behavior, and effects of information and knowledge; communication and distribution of information and knowledge; and human information behavior. 2. Experimental and advanced processes related to: information retrieval (IR); digital libraries; knowledge organization and distribution; digitized contents - text, image, sound and multimedia processing; and human-computer interfaces in information systems. Implementations in information retrieval systems and a variety of information systems, networks, and contexts. Related evaluation. 3.Management of information resources, services, systems and networks, and digital libraries. Related studies of the economics of information and the principles of information management. The aim is to provide an international forum for advanced works and critical analysis in these interdependent and interdisciplinary areas. Invited are original papers and critical reviews of trends reporting on: • Progress in the theory, principles, and procedures in information processing, particularly involving information retrieval; search engines; knowledge and distributed intelligence; information representation, classification, extraction, filtering and summarization; question answering; information navigation, browsing and visualization; and human-computer interaction in information systems.posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, October 10, 2004 Wireless Wireless technology can be used to connect computers to the Internet via the airwaves, but also to connect your PDA with your computer at home, or even your mobile phone. Wireless technology offers new flexibility, but also raises issues for security and the government. This Topic in Depth reviews these issues and provides some background on wireless technology. 1) Wireless Networking Mini-Tutorial http://www.wkmn.com/newsite/wireless.html#what 2) Wi-Fi Alliance http://www.wi-fi.org/OpenSection/index.asp 3) 3Com: 802.11b Wireless LANs http://www.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/50307201.pdf 4) Information on BlueTooth http://www.palowireless.com/bluetooth/ 5) e-week: WiFi Security http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,1738,1591939,00.asp 6) O'Reilly Network: Wireless Surveying http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2004/05/27/wirelessonPocketPC.html 7) Bitpipe: Wireless LAN White Papers http://www.bitpipe.com/data/rlist?t=sys_10_34_4_2_np&sort_by=status&src=google The first website from WKMN (1) identifies the major types of wireless used today as Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs) and Mobile Wireless, and Personal Area Networks. The WiFi Alliance, which certifies interoperability of IEEE 802.11 products in order "to promote them as the global, wireless LAN standard across all market segments" also gives an overview of WiFi, or Wireless Fidelity, on this second website (2). The IEEE 802.11 is the common standard used for LANs and is described more in this white paper from 3Com (3). The Bluetooth infrastructure, more common in Personal Area Networks, is described on this website (4 ). The current hot issue in the Wi-Fi world is security, which is discussed in this article from e-Week (5). Legal issues are also being raised, especially since the boundaries for wireless are unclear, which means people can survey for wireless networks without paying for access. This process is described in an article from the O'Reilly Network website (6). Finally, this last website (7) offers a number of white papers on wireless LAN. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM FlexWiki http://www.flexwiki.com/default.aspx/FlexWiki.HomePage FlexWiki is an experimental collaboration tool, based on WikiWiki. The SourceForge site for this project is available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM The Techweb Spin: The Best Technology Blogs By Mitch Wagner, TechWeb.com http://www.internetweek.com/allStories/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=48800120 After a number of disclaimers this is a nice listing of some technology blogs that are worth the visit. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM 35th Anniversary of the Internet http://www.internetanniversary.com/index.html UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science -- the birthplace of the Internet-- announces a special forum commemorating the 35th Anniversary of the Internet. Thirty-five years ago, the first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at UCLA, ushering in a new method of global communications that forever changed the course of business, politics, entertainment, education, law and social interaction. To celebrate this historic event, a special day-long forum will take place on Friday, October 29, 2004 at UCLA's Northwest Campus Auditorium. Join some of the Internet's early pioneers, as well as many of its rising stars in taking a closer look at how the Internet came to be what it is today, and what it will be like tomorrow. Following a brief history of the Internet there will be four special sessions that examine the many sides of the Internet: * The Bright Side: Gorillas of the Internetposted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net/ Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). CI seeks to work with communities towards the effective use of ICTs to improve their processes, achieve their objectives, overcome the "digital divides" that exist both within and between communities, and empower communities and citizens in the range of areas of ICT application including for health, cultural production, civic management, e-governance among others. The Journal of Community Informatics brings together a global range of academics, CI practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers. Each issue of the Journal of Community Informatics will contain double blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM HackFix Project http://www.hackfix.org/ HackFix dedicated to helping people stay informed about trojan horse programs, how to find out if you are infected, and how to remove these trojans safely from your system. In the unfortunate event that you find yourself to be infected, they provide step by step instructions on how you can remove the trojan from your system yourself. One of the disadvantages to using trojan cleaner software is that if you can't trust the source you got it from, there is a possibility that it could be installing a trojan while claiming to remove it. Even legitimate trojan and virus removers can be infected so they will do this without your knowledge. At HackFix they do not provide you with any software fixes or cleaners for that very reason. By simply following the instructions here, you can safely remove a trojan as well as know for a fact no new trojans are installed without your knowledge. This will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, October 09, 2004  The Geography Network The Geography Network http://www.geographynetwork.com/ The Geography Network is a global network of geographic information users and providers. It provides the infrastructure needed to support the sharing of geographic information among data providers, service providers, and users around the world. Through the Geography Network, you can access many types of geographic content including dynamic maps, downloadable data, and more advanced Web services. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Quick - Define Online http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA452319 Sounds like such a simple request: Library patrons often want to limit their catalog search strictly to items they can find online. But, says Roy Tennant, user services architect at the California Digital Library and author of "Managing the Digital Library," librarians (and their system designers) haven't refined the search functions enough to allow that to happen easily and quickly. Problems often begin on the opening screen, which seldom offer a way to limit resources; "advanced search" options often are no better. Some libraries offer a special "collection" of online resources, while others demand that users search first, then apply a limit and re-execute the search. Further, almost every library states the option differently -- E-books, Electronic Resources, Web Resources, Internet, Online/Computer Resources, Computer File, Online Resources, Electronic Resources (web) and Internet Resources, to name a few. Is it any wonder patrons have difficulty when librarians can't even agree what "online" means? Tennant calls on library professionals to find ways to enable users to limit searches to full text online: "Users rightly expect this ability. Their not being able to do it easily, or at all, is a disturbing failure of our profession." posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Tsinghua University-Institute of Bioinformatics: DBSubLoc http://www.bioinfo.tsinghua.edu.cn/dbsubloc.html Developed by the Institute of Bioinformatics at Tsinghua University, DBSubLoc “is a database of protein subcellular localization. This database contains proteins from primary protein database SWISS-PROT and PIR.” The Full Dataset has a total of 64,051 proteins, and the Non-Redundant Dataset has a total of 30,357 proteins, from Bacteria, Eukaryote, Fungi, Plant, Animal, Virus, and Archaea. The site offers two protein search engines: one allowing searches of DBSubLoc, SWISS-PROT, and Gene Ontology database by Entry Accession ID; and the second by Protein Name. DBSubLoc is available, in plain text format data files, for researchers to download. The site also includes BLAST Service, Prediction Service, and links to many related resources. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM FlexWiki: Microsoft's Third Open Software Project By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1657278,00.asp Earlier than scheduled, Microsoft Corp. has gone public with its announcement of its third open-source code contribution to SourceForge. Microsoft's mystery contribution? FlexWiki. FlexWiki is an experimental collaboration tool based on WikiWiki, which is a tool for collaborating on common Web pages. [beSpacific September 28, 2004] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM The Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ The Hollywood Reporter learned early on that the Internet is a medium that demands change and evolution. In that spirit, they have completed a top-to-bottom redesign of their Web site. They have added a significant amount of content and services. The site's organization now reflects the horizontal nature of the Reporter's coverage, with separate home pages dedicated to major beats such as Film, Television, International and Music. News, data and features are integrated, making it easier for users to access the materials they want. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM From Portals to Portlets http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2004/october/lorcan.htm OCLC VP and Chief Strategist Lorcan Dempsey says the term "portal" is too vague to accurately describe the many variations available today through libraries and academic institutions. "A portal spectrum may include a simple collection of links, a database of resource description which can be customized to particular roles or individuals, a metasearch database federation service, or a complex orchestration of network applications within a consistent framework," says Dempsey. He highlights two recent initiatives that reflect the current trend toward metasearch or cross-searching. ARL's Scholars Portal Initiative will feature a "portlet" (a pluggable user interface component that accesses a specific function or service) that could be included on any Web page, such as a course-related or subject page, allowing the user to conduct a search on an existing Scholars Portal profile. The second initiative is a series of working groups established by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) that will address issues related to search and retrieve; collection/service description; and authentication/authorization. Dempsey says the two initiatives both emphasize the changing role of library portals. "We are used to thinking about the integration of information resources with each other. However, the real integration to be aimed for is the more effective integration of information resources into the research and learning workflows of the user." To extend library services beyond the traditional library portal into the user's "workflow," Dempsey notes that the growing popularity of "portlets" gives visitors easy access to specific library services and reflects a wider trend toward service recombination in multiple portals. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, October 08, 2004 Internet Demographics Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Internet Demographics.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Internet Demographics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 12 page .pdf document 311KB. [Updated 12-13-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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GetNetWise http://www.getnetwise.org/ GetNetWise is a public service brought to you by Internet industry corporations and public interest organizations to help insure that Internet users have educational, entertaining, and safe online experiences. The GetNetWise coalition wants everyone to be just "one click away" from the resources they need to make informed decisions about their and their family's use of the Internet. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and also added to the Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM FindLaw's Newsmaker Coverage http://news.findlaw.com/newsmakers/ FindLaw's Newsmaker Coverage gives you a more in-depth look at high-profile attorneys who are running for public office or have attained positions of the highest authority and influence within the government. Each Newsmaker Profile features some of the cases the newsmaker litigated as an attorney, a brief biography, news and commentary, and links to the newsmakers' Thomson Legal Record. This will be added to Legal Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Health and Health Care Research - RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/research_areas/health/ RAND posts reports of its public policy research on health and health care. Issues such as child health, education, child care, substance abuse, and juvenile justice are addressed. This will be added to Health Resources 2004-05 Internet Miniguide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Teacher's Corner: Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Online Library http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/education/teachers-corner/library/ This Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument website provides useful educational materials about Mount St. Helens' volcanic eruption on May 18, 1980. Students and educators can learn how the fauna, flora, streams, and landforms were affected by the eruption and how they have recovered. The site, filled with extraordinary pictures and satellite images, offers a timeline of the volcano's eruptions and a discussion of the warning signs people documented before the eruption. Users can learn about the scientific investigations taking place on the volcano. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Next Generation Libraries for Next Generation Kids http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64494,00.html In a lawsuit known as Kahle v. Ashcroft, Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive Resources for Bioinformatics http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/bioinformatics/index.htm An excellent resource for information on bioinformatics including Databases, Electronic Journals, Internet Resources, Research Guides, and Other University of Delaware Resources for Bioinformatics. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, October 07, 2004 Information Quality Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Information Quality.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 12 page .pdf document 308KB. [Updated 12-13-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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 eBenchmarking™ eBenchmarking™ http://www.ebenchmarking.com/ eBenchmarking™ is a service of The Benchmarking Network and is intended to provide information about benchmarking to the business community, including information about new benchmarking studies. eBenchmarking™ is a newsletter provided via e-mail. The newsletter is currently available at no charge. Subscription is available to individuals in corporations or governmental organizations who are involved with benchmarking. The newsletter can be useful in supporting internal benchmarking efforts. Each newsletter includes a feature article about new trends in benchmarking, information about open studies and links to other benchmarking sites. The Newsletter also contains information selected from more than 80 industry and process-focused associations containing: Upcoming Events, Networking Conferences, Meetings, Benchmarking Opportunities, Studies; and Reports. Subscription is by application and is subject to qualification. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Instant Books http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2004-09-21-instabooks_x.htm On-demand printing is still a small fraction of the overall book industry, but it's allowing authors to bring books to market quickly, directly and sometimes cost-free. Professor Frank Cost of Rochester Institute of Technology thinks it might even cultivate book-writing, the way Kodak opened photography to amateur picture takers nearly a century ago. "Everyone is starting to realize this works," Cost said. The list of on-demand book publishers includes iUniverse.com, AuthorHouse.com, Xlibris.com, CafePress.com, uPublish.com and Lulu.com. While prices vary widely depending on the services offered, most work in similar ways. Authors write their texts, sometimes including photos and illustrations, then upload the book via the Internet to the publisher. Some publishers list the books directly with Internet retailers such as Amazon and Borders.com. IUniverse.com, for example, is partly owned by Barnes & Noble and has positioned itself much like a traditional publishing house, requiring the author to go through copy editing and review. It also offers layout and cover design for a flat fee. On-demand printing makes it possible to produce even one copy of a book profitably. It may also mean a book never actually goes out of print, since publishers and authors could print small batches of books as needed. "There were a lot of early abortive efforts to try this," said one analyst. "But we are in a very creative phase now and it's very exciting." posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM 411Blog.net http://www.411blog.net/ This service exists to create a constructive, symbiotic relationship between blogging and traditional forms of journalism. Reporters can use 411blog.net to quickly authenticate highly technical or specialized story elements with subject-matter experts drawn from the best the blogosphere has to offer. Simply contact one or more of the bloggers listed by subject area, pose your question(s), and have a small army of experts begin defining and/or explaining the significance of details that could take days (or longer) to elucidate otherwise! You may also arrange to interview subject-matter experts directly. Each listing includes ways to contact a source so you won't miss getting the information you need before deadline. Authentication and expert judgment by bloggers (and their readers) is a significant but under-used force in improving journalistic quality. This has been added