Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant Internet Happenings, Events and Sources

Friday, December 31, 2004   CasePlace.org CasePlace - Business Case Studies and Social Impact Management Teaching Materials http://www.caseplace.org/ CasePlace.org is an online database of business case studies and supplementary materials for faculty seeking to integrate discussion of social and environmental issues into the MBA curriculum. CasePlace.org is also a free online service for business school faculty, students and businesses. They can help you find some of the best cases, references, and commentary published by and for business educators and business executives. For business materials that incorporate social impact management, corporate social responsibility, and business ethics, you've come to the right place. CasePlace.org is a service of the The Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program (BSP). Aspen BSP staff’s extensive and ongoing searches of teaching materials, with guidance from discipline experts produce the material. They also rely on you to provide new content, to react to ideas, and to send ideas. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The Classical Music Pages http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. It is designed to be of use for everyone from "beginners" to the music professional - decide for yourself how deeply you follow the links. If it's your first visit, please take a moment to read the User's Guide. This project was created by Matthew Boynick, a young orchestra conductor. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Internet Archive - Text Archive http://www.archive.org/texts/ This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Their goal in digitizing these texts and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival texts. By providing near-unrestricted access to these texts, they hope to encourage widespread use of texts in new contexts by people who might not have used them before. Currently included: 1) Canadian Libraries, 2) Million Book Project, 3) Children's Library, 4) Project Gutenberg, 5) Arpanet, 6) Dance Manuals, 7) Internet Bookmobile, and 8) Open Source Books. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   National Coalition of Independent Scholars http://www.ncis.org/ The National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS) was formed in January 1989 to facilitate the work of independent scholars. NCIS objectives are to: 1) Bring independent scholars together to share scholarly interests and expertise, 2) Improve access to research libraries for independent scholars, 3) Offer independent scholars information and advice about grants and fellowships and about publishing, 4) Encourage foundations and institutes to open competitions to independent scholars and to include them on review committees, 5) Hold conferences and workshops of interest to independent scholars and to the public, 6) Offer grants-in-aid to NCIS members and small grants to affiliates, 7) Serve as administrator for members applying for grants, 8) Encourage information exchange through publications and electronic communication, 9) Aid organizations of independent scholars by collecting and sharing organization experience and by publicizing their work, and 10) Provide information for the creation of local organizations of independent scholars. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   DepNet - Depression Communities With Articles, Chat, Discussion and Letterbox DepNet is an information website that provides a large amount of knowledge and insight into the illness, depression. DepNet will endevour to improve the everyday life of people affected by depression. DepNet was initiated in Denmark by the Lundbeck Institute, a world-renowned centre focusing on psychiatric and neurological diseases. The Lundbeck Institute is committed to improving public acceptance and treatment of mental illnesses. The Institute is recognized by, amongst others, the World Health Organisation and the World Psychiatric Association. The popularity and success of DepNet in Europe has lead to the translation and localisation of information for other countries. The site offers an intimate yet thorough look at depression. It provides information not only for sufferers of depression but for their families and friends. It also adresses the issue of the 'stigma' of depression and ways of dealing with this. Depnet directs sufferers and their families to available community resources where they can seek help and offers a secure chat room, debate area and letterbox enabling browsers to talk of their experiences and to direct questions to trained medical professionals. DepNet is for: People who suffer from depression, family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances; General Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Psychologists and other health care providers; and anyone who is interested in learning about depression. Depnet is intended to supplement, not replace, the information gained from your health care professional. DepNet is available in the following countries: Australia (English) Site Address: http://www.depnet.com.au/ Denmark (Danish) Site Address: http://www.depnet.dk/ Greece (Greek) Site Address: http://www.depnet.gr/ India (English) Site Address: http://www.depnet.co.in/ South Africa (English) Site Address: http://www.depnet.co.za/ Turkey (Turkish) Site Address: http://www.depnet.com.tr/ United Arab Emirates(English) Site Address: http://www.depnet.ae/ This has been added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Working Draft: WSDL 2.0 Primer http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-primer-20041221/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ The Web Services Description Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 0: Primer." A companion to the WSDL 2.0 Core Language, Predefined Extensions and Bindings specifications, the Primer develops a simple example WSDL 2.0 document using a hotel reservation service use case. Readers will also find information on defining message types and services, and on interfaces, bindings and advanced topics. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, December 30, 2004   O*NET Online O*NET Online - Occupational Information Network http://online.onetcenter.org/ O*NET, the Occupational Information Network, is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. As the replacement for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), O*NET will be the nation's primary source of occupational information. O*NET is being developed as a timely, easy-to-use resource that supports public and private sector efforts to identify and develop the skills of the American workforce. It provides a common language for defining and describing occupations. Its flexible design also captures rapidly changing job requirements. In addition, O*NET moves occupational information into the technological age. As the basis for enhanced product development, the O*NET database can serve as the engine that drives value-added applications designed around core information. It provides the essential foundation for facilitating career counseling, education, employment, and training activities. The database contains information about knowledges, skills, abilities (KSA), interests, general work activities (GWA), and work context. O*NET data and structure will also link related occupational, educational, and labor market information databases to the system. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   This is a very abbreviated listing of resources for international newspapers. It is extrememly important to maintain current awareness with all the happenings both local and global and these international newspapers resources will definitely aid you in the proper direction for awareness. A complete listing of all the international newspapers is located under the reference section of all my Internet MiniGuides 2005. Internet Public Library - Online Newspapers From Arounf the World http://www.ipl.org/div/news/ NewsDirectory - Over 20300 Categorized Information Links http://www.NewsDirectory.com/ NewsLink http://www.NewsLink.org/ Newspapers.com - Links To Over 10,000 Newspapers Online http://www.Newspapers.com/ Online Newspapers - Thousands of Newspapers on the Net http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ The Paper Boy - Newspapers http://www.thepaperboy.com/ World-Newspapers.com - World Newspapers, Magazines, and News Sites in English http://www.world-newspapers.com/ These represent a fairly good cross section of resources to find most international newspapers that are online. If you have a recommendation of an excellent resource please feel free to email me ..... This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   World News Connection® http://wnc.fedworld.gov/ World News Connection® (WNC) is an online news service, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources, WNC provides you with the power to identify what really is happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. The material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency. For over 60 years, analysts from FBIS' domestic and overseas bureaus have monitored timely and pertinent open-source materials, including gray literature. Uniquely, WNC allows you to take advantage of the intelligence gathering experience of FBIS. The information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. New information is entered into WNC every government business day. Generally, this information is available within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast. WNC is a valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   IRIN - United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks http://www.irinnews.org/ When crisis or disaster hits a country, communications are often one of the first casualties. Reliable sources dry up, government agencies collapse, media images do not give the full picture. Without constantly updated and accurate information on washed-out roads, bombed airfields, landmines, disease-infested water, epidemics, or civil unrest and outbreaks of violence, it is impossible to respond effectively. People die and money and supplies are wasted. Today, in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia the need for an accurate picture of events on the ground is being met by the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). IRIN, which was born out of the 1994 crisis in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, pioneered the use of e-mail and web technology to deliver and receive information to and from some of the most remote and underdeveloped places in Africa, cheaply and efficiently. Its reporting focuses on strengthening universal access to timely, strategic and non-partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of the humanitarian community to understand, respond to and avert emergencies. IRIN further supports efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation by countering misinformation and propaganda. Governments, aid workers, civil societies, disaster specialists, members of the public all receive and contribute to regular reports on a wide array of political, economic and social issues affecting humanitarian efforts. IRIN takes an increasingly broad view of what comprises 'humanitarianism' and seeks to cover the full range of humanitarian issues from the abuse of human rights to the environment. Moreover, local communities are a key component in the information exchange process, enriching IRIN reports with grassroots material and creating a platform for debate between humanitarian decision-makers and affected communities. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Speegle http://www.speegle.co.uk/ Listen to the results of your search. You can hear the following results: 1) Title, 2) Title and Description, 3) URL and Description, or 4) URL, Title and Description. The results can be delivered in the choice of a female voice or two males voices. This is an interesting concept and offers some very interesting possibilities especially for accessability issues and availability through mobile devices. There is also a link to listening to the results of a Usenet Newsgroup search. This has been added to the search engines section of the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Traditional Journalists Could Learn From Bloggers http://www.timporter.com/firstdraft/archives/000394.html A very interesting post from Tim Porter with inspiration from Steve Outing giving his list of 10 things traditional journalists, particularly those who work for newspapers, could learn from bloggers including: 1) Get Personal, 2) Explain Why You Do Things, 3) Focus, 4) Print the Truth, Not Just the Facts, 5) Don't Just Report, Teach, 6) Get Local, Very Local, 7) Give Readers Access To Source Materails, 8) Add Multiple RSS Feeds To Your Site, 9) Add eMail Addresses To Your Stories, and 10) Finally, Adapt. A very insightful read ..... posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, December 29, 2004   Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. December 29, 2004 V2N52 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Social Informatics. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing online social networking resources and sites available on the world wide web. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.SocialInformatics.net/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   Loads of Linux Links http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/index.html The purpose of the Loads of Linux Links project is to collect, organise, classify and maintain important URLs about Linux and the Open Source movement for all levels of Linux users. The LoLL project now has 4000+ links which are updated regularly. This project originally began as a service for the Victoria Linux Users' Group (VLUG) but in the true spirit of Linux, they decided to share this valuable resource with the wider Linux community by putting the Loads of Linux Links project on SourceForge. Like Linux, this is a work in progress, so stay tuned here for further update announcements concerning additional links and revised subject categories. Also, like Linux, no one owns this project -- it's GPLed so the project can never be hijacked by proprietary interests! posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Time Magazine Archives http://www.time.com/time/archive/ Not only can you now read almost every issue of TIME since it began publication on March 3, 1923, but you can do a full-text search through more than a quarter million articles. Understanding how our search tool works will help you find what you are looking for, so take a look at their Search Tips. But if you still have a problem getting the best search results, ask their Archivist! The search function worked fine as I typed in my name and found the article mentioning me on electrocnic commerce and shoppingbots. It does requires a subscription to Time Magazine to fetch the entire archived article as the search just brings back the initial paragraph. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Xara Online - Online Service Web Applications http://www.xaraonline.com/ Xara Online offers a unique set of tools for webmasters. Invaluable to the professional or the home page builder alike, these web page add-ons range from the simple hit counter to powerful database web applications to enhance any website. Compatible with just about all web authoring tools, they require no programming, no downloads and can be added to any web page in seconds. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/ Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) is a full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong. Titles included in this database cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education. The University of Hong Kong Libraries, with a rich collection of Hong Kong journals, developed this database with the objectives of facilitating efficient information retrieval and preserving archival materials. Issues included in this database vary from journal to journal with the earliest going back to 1872. At its first release, more than 170,000 images from over 40 titles will be accessible on the database. More titles with permission granted for digitising their full text will be included to the database. New issues of the titles will also be added as soon as being received. Scholars doing research on Hong Kong will find this an invaluable resource. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   indeed - One Search All Jobs http://www.indeed.com/ indeed is a search engine for jobs; a window to search all jobs on the web. Indeed enables you to search millions of jobs across all career fields ... jobs that are listed on job boards, newspaper sites, and niche sites. In one simple search, you can find the very latest job listings throughout the web. You may save your searches and have jobs delivered to you by email alert, MyYahoo, or other RSS feed readers. If you have a MyYahoo account, for example, your saved Indeed job search may be added at the click of a button. Indeeds unique job search technology combines a simple interface, precision search and comprehensive coverage. Launched in November, 2004, Indeed.com is currently in Beta. Searching 1,756,746 jobs from the last 30 days. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, December 28, 2004   Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N1 January 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N1 January 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N1.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The January 2005 V3N1 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 31 page .pdf document (558KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online Grant 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 Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web by Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Clay Fink, Anupam Joshi, and R. Scott Cost; and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subject: Social Informatics. posted by Marcus | 11:06 AM   Online Business Networks Online Business Networks - Building Quality Business Relationships on the Internet http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/ Reach More of the Right People Faster with Less Effort. Business is under pressure now more than ever to do more with less — bigger, better, cheaper, faster. But at what cost? At the cost of human relationships? It doesn't have to be. The internet offers powerful tools to help you find the right people, connect with them, build trust and rapport, and collaborate with them quickly and cost-effectively. This is a good guide with some fine resources. This has been added to my white paper Online Social Networking. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool For the Semantic Web http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html Magpie uses ontology infrastructure to semantically markup web documents on-the-fly. The existing technologies in this problem domain tend to be rather heavyweight, and often modify the appearance of the actual webpage. Whilst these modifications may sometimes be acceptable, sometimes they may be a cause of a serious annoyance on user's behalf. Often, the existing technologies rely on one very specific ontology... To alleviate some of these issues, they started work on the Magpie technology that would be lightweight and provide sufficiently robust and flexible features for semantically enriched browsing. Magpie tool aims to identify and filter out the concepts-of-interest from any webpage it is given. The current set of concepts can be influenced by a selection of a particular ontology of concepts and relations. In addition to identifying the concepts-of-interest that are relevant from the perspective of a particular ontology, each such concept may provide an applicable set of relations or commands that can be executed. Such relationships are both, determined and evaluated dynamically by querying the ontology server. Another feature they believe improves the user's experience is the ability to turn the semantic menus ON or OFF, to highlight all instances belonging to a particular ontological class, to follow and semantically process the links embedded in the document. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   SwarmStream™ SDK http://onionnetworks.com/products/swarmstream/ The SwarmStream SDK is a comprehensive suite of acceleration technologies that greatly enhance the raw speed and reliability, of enterprise, consumer, and military applications over Wide-Area Networks. Onion Networks redefines state-of-the-art by being the first company to provide WAN Acceleration, Caching, Random Access Acceleration, Self-Healing Data Transfer, and Grid Acceleration all in a single, easy to integrate package. From downloadable movies to enormous CAD files to XML messages, only SwarmStream provides the reliable and dependable performance needed for today's networked applications. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Feed Me Legal - Blog http://www.feedmelegal.com/ This has been taken from the "about" section of this blog with the addition of the word "anonymous". FeedMeLegal is a blog creation of an anonymous lawyer in private practice who is interested in the potential benefits to lawyers, their clients and the public of weblog applications, weblogs, webfeeds and related technology; and supportive of the profession’s uptake of this technology which to date, given the number of lawyers and firms out there (and with some notable and pioneering exceptions), appears to have been comparatively modest. The main purpose of this site is two-fold: to add another voice to those lauding the potential benefits of such technology, but purely in the context of the practice of law and the sharing of legal knowledge with clients, potential clients and, to some extent, the public generally; and to suggest how such technology can be put to advantageous, competitive and ethical use by, among others, lawyers and their clients. This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   GovExec http://www.govexec.com/ GovExec.com is government's business news daily and the premier Web site for federal managers and executives. Government Executive in its print incarnation is a monthly business magazine serving senior executives and managers in the federal government's departments and agencies. Their subscribers are high-ranking civilian and military officials who are responsible for defending the nation and carrying out the many laws that define the government's role in our economy and society. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   QuickTopic: Free Bulletin Boards (Message Boards) and Collaborative Document Review Groupware http://www.quicktopic.com/ There's a major gap in collaboration tools between plain old email and more complex, long-term solutions like multi-threaded web bulletin boards or mailing lists, and QuickTopic fills that gap. For any substantial group discussion, email is cumbersome. A conversation thread is scattered among email in-boxes, and there's no central respository to capture it. Heavyweight collaboration systems require complex setup and registration and/or learning by participants. QuickTopic fills the gap by providing a super-easy single-topic web forum that's also fully email-enabled. You can start a topic in ten seconds, and participants can use just email to participate, or they can use the web board, or both as the need arises. It's like an instant mailing list with a web-based archive, or it's like an easy web forum that works seamlessly with email. Each topic also has its own RSS feed, accessible by simply appending ".rss" to the topic's URL! This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, December 27, 2004   January 2005 Zillman Column January 2005 Zillman Column - World Wide Web Reference http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/WWWReference Jan05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The January 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled World Wide Web Reference. This January 2005 Zillman Column is a comprehensive list of world wide web references resources and sites available over the Internet. Download this excellent 16 page free .pdf (345KB) column today and begin using the many reference resources about the World Wide Web! © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   December 26, 2004 Asian Tsunami Information and Stories Note: This site is constantly updated with the most competent and relevant resources and sources starting December 26, 2004 and continuing ..... Tsunamis http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/01/tsunamis.html Asian Tsunami Web Archive http://tsunami.archive.org/ Tsunamis and Technology http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/01/tsunamis-and-technology.html 2004 Tsunami Disaster: Scholarly and Factual Analyses http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/Tsunami-Analyses.html Reuters AlertNet - FIND A CHARITY: NGOs Respond To Asia Tsunamis http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/110409431212.htm Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster December 2004 http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/indian-ocean-disaster.html Development Gateway - South Asian Tsunami: Massive Aid Coordination Effort Works to Bring Relief to Disaster Regions http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/tsunami World Health Organization (WHO): South Asia Earthquake and Tsunamis http://www.who.int/hac/crises/international/asia_tsunami/en/ IRIS Seismic Monitor http://www.iris.edu/seismon/ USA Freedom Corps http://www.usafreedomcorp.gov/ Fact Sheet: How to Help Tsunami Disaster Victims http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/content/about_usafc/newsroom/announcements_dynamic.asp?ID=833 FirstGov.gov for Citizens: Asia Earthquakes and Tsunamis http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/Asia_Tsunamis.shtml SAJA: South Asian Journalists Association http://www.saja.org/ The Tsunami Disaster in Asia, 2004: An Annotated Directory of Resources http://bulldog2.redlands.edu/dept/AsianStudiesDept/tsunami.html Asia Insights: Tsunami Disaster http://www.niaslinc.dk/gateway_to_asia/Asia_insights/Tsunami_disaster.asp The Asian Tsunami Disaster Informational Resource Website - WWW Virtual Library on Asian Studies http://malaysia.forplanetearth.com/ International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) FamilyLinks http://www.icrc.org/ http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/ Tsunami-Info.org - News Feeds & Blogs From Around the World, Collected by Andy Carvin http://www.andycarvin.com/tsunami.html Tsunami Help - ARC ( Alert Retrieval Cache) http://www.socialtext.net/tsunamihelp/index.cgi?arc&login=user4183 Updated Information On Earthquakes http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/ How To Find Tsunami Video Footage http://channels.lockergnome.com/search/archives/20050102_how_to_find_tsunami_video_footage.phtml World Changing http://www.WorldChanging.com/ This page contains a list of the latest major documents added to ReliefWeb pertaining to South Asia: Earthquake and Tsunami - Dec 2004 http://snipurl.com/bmv5 The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog (a.k.a. the SEA-EAT Blog) http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/ Tsunami-info's Digest http://kinja.com/user/tsunami-info Quake, Tsunami Blogger Roundup (via CyberJournalist.net) http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/001804.php Reuters AlertNet - Humanitarian News Network http://www.alertnet.org/ 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake Google -- Information and Donation Links http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html FirstGov -- Information About US Government Response, Ways Citizens Can Help, and General Information About Earthquakes and Tsunamis http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/Asia_Tsunamis.shtml Wikipedia -- Page About Where You Can Donate To Help At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donations_for_victims_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake Sea Surges Reach E African Coast http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/africa/4126513.stm Asia Wakes To Tidal Catastrophe http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/4126971.stm Indonesia Hunts Disaster Victims http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4127145.stm Thailand Resorts Hit By Floods http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4125847.stm Sri Lanka Searches For Survivors http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4126055.stm South India Struck By Quake Waves http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/4125845.stm UN Warns of Possible Epidemics in Quake-Hit Asia http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7181635&src=rss/worldNews Thousands Swept To Their Death http://www.guardian.co.uk/naturaldisasters/story/0,7369,1380040,00.html?gusrc=rss There are excellent web sites to help guide those who are interested in identifying what organizations are working in this region that would be happy to accept donations to help the people affected by these tsunamis, and provide extensive updates on relief efforts: Digital Divide Network - Online Community Workspace On Disaster Relief and Emergency Preparedness http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/disaster-relief InterAction.org - Disaster Response http://www.interaction.org/sasia/index.html One World http://www.oneworld.net Relief Organizations Working in the Disaster Area http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/tsunami/ngolist.html Relief Web http://www.reliefweb.int Tsunami Devastates Southeast Asia http://snipurl.com/bmmq United States Agency for International Development - USAID http://www.usaid.gov/ posted by Marcus | 4:28 AM   10x10 10x10™ http://www.tenbyten.org/ 10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life. 10x10 is ever-changing, ever-growing, quietly observing the ways in which we live. It records our wars and crises, our triumphs and tragedies, our mistakes and milestones. When we make history, or at least the headlines, 10x10 takes note and remembers. Each hour is presented as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames, each of which holds the image of a single moment in time. Clicking on a single frame allows us to peer a bit deeper into the story that lies behind the image. In this way, we can dart in and out of the news, understanding both the individual stories and the ways in which they relate to each other. 10x10 runs with no human intervention, autonomously observing what a handful of leading international news sources are saying and showing. 10x10 makes no comment on news media bias, or lack thereof. It has no politics, nor any secret agenda; it simply shows what it finds. With no human editors and no regulation, 10x10 is open and free, raw and fresh, and consequently a unique way of following world events. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Historical Statistics of the United States http://www.csep.ucr.edu/HSUS/HSUS.html The goal of the project is to produce an updated, expanded, and thoroughly revised edition in print and electronic formats of various historical statistics of the United States, to be collected from the Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Colonial Times to The Present (Cambridge University Press). The Historical Statistics of the United States was first published in 1949 by the Bureau of the Census with the advice and assistance of the Social Science Research Council. A second and much larger edition appeared in 1960 under the same auspices. The third edition, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition, was published by the Bureau in 1975 and was expanded to two volumes. In the year 2005 Cambridge University Press will publish the fourth, millennial, edition of this classic reference work. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Library Zone Newsletter http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,0,4-117-0-0-0,0.html Read the inaugral issue of Library Zone, Springer's new library focused newsletter, with librarian interviews, product information, industry updates, and more. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   PGP Global Directory https://keyserver-beta.pgp.com/vkd/Help.event The PGP Global Directory is a free, publicly available keyserver that gives you access to the universe of PGP keys. The PGP Global Directory uses advanced keyserver technology to prevent it from being clogged with unusable and/or untrustworthy keys. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Collections and Internet Resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/ Use these categories to find local and remote collections and resources in specific scholarly areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, including interdisciplinary Area Studies and Ethnic Studies. The resources are from the UCLA Young Research Library Collection. Online resources in all of these and additional subject areas are also accessible via UCLA Library Online Materials. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   RSS: The Latest Feed by Judith Wusteman http://www.ucd.ie/wusteman/lht/wusteman-rss.html Abstract The number of library-related RSS and Atom applications is increasing daily. But, as yet, the formats and technology involved are far from stable. This article looks at the current state of the field, discusses future developments and considers implications for the library. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, December 26, 2004   BlogPulse 2004 - The Blogosphere in 2004 http://www.blogs2004.com What do George Bush, singing llamas, comedian Jon Stewart and a blog called Boing Boing have in common? They were some of the most discussed people, features and trends in the blogging world in 2004. And today, Intelliseek's BlogPulse.com web site features an entirely new section that reviews, with charts, links and graphs, the most commonly cited and linked-to items in the Blogosphere in 2004. BlogPulse 2004 contains something for everyone -- politics, news, social trends, international topics, silly stuff and intriguing finds. The Year in Review neatly captures the major themes, ideas, people and events that bloggers were discussing and writing about in 2004. Some highlights: Bush was the most-cited personality, a singing llamas video was among the most forwarded "you gotta see this!" links, the transcript of Stewart's pointed pre-election appearance on CNN's "Crossfire" was the most-cited news story, and Boing Boing was the most-cited blog. That's just a smattering of what you'll find at the BlogPulse 2004 Year in Review. Don't miss the chart that plots out how the seven deadly sins fared in 2004, or which actors/actresses, movies, Amazon.com products and web sites received the most "buzz," or which news sources bloggers turned to the most to find out what's going on in the world. This has be added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presenation links. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   AllPeers http://www.allpeers.com/ AllPeers is the first peer-to-peer platform designed to enable a diverse range of services that give you, the user, total control over your profile, your contacts and your digital media files. They are currently finalizing the first consumer service based on the AllPeers platform: an advanced digital photo sharing application. There are many more exciting services planned for release over the coming months. AllPeers is a privately held company with headquarters in Oxford , United Kingdom . Their software development center is located in Prague, Czech Republic. To learn more about their vision for peer-to-peer computing, read the Peer Pressure blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   RSScache.com http://www.rsscache.com/ RSScache.com is the solution to RSS bandwidth over usage! It acts as an intelligent caching system between the readers and the Web sites’ feeds. Instead of accessing the feed directly on the Web site, the reader passes through our RSScache.com system. If the feed is not currently in our cache, we query the feed on the Web site. Once we have cached the feed, we won’t fetch it again on the Web site until a certain period of time (30 minutes). Readers that connect to RSScache.com to get the feed will only receive the news that they haven’t seen yet (the user is authenticated by its IP address or by a GUID). So, for example, if the Web site hasn’t published news for 3 hours, readers won’t receive any news it has already received during that period. This optimises the reader’s and web site’s bandwidth. And since no installation is required by both parties, our solution can be used in less than 10 seconds! This will be added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Internet Reference Services Quarterly http://digital.library.miami.edu/irsq/index.html Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a journal of innovative information practice, technologies, and resources, highlights theoretically informed research and practical applications of Internet-related information services, sources, and resources. By exploring current topics, addressing controversial issues, and examining contemporary practices, IRSQ provides a basis for understanding the Internet’s power and impact on librarianship. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   celtx http://celtx.com/ celtx is simple, easy to use software designed for people who work in Film, TV, Theater and New Media. It enables you to work digitally on script based projects, either on your own or collaboratively with project team members. Internet Intelligence: celtx is specifically designed for the Internet. celtx runs "inside" a web browser using the Mozilla Application Framework to create a web intelligent, collaborative environment. celtx application components are based on modules that are Internet aware. This means celtx can easily integrate with existing Web technologies and is highly adaptable to new ones. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   del.icio.us - Social Bookmarks http://del.icio.us/ del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others. Once you've registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser. When you find a web page you'd like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you'll be prompted for a information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together, modify the title of the page, and add extended notes for yourself or for others. You can access your list of links from any web browser. By default, your links are shown to you in reverse chronological order, with those you've added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links in a specific category (you define your own categories as you add the links), or search your links for keywords. What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, December 25, 2004   I would like to take this personal opportunity to wish all the readers, viewers and subscribers to this blog (www.zillman.us) a very Merry Christmas and to send this greetings to all their families, friends and associates worldwide!! The ratings of this blog continue to grow and grow and we are very humbled by the many praises that we continue to receive ..... my goals is to continue to post information that you can utilize in your profession, business, hobby or special interest. There will be no postings today December 25, 2004 ..... Marcus posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, December 24, 2004   Time To Get Online Time To Get Online - Simple Steps to Success on the Internet http://www.timetogetonline.org/content/view/19/43/ The 150-page Time To Get Online materials are centered around the five essential "steps to success on the Internet". The first half of the materials is geared towards creating Internet-savvy activists. The second half will help them to become effective Internet champions, capable of leading their organizations through the challenging process of integrating the Internet into everything they do. The Appendices and accompanying CD-ROM (print version only) contain a wealth of additional resources for continued learning, freely distributable computer software and more. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   MoleSter - A Tiny File-Sharing Application http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/molester/ Dr. Edward Felten recently posted a piece of code called TinyP2P, which demonstrates how easy it is to create a peer-to-peer filesharing application by doing it in just 15 lines of Python. However, TinyP2P uses a ready-made XMLRPC server library, which seems to be taking the easy way out. Here's the response: MoleSter, a non-trivial filesharing application in 9 lines of Perl, using no protocol library more sophisticated than TCP. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   New Search Tool Targets Handwritten Documents http://www.umass.edu/umhome/news/articles/7683.php Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a "first-of-its-kind" document retrieval system that is able to "memorize" keywords in handwritten manuscripts. Computer scientist R. Manmatha says, "Right now, searching a scanned handwritten document is very hard to do. Scanned historical documents are basically images, or pictures, and currently can only be searched if someone manually transcribes the documents or creates an index of their contents. This is time consuming and expensive to do. Given the cost, most handwritten documents are never transcribed or indexed. But there is an enormous amount of handwritten, historical material." Manmatha and his associates have created a demonstration of their search tool using 1,000 pages of George Washington's papers, which can be searched by typing in a common keyword such as "Virginia." According to research assistant Toni Rath, "The basic idea is analogous to searching text documents in one language, say French, using queries in another language, say English. This is usually done by learning models from documents written in both languages. By analogy, our system learns from a parallel body of transcribed scanned images. That is, the word images form a 'visual language' and the transcriptions are in English." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Media RSS http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/mrss.html "Media RSS" is a new RSS module that supplements the enclosure capabilities of RSS 2.0 (FAQ). Enclosures in RSS are already being used to syndicate audio files (Podcasting) and images. Media RSS extends enclosures to handle other media types, such as short films or TV, in addition to providing additional metadata with the media. Media RSS enables content publishers and bloggers to broadly distribute descriptions of and links to multimedia content. I will be placing all my online tutorial streaming videos through Information Detective in Media RSS. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One' Is a W3C Recommendation http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/ http://www.w3.org/2004/12/webarch-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2004/12/webarch-testimonials http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ The World Wide Web Consortium released "Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One" as a W3C Recommendation. The 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. This architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web in an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as its technologies evolve. Read the press release, Member testimonials, and visit the TAG home page. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   The Role of RSS in Science Publishing - Syndication and Annotation on the Web by Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, and Ben Lund http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december04/hammond/12hammond.html Introduction By Author: RSS is one of a new breed of technologies that is contributing to the ever-expanding dominance of the Web as the pre-eminent, global information medium. It is intimately connected with—though not bound to—social environments such as blogs and wikis, annotation tools such as del.icio.us [1], Flickr [2] and Furl [3], and more recent hybrid utilities such as JotSpot [4], which are reshaping and redefining our view of the Web that has been built up and sustained over the last 10 years and more [n1]. Indeed, Tim Berners-Lee's original conception of the Web [5] was much more of a shared collaboratory than the flat, read-only kaleidoscope that has subsequently emerged: a consumer wonderland, rather than a common cooperative workspace. Where did it all go wrong? These new 'disruptive' technologies [n2] are now beginning to challenge the orthodoxy of the traditional website and its primacy in users