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Tuesday, November 30, 2004  The Digital Toolbox The Digital Toolbox http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/toolbox/ The Digital Toolbox is designed to help you find tools and resources which will enable you to create digital content easier, faster, and smarter. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Will Microads Save Online Content? by Mathew Honan http://www.ojr.org/ojr/business/1015015782.php The next big thing could be quite small ... Origins of the Microad. In the fourth quarter of last year, Google launched a new advertising service. The ads were no more than text and links contained in small boxes that appear on the right side of the screen when users search on certain keywords. They're unobtrusive, and highly targeted. And even better, they work. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM hex HTML Color Codes http://html-color-codes.com/ Here are 216 hexadecimal HTML color codes arranged by hue. These hex codes are used inside web pages. Bob Stein of VisiBone designed this arrangement of colors for the swatch libraries in Adobe ImageReady and Photoshop. They are now available for Paint Shop Pro, HomeSite and many other tools. If you use those swatches, this table helps you see all the codes at once. Cards, Charts and Mouse Pads using a special 8-color printing process that matches computer screen color are also available. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Archival Meta Index http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/ArchivesResources.html This service is an archival "meta index," or index of archival indexes. That is, from here they refer you to the major indexes, lists, and databases of archival resources. From them you can link to almost every archives and archival resource in the metaverse. For ease of organization, they have divided the resources into broad, general categories, but researchers should note that specific resources can apply to more than one general category. The categories correspond to the discussion of Internet archival resources in the Society of American Archivists workshop Cyberspace for Archivists. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM OCKHAM Initiative http://ockham.org/ The OCKHAM Initiative seeks to promote the development of digital libraries via collaboration between librarians and digital library researchers. By promoting simple, open approaches and standards for digital library tools, services, and content, the gap between digital library development and the adoption of digital library systems by the traditional library community will be bridged. This has ben added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Archives Canada http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/index.html In homes, schools and libraries across Canada, people are looking for evidence of what it means to be a Canadian. Archives Canada is a gateway to archival resources found in over 800 repositories across Canada--it's your gateway to Canada's collective memory! Archives Canada is an official archival portal maintained by the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA), and is a joint initiative of CCA, the Provincial – Territorial Archival Networks, and Library and Archives Canada. All archival descriptions and links contained in the searchable database are provided by provincial – territorial councils, their members, and Library and Archives Canada. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, November 29, 2004  World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. November 29, 2004 V2N48 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog World Wide Web Reference. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing reference resources and sites about the world wide web. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.WWWReference.info/  
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 Inside Einstein's Universe Inside Einstein's Universe http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/einstein/ In 1905, Albert Einstein published four revolutionary papers about the world we live in. Among the ideas that would come from his work were three predictions about space and time so extraordinary that even Einstein himself refused to believe they could be true — a time when time itself could not exist, a space that could generate yet more space, and a bizarre intersection of space and time at the center of a black hole. Now, one hundred years later, not only do we have actual evidence for all three phenomena, but the study of these once-wild ideas — the Big Bang, “Dark Energy” and Black Holes — is at the cutting edge of science in the 21st century. Joining the worldwide celebration of the centennial of Einstein’s miracle year, the NASA-Smithsonian UniverseForum is creating a portfolio of highly visual, dramatic interactive learning resources especially for use by museums, science centers, planetariums and other science education organizations. This site is also sponsored by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Deal Coupon - Web Coupons from A - Z http://www.DealCoupon.com/ Bargain hunters can use this page to check out their favorite merchants, browse by category, or type in the coupon, product or vendor you're looking for and let their search engine do the work. They deliver the most recent and most popular coupons. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM CodeBreakers-Journal http://www.codebreakers-journal.com/ CodeBreakers-Journal publishes original research articles in all aspects of computational methods used in the working fields Algorithms, Virus-Research, Software-Protection and Reverse Code Engineering and Cryptanalysis as well as all other areas of security analysis. It offers the possibility to publish grey articles/papers too. They are publishing research articles after full peer review. All articles are published, without barriers to access, immediately upon acceptance. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM World Report on Knowledge for Better Health http://www.who.int/rpc/meetings/pub1/en/ The Report focuses on bridging of the "know do" gap, the gulf between what we know and what we do in practice, between scientific potential and health realization. The bridging of this gap is central to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) by 2015. The gap exists for each of the MDG’s and represents a fundamental and pragmatic knowledge translation challenge that must be addressed to strengthen health systems performance towards achieving the MDG’s. The Report will expound the message that we must turn scientific knowledge into actions, which improves people’s health, and that health improvement through knowledge applications is a critical factor in human development and alleviation of ill-health and poverty worldwide. This will be added to Healthcare Rersources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Yahoo Shopping Holiday Gift Center http://www.shopping.yahoo.com/holiday Looking for a memorable gift for everyone on this year's list? The Yahoo! Shopping Holiday Gift Center makes gift giving simple and special by offering great ideas for the perfect gift. With Top 10 product lists in a variety of categories, and gift guides for a multitude of personalities, including the "trendy wife," "tech-savvy sister," "trendy brother," "the Creator," "the Rebel" and more, consumers can find a desirable gift for anyone on their giving list this year. Yahoo!'s powerful Product Search engine recently expanded the ability to narrow by attribute, which makes it simple to search and sort through millions of "soft goods" products. Type "shoes" into Yahoo! Shopping, for example, and users can quickly and easily narrow tens of thousands of results by selecting various attributes -- gender, age, shoe style, brand, store, price, and special deals. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM CivicSpace Labs http://www.civicspacelabs.org/ CivicSpace Labs is being built with the needs of distributed organizations in mind. It will give you and the supporters within your community a solid framework for organizing and engaging those around you in action. But it also will allow you to plug your community into a network of other communities where you can share your ideas, knowledge, relationships, and organizational information. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, November 28, 2004  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N12 December 2004 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N12 December 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N12.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The December 2004 V2N12 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 29 page .pdf document (497KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online Data Mining 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 paper review covers Marcus P. Zillman's Web Data Extractors and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subjects: Script Resources and World Wide Web Reference. posted by Marcus | 1:08 PM Fiber Optics Recent news coverage describes a collaboration between SBC Communications and Microsoft to combine telephone, television and internet access under one highspeed network connection. This Topic in Depth explores fiber optic technology, its history and implications. SFGate: SBC and Microsoft http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/23/MNGVR7AI711.DTL SBC Communications Inc. http://www.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=5838 How Stuff Works: How Fiber Optics Work http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic.htm Fiber Optic Reference Guide: A Brief History http://www.fiber-optics.info/fiber-history.htm PC World: Has Your Broadband Had Its Fiber? http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117684,00.asp Telephony Online http://telephonyonline.com/ar/telecom_breaking_meg_barrier/index.htm This article from SFGate reports on the recent negotiations between SBC and Microsoft (1) and the implications of the new technology for Internet and television access. This website from SBC (2) provides video footage and background information on their initiative called Project Lightspeed. This initiative is based largely on fiber technology, which is described further on this website from How Stuff Works (3). This website (4) provides a brief history of fiber optics technology along with links to sections on the applications of fiber optics and more basics on transmission. This article from PC World (5) discusses how fiber optics became a viable option. This article from Telephony Online 6)reviews some of the challenges that remain. [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 Big List of Blog Search Engines http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html A listing of blog search engines by Ari Paparo with instructions on where to submit your blog in each search engine. Ari also has Big List of International Blog Search Engines that is available by clicking here. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation as well as to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Code Style Web http://www.codestyle.org/ The Code Style Web site aims to answer key questions for Web developers. Which Web fonts are most common? What is the best way to use media dependent stylesheets? How can I design more robust, accessible Websites? This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM RedLightGreen - Search for Books and Research Materials http://www.redlightgreen.com/ RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library. Sign in, and you can format and send citations any way you want: MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian. Just click - and it's done. Founded as the Research Libraries Group in 1974, RLG is a nonprofit membership corporation of universities, national libraries, archives, and other memory institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning. They collaborate on projects that bring these collections online, help deliver them around the world, and support their preservation in digital form. RedLightGreen is one of their newest projects. It is designed specifically for undergraduates using the Web—and the libraries that support them. RedLightGreen.com delivers information from RLG members about more than 130 million books for education and research; and it links students back to their campus libraries for the books they select. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM EthicsWeb - Ethics Resources on the World Wide Web http://www.ethicsweb.ca/ The EthicsWeb is a collection of ethics-related websites, run by philosopher-ethicist Chris MacDonald. Chris has been administering respected ethics-related websites since 1994. The style and function of the various EthicsWeb websites varies, but each strives to present a selected range of high-quality ethics-related resources on a particular topic. Most of the EthicsWeb sites have a Canadian "slant," but all provide information that will be of interest to international visitors. This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Refernece Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM WAICENT Information Finder http://www.fao.org/waicent/search/ FAO World Agricultural Information Centre - WAICENT Information Finder is part of FAO's commitment to improve access to timely and relevant technical information on agriculture and food security. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, November 27, 2004  December 2004 Zillman Column December 2004 Zillman Column - Holiday Shopping: ShoppingBots and Virtual Malls http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Holiday Shopping Dec04 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The December 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Holiday Shopping: ShoppingBots and Virtual Malls. This December 2004 Zillman Column is a comprehensive list of shopping resources and sites on the Internet. I have been writing about and listing various shopping resources and tools to be used on the Internet since 1995 and this continues my tradition. Download this excellent 18 page free .pdf (356KB) column today and shop with your bot til you drop! posted by Marcus | 3:35 PM  TRN - Latest Technology Research News Software Sorts Out Subjectivity By Kimberly Patch, Technology Research News http://snipurl.com/as7m Associated Technical Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CL/0409058 It's easy for people to tell whether a review is positive or negative. It's much harder for computers because they have neither feelings nor understanding. Software that leaves out objective sentences is better at the task than systems that churn through whole documents. One of the fundamental challenges in getting computers to sort and analyze text is finding ways to automatically classify information. Applications like search engines that group similar documents do so using topic-based categories. Sentiment analysis techniques add another dimension by determining the author's attitude about a topic rather than just identifying a topic. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM BotBall Educational Robotics Program http://www.botball.org/ Botball is a workshop and competition presented by the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics. The program offers hands-on learning in robotics and is "designed to engage students in learning the practical applications of science, technology, engineering and math." Registered teams receive KISS Institute's kit of robotics equipment, but teams must have access to a laptop computer and the Internet. Following a workshop, students are given seven weeks to create a team of robots and a weblog documenting their robot-building process. The robots then compete in a field where they must play the game by themselves without being guided by remote control. Details about the program as well as possible ways to obtain financial aid and raise funds are posted on this website. Video footage and news clippings provide some background information on previous Botball tournaments. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM SOAP Performance: Three W3C Proposed Recommendations W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of three technical reports to Proposed Recommendations offering an optimal way to transfer binary data like images in Web services messages. Produced by the XML Protocol Working Group, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment such as the Web. * Using an XML Schema datatype, "XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP)" allows efficient serialization of XML element content. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-xop10-20041116/ * Using a XOP-based selective encoding, the "SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism" optimizes hop-by-hop exchanges between SOAP nodes. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-soap12-mtom-20041116/ * The "Resource Representation SOAP Header Block" allows applications to carry a representation of a resource in a SOAP message. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-soap12-rep-20041116/ Visit the Web services home page: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Mabliki http://freshmeat.net/projects/mabliki/?branch_id=54141&release_id=179361 Mabliki is a bliki (a cross between a blog and a wiki) implementation that uses HTML::Mason. It allows multiple blikis with a single installation and implements several wiki formating options, including numbered and unnumbered lists, bold, italic, and monospace fonts, code blocks, headlines, and mathematic formulas. It is internationalized and themable, and includes three themes. This will be added to Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators White Paper. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Mooter Search http://www.mooter.com/ The Mooter Search Engine employs artificial intelligence based on psychological modelling to process and understand the information users seek. Mooter analyses the choices you make while searching, then reorders the results based on what you are actually looking for at that moment without you having to go back and rephrase your exact needs. So instead of giving users long lists of scrambled results, Mooter displays simple, sensible categories of information. As users search, the algorithms shuffle the results in the background, ensuring that more relevant results are displayed.Mooter Search is the leading provider of intelligent clustering, search and media personalization software. Millions of searchers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies and academia, use Mooter's clustering technology to better organize and navigate massive amounts of information. Mooter has pioneered search result clustering and now provides enterprise customers a visually intuitive way to navigate through sometimes very confusing amounts of information. Mooter also provides personalization technology to media publishers and advertisers without profiling; enabling them to target audiences based on their behaviors and not just which pages they visit. This enables them to provide highly relevant advertising to their target audience no matter what. The result? No more ad impressions wasted on the wrong audience, and a greater return on advertising dollars. Mooter serves its global client base from its headquarters in Sydney, Australia, and partners throughout the world. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and to the search engine section of all 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM InnoCentive Challenge http://www.innocentive.com/ InnoCentive® is an exciting web-based community matching top scientists to relevant R&D challenges facing leading companies from around the globe. They provide a powerful online forum enabling major companies to reward scientific innovation through financial incentives. An InnoCentive Challenge is a unique scientific problem that is posted by Seeker companies looking to find the "best" solution for their problem. If a solution is selected as "best" by the Seeker Company, the Solver receives a financial award, which varies per InnoCentive Challenge. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, November 26, 2004 EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines http://www.eevl.ac.uk/eese/eese-eevl.html Search the content of over 250 freely available full-text ejournals, selected for relevance and quality. Academic journals, professional and trade publications, and Society journals are covered. All sites are also listed in the EEVL catalogue of Internet Resources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer&Trade; Information Blog, Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Beyond the ePortfolio - Lifetime Personal Web Space http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm04/eqm0441.asp The electronic portfolio is higher education's new "must have" tool. Hundreds of academic institutions are variously studying, using, or innovating e-portfolio systems. Instructional designers say constructing e-portfolios stimulates students to engage in reflective thinking. E-portfolios provide accreditation agencies with tangible evidence that students achieved standards-based outcomes. New graduates will use e-portfolios to showcase their creativity and gain an edge in the job market. But why stop there? Educause Quarterly suggests that every citizen, at birth, should be granted a cradle-to-grave, lifetime personal Web space that will enable connections among personal, educational, social, and business systems. This lifetime personal Web space (LPWS) will be engineered to be available anywhere, any time. Some cells may be off-limits (even invisible) to all but the primary user. Moreover, the user will decide which cells connect to others and which do not. The LPWS will seamlessly link individuals to larger communities, thereby facilitating interpersonal connectivity versus fostering social isolation. Within an academic setting, for example, the LPWS could link students to their research mentor's electronic laboratory network or to a global learning space. It could also serve as a one-stop shop for electronic activities by housing and linking personal content libraries, work spaces, communication networks, and public areas. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html This Framework has two purposes. First, to provide an overview of some of the major components and activities involved in the creation of good digital collections. Second, to provide a framework for identifying, organizing, and applying existing knowledge and resources to support the development of sound local practices for creating and managing good digital collections. It is intended for two audiences: cultural heritage organizations planning projects to create digital collections, and funding organizations that want to encourage the development of good digital collections. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Science Commons http://science.creativecommons.org/ Science Commons is a new project of Creative Commons and will launch on January 1, 2005. The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Scirus - Search Engine for Scientific Information http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly: 1) Pinnpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web, 2) Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals that other search engines miss, and 3) Offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers. Scirus science search engine allows you to: a) Filter out non-scientific sites. For example, if you search on Dolly, Google finds Dolly Parton, Scirus finds the cloned sheep, b) Find peer-reviewed articles such as PDF and PostScript files, which are often invisible to other search engines, and c) Searche the world's largest database of scientific, technical and medical journals and Scirus goes deeper than the first two levels of a Web site, thereby revealing much more relevant information. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer&Trade; Information Blog, Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age dated September 2004 by the U.S. Department of Commerce - Economics and Statistics Administration - National Telecommunications and Information Administration. A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age is the sixth report released by the U.S. Department of Commerce examining the use of computers, the Internet, and other information technology tools by the American people. Based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey of 57,000 households containing 134,000 persons, this report provides broad-based and statistically reliable information on the ways that information technologies in general, and broadband more specifically, are transforming the way we live, work, and learn. This year, we have chosen to focus on broadband technologies because now, more than ever before, high-speed connections promise to enhance our Nation’s productivity and economic competitiveness, improve education, and expand health care for all Americans. High-speed networks provide the power to erase geographic, economic, and cultural gaps. With high-speed connections, American workers can find jobs; small businesses can have global markets; rural doctors can consult with specialists; and students can take classes that are taught from across the country. Because of the significant promise of this technology, President Bush has set out a bold vision for broadband in America, establishing a national goal for “universal, affordable access for broadband technology by the year 2007.”1 Detailing the many benefits of the technology, the President noted that “the spread of broadband will not only help industry, it [will] help the quality of life of our citizens.” We hope that this report and its successors will contribute to the ongoing discussion surrounding this important goal by highlighting the growing use of high-speed access across the Nation. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, November 25, 2004  LOC Business Reference Services Business Reference Services - Indexes, Bibliographies, and Guides http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/ The Business Reference Services of the Library of Congress offers Indexes, Bibliographies, and Guides including Guide to Finding Business Information at the Library of Congress, Specialized Business Guides, Subscription Databases for Business and Economics Research, and Subject Guides to Internet Resources. Well worth the visit as an excellent business research resource. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies http://iceaps.anu.edu.au/ The Australian Government has awarded the Australian National University the contract to establish the International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies. The primary objective of the Centre is: To raise the profile of Asia Pacific Studies in Australia through a program of new, sustainable and collaborative activities. The Centre will therefore extend collaboration between relevant organisations within Australia to build on existing capabilities and develop links and connections with international organisations of world repute to attract an international visibility and reputation for Australia as the leading expert in Asia-Pacific Studies. The ANU has commenced appointing staff for the Centre which is temporarily co-located with the National Institute for Asia and the Pacific in the Menzies Library where the ANU has its major Asia Pacific collections. The new Director, Professor John Fitzgerald, will take up his position in mid January, 2005. This website provides introductory information on the Centre, its objectives and plans. Preliminary guidelines for project funding are provided and proposals that meet the broad criteria are called for. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM The Mentats Are Coming http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-3096d338-30c2-40f5-be3d-3eb53ea254f4 Andrew Rowsell-Jones, vice president and research director for Gartner's CIO Executive Programs predicts that managing the infoglut of the future will be done by "mentats" (a name derived from Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel "Dune" but used by Rowsell-Jones to mean computer programs that will analyze data, spot patterns, and make decisions). "Mentats don't exist yet, but they are appearing. Use a search engine and you're using a baby mentat. Yahoo!'s information hierarchies, for instance, are a well-known example of an I-filter. They organize information and screen or demote stuff that's supposedly less relevant. But search engines have two agendas, one overt, the other covert. The overt agenda is to present information that's precisely relevant to the user's interests. The covert agenda is to present information that's relevant and for which advertising fees have been paid." As a result, mentats and I-filters are both "necessary and dangerous." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources http://www.molvisindex.org A very comprehensive index of worldwide molecular visualization resources by Eric Martz and Trevor D. Kramer and maintained/updated by Josh Polterock, Ray Bean, and Andrew Sanderson at SDSC. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM RLIB Report Engine http://freshmeat.net/projects/rlib/?branch_id=43834&release_id=179223 RLIB is a reporting engine that makes it possible to easily create professional reports in PDF, HTML, text, and CSV from one simple XML report definition file. It supports direct input from MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, and programmable pluggable inputs. It is written in C and has PHP and Python language bindings built in. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Science Journals from Russia http://www.turpion.org/ Turpion Limited is a company owned by Pion Ltd and the Institute of Physics Publishing. The intention is to produce high-quality English translations of leading Russian scientific journals, as a result of an effective cooperation between the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Physics, the London Mathematical Society and The Royal Society of Chemistry. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, November 24, 2004  World Community Grid World Community Grid for Health Research http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org An IBM project called World Community Grid will apply the untapped computing power of millions of personal computers to the study of AIDS, Alzheimer's, malaria, cancer and other diseases. Dr. Eric Jakobsson of the National Institutes of Health says, "This program is both a sizable commitment of computing resources and an encouraging sign of progress in moving toward a community model for biomedical computing." The new networks's first mission will be the Human Proteome Folding Project of the Institute for Systems Biology, which seeks to identify all the proteins in the human body and their functions. People who want to join the grid project and donate computer time will be able to download software from the above Web site. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Copyright 2004. NewsScan Daily® is a publication of NewsScan Inc.] posted by Marcus | 4:26 AM Swarm Intelligence Resources http://glmrc.ie.ncit.edu.tw/simon/SIHompage.htm An extensive and comprehensive site listing significant sources and sites on the Internet covering Swarm Intelligence by the Swarm Intelligence Resource & Research Group in Taiwan. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Googolizer http://freshmeat.net/projects/googolizer/?branch_id=45613&release_id=179106 The Googolizer is a simple product that retrieves AdSense statistics from Google and stores them in an HTML file. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Site Search Pro http://freshmeat.net/projects/site-search-pro/?branch_id=54533&release_id=179103 Site Search Pro is a comprehensive search script. It provides complete, customizable, effective, and fully-functional site searching for any type of Web site. It supports PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, and Flash files. It can perform indexing according to a schedule, and supports indexing multiple Web sites. It supports destination rules, full detailed statistics, and many more features. It can be integrated with both small and large Web sites. This has been added to the search engine section of 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Wikinews http://demo.wikinews.org/ Wikinews is a free content news source. They started in November 2004, and have written 24 articles, some of which are still in development. Their mission is to create a world where citizen journalists report the news on a wide variety of subjects small and large. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Internet Learning Tutor http://www.score.org/cgi/third_party.cgi?url=http%3A//www.superpages.com/ilt The Internet Learning Tutor is designed to help you use the Internet more effectively in the way you work, play and live. The program is organized into three levels, beginning with the basics at Level 101. To learn about multimedia and how to shop online, go to Level 102. Small business owners should visit Level 103 to learn how to market their businesses online. Premier Partners of the Internet Learning Tutor are ASBDC (Association of Small Business Development Centers), Internet Education Foundation, SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), The Welfare to Work Partnership and our newest partner--Center for Workforce Preparation. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Infotrmation Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, November 23, 2004 World Wide Web Reference http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/wwwreference.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 23 page .pdf document 591KB. [Created 01-03-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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 Molimo Wiki-Based Open Market Molimo - Wiki-Based Market Place http://www.molimo.de/ Molimo: A wiki-based market place created by Marcus Schiesser. Molimo releases a market place that is inspired by a wiki. The market place is free to use, the software is open source and the wiki database is released under the free GNU document license. This means you can add or change product descriptions, make comments on products, add points-of-sale for these products, contact other market participants and much more. Unlike other known market places this one is built using a wiki. In a wiki everyone may change everything. A new wiki software has been programmed for fitting the special needs of the structure of products. This software is released under the open source GPL license. Everyone may change every product description and as the resulting product catalogue is released under the free GNU document license it is owned by the community that has built it. This all makes market@molimo.de a really open market place. And unlike commercial market places, no fees are requested to participate. A very interesting truly open market place. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System) http://freshmeat.net/projects/aips/?branch_id=168&release_id=179046 AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System) handles the processing and display of data from radio interferometers. Data can be collected from any radio telescope array. Images can be exported in FITS format. The Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data. It comes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It is primarily for Radio Astronomy. This has been added to the radio astronomy section of Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Advanced Bash Scripting Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/advancedbashscriptingguide/?branch_id=130&release_id=179011 The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This freely available comprehensive book (the equivalent of about 612 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 300 profusely commented illustrative examples (including such goodies as an anti-spammer script), and a number of tables. Not just a shell scripting tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic programming techniques, such as sorting and recursion. It is well suited for either individual study or classroom use. This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little snippets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Free After Rebate http://www.FreeAfterRebate.info/ Everyone loves to get free stuff. Free After Rebate will point you to stores that sell products that end up being free after you send in for a rebate. You will have to pay for the item up front, then submit the rebate materials. Some time later (usually six to eight weeks) you will receive a rebate check. They only list products with 100% rebates, but those rebates usually do not reimburse for shipping and sales tax. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Internet Resources for Nonprofits http://www.uticapubliclibrary.org/non-profit/directory.html Internet Resources for Nonprofits - Online sites, Links and Directories of Free Resources for Nonprofits. No official endorsement or content guarantees accompany this directory, but several web sites have been reviewed for their apparent benefit to nonprofits and judged to be a Best Bet. Sites on Topic Lists with Slightly Larger Red Titles are particularly good places to begin. They welcome site suggestions. 1150 web links included. Our Virtual Private Library's 41 Subject Tracer Information Blogs are included as a "Best Bet" listing and also listed with slightly larger red title as a particularly good place to start under their Helpful Resources and Tools section. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Insurance Research Resources http://www.iso.com/links/ ISO is the premier source of information for and about the property/casualty insurance industry. But insurance is a complex topic, and many organizations have valuable data and interesting points of view. That's why they are pleased to offer this classified list of links for people doing research on insurance and related topics. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, November 22, 2004  Lockergnome This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. November 22, 2004 V2N47 discusses Lockergnome. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman reviewing this excellent site. View this resource site at: Lockergnome - Your Top Technology Information Resource http://www.Lockergnome.com/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM Life Begins at Eighty ... On the Internet http://www.bdb.co.za/shackle/ Eric Shackle's eBook: Late in 2000, an Australian writer and a South African computer expert, who had first met on the Internet, combined talents to publish what they believe is the world's first multi-national electronic book. Now they have discovered, to their surprise, that they were both born in Essex - in different generations. The free eBook, "Life Begins at Eighty ... On the Internet" by veteran Sydney journalist Eric Shackle, can be found on Barry Downs's Kimberley Web site,listed above, linked to other sites in the United States, England, Scotland, Australia and Bangladesh. Articles from the various sites cover a wide range of topics: the world's biggest turkey and largest hailstones, computer-generated anagrams, mysterious lights in Texas and Queensland, 15 towns named Rugby, Global English, and how to cultivate a herb said to ease arthritic pains. This is very well worth the read not only for elders but for all those interested in many cuurent and exciting happenings on the Internet! This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM IM Smarter™ http://www.imsmarter.com/ IM Smarter™ is a new kind of instant messaging enhancement. IM Smarter empowers all of the major messaging services with a rapidly expanding set of cool, new features. It's not a "bot". It's not a plugin for AIM. It's not a program that you run instead of your existing IM client. Using IM Smarter can be understood as hiring a secretary for your IM; IM Smarter, like a secretary, sits between you and the rest of the world and helps you manage your messages. Using IM Smarter is pretty cool; imagine having one place you can search and visualize your instant message chats with anyone you've chatted with using any of the major IM networks. Imagine being able to update your blog as easily as sending an IM, and getting an IM whenever any of your buddies update their blogs. IM Smarter keeps you in the loop with things that you told it to remember and things you told it to keep an eye out for. Nearly all modern instant messaging clients have the ability to "proxy", or to connect to the official servers by way of another server. This is usually only used in very fancy corporate environments; most home users don't use a proxy. To use IM Smarter, all you have to do is to tell your IM client to use our servers as your "proxy" and you're all set! With our autoconfiguration available for AIM, Yahoo, and MSN, you can be ready to go in seconds! Robin Good has an excellent review of IM Smarter and his review is available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM WIKINDX http://freshmeat.net/projects/wikindx/?branch_id=47947&release_id=178843 WIKINDX is a multi-user, Internet-based bibliographic management system that allows users to search and share quotes, notes, and bibliographies. Bibliographies can be formatted for a variety of style guides (MHRA, Harvard, APA, etc.). The program can export to RTF and BibTeX and import BibTeX files. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Bibliophile http://bibliophile.sourceforge.net/ Bibliophile is an initiative to align the development of bibliographic databases for the web. It aims to promote standards, discussion among users on necessary features and a variety of specific solutions for different fields of research. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM DonBusca Meta Search Engine http://www.donbusca.com/ DonBusca is a meta search engine, a search tool that provide users the ability of simultaneously search multiple search engines under one interface. Meta search engines benefit users by saving them time and effort from having to individually visit multiple search engines in order to find the desired result. Along with web search, DonBusca currently offer a directory based on data from The Open Directory Project. Beside each result you can find our quick tools: "FUrl It", "Yahoo It" and "Simpy It" add the selected url to your favorite bookmark manager. "Site info" gives you the opportunity to quick access for handy tools for the selected url such as : google pagrank, alexa rating, link popularity, keyword density, geo info, DMOZ category and WHOIS information. "Cached" get Google cached copy of the page. "Archive" takes you back in time. This has been added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Sunday, November 21, 2004 Research at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology 1) Biomimetic Synthesis Applied to Chemistry and Biology http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~shair/research.html 2) The Baldwin Group http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oc/jebaldwin/index.htm 3) Biological and Biomolecular Chemistry http://snipurl.com/am5z 4) Donald Lab - Computational Biology and Chemistry http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/brd/Research/Bio/ 5) The Bradley Group http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bradley/ 6) New York University Chemistry http://www.nyu.edu/pages/chemistry/research/chemical.html 7) CBIT: Chemistry - Biology Interface Training Program http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/cbit/ 8) The University of Delaware Graduate Program at the Chemistry/Biology Iterface http://www.udel.edu/chem/chembio.htm First, chemist Matthew Shair at Harvard University presents his lab's research in "the development of biomimetic target-oriented and diversity-oriented synthesis of complex molecules and the use of these approaches to discover new molecules for studying cell biology" (1). The descriptions are equipped with figures and images to help users understand the complex research. The second website features Professor Sir Jack Baldwin group's research in bio-organic and synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Oxford (2). Users can download many of the group's publications related to its research activities in penicillin, biomimetics, parallel, and total synthesis. Next, the University of Nottingham displays its investigations "to define the chemical interactions that determine the specificity and control of biological processes" (3). Visitors can discover the individual projects and publications of the fourteen main researchers involved with the group. The fourth website addresses the research of Bruce Donald's lab at Dartmouth in the use of Physical Geometric Algorithms (PGA) to better understand computational molecular biology (4). Researchers can find information on the group's software, funding, research, and downloads to many of the group's publications. Next, visitors can discover the University of Southampton chemistry Professor Mark Bradley's use of combinatorial chemistry to synthesize many compounds efficiently (5). The website features concise summaries, lists of publications, and information on the collaborators involved with the group's numerous research projects. At the sixth website, New York University discusses the ever-expanding range of topics available to scientists utilizing biomolecular tools, including the exploration of new chemical strategies for the control of gene expression and the creation of new approaches for combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput screening (6). Users can learn about the division's emphasis on experimental and computational approaches in dealing with research problems and also its involvement in training students in biological phenomena from a physical organic perspective. The seventh website describes the courses, student projects, and grants of the interdisciplinary Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (7). This site offers a great example of educational opportunities available for students to learn how to merge chemical and biological research. Lastly, the University of Delaware features its multidisciplinary graduate program where students perform research in bioochemistry, biochemical engineering, bioorganic chemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, virology, bioanalytical chemistry, structural biology, bioinorganic chemistry, materials science, and plant biochemistry (8). Users can find links to the group pages of the 34 researchers involved in the program. [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 The Open University: Research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy http://physics.open.ac.uk/research/res01.htm The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Open University pursues research in astronomy, biomagnetism, physics education, molecular and optical physics, and quantum and statistical physics. For each of these topics, the website offers introductions to the research and links to the associated research groups and centers. At the Center for Molecular and Optical Science (CeMOS) link, visitors can learn about its current projects in global warming, astrophysics, technological plasmas, quantum optics, and more. The Planetary and Space Sciences Research presents its investigations of Mars, the Sun, near earth objects, small icy bodies, and other extraterrestrial phenomena. A database allows users to search for most of the department's publications and to view several articles. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM WEBMASTRY by Gary Price http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov03/price.shtml What Google Teaches Us that Has Nothing to Do with Searching ... This column by Gary Price has not only gone through several different drafts on his word-processing program but even more versions in his mind. It's been said that good writing is often personal writing..... posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-semantic-interpretation-20041108/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition." The draft describes the contents of speech recognition grammar tags used to represent natural language utterances. It is expected that the results can be integrated into the EMMA data format. Visit the Voice Browser home page. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM HTMLObserver http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlobserver/?branch_id=45773&release_id=178744 HTMLObserver is a program that downloads a Web page at regular intervals, and searches it for regular expressions. All HTML tags are removed, and the remaining text is searched for regular expressions, which can be defined in a list. Matching rows are displayed in a panel, and different alarms may be triggered. The alarms are repeated when the result set changes. This has been added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Indiana University: Chemical Information Sources http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/index.html This fantastic Indiana University website helps individuals "find and learn how to use chemical information resources on the Internet and elsewhere." Users can find two types of resource guides. The first, SIRCh (Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry) offers numerous links to educational websites where users can find answers to many of their chemistry questions. The second, CCIIM (Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials), is a collection of items created by chemistry and science librarians, chemists, and publishers to help visitors learn how to use chemical information sources. Users can find links to four databases providing information on publications, references, acronyms, and crystallography. The website offers archives of the University's Chemical Information Sources Discussion List and materials on chemical information classes taught at Indiana University. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus | 3:55 AM Saturday, November 20, 2004  ENDECA Endeca http://www.endeca.com/ “Endeca has award-winning infrastructure software for information delivery that revolutionizes the way users search, navigate and analyze enterprise data. Endeca Search and Guided Navigation, powered by the Endeca Navigation Engine, expose the full richness and potential of large data sets by allowing users to explore knowledge bases, intranets, information portals, catalogs and other data stores with tremendous speed, precision and certainty.” This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Internet Resources Newsletter Issue 122] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM eLearning Reviews http://www.elearning-reviews.org/ elearning-reviews provides those interested in research on elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications. The most important goal is a well-balanced selection of seminal publications as well as interesting up-to-date publications from the various disciplinary perspectives. Their goal is to further the development of elearning as a scientific, research-oriented discipline, and as a tool for innovating higher education as well as corporate education. This will be added to Educational and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM In Search Of Open-Source Experts by Larry Greenemeier http://informationweek.linuxpipeline.com/52600065 As companies ramp up open-source deployments, expertise is in high demand and short supply. The costs of developing talent can add up. Applied Industrial Technologies Inc., a distributor of fluid-power and engineered products, runs most of its infrastructure on Microsoft Windows. But two years ago Applied Industrial began running some Web, file, application, and directory servers on the open-source operating system Red Hat Linux. "Our technicians [were] saying, 'we need to have Linux servers in place--we could pull down costs,'" says IT director Bob Falkowski. "We changed out hardware, introduced new software components. But what we failed to realize is, when you do this type of process there's some added burden. You have to fall back on yourself as being the ultimate solution provider when things don't work." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM More Corporate Librarians http://www.detnews.com/2004/careers/0410/09/d02-269743.htm The demand for corporate librarians and information managers is rising steadily -- information professionals who manage a company's information resources, including "best practices." Another new avenue is corporate intelligence to support the company's efforts to stay competitive. Mandy Baldridge of the information-management staffing company InfoCurrent explains: "We don't just live in the traditional four walls of the library anymore. We've made ourselves necessary to the organization so we can be in many different areas of the organization." Demand for corporate librarians is expected to grow. The out-placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas says that the average annual salary of a corporate librarian is $60,000-$65,000, which is higher than the salaries of librarians overall. Challenger Gray predicts more than 100,000 new jobs for corporate librarians between 2000 and 2010. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM TeacherNet http://www.teachernet.com/ There are a number of sites out there that cater to the educational resource needs of K-8 educators, and TeacherNet is certainly one that is worth taking some time to browse through. Developed by the Highlights educational products group, the site contains opportunities for educators to join various discussion lists, classroom resources (such as lesson plans), and links to the webpages of various classrooms around the United States. One potentially entertaining (and also therapeutic) feature is the "Laugh Lines" section, were educators can submit their various humorous classroom experiences. The bulletin boards are also worth checking out, as they can offer quick answers to any number of topics, such as handwriting, use of the Internet in the classroom, and literature. The site is rounded out by a nice area set aside for discussion and resources specifically designated for student teachers. This will be added to Education Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Integrating Library Records Into Search Engines http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov04/oNeill.shtml Imagine how many more people would use and appreciate libraries, if Google and Yahoo included local library records in their search results. OCLC's Open WorldCat Pilot (http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/pilot/) integrates library records into popular Internet search sites, and tests the effectiveness of the Web in guiding users to library-owned materials. WorldCat records began appearing in Google search results in December 2003 and in Yahoo Search results in May 2004. Results have been impressive. Inbound links from Open WorldCat search results have grown to more than 1 million in the first half of June 2004. There are several ways of searching Open WorldCat items in Google and Yahoo. The most intuitive is using the phrase "find in a library" plus the item or subject to be searched: e.g., find in a library: da vinci code. Alternatively, you can search using the phrase "worldcat libraries" and the title or subject. (Additional search tips are listed at the link below.) Approximately 12,000 libraries already participate in the WorldCat Pilot project, including the academic, public and school libraries originally included automatically, plus state, federal and special libraries that have asked to join. Enabling Web users to locate materials they need quickly and easily in libraries near them should promote library use and reinforce their value. Ultimately, even people who don't often use libraries may come to consider libraries as a first source of information. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, November 19, 2004  EduHound EduHound http://www.EduHound.com/ EduHound (Division of ETC Group LLC), is a highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links offered free to educators, students and parents. EduHound.com seeks to harness the vast information resources of the Web, while enabling educators to use the Internet as a classroom tool. Since its launch in January 2000, the site boasts thousands of visitors per week and an ever-growing list of subscribers to their weekly newsletter, EduHound Weekly. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM MindPixel: Digital Mind Modeling Project http://www.mindpixel.com/ Digital Mind Modeling Project by MindPixel invites Web users to contribute to the creation of the first statistical model of human thought. The Canadian scientist, Chris McKinstry, who founded the project "hopes to be able to teach a computer what it means to be human" by using an approach similar to seti@home "to extract the entire content of an average person's mind bit by literal bit from millions of different internet users." After about 10 years running, the final collection will be available for other artificial intelligence researchers. For now, visitors can register using an online form to access the Mindpixel News System, which offers the latest news pertaining to the mind and mind-related science. Internet users can also register and make their contribution to science by talking to the online system, which the author calls GAC, pronounced "Jack." Contributors earn voting rights "that will give them a say in every aspect of how the project is run, from data collection and use to the distribution of data and research funds." This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM History of the Dot-Com Era http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3750-2004Oct27.html University of Maryland professor David A. Kirsch has been collecting business plans of the dot-com era, to preserve an important piece of American business and cultural history: "How will future historians be able to understand the texture of this time? What information will they have access to, to understand the highs and lows? We can't wait 100 years for documents to wend their way into historical archives. We've got to act now." Kirsch and his students have created a digital database http://www.businessplanarchive.org listing more than 2,300 companies so far, mostly from 1997 to 2002. Kirsch says, "I call it 'Open Source History' -- history that is to be written by the people who lived it. History tends to be from the voices of the elites. I want to know what the receptionist was thinking, not just the chief executive." This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Haystack Project http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/11/massave1104.asp?p=4 Computer science professor David Karger and former MIT professor Lynn Stein began work on the aptly named Haystack project back in 1995 as a way to organize computer files more intuitively, making them easier to retrieve than the typical name/type/date system. Haystack enables associations or groupings of files to be created among files of any type. For instance, e-mails can be linked with photos, Web sites, MP3 files or text documents. The Haystack project started just when search engines like AltaVista were first gaining popularity. "What really bugged me was that we suddenly had amazing tools for searching the Internet but still couldn't organize our own stuff," says Karger. "I don't think people envisioned having such a large personal repository of information that would need to be searched." Haystack's interface allows users to drag and drop files and attachments (such as photos) into collections. A right click on any item reveals its context menu, allowing immediate access to all operations that "make sense" for that object. The underlying organizational principle focuses on the information a user wants to save, not the application. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM ExcelGrid http://www.gridbus.org/excelgrid/ The Gridbus Project to Release ExcelGrid Software. ExcelGrid is a tool that helps in extending Microsoft Excel from the desktop to enterprise and global grids as they provide the benefits of improved job execution speed and result in getting processing done faster. It provides a front-end to a grid via Excel spreadsheet and performs user-defined computations on enterprise grids created using Alchemi and global grids built using Gridbus coupled with Globus, UNICORE and also Alchemi technologies. It allows users to run jobs on remote computers, using an easy-to-use GUI, and retrieve the results via the standard Excel spreadsheet interface. The ExcelGrid plug-in is developed by the Gridbus Project, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab., Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. The project is partially supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant, Storage Technology and the University of Melbourne. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM EIN Finder http://www.freeerisa.com/Extras/EINFinder.asp?mode=SEARCH Find the employer tax identification number you need. Nearly 5 million! Also allows you to search the entire site by EIN (Employer Identification Number) Number. Every user gets three FREE searches. Additional searches are available through a Premium subscription. This has been added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, November 18, 2004  Google Scholar Search Engine Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 6:13 AM  Cybertimes Navigator CyberTimes Navigator http://tech.nytimes.com/top/news/technology/cybertimesnavigator/ Navigator is the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent is to give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose is to show people that there's still a lot of fun and useful stuff going on out there. The list is by its nature highly selective and constantly changing. Areas included: Net Search, Journalism, Reference, Directories, Publications, Politics, New York Region, Commerce, Travel, Entertainment, Sports, and Miscellany. This has been added to the Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.This will be added to the reference section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM UpSNAP http://www.upsnap.com/ The UpSNAP service allows you to get free directory assistance from your cellular phone using text messaging. The service is very easy to use. All you need to do is to type the name and location of the business you are trying to find using text messaging on your phone. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM RentACoder http://www.rentacoder.com/ RentACoder is an international marketplace where people who need custom software developed can find coders in a safe and business-friendly environment. Buyers can cherry pick from a pool of 89,353 coders...enabling them to hire a coder across the country or across the globe…from the comfort of their computers. Buyers who wish to hire internationally, can take advantage of favorable overseas exchange rates, resulting in work being done for 50-90% less than if the project were done in-country. Coders are also given access to a huge pool of potential work and have the ability to work independently from their homes rather than for a company. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM K-CAP2005 - Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture http://www.kcap05.org/ K-CAP2005 - Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture - October 2-5, 2005 Banff, Canada. This conference will cover: 1) Knowledge Engineering and Modeling Methodologies, 2) Mixed-initiative Planning and Decision-support Tools, 3) Acquisition of Problem-solving Knowledge, 4) Programming-by-Demonstration Systems, 5) Knowledge Management Environments, 6) Knowledge-based Markup Techniques, 7) Knowledge Extraction Systems, 8) Knowledge Acquisition Tools, 9) Advice Taking Systems, and 10) Learning Apprentices. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM CLONE3D - Artificial Intelligence and High-Resolution 3D Characters http://www.clone3d.com/ The Artificial Comedy and Chatterbots online at CLONE3D is a portfolio of 3d characters, digital art, animation and artificial intelligence created by Mark Chavez. Featuring performances by hand-crafted, real time, digital characters the site intends to blend game technology with animated character driven entertainment and original presentation. To view CLONE3D at it's fullest potential you must download and install the Haptek Player. The Haptek Character SDK is programmed with chaos theory and parametric animation techniques (as developed by a founder of Haptek, Dr. Robert Shaw); resulting in ever changing character performances. The player is only functional on Windows based systems. The player download will take about 15 seconds to load the install page ... then upon your approval, approximately 2 minutes to auto-install the player on a 56k dial-up connection. All of this is available from the CLONE3D homepage as listed above. This has been added to ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Universal Business Language 1.0 http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0/ Since its approval as a W3C recommendation in 1998, XML has been adopted in a number of industries as a framework for the definition of the messages exchanged in electronic commerce. The widespread use of XML has led to the development of multiple industry-specific XML versions of such basic documents as purchase orders, shipping notices, and invoices. While industry-specific data formats have the advantage of maximal optimization for their business context, the existence of different formats to accomplish the same purpose in different business domains is attended by a number of significant disadvantages as well. The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) is intended to help solve these problems by defining a generic XML interchange format for business documents that can be extended to meet the requirements of particular industries. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, November 17, 2004  KSG Research Working Papers Series KSG Research Working Papers Series http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/research/working_papers/ The Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Paper Series provides an electronic database to disseminate works-in-progress reflecting the broad range of research activities of Kennedy School faculty members. You may search the database, view abstracts of papers, and download the full text of papers in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. In addition to the Faculty Research Working Papers Series, the Kennedy School has a wide variety of working papers and other publications available through individual research centers and programs. The KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series is intended to complement and highlight these other important research outlets. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Boog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Telson Spur Meta Links http://www.snark.ca/meta.htm The gallery or meta directory of The Telson Spur, this page is a list of links to other resource lists, subject trees, virtual libraries, and meta centres. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Who2 - Find Famous People Fast http://who2.com/ Who2 is a question, like a cabbie's "Where to?" They mean to be the Web's most direct guide to facts about famous people. For each famous figure, Who2 gives you the hard facts you're most likely looking for: birth and death dates, famous works, notorious trivia. Then -- in case that's not enough -- they sift the Web and pick out the four best sites for additional detail. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Web Weaving http://www.snark.ca/web.htm#Web%20Development Web Weaving is a very comprehensive listing of web development reference resources to aid in the creation and maintenance of web sites using the latest technologies and resources. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Awesome Stories http://www.awesomestories.com/ This Internet site is a new interactive, electronic learning tool. They produce stories behind some of the world's most interesting people, places and events. Asking the questions we think our visitors might ask, they find the answers. Cutting through the maze of irrelevant and inappropriate web sites, they bring speed and convenience to the learning process. By assembling URLs to some of the most important, relevant, on-line material in one place, and organizing those links around an interesting story, they uncover for everyone what was once available only for scholars. By linking to national archives, libraries, museums and other institutional sites, they deliver the source material at the precise moment it's needed. They also help the learner to get involved with the story. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Internet Research - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_research Internet research is the practice of using the Internet for research. To the extent that the Internet is widely and readily accessible to hundreds of millions of people, in many parts of the world, and can provide practically instant information on most topics, it has a profound impact on the way in which ideas are formed and knowledge is created. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, November 16, 2004 %2Cjava%2C%20javscript%2Cc%2C%20c%2011%209%202004%2010%2049%2035%20AM.jpg) Plant Source Code Planet Source Code http://www.planet-source-code.com/ The largest public source code database on the Internet with 9,822,136 lines of code, articles and tutorials in 11 languages,as well as 2,178 open job postings. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM RocketAware - Programmer's Webliography and Index http://www.rocketaware.com/ RocketAware started as The Reuse RKT, an index to open source software at mibsoftware.com. It continues to keep a heavy focus on serving the needs of software developers. Commercial products are listed now as well. Open source software is still provided as a filtered listing. They radically reduce the time to locate software and knowledge. This dynamic catalog matches your preferences, and indexes more than 50,000 links. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Bid Monkey http://freshmeat.net/projects/bidmonkey/?branch_id=20403&release_id=178316 Bid Monkey is a command line and GUI tool that automatically bids on eBay auctions at the last possible moment ("sniping"). It will run in the foreground or background, and only requires basic information from the user, such as username, password, item number, and the maximum bid to place. Among its more unique features, Bid Monkey abstracts the URL scheme and regular expressions into a separate "patterns" database, allowing for easy Web-based updates. This has been added to Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM kdissert - Mind Mapping Tool http://freshmeat.net/projects/kdissert/?branch_id=42508&release_id=178253 kdissert is a mind-mapping tool to help students write texts such as dissertations, theses, and reports. It features both a mindmap view and a linear view, and several document generators (LaTeX text and slides, OpenOffice.org writer, HTML, and plain text). This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Free Programming and Free Web Master Resources http://freeprogrammingresources.com/ Free Programming Resources is a directory of links to free programmer resources and free webmaster resources for experienced developers and those learning programming, including free programming tutorials, free online programming books, free compilers, free interpreters, free programming tools, free source code and free webmaster resources. Whether you are studying programming in school, learning web development, or are already a professional programmer and want to learn more, you will find many useful links. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnupg/?branch_id=10426&release_id=178151 GnuPG (the GNU Privacy Guard or GPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440. As such, it is meant to be compatible with PGP from NAI, Inc. Because it does not use any patented algorithms, it can be used without any restrictions. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, November 15, 2004  Internet Resources for Business Journalists This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. November 15, 2004 V2N46 discusses Resources on the Internet for Business Journalists. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman reviewing this excellent site. View this resource site at: Resources on the Internet for Business Journalists http://jclass.umd.edu/cars/Special/SABEW2004.htm
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This has been added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide, Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM CodeHound - The Software Developer's Search Engine http://www.codehound.com/ Launched in February 2000, CodeHound has steadily become one of the most popular Web destinations for software developers around the world. Unlike other Internet search engines, CodeHound is specifically designed for programmers. Instead of using a larger search engine like Google or AltaVista, a CodeHound user comes to CodeHound, selects a programming language, and lets CodeHound search the best Web sites and newsgroups dedicated to that language. Their search results are always relevant and up-to-date. Not only does CodeHound target their users' search results to specific Web site, but they also categorize their users' search results. For example, a search on our SQL search engine is categorized by RDMS: SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix, Sybase, Microsoft Access, MySQL, and others. No other search engine on the Internet offers such power. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Fluid Dynamics Search Engine (FDSE) http://www.xav.com/scripts/search/ FDSE is an easy-to-install search engine for local and remote sites. It returns fast, accurate results from a template-driven architecture. Freeware and shareware versions are available with Perl source. Latest stable version 2.0.0.0072 released April 4, 2004. This will be added to the search engines section of all 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Windows Marketplace Comparison Shopping http://www.windowsmarketplace.com Visit Windows Marketplace. Compare 93,000 software and hardware products compatible with Windows in one place. Shop over 13,000 brands in 500 categories. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM The Dangers of Uniformity by Walt Crawford http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/thecrawfordfiles/crawford2004/crawfordOct04.htm Does your library have the one best dictionary—and that’s all? A single encyclopedia? Shakespeare’s best play—and that’s your only drama? The King James Version of the Bible, to the exclusion of all other religious works and commentary? Do you only collect sound recordings of baroque music, Leonard Bernstein, hip-hop, comedy, or Russian nationalist composers? Or do you have just the single best recording in each genre? posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, November 14, 2004 Global Biodiversity 1) Convention on Biological Diversity: Global Biodiversity Outlook http://www.biodiv.org/gbo/ 2) Explore Biodiversity http://www.explorebiodiversity.com/ 3) Australian Government-Department of the Environment and Heritage: Australian Biodiversity http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/ 4) Belgian Federal Science Policy: The Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be/bbpf/ 5) Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation: Nepal Biodiversity http://www.biodiv-nepal.gov.np/ 6) Centre for Marine Biodiversity http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/en/home.html Nations around the world have recognized biodiversity as one of the most pressing ecological issues of our time. Declining biodiversity over recent decades has prompted the formation of international coalitions and national biodiversity programs. This Topic in Depth explores the work of both international and national efforts to increase global biodiversity. The first site presents an archived report from the Convention on Biological Diversity, an international organization formed by many world nations after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. This first edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook report, published in 2001, was created to provide a status summary, and an analysis of Convention objectives. It is expected that a second edition will be published this year presenting more recent data and analysis (1). Explore Biodiversity is an innovative project involving a team of scientists and filmmakers working to document the diminishing biological diversity of our planet. The hip Explore website shares beautiful images, videos, and information from expeditions to Hawaii, Mexico, and Alaska (2). The third site, from the Australian Government's Department of the Environment and Heritage, discusses biodiversity in Australia. The site contains sections regarding Migratory Species; Conservation and Regional Planning; Invasive Species; and Biodiversity Hotspots--to name a few (3). The fourth website presents the Belgian Biodiversity Platform (4), which is "an integrated network of people and institutions funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy to facilitate dialogue and collaboration between scientists in Belgium and abroad, in the field of biological diversity." From the Nepalese Government's Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, the fifth site presents information about biodiversity programs in Nepal. The site contains sections about Forests, National Parks, Plant Resources, and the Ministry's National Biodiversity Unit (5). The final website presents the Centre for Marine Biodiversity (CMB), a Canada-based organization that was established in 2000 to promote scientific support of marine biodiversity. The CMB website contains research reports, links to several databases, links to various identification guides, and a photo gallery with some nice underwater images (6). This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM D2K - Data To Knowledge http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/tools/d2k In order to facilitate our research activities, ALG has, over the last few years, developed the D2K application environment for data mining. D2K - Data to Knowledge is a rapid, flexible data mining and machine learning system that integrates analytical data mining methods for prediction, discovery, and deviation detection, with data and information visualization tools. It offers a visual programming environment that allows users to connect programming modules together to build data mining applications and supplies a core set of modules, application templates, and a standard API for software component development. All D2K components are written in Java for maximum flexibility and portability. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subhect Tracer™ Information Blog and Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM AltWeeklies.com http://www.altweeklies.com/ AltWeeklies.com brings readers the best, most insightful, thought-provoking news and features published in the 125 papers that belong to the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Updated throughout the work week, AltWeeklies.com will help readers find the latest news about politics, crime, social issues, the environment, health, sex, food, film, music, art and books--all with a different perspective from what is generally found on wire-service and daily-newspaper Web sites. The site also enables alt-weekly editors to find and seek permission to reprint significant stories written by their counterparts in other parts of North America. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM T2K - Text to Knowledge http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/tools/t2k Knowledge discovery is the process of uncovering relationships in data previously unknown and extracting this knowledge from the data. Even using current data mining methods, understanding these data relationships can be a difficult task. Data stores in any given problem area are often huge, forcing decision-makers to construct complex queries to reflect the multiple dimensions of their problem domain. These decision-makers would benefit from tools that help highlight potential "information nuggets" and that help in the formation of the complex queries. Often, a large percentage of these data stores is in the form of text. The T2K (Text to Knowledge) tool provides text mining and analysis capabilities that have been specially designed to operate in and capitalize upon the complexity of rich natural language domains of very large stores of text and multimedia documents. T2K is a library of D2K modules that implements sophisticated algorithms for text analysis. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Open Source Java and Web Testing Tools by Vinodh Velusamy http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1369 Just like writing an article, testing is a skill. While this may come as a surprise to some people, it is a simple fact. For any system, there are several possible test cases, and yet, invariably, we have time to run only a few of them, which in turn are expected to find most of the defects in the software. We know from experience that this is simply not possible. Therefore, in order to increase the chances of finding defects, testing tools may be used. There are numerous testing tools, each with specific capabilities and test objectives. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM SMBSpider http://freshmeat.net/projects/smbspider/?branch_id=54353&release_id=178101 SMBSpider is a fast, lightweight indexer for SMB shares in a LAN. It provides Web-based search and browse functionality, as well as an optional IRC interface via eggdrop. This will be added to the search engines section of the the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, November 13, 2004  Ensembl Genome Browser Project Ensembl http://www.ensembl.org/ Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - EBI and the Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on metazoan genomes. Ensembl is primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust. This site provides free access to all the data and software from the Ensembl project. Click on the species buttons to the right to browse the data. Access to all the data produced by the project, and to the software used to analyse and present it, is provided free and without constraints. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Sex Down, E-Shoppping Up In the Web Search World http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/breaking_news/10020462.htm The focus of users' Web searches is shifting away from sex and pornography toward e-commerce and business, according to "Web Search: Public Searching of the Web," written by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State. "Twenty percent of all searching was sex-related back in 1997, now it's about 5%," says University of Pittsburgh professor Amanda Spink. "It's a little bit more in Europe, 8-10%, but in comparison to everything else, it's a very small percent. People are using (the Web) more as an everyday tool rather than as just an entertainment medium." Spink says over the same time period, queries for e-business or commerce have risen 86%. What hasn't changed much over the past seven years, however, is how hard people are willing to work on their Web research. The answer: Not very. Spink and co-author Bernard Jansen found that on average, people use two words per query and two queries per search session. "The searches are taking less than five minutes and they're only looking at the first page of results. That's why people are wanting to get their results on the first page," says Spink, who now, along with Jansen, is turning her sights toward metasearch engine Vivisimo.com, which culls results from other search engines and categorizes them for users. "We were surprised that people weren't doing more complex searches. If you put a couple of words into the Web, you're going to get hundreds of thousands of results. I think people aren't trained very well to use the search engines." posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM WebLog Expert 3.1 http://www.weblogexpert.com/ Those persons looking for a new and helpful tool to analyze information about their website's traffic and visitors should look no further than this latest edition of WebLog Expert. This version will give information about accessed files, activity statistics, paths through the site, all offered in HTML reports that include both text information and charts. WebLog Expert 3.1 is compatible with all systems running Windows 95 and higher. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Architecture of the World Wide Web Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-webarch-20041105/ http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition" to Proposed Recommendation. The World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures and media. In an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as its technologies evolve, this architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM POPsearch http://freshmeat.net/projects/popsearch/?branch_id=50211&release_id=178038 POPsearch is a personal search engine that is designed to help you easily find information on your computer. It lets you index your entire collection of email messages and files, allowing you to remotely search through your information from any computer that has a Web browser. POPsearch has features that're especially appealing to the programming community because it actively allows you to expose and classify data relationships. Think of POPsearch as a new type of Relationship Engine for your daily flow of information. This has been added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM DataparkSearch http://freshmeat.net/projects/dataparksearch/?branch_id=47085&release_id=178029 DataparkSearch is a Web search engine tool. It features support for http, https, ftp, nntp, and news URLs, htdb virtual URL support for indexing SQL databases, text/html, text/xml, text/plain, audio/mpeg (MP3), and image/gif mime types built-in support, external parsers support for other document types, the ability to index multilangual sites using content negotiation, searching of all of the word forms using ispell affixes and dictionaries, stopwords and synonyms lists, boolean query language support, results sorting by relevancy, popularity rank, last modified time, and importance (a multiplication of the relevancy and popularity ranks), support for various character sets, and phrases segmenting for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai languages. It has accent-insensitive search, mod_dpsearch for Apache, and support for internationalized domain names. This has been added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, November 12, 2004 %2011%205%202004%209%2054%2032%20AM.jpg) Global Internet Statistics By Language Global Internet Statistics By Language http://www.glreach.com/globstats/ Here are the latest estimated figures of the number of people online in each language zone (native speakers). They classify by languages instead of by countries, since people speaking the same language form their own online community no matter what country they happen to live in. Also available: Sources and References and Details by Country. Included also is Projected E-commerce Figures By Country. This has been added to Internet Demographics, Statistics Resources and eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM FeedFinder http://www.feedster.com/feedfinder.php Need to find a Feed? The FeedFinder can help, letting you search their database of almost 900,000 different feeds. Just put in whatever you know about it -- part of the description, the author's name, the url to a site or even the domain. This has been added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. This also has been added to the sources of my Bots Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM kompass.com - the Business to Business Search Engine http://www1.kompass.com/ A comprehensibe business to business search engine covering 23,000 product and service references in 53,000 classes, 1.8 million companies in 75 countries, 750,000 trade names and 3.6 million executive names. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will also be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM The Scientific Article Search and Order Engine http://articlesciences.inist.fr/ A service provided by INstitut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. To improve your search do not hesitate to utilize foreign language equivalent for the words your initially entered. The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) is a service unit of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Its mission is to collect, process and analyze the results of worldwide scientific reseach for dissemination to the research, academic and industrial communities at large. INIST, the leading French scientific and technical document center, also produces multilingual and multidisciplinary bibliographic databases covering the core international scientific literature. By using state of the art technology for information storage, processing and dissemination, INIST has acquired the cutting edge knowhow needed for developments in new information and communication technology. Today, with Articlesciences, INIST reaches out to the international public at large. • Articlesciences covers the major fields of international research: 1) Biological Sciences, 2) Applied Mathematics, 3) Social Sciences, 4) Medical Sciences, 5) Physics, 6) Humanities, 7) Earth Sciences, 8) Chemistry, 9) Economics - Management, 10) Applied Sciences, 11) Environmental Sciences, and 12) Information Science. This has been added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Need Scripts http://www.needscripts.com/ Need Scripts the largest premium content website, offering Programmers, Web Professionals (beginners to advanced) with more than 28,000 web development resources in ASP, ASP.NET, C and C++, CFML, Flash, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Remotely Hosted, Tools and Utilities, Visual Basic & XML. Few benefits of using Need Scripts: 1) One of the largest collection of Web Development Resource in the world, 2) List of Top Quality resources at your finger tips, 3) Ability to write your opinion about books, scripts, software and websites you are familiar with, and 4) Practically *Zero* dead links, they check all the listings (resources listed at Need Scripts) for validity about every 72 hours. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Most-Cited Legal Periodicals - U.S. and Selected Non-U.S. http://law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.asp The most-cited list of periodicals, which currently covers the period 1996-2003, is in the process of being updated for 1997-2004. Journals will be added alphabetically in the sequence of general-U.S. [completed], general-non-U.S. [completed], specialized-U.S. [completed], and specialized-non-U.S. For the moment the impact-factor calculation will continue to be based on the number of articles published during 1996-2002 as it's time-consuming to re-calculate the figure. This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, November 11, 2004  ShoppingBots 2005 ShoppingBots 2005 http://www.ShoppingBots.info/ ShoppingBots (ShoppingBots.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™ . It is designed since 1995 to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for all forms of Online Shopping and a selected alphabetical listing of ShoppingBots. This is the one and only resource you need for all your internet shopping requirements! Bookmark and return often as you shop until you drop! Note: Advertising and sponsorship opportunities for ShoppingBots.info are availble by clicking here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM National Library of Medicine-MedlinePlus: Influenza Tutorial English Spanish With this year's shortage of flu vaccines, it is more important than ever to keep the public informed about the nature of influenza. This user-friendly online Influenza tutorial was created by MedlinePlus of the National Library of Medicine to educate people about the flu virus. The narrated tutorial incorporates straightforward text and images and "discusses the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of flu." From the front page, visitors can choose to print out a Reference Summary of the module, or to go directly to the module. After selecting Go to Module, visitors may choose to first view module instructions, or to just start the module immediately. The first link listed above will take visitors to the English version of the module, and the second link will take visitors to the Spanish version. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM  OAI-PMH Implementation Guidelines OAI-PMH Implementation Guidelines - Conveying rights expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides a mechanism for data providers to expose metadata for harvesting over the Web. This metadata is disseminated in OAI-PMH records. Metadata harvested from one or more data providers using the OAI-PMH can be used by service providers for the creation of services (e.g. search, browse) based on the harvested data. Data providers might want to associate rights expressions with the metadata to indicate how it may be used, shared, and modified after it has been harvested. This specification defines how rights information pertaining to the metadata should be included in responses to OAI-PMH requests. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits http://snipurl.com/ae0q Building chip-based quantum computers means controlling manufacturing devices with atomic precision, which is far beyond the reach of today's commercial technology. Researchers are exploring ways of controlling sets of electrons using a single magnetic field in order to ease some of these requirements. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM New Open Access Policy Brings Cheers, Concerns http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct04/quint.shtml Online research maven Barbara Quint hails the recent National Institutes of Health decision requiring all grantees and contractors to submit electronic copies of finished manuscripts for full-text release through PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's medical research site. Noting that the new policy could accelerate the momentum of the open access movement in other federal information agencies, she cautions that some negative issues could arise. For example, the NIH has set up a protection policy that holds electronic publication until six months after a study has been printed. But, asks Quint, what will happen when patient advocacy groups that the NIH depends up on for volunteer studies come "crying" for immediate release of research studies? "The NIH/NLM could find itself defending the promotion of unproven medical experimentation on patients while withholding the results of completed research tests. Maybe they could palliate the groups by offering early release only through advocacy group sites, but, one way or another, I doubt they will hold out long," she says. And, she says that to quell concerns that publishers may retract their recently expanded peer review and editorial boards, "We must simply develop alternative models for independent, objective, authoritative evaluation of scientific results." posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM RadioNet http://www.radionet-eu.org/ RadioNet is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3), funded under the EC FP6, that has pulled together all of Europe's leading astronomy facilities to produce a focused, coherent and integrated project that will significantly enhance the quality and quantity of science performed by European astronomers.RadioNet has 20 partners. They range from operators of radio telescope facilities to laboratories that specialize in micro-electronics, MMIC design and superconducting component fabrication. The RadioNet project has brought these institutes together in an unique partnership that builds on and extends the successful, but smaller, collaborations that that currently exist. Further details of RadioNet can be found on the objectives page. The complete Work Programme for RadioNet can be found here. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, November 10, 2004  EdNet National Geographic Education Network http://www.ngsednet.org/ National Geographic Education Network is a new online service from the National Geographic Society Education Foundation. For more than 14 years, educators have trusted the Foundation's quality outreach programs and educational services. Now they have added EdNet — a one-stop shop for education news, resources, discussion, and much more. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Genalytics Introduces Knowledge Extract Module http://snipurl.com/ad27 Genalytics announced the availability of its new Knowledge Extract module. Coupled with Genalytics' advanced analytics platform, the new module helps organizations make better customer targeting and risk management decisions by mining various sources of unstructured data, extracting relevant metadata and meaning and then putting the results into a structured format. This new structured data can enhance the performance of any enterprise analytics, business intelligence or search engine application, dramatically improving the accuracy of organizations' marketing or risk programs. Valuable information about customer behavior is increasingly stored as unstructured data in call centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, news feeds, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, email, and PDF documents. The challenge is that this data is not easily accessible by traditional business intelligence and analytics applications. As a result, many organizations struggle to employ this data as actionable business intelligence that can be used to build effective marketing and risk assessment programs. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM SimCode: Agent-based Simulation Modelling of Open-Source Software Development by Jean-Michel Dalle and Paul A. David http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/dalledavid2.pdf Abstract: We present an original modeling tool, which can be used to study the mechanisms by which free/libre and open source software developers' code-writing efforts are allocated within open source projects. It is first described analytically in a discrete choice framework, and then simulated using agent-based experiments. Contributions are added sequentially to either existing modules, or to create new modules out of existing ones: as a consequence, the global emerging architecture forms a hierarchical tree. Choices among modules reflect expectations of peer-regard, i.e. developers are more attracted a) to generic modules, b) to launching new ones, and c) to contributing their work to currently active development sites in the project. In this context, we are able - particularly by allowing for the attractiveness of "hot spots"-- to replicate the high degree of concentration (measured by Gini coefficients) in the distributions of modules sizes. The latter have been found by empirical studies to be a characteristic typical of the code of large projects, such as the Linux kernel. Introducing further a simple social utility function for evaluating the mophology of "software trees," it turns out that the hypothesized developers' incentive structure that generates high Gini coefficients is not particularly conducive to producing self-organized software code that yields high utility to end-users who want a large and diverse range of applications. Allowing for a simple governance mechanism by the introduction of maintenance rules reveals that "early release" rules can have a positive effect on the social utility rating of the resulting software trees. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Album Cover Grabber http://freshmeat.net/projects/albumgrabber/?branch_id=41450&release_id=177766 Album Cover Grabber grabs album covers and artist pictures from Allmusic.com and Google images for an MP3 collection. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM ISBNsearch http://freshmeat.net/projects/isbnsearch/?branch_id=45011&release_id=177723 isbnsearch provides a simple method for retrieving information about any book using only an ISBN or EAN barcode. It is intended to provide assistance for online libraries, user groups, or individual users, and is designed in such a way to provide a distributed ISBN database query system. Users can choose to view the summary information (author, title, publisher, date, edition, subject, ISBN) as HTML, XML, or a pre-formatted SQL statement. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM LINKPENDIUM - A 1,109,200 Link Directory of Genealogical Resources http://www.linkpendium.com/ An excellent resource and link directory compilation of a million plus resources for genealogy by Karen Isaacson and Brian Leverich, founders of the extremely popular RootsWeb genealogical community site. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, November 09, 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. Perrine-Cutler Ridge/Palmetto Bay Rotary Club Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 12:00pm Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2004 Location: Tony Roma's Restaurant 188th and South Dixie Highway, Miami, Florida posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Memes Links by Susan Blackmore http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/memetics/links.htm There are lots of websites dealing with memes but many are completely confusing, some downright misleading, and some total rubbish. Susan Blackmore has listed here those that she finds useful, roughly in the order in which she would recommend them to people who want to learn about the scientific study of memes and the field of memetics. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM UK Data Archive (UKDA) http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/ The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is an internationally-renowned centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion; and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK. The UKDA provides resource discovery and support for secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data in research, teaching and learning as a lead partner of the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS). The UKDA hosts AHDS History, provides preservation services for other data organisations and facilitates international data exchange. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM MonAgent http://freshmeat.net/projects/monagent/?branch_id=46517&release_id=177564 monagent is a collection of tools which allows you to monitor anything by writing scripts in any language you prefer. As long as you supply the correct output format, the data will be monitored, and you will get an email or SMS message when a certain threshold exceeds the limits that you have defined. It consists of a Unix daemon, a monitoring viewer, and an admin tool for setting thresholds. The viewer and admintool are written in VB6. An Oracle Database is used for the monitoring schema, and an Oracle Client installation is needed on every host you want to monitor. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM PhpForms http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpforms/?branch_id=54226&release_id=177571 PhpForms is an advanced Web form builder that allows you to create Web forms quickly and easily. You can create an unlimited number of forms with any number of radio-buttons, checkboxes, pull-down menus, text boxes, text areas, etc. PhpForms supports form validation. Form submissions may be sent to multiple email addresses. It can create multi part forms, forms with file upload fields, product/service/price request forms, message and question submission forms, subscription forms, survey forms, quizzes and tests, feedback forms, customer satisfaction forms, email notifications, evaluation forms, order forms, and more. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) http://freshmeat.net/projects/spt/?branch_id=31976&release_id=177620 The Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) is a turnkey software package that allows groups or organizations who have collections of knowledge or resources they want to share via the Web to put that collection online without a big investment in technical resources. It includes keyword and fielded search engines, a recommender system, a metadata editor, user agents (push technology to notify users of new resources), forums (bulletin boards), resource quality ratings, resource annotations by users, and support for multiple dynamic user interfaces, selectable on a per-user basis. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, November 08, 2004 Script Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Script Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 17 page .pdf document 514KB. [Created 01-01-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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 Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. November 8, 2004 V2N45 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Script Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing script and code resources and sites on the Internet. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.ScriptResources.info/ posted by Marcus | 1:05 PM  November 2004 Web Server Survey November 2004 Web Server Survey http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/11/01/november_2004_web_server_survey.html The November 2004 survey received responses from 56,115,015 sites. The Internet has grown by 10.1 million sites in the first 11 months of the year, including a gain of 726,549 sites last month. Barring a precipitous slowdown, 2004 should wind up as the Internet's second-strongest year for numerical growth, trailing only 2000, when the survey added 16.1 million sites. The survey added 10.6 million sites in 2001 and 10.4 million in 2003, marks that are well within reach given the pace of monthly gains thus far in 2004. This has been added to Internet Demographics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM California Archive Collection Highlights http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ The Online Archive of California (OAC), part of the California Digital Library, provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photos and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives and other institutions across the state. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available online at (www.oac.cdlib.org). Examples include the University of California's California Culture project documenting ethnic communities in California and the West; the California Heritage Collection, an online archive of more than 28,000 images illustrating the state's history and culture from UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library; the Cased Photographs Project, which makes available digital images and detailed descriptions of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes and related photographs in the collections of the Bancroft Library and the California State Library. In addition, users may access materials from the Free Speech Movement, the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives, Museums and the Online Archive of California, the Local History Digital Resources Project, and Silicon Valley History Online. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements Updated http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-dawg-uc-20041012/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The RDF Data Access Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements." The draft suggests how an RDF query language and data access protocol could be used in the construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like Web publishing, personal information management, transportation and tourism. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM WebProNews http://www.webpronews.com/ WebProNews is an article portal for Internet and Technology professionals. It also has an email newsletter that has over 800,000 subscribers delivered in two separate editions of 400,000 each. WebProNews is one of the most popular newsletter for eBusiness professionals in the World. This has been added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Webmatic http://freshmeat.net/projects/webmatic/?branch_id=34763&release_id=177425 Webmatic is a system for dynamically creating a Web site directly on-line. The webmatic control panel makes it possible to manage the entire contents of a Web site without knowing any kind of programming language or HTML language. With Webmatic you can create and manage a newsletter, create and manage a FAQ section, create a page with the horoscope, create and manage a search engine, create a page for user registration, differentiate the access levels for each user, manage up to 9 advertising banners easily, create a multi-language Web site with a panel for quickly changing the language, and change the site's graphical theme, detailed statistics for your Web site. You can also create your own ecommerce website with products catalog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, November 07, 2004 The Internet and Civic Life 1) First Monday: The Digital Tea Leaves of Election 2000 After the 2000 election, these two authors predicted that Internet usage would change the way campaigns are run (1). A report posted on this website provides some examples of how the Internet was used in 2004, particularly for posting videos (2). Another feature of this year's campaign is the use of the Internet to organize grassroots activism, as is discussed in this article from Wired (3). By far the most common "political" websites, however, seek to provide information, including this website from Annenberg, (4). This recent report from Pew finds people are using the Internet for political information, and not only to seek information that reinforces their political preferences (5). One concern with this movement to Internet campaigning is that the use of cookies, online donation forms, and political mailing lists to gather information on people has implications for political privacy, an issue which is discussed generally on this website (6). This website from IT Facts (7) provides a variety of statistics on Internet use for further exploration . This final article offers some intriguing thoughts on democracy (8). [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 AMRodale Institute: The New Farm http://www.newfarm.org/index.shtml Developed by the Rodale Institute--well-known for its role in organic agriculture--the New Farm website works "to inform, encourage, equip and inspire farmers with the support they need to take the important transition steps toward regenerative agriculture." With this mission in mind, the New Farm site provides farmers and others with a bounty of online resources, information, and success stories. The site features sections that address news and research, organic certification, raising hogs, political activism, and more. One notable section of the site is the Farm Locator which provides a searchable Database of Farms, and allows farmers to add a free Web page featuring their farm. Sections of the website, including the Training Center, are still being developed, and New Farm encourages people to send in ideas and suggestions regarding site content such as topics for online courses. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM HarvestMan 1.4 alpha 2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/projects/harvestman/?branch_id=53383&release_id=177152 HarvestMan is a multithreaded off-line browser.It has many features for customizing offline browsing through URL filters, depth-fetching, fetch levels, domain filters, file limits, thread limits, download depth, directory checking, and robot exclusion protocol. It is useful to download an entire Web site or certain files from a Web site to the hard disk for offline browsing later. It features an XML project file, and support for the HTTP/HTTPS and FTP protocols. It works transparently across proxies and can also crawl intranets. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Coming To a Computer Near You (Eventually!) http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=7116 Hollywood may finally be "going Internet." After toying with the idea of electronic promotions for years, Hollywood's online ad spending is up, and producers are abuzz with talk about including the Internet in their promotion and distribution game plans. According to figures from the Motion Picture Association of America, online advertising budgets for member studios nearly doubled from 2002 to 2003. Among the reasons for the change is new digital asset management (DAM) software, such as INSCI Corp.'s ActiveMedia, which Sony uses in its cineSHARE product. cineSHARE is designed to move and share marketing materials and stock footage with post, print, finishing and marketing houses. It provides secure Web access to more than 20,000 assets through the Web and gives producers, directors, lawyers, editors and marketers access to digital media from around the world and in all parts of the production cycle. Search capabilities also get a high priority. "cineSHARE is basically a big collection of Web-based folders with the ability to execute great searches," says an INSCI executive. The upshot is that with the relaxation of old Hollywood ways plus the hope that Hollywood will get a handle on the piracy issue, the landscape is clearly moving rapidly toward allowing easily downloadable, mainstream access to Hollywood content online. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements Updated http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-dawg-uc-20041012/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The RDF Data Access Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements." The draft suggests how an RDF query language and data access protocol could be used in the construction of novel, useful Semantic Web applications in areas like Web publishing, personal information management, transportation and tourism. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Odden's Bookmarks - Maps and Mapping http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php Created in 1995 by Roelof Oddens, a curator of the map library at Utrecht University, the Oddens Bookmark database now contains over 22,000 links about maps, cartography and GIS data. Users can search the resources by keyword, country, category, or by browsing through subject headings. Besides the abundance of maps and map data, visitors can find links to cartography departments, libraries, literature, and societies. Because the links span the entire world, this website is a great starting point for anyone interested in maps and mapping. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, November 06, 2004  Magellan Metasearch Magellan Metasearch http://freshmeat.net/projects/magellan-metasearch/?branch_id=52922&release_id=177173 Magellan Metasearch is a modular meta search engine, enabling users to monitor as many search engines as they want and use a complex query language with full boolean syntax and proximity operators, which is much more elaborate than languages provided by Google, Altavista, etc. It can be fed any sources, since its abstraction layer manages the search results and their meta tags in a uniform way. In conjunction with the local process scheduler (such as "cron"), Magellan enables you to save your requests and replay them later automatically: new results are sent through email in real time. This will be added to the search engines section of all 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Working Draft: SPARQL Query Language for RDF http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20041012/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the "SPARQL Query Language for RDF." SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM mnoGoSearch http://mnogosearch.ru/ mnoGoSearch is a full-featured web search engine software for intranet and internet servers. mnoGoSearch software has a number of unique features, which makes it appropriate for a wide range of applications from search within your site to specialized search systems such as cooking recipes or newspaper searches, ftp archive search, MP3 search, news articles search or even national-wide portal search engine. Our search software consists of two parts. The first is an indexing mechanism (indexer). The purpose of the indexer is to walk through HTTP, FTP, NEWS servers or local files, recursively grabbing all the documents and storing words meta-data about those documents in a database in a smart and efficient manner. After every document is referenced by its corresponding URL, meta-data, collected by the indexer is used later in the search process. Search is performed via Web interface using your favorite browser. mnoGoSearch is distributed in several variations, depending on operating system and features included. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Basilic - Bibliography Server for Research Laboratories http://freshmeat.net/projects/basilic/?branch_id=54152&release_id=177147 Basilic is a bibliography server for research laboratories. It automates and facilitates the diffusion of research publications over the Internet, automatically generating Web pages from a publication database. Each publication has an associated Web page, which provides downloads and additional documents (abstract, images, BibTeX). Index pages are also created, including a search engine with several options for results display. New publications can be added to the database in an instant. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Infortmation Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM nut 10.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/177382/ nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 17, which contains 6,839 foods and 128 nutrients. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM The Web is obsessed with anything that spreads, whether it's a virus, a blog or a rumor. And so the Internet loves memes. Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in his 1976 book, "The Selfish Gene." Memes (the word rhymes with dreams and is short for mimemes, from the word mimetic) are infectious ideas or any other things that spread by imitation from person to person - a jingle, a joke, a fashion, the smiley face or the concept of hell. Memes propagate from brain to brain much as genes spread from body to body. Thus, Mr. Dawkins wrote, they really "should be regarded as living structures, not just metaphorically but technically." The World Wide Web is the perfect Petri dish for memes. Wikipedia, the free collaborative online encyclopedia, calls the Internet "the ultimate meme vector." Some of the Web sites offering information on memes: iampariah.com/projects/memeslist.php quotesexchange.com/2004/08/help-make-blogs-more-visible-05.html nodalpoint.org/node.php?id=1539 internethoaxes.infoposted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, November 05, 2004  Genetic Alliance BioBank BioBank http://www.gabiobank.org/ Genetic Alliance has launched BioBank, a repository of biological samples and OA research data. From the press release (on the BioBank front page): "Seven genetic advocacy organizations established the Genetic Alliance BioBank™, a repository for the standardized collection, storage and distribution of biological samples and clinical data for research purposes. This novel, advocacy-owned and -managed repository focuses and accelerates research, providing infrastructure for many advocacy groups to build a valuable resource....Researchers who wish to receive samples submit an application to the disease-specific advocacy organization. These organizations release coded samples to the researcher and hold the key that connects specific samples to individuals, offering a unique opportunity to enable follow-up studies while protecting participant confidentiality." This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM University of Leicester Puts Historical Directories Online http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/3740732.stm The University of Leicester has digitized and posted online local directories from England and Wales dating as far back as 1750, providing a treasure trove for amateur and scholarly history and genealogy buffs. Ian Clarke, an archivist with Archive Quest who worked on the project, says the directories covered a wealth of eclectic information: "They were like the Yellow Pages, but with a lot more information, including census details, eclipses, and even tables showing tide times… People tracing their family history would be able to find out that their great-grandfather was a plumber for instance." The project was paid for through a grant of £335,000 from Lottery funds. The Web site features a search engine developed by document management firm ZyLab that uses fuzzy logic to allow users to search documents for key words, even if the term is spelled differently in the document. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM ht://Dig http://freshmeat.net/projects/htdig/ The ht://Dig system is a complete WWW indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Google, and AltaVista. Instead, it is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub-section of a Web site. This has been added to the search engine section of the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM dg.o http://www.digitalgovernment.org/ dg.o promotes National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored emergent information technologies research by creating partnerships between academic researchers, government agencies, and the private sector. Government at all levels is a major collector and provider of data and user of information technologies. The Digital Government Program funds research at the intersection of computer information sciences and government information services, with the goal of bringing advanced information technology to the government information community. These Government/academic collaborations should contribute to government strategic planning for information services while providing interesting and unique new research problems and data sets for the academic research community. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Collaborative Live Reference Services http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/collab.htm This is a listing of collaborative live reference services, i.e., real-time reference services offered by two or more libraries by Bernie Sloan. He has attempted to list the services in alphabetical order by sponsoring organization. If there is no one sponsoring organization, the service is listed alphabetically by the name of the service. Excellent resource for collaborative live reference services! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM EISIL – the Electronic Information System for International Law http://www.eisil.org/ This is an expansion to my original November 13, 2003 posting. EISIL has been developed, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, by the American Society of International Law (ASIL), a scholarly association that has been a leader in the analysis, dissemination and development of international law since 1906. ASIL’s goal is to ensure, through EISIL, that web searchers can easily locate the highest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet. To this end, EISIL has been designed as an open database of authenticated primary and other materials across the breadth of international law, which until now have been scattered in libraries, archives and specialized web sites. Users can connect directly to the web resource that interests them by clicking on its title, but will also find valuable added information through a “More Information” button on each record. Legal citations, entry into force and signature dates, amendments and brief descriptions are among the specialized data made available by EISIL’s content providers. EISIL offers the international law expert the depth of resources for sophisticated legal research. At the same time, EISIL can provide the novice researcher with the information needed to undertake a successful search. The comprehensive scope of EISIL enhances its potential as a research and teaching tool. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, November 04, 2004  SWISH-E SWISH-E http://swish-e.org/ SWISH-E (Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced) is a fast, powerful, flexible, free, and easy to use system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files. See the article How to Index Anything by Josh Rabinowitz in the Linux Journal for more information. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM SanskritaPradipika http://www.sanskrit-lamp.org/ SanskritaPradipika, a freely downloadable e-tutor for the Sanskrit language, is intended to help English-speaking people learn Sanskrit, as well as the Devanagari script in which the language is written today. The tutor has been written in the Java programming language. In principle, this is supposed to ensure that the package will run without problems on any sort of computer that can be connected to the Internet. The fact is, though, that SanskritaPradipika has been created on ancient IBM-compatibles powered by Intel Pentium II chips, running WindowsXP. Much testing therefore needs to be done before the software can certifiably be said to be platform independent, and to run without error on other types of computer, such as an Apple, or a Sun Workstation. Seven chapters and a section on diacritics are being offered at this time. Other chapters will shortly be made available. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Ontologies For a Digital Interpreter http://www.digitalgovernment.org/news/stories/2004/1004/1004_qualeg_heyman.jsp Whereas the word "ontology" refers in philosophy to existence, in the context of information science it refers to a set of concept definitions. The 2004 Digital Government Conference white paper called "International Collaboration in eGovernment Research" uses the concept in describing the EU project "QUALEG" ("Quality of Service and Legitimacy in eGovernment"), a multi-institution initiative to improve the delivery of government services by integrating documents written in several European languages and combining different legacy software: "In the context of Digital Government, ontologies play an increasingly important role, as database metadata schemas, terminology standardization structures and the foundation for interfaces between applications. Yet the complexity and cost of building ontologies remains a daunting challenge." One project team within the project will provide a "starter" ontology that a machine can learn from, while a second team is creating software called "OntoBuilder" to provide a heuristic front-end through which users can input terms through which a topic-specific ontology can learn and become more accurate. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Google Help : Cheat Sheet http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html A neat one page printable Google cheat sheet (from Google) covering various Google operator examples, calculator operators and advanced operators to make your searching of Google more focused with better results. A nice sheet to place next to your computer or laptop! posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM SIU Law Library: Research and How-to Guides http://www.law.siu.edu/lawlib/guides/index.htm An excellent legal research resource divided into three sections: 1) How to Use the SIU Law Library, 2) Basic Legal Research Guides and 3) Internet Legal Research. This has been added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Advice to the Bloglorn by Lois C. Ambash http://www.llrx.com/features/bloglorn.htm Lois C. Ambash offers newbie bloggers a guide to tools, tips and techniques for a quick and easy start-up process. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, November 03, 2004  Oxyus Search Engine Oxyus Search Engine http://sourceforge.net/projects/oxyus/ Oxyus is an open source search engine written in 100% Java, aimed to provide a search button to your website in an easy way. Oxyus uses Apache Lucene for indexing, Quartz for scheduling and other interesting software products. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM AnooX Search Engine http://www.anoox.com The goal of AnooX.com is two fold: 1) To deliver the most accurate search results. They are doing this by utilizing an innovative and Patent Pending search engine design, which is based on combination of machine power for gathering information, plus real majority based voting power to deliver the final best results. 2) To deliver cost of advertising which is 90% or more lower than similar costs of advertising at Yahoo™ , Google™ , and like publicly traded for profit companies. Thus enabling businesses worldwide to increase sales & success by being able to advertise effectively online and at much lower costs than they currently can. This has been added to the search engine section of the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM OpenOffice http://www.OpenOffice.org/ 4 last month. OpenOffice.org version 1.1.3 was released earlier this month. System requirements available here. OpenOffice.org software is an Open Source, XML-centric suite of office applications, compatible with Microsoft Office®. The suite includes a word processing package, HTML editor, spreadsheet, drawing program, and a presentation preparation package. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM The Search Engine Project (TSEP) http://freshmeat.net/projects/tsep/ TSEP is a Website search engine that supports (MySQL-) boolean search terms, is easy to install and use, uses CSS for formatting, and features localization. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM SeedWiki http://www.seedwiki.com/ A wiki is a website that anyone can edit. Participants can add their changes to any page and/or add new pages. Seedwiki is a hosted wiki service for individuals and organizations. Anyone can create a Seedwiki account and start as many wikis as you need to meet your collaborative needs. Seedwiki has served wikis on the web since 2001. Individuals and organizations around the world use Seedwiki for everything from a simple shared to-do list to a full-blown collaborative intranet. With a free account you can create three wikis. With an inexpensive blue or red account upgrade, you can create as many wikis as you need - on demand and with no limits. A seedwiki center allows you to reach out to your organization with all the creative power of seedwiki. You can create all the wikis you need – for any purpose, for any group of people, or for people throughout your organization – at your own private site. Seedwiki is great for any collaborative or communications need. It’s simple, lightweight, and instantly available. Our public site contains thousands of wikis and users, so it’s easy to find application ideas. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation sources. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM NASA's Columbia Supercomputer Is World's Fastest Press Release SlashDot Posting Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) with NASA today confirmed that NASA's new Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based Columbia supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world. Only days after NASA completed installation of Columbia—and using just 16 of Columbia's 20 installed systems—the new supercomputer achieved sustained performance of 42.7 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), eclipsing the performance of every supercomputer operating today. Built from SGI® Altix® systems and driven by 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors, Columbia's 16-system result easily tops Japan's famed Earth Simulator, rated at 35.86 teraflops, and IBM's recent in-house Blue Gene/L experiment, rated at 36.01 teraflops. Columbia's record results were achieved running the LINPACK benchmark on 8,192 of the NASA supercomputer's 10,240 processors. Columbia also achieved an 88 percent efficiency rating on the LINPACK benchmark, the highest efficiency rating ever attained in a LINPACK test on large systems. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, November 02, 2004  Sofia Project Sofia Project http://sofia.fhda.edu/ The Sofia project is an open courseware initiative launched by the Foothill - De Anza Community College District with funding support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Under the leadership of Foothill College, Sofia will promote institutional and faculty collaboration to make exemplary content freely accessible on the Web. Modeled after MIT’s OpenCourseWare Initiative, Sofia will establish a system that encourages the publication and free exchange of community college-level course materials on the World Wide Web. It is our hope that Sofia will lead to the exploration and adoption of new ways of delivering effective instruction and promoting student learning using web-based resources. The ultimate goal of Sofia is to advance education and support learners and faculty across the globe. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM People-Finding Guide http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/people.html The People-Finding Guide prepared by Ann Hemmens of the Marion Gould Gallagher Law Library University of Washington does an excellent job of listing a number of relevant resources for finding people. Sections include: 1) Locating a Lawyer, 2) Locating A Government Official or Employee, 3) Locating a Law School Faculty Member, 4) Locating Corporate Counsel and 5) Locating a Person or Business Online. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Web Collaborator http://webcollaborator.com/ This website creates a new free and easy way to collaborate. Before Web Collaborator, to collaborate on a project meant passing papers back and forth, hours of painstaking corrections, hundreds of wasted pieces of paper, headaches, and plenty of coffee. Web Collaborator coordinates collaborations automatically, keeping backups of every revision ever made to the project, letting you see who made the changes, and allowing you to focus on the work instead of managing the work. Better yet, it is absolutely free for all uses. Each project has three components: 1) The Discussion, 2) The Project, and 3) The History. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) http://www.staysafeonline.info/ The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) is a public-private partnership focused on promoting cyber security and safe behavior online. We drive awareness and response to pressing cyber security issues; providing tools and resources to empower home users, small businesses, as well as schools and universities to stay safe online. This website gives you the information needed to secure your computer. You’ll find tips on how to safeguard your system, a self-guided cyber security test educational materials and other Internet resources, as well as valuable information from our supporting organizations. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Selectory® Online http://www.selectoryonline.com/ Selectory® Online, a fast, easy-to-use prospecting tool for sales and marketing professionals. With Selectory's newly-enhanced search, sort and download capabilities, you can quickly find your best sales opportunities. This has been added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Snapshots of Science and Medicine http://science.education.nih.gov/newsnapshots/index.html Welcome to Snapshots of Science and Medicine. Snapshots is a creation of the Office of Science Education of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. The effort is funded by the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health. Today, biological science--both basic research and clinical application--is booming like never before. And with so much happening in biology and medicine, science students and teachers need a vehicle for bringing the world of biological research into their science classrooms. Snapshots was created to be that vehicle. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, November 01, 2004  Internet Sources™ Manual This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. November 1, 2004 V2N44 discusses the Internet Sources™ Manual. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman the author of this manual discussing its various sites and resources. Additional information on this manual is available at: Internet Sources™ Manual http://www.InternetSources.info/
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Today's Front Pages http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ "Today's Front Pages" is an online version of one of the Newseum's most popular exhibits. Every morning, more than 300 newspapers from around the world submit their front pages to the Newseum via the Internet. Sixty-eight of the front pages are selected for an outdoor exhibit located at Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street in downtown Washington, D.C., future site of the Newseum. Front pages are chosen to represent each of the 50 states as well as a selection of international newspapers. The electronic files are printed out on large-format printers at the Newseum's offices in Arlington, Va., then are transported to the Pennsylvania Avenue site and mounted inside the 98-foot-long steel and Plexiglas display by 8:30 a.m., seven days a week. All of the front pages received that morning are then posted on the Newseum's Web site. The full selection of each day's front pages is available on the Web site by 9:30 a.m. daily. For more information, please visit our FAQ Page. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Email Security Testing Zone http://www.emailsecuritytest.com/ GFI Email Security Testing Zone checks whether your email system is vulnerable to email viruses, worms and other threats such as emails with potentially harmful attachments with VBS and CLSID extensions, emails with malformed MIME headers, HTML mails with embedded scripts and more. Includes Outlook 2002 and ActiveX vulnerability tests. This online test is free of charge. This has been added to Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog under Anti-Vandal, Computer and Network Security Resources section. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Travel Notes™ -- The Online Guide to Travel http://www.travelnotes.org/ Very organized travel directory providing destination information on countries and cities with reviewed web sites, regular travel articles, and online ticketing for car hire, hotel reservations and discounted flights. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Drupal.org http://www.Drupal.org Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. A dynamic web site platform which allows an individual or community of users to publish, manage and organize a variety of content, Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package. As an open source software project maintained and developed by a community, Drupal is free to download and use. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation site. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM OriginalSources http://www.originalsources.com/ OriginalSources gives students, teachers, and parents instant, affordable access to the pathbreaking creations and discoveries of history's greatest minds as recorded in their original words and works. The library divides the original sources of humankind's knowledge into 8 major collections: World History, U.S. History, Science and Mathematics, Social Science, Literature, Political Science and Law, Language, and Philosophy and Religion. This library thus contains thousands of books, documents, pictures, and works gathered together in an easy-to-use way so you can instantly access the best of recorded thought and achievement. Whether they are the greatest discoveries, the most important events, or the finest creations, they are here captured in the original words, in classic and firsthand accounts, and in images. This has been added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM AskMars http://www.AskMars.com/ According to the legend, Romans used to consult the God Mars in order to obtain advice in how to act in life. Based on the legend they have created AskMars, a new way to help people find the right answers to their questions. Using their unique knowledge-sharing-process, their mission is to create a widespread community of users that can help each other in finding solutions to their problems, doubts or questions. This has been added to Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM |
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