to the Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Vivisimo Launches Clusty.com http://www.clusty.com/ Press Release http://snipurl.com/9g36 Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com), a leading provider of intelligent clustering and meta-search software for organizing search results, unveiled Clusty.com, the first full-service search site powered completely by breakthrough clustering technology. Instead of simply presenting long lists of results, Clusty.com groups search results into folder topics, giving users a quick overview of the main themes in the results and letting them focus on topics of interest. Designed to relieve consumers of information overload and provide easy access to information that is usually overlooked with current search engines, Clusty™ changes forever how consumers do general Web searches as well as shopping, blogs, gossip, images, Wikipedia and people searches. Built in response to the popularity of a demo search box on Vivisimo's corporate Web site, Clusty takes search to a new level, with dedicated search tools for the most popular search activities and the first-ever customized search tab. Visitors can now undertake basic Web searches and see, in one glance, up to 250 search results organized around the main topics. For example, a search on "Walt Disney" brings back Clusty folders on Walt Disney World, Collectables, History, DVD, Biography, Walt Disney Pictures, and so on. Folders can be expanded with a click to view additional subtopics. Vivisimo's clustering technology changes the core search experience for everyone from students working on homework to corporate analysts tracking competitors to everyday consumers keeping up with news, politics, sports scores and movie listings or checking out travel destinations and shopping options. Clusty users benefit from a simple view of the Web that unlocks new information through faster, more effective searching. This has been added to the search engine section of the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Chatham House International Research Programs http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/index.php?id=6 Chatham House (formerly knowm as The Royal Institute of International Affairs) is one of the world's leading organizations for the analysis of international issues. It is membership-based and aims to help individuals and organizations to be at the forefront of developments in an ever-changing and increasingly complex world. Its research programs include current and ongoing research into the following areas: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, International Economics, International Law, Middle East, Russia and Eurasia, Sustainable Development, and New Security Issues. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM pOWL - Semantic Web Development Plattform http://powl.sourceforge.net/ The broad application of ontologies as shared terminological knowledge representations is one of the main strategies of the semantic web paradigm. With RDF(S) (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language) there exist W3C standards for defining web enabled ontologies which fit in the semantic layering of web languages. Although there is a bunch of OWL ontology editing and management solutions available, some of them are complicated to deploy or handle, some do not support strategies for collaborative, distributed development of ontologies, some are not Open Source or not available for the most distributed web technologies. Since PHP is by far the most distributed web development technology (as regularly confirmed by Netcraft), the semantic web paradigm will probably only be successful in a broad perspective if there are applications and tools available tightly interacting with this language. The aim of the pOWL project is thus to deliver a PHP and web-based ontology edititing and management solution to the OpenSoure community. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, October 06, 2004  Semantic Technology Conference 2005 Semantic Technology Conference 2005 Stanford Court, San Francisco, California March 7 – 10, 2005 http://semantic-technology.com/ Semantics are coming. Over the course of the next decade Semantic-Based Technologies will be one of the fastest growing areas of Information Technology, on the Internet and within the Enterprise. By Semantic Technologies they are including technologies and methodologies that have been used within leading enterprises over the last decade that leverage Semantics, such as Semantic Brokers, Semantic Modeling, Model Based Warehousing, Business Rules and many more. They are also including the Semantic Web and the technologies that make it possible, such as OWL, RDF/RDFS, DAML+OIL and XML. This conference is a first of a kind. They will bring the researchers and academics who have been working on the underpinnings of Semantic Technologies together with practioners who have been applying this technology in major enterprises as well as startups. Vendors and Market Analysts will catalog the established and emerging products in this space, as well as key standards to pay attention to. This has been added to the semantic research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Agenda Setters 2004 http://www.siliconagendasetters.com/top50.htm Silicon.com Top 50 Agenda Setters for 2004 with individual links. A nice site to check out the trend happenings in the Silicon marketplace. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Ai Research http://www.a-i.com/ Ai Research is a leading artificial intelligence research project. At Ai, we're creating a new form of life. Our expanding web site is an essential part of the emerging global discussion about artificial intelligence. On this website, we showcase the state of the art in patterm-matching conversational machines, demonstrated by Alan, and in reinforcement learning algorithms, demonstrated by HAL. Use our forums, original papers, online labs, demos and links to explore what's happening both at Ai (the project) and in AI (the field). Located in one of the largest mansions in Israel, our research institute is the ultimate "digital day care," the ideal place to raise our child machine from infancy to adulthood, teaching him to interpret and respond to ordinary conversation. Ai Research is headed by Jack Dunietz, a 23-year veteran of the technology industry, who has established several successful publicly traded firms. The Ai team consists of scientists, researchers, engineers, and language specialists. All work together to nurture Ai's child machine, and to ensure that it will successfully pass the Turing Test within the next 10 years. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM The Protocol Informatics Project http://www.baselineresearch.net/PI/ The Protocol Informatics project is a software framework that allows for advanced sequence and protocol stream analysis by utilizing bioinformatics algorithms. The sole purpose of this software is to identify protocol fields in unknown or poorly documented network protocol formats. The algorithms that are utilized perform comparative analysis on a series of samples to better understand the underlying structure of the otherwise random-looking data. The PI framework was designed for experimentation through the use of a widget-based component set. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Business Reference Resources http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/workshop/business/index.html A comprehensive site of business reference links from the presentation Business Reference: A Cycle of Workshops by Nell Ingalls, Hinsdale Public Library and Laura Johnson, SLS Reference Service compiled in the following areas: 1.) Company Information and Small Business Startups, 2.) Investments, 3.) Industry Information, Products, and Market Research and 4.) Business Management. This will be added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Library Hi Tech Journal http://caliban.emeraldinsight.com/vl=4881830/cl=138/nw=1/rpsv/lht.htm This international journal allows you to explore current and emerging technologies, their strengths and weaknesses, and the continuing education issues and options facing libraries. Combining in-depth articles, case studies and scholarly literature reviews, Library Hi Tech gives you a greater understanding of technology in the widest sense and the full range of tools that librarians and their customers employ. Launched in 1983, Library Hi Tech has always been the vanguard of new developments. Often first in the field to identify "hot" topics, it enables you to anticipate the future, embrace it with confidence and utilize new resources as soon as they become available. It also helps you make the best use of current technology. This has been added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, October 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. The Founders 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 Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.StudentResearch.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, October 5, 2004 Location: Clubhouse at the Palmetto Golf Course, 9300 SW 152 Street, Miami, Florida posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM RocketInfo Offers 70,000 RSS Feeds http://www.RocketInfo.com/ Rocketinfo Inc. (OTCBB:RKTI), a leading international supplier of real-time news and business information software to corporations, governments and professional service firms has added the ability to create "custom RSS feeds" on RocketNews, the company's award winning current news search engine. RSS stands for "really simple syndication" (or "rich site summary") and is a simple means of presenting online information from virtually all accessible news stories derived from 11.000 internet sites and 70,000 RSS and weblog sources. The format is rapidly gaining popularity as a fast and efficient way to deliver and read content from websites and weblogs. "We wanted to give RocketNews users the ability to build searches one time and receive the results anytime, anywhere using the RSS reader of their choice," said Rocketinfo CTO Rick Van Well. "Our experience in the search industry made it natural for us to bring search capability together with RSS." This latest improvement means that visitors to RocketNews can create searches precisely matching their information needs, and receive the results on an ongoing basis as a customized RSS feed. The strength of the RocketNews search engine is an unmatched content database. With over 11,000 internet news sources and 70,000 RSS and weblog sources, RocketNews boasts more content from a wider variety of sources than any other news search engine. By comparison, Google News draws from only 4,500 sources and does not offer RSS feeds. In recent months the popularity of RSS has exploded. Once found almost exclusively on weblogs and technology sites, RSS feeds are now being provided by leading publishers such as the New York Times, the BBC, Reuters and Time Magazine. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM TechTutorials http://www.techtutorials.com/ TechTutorials is brought to you by 7 Seconds Resources, Inc. and is dedicated to providing free technical reference and training materials. They aim to be a complete computer reference site for IT professionals as well as beginners and hobbyists. YechTutorials provides a database of free tutorials covering all aspects of computing. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Technology Review: Sir Tim Berners-Lee http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/frauenfelder1004.asp Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, but he had something bigger in mind all along. He tells Technology Review how his 15 years of work on the "Semantic Web" are finally paying off. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM New Zealand Digital Library http://www.nzdl.org/ The New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme at The University of Waikato whose aim is to develop the underlying technology for digital libraries and make it available publicly so that others can use it to create their own collections. Their web site provides several document collections, including historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines. All are available over the Web, and can be accessed through searching and browsing interfaces provided by the Greenstone digital library software. Behind the query interface lies a huge collection providing gigabytes of information. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM TutorGig http://www.tutorgig.com/ One of the challenges of education is exploiting the educational resources of the internet. By using TutorGig.com, students and professionals can efficiently find educational resources at one site rather than endlessly searching for tools. Internet users want resources that meet their specific needs. Their user friendly website along with advanced search tools, empower Internet users to quickly find resources. As an education portal, TutorGig.com offers plenty of services to its users through advanced search technology. TutorGig.com lists thousands of courses. These courses include not only online courses, but also more traditional courses that are taught in person on or off campus. Users locate courses by searching on keywords of interest. TutorGig.com has a huge database of over a million tutorial sites categorized by more than 2000 subjects. This vast network of information allows users to instantaneously find tutorials by subjects and keyword searches. In addition, TutorGig.com offers access to open directory, lists of best selling books, discussion forums, and related links on the subject of interest. Users can confidently return to TutorGig.com knowing it is continuously updated, with its advanced search technology, to provide the newest tutorials. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 3:55 AM Monday, October 04, 2004 Directory Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Directory Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 33 page .pdf document 719KB. [Updated 01-03-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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 Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. October 4, 2004 V2N40 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Tutorial Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing tutorial resources and sites on the Internet. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.TutorialResources.info/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM  Jerkz Jerkz http://www.jerkz.com/ Jerkz.com Public awareness project where you will discover only truths and facts about Internet scams, hoaxes, con games, computer viruses, hackers, spammers and other Jerkz that may threaten your security or Internet experience. Their mission: We intend to expose all scams, fraud, con-games, unlawful schemes, criminals, hoaxes, hackers and other JeRkZ world-wide by using the power of the Internet, word of mouth, networking, forums, media, search engines and public education. This has been addded to Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Security.org.uk http://www.isecurity.org.uk/ They are dedicated to providing knowledge about internet security. They also offer downloads and links to useful software to help secure your computer. Explore their site to find tips, links and useful information. Don’t forget to pay a visit to I Security Downloads, their download site where you can find manuals, guides and reports. This will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM African Studies Collections http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/ Columbia University Libraries' research collections on Africa south of the Sahara contain over 100,000 book titles & over 1,700 current serials in history, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, economics, geography, geoscience, literature, ethnomusiciology, and the visual arts. Since 1995, Columbia has also been actively acquiring video titles in support of recent curriculum trends on campus. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Xyzzy http://haxial.com/products/xyzzy/ Xyzzy is a pronounceable password generator. It is useful for network or server administrators that find themselves creating new user accounts on a regular basis and need to come up with passwords for them. The reasons to use a pronounceable password generator such as xyzzy are simply because passwords based on dictionary words are easy to crack by brute force methods, and passwords which are hard to remember usually need to be written down which makes them vulnerable to being found by prying eyes. The passwords generated by xyzzy are easy to remember because they are pronounceable (usually) and are more secure because they are not dictionary words. Occasionally one will slip through, but this is very rare (usually about 1 in every 1000). This will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Zeal http://www.zeal.com/ Zeal is a platform that allows people to share their favorite sites and improve search results for their fellow Internet users worldwide. Combining state-of-the-art tools, collaboration with a professional editorial team, and compelling community features, Zeal allows everyone to make a difference on the Web. Additions to Zeal reach Internet users worldwide through the LookSmart network of top portals, ISPs, and search services including Lycos, InfoSpace, RoadRunner, CNET, Inktomi, and LookSmart.com. This has been added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, October 03, 2004 Non-linear Spectroscopy 1) The Wright Group http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~wright/menu.htm 2) Non-linear Spectroscopy of Chiral Molecules Achieved http://www.lbl.gov/msd/PIs/Shen/03/03_03_chiral.html 3) ATMOL: Atomic and Molecular Physics at the University of Durham http://massey.dur.ac.uk/das/ResearchSpectroscopy.html 4) Non-linear Spectroscopy using an Optical Cavity as an Absorption Cell http://www.phys.keio.ac.jp/lab/sasada/research/cavitycell/theme2-en.html 5) Regional Laser and Biomedical Technology Laboratories (RLBL) of the University of Pennsylvania http://rlbl.chem.upenn.edu/ 6) Laboratories for Biophysical Dynamics' Nano-Biophotonics group http://www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/seminar/25a.html 7) LENS: European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy http://www.lens.unifi.it/ First, the Wright research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison presents its research using "narrow frequency distribution of tunable laser sources to gain spectral selectivity in an analytical measurement" (1). Along with a summary of its research and techniques, this website offers a great introduction to the fundamentals of non-linear spectroscopy. The second site describes the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's success in observing non-linear spectra from chiral molecules (2). With the help of a pictorial poster, users can understand the complex issues of chiral vibrations and spectra. Next, the Sasada lab at Keio University summarizes its research interests in optical communications (3)Visitors can find diagrams illustrating absolute frequency difference measurements and the techniques used in the work. The fourth website describes the Regional Laser and Biomedical Technology Laboratories (RLBL) of the University of Pennsylvania's applications of laser spectroscopy in the biochemical, biophysical, and biomedical fields (4). Researchers can find out about using the laboratory's facilities, its technological developments, educational opportunities, and much more. Next, the University of Durham describes its examination of spectroscopy of Rubidium vapor (5).Users can learn about its conclusions that "the standard designation of 'saturation spectroscopy' is a misnomer in multilevel systems where hyperfine pumping can occur." At the sixth site, the Laboratories for Biophysical Dynamics' Nano-Biophotonics group addresses its applications of nanotechnology and non-linear spectroscopy to the biology field (6). Visitors can find synopses of its four main research projects and a list of publications. Lastly, the European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) offers an introduction to its goal "to provide advanced laser and spectroscopic facilities for researchers from European countries and to promote and facilitate the exchange of ideas, scientific techniques, and technical skills" (7). Individuals can fine descriptions of past and upcoming events and seminars, lists of publication, and training and job opportunities. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 PM Cyber Geography Research http://www.cybergeography.org/ This site which includes the The Geography of Cyberspace Directory as well as sections on Introduction, Whats New, What is Cyberspace?, Mapping The Internet, Network Topology Maps, Visualising Information Spaces, Global Internet Diffusion, Internet Statistics, Useful References, Conferences, Organisations, and Some Other Stuff. This has been added to Internet Demographics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Odessa - A German-Russian Genealogical Library http://www.odessa3.org/ Odessa is a digital library dedicated to the cultural and family history of the millions of Germans who emigrated to Russia in the 1800s and their descendants, who are now scattered throughout the world. The Odessa document collection consists primarily of digitized books and records plus indexes of microfilms and research aids that enable users to trace individual and family migrations since the early 1800s. Odessa is made freely available by the author and by the Germans from Russia Heritage Society, on whose server the library resides. This has been added to the Genealogical Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM ODP Custom RSS Feed Generators http://www.xmlhub.com/odp_feed.php Two excellent tools. The first tool generates a custom RSS Feed of Open Directory search results for the search term entered. The second tool generates a custom RSS Feed for an Open Directory category. These are both very good RSS feed generators for the Open Directory Project search or category monitoring. This has been added to the tools section of the Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Tutorial Find http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/ A comprehensive site of online tutorials listing them by sections and category. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Offshore Outsourcing Research, Strategy, Implementation, Management, Education and Audit http://www.ventoro.com/ They are catalyst to offshore outsourcing and offshoring success and created by executives from the offshore outsourcing world. They offer outsourcing research, strategy, implementation, management, education and audit. This has been added to Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, October 02, 2004  ERIC - Education Resource Information Center ERIC - Education Resource Information Center http://www.eric.ed.gov/ The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide and Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM Ten Years, Ten Trends http://www.digitalcenter.org/pages/current_report.asp?intGlobalId=19 http://www.digitalcenter.org/downloads/DigitalFutureReport-Year4-2004.pdf The Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use. “Ten Years, Ten Trends” Highlight the Major Findings in Year Four of the Digital Future Project’s Study of the Impact of the Internet on Americans (see the September 23, 2004 Press Release. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM TraderBot - Ask TradeBot http://www.traderbot.com/About/TBaskTraderbot.asp Ask TraderBot is a short term trading tool that measures the strength of a stock's current trend over the last two days. Use this tool throughout the day to help develop your buy and sell decisions. The ratings are based on a star system with 5 * indicating the strongest trend and 1* indicating the weakest trend. For example, if you like to buy stocks on strength you should look for five stars. If you like to buy or sell short on weakness you should look for one star. 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 | 4:20 AM Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services by Gerry McKiernan http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm An excellent resource on RSS explaining how web feeds relate to extended information and library services by Gerry McKiernan an Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer with the Iowa State University Library, Ames, Iowa. He is the compiler of several Web registries that include All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources, LiveRef(sm): A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services, and most recently B-Feeds(sm): Web Feeds for Books and Monographs, eFeeds(sm: Web Feeds from Electronic Journals, and RSS(sm): Rich Site Services. This has been added to my Bot, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources available by clickinh here. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM WordNet® http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ WordNet® is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets. WordNet was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the direction of Professor George A. Miller (Principal Investigator). This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Extractor 1.0 by Verity http://www.verity.com/ Verity has announced Extractor 1.0, what it calls enterprise-class software that identifies and extracts concepts, patterns and entities in diverse content distributed across an organization. It is the first such Verity product that integrates directly with the company’s search, classification and recommendation technologies, making unstructured content more meaningful, valuable and actionable, the company claims. Verity adds that the ability to discern and then act on such patterns is enhanced by Verity Extractor’s integration with Verity search tools such as combinations of Parametric Selection, fielded search and full-text search that use the extracted entities to enhance search relevancy. Extractor 1.0 improves the relevancy of a full-text search by analyzing that text for meaning, in, for example, unstructured content of a secure medical messaging system, such as doctors’ names, hospitals, insurance plans, health histories and dates. Verity explains that all entities are tagged so that when a hospital administrator searches for a doctor’s referral letter for a given patient, only the records of that individual will be returned, not anything relating to doctors with the same name as the patient, or patients with the same name as the doctor. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, October 01, 2004 Bots and Intelligent Agent Research Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Bot Research.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 14 page .pdf document 332KB. [Updated 12-09-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Auction Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Auction Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 15 page .pdf document 338KB. [Updated 12-05-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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 Virtual Library of Useful URLs Arranged By Dewey Decimel Classification Virtual Library of Useful URLs Arranged By Dewey Decimel Classification http://www.aresearchguide.com/virtual.html A Virtual Library of Useful URLs - Worlds of Knowledge Arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification. A very nice reference resource from the same person that created A Research Guide for Students. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM IMF World Economic Outlook Reports http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/weorepts.htm The International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook Reports list all their economic reports as well as their World Economic and Financial Surveys Series, World Economic Outlook Databases, International Capital Markets and Research at the IMF. An excellent resource on world economics. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM LionShare P2P Project - Legitimate File-Sharing Among Individuals and Educational Institutions http://lionshare.its.psu.edu The LionShare P2P project is an innovative effort to facilitate legitimate file-sharing among individuals and educational institutions around the world. By using Peer to Peer (P2P) technology and incorporating features such as authentication, directory servers, and owner controlled sharing of files, LionShare promises secure file-sharing capabilities for the easy exchange of image collections, video archives, large data collections, and other types of academic information. In addition to authenticated file-sharing capabilities, the developing LionShare technology will also provide users with resources for organizing, storing, and retrieving digital files. Currently, many academic digital collections remain "hidden" or difficult to access on the Internet. Through the use of LionShare technology, users will be able to find and access these information reservoirs in a more timely and direct manner -- employing one rather than multiple searches. LionShare will also provide users with tools to catalog and organize personal files for easier retrievals and enhanced sharing capabilities. This has been added to the Peer to Peer, File Sharing, Grid and Matrix Search Engines Section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Connexions http://cnx.rice.edu/ Developed through a project at Rice University, Connexions is a place for sharing free scholarly materials to promote educational collaboration and allow authors to expand the reach of their course materials. The website is powered by open source software, which allows registered users to post materials and create custom modules. Individuals are encouraged to contribute if they have course materials "and want to maximize its impact" or are hoping to translate their course or module into another language. Visitors can search or browse the materials already posted in the Content Commons without registering. There are already thousands of postings ranging from animal rights to an overview of signals and systems. A Roadmap plug-in assists in navigation and shows how content in one module relates to other topics. A software technology page provides additional information on the open source toolkit under development as part of this project. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 and Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Yahoo! and OMD Reveal Study Depicting Life Without the Internet http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Sep/1075638.htm Yahoo! and OMD Reveal Study Depicting Life Without the Internet; Study Participants Suffered Withdrawal Symptoms, Feelings of Loss When Deprived of Web Access for Two Weeks. Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, and OMD, the world's leading media agency(1), today unveiled the findings of an Internet Deprivation Study examining consumers' media habits and their emotional connection towards the Internet. All participants in the qualitative portion of the study found living without the Internet more difficult than they expected, and in some cases impossible, because the tools and services the Internet offers were firmly ingrained in their daily lives. Participants found that many daily activities were impacted and impaired, including booking travel, checking sports scores, communicating with friends and family, and paying bills. Nearly half the respondents in a complementary quantitative study indicated they could not go without the Internet for more than two weeks and the median time respondents could go without being online is five days. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Australian Theses For Your Perusal by Louise Perry http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10837346%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html AN online directory of all research theses and dissertations from Australian universities will soon be available to the world. After pushing for the improved database for more than 15 years, the patience of postgraduate students and their supervisors has been rewarded: the federal Government has announced $500,000 for the job. The new database will use the Australian Digital Theses Program, which is already in place but only has links to about 2600 theses in digital form. The new version will have records of up to 130,000 theses and dissertations - some will be in digital form and those that are not will be linked to an order form where the database user can order a copy of the research. Anyone with access to the internet will be able to use the database. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM |
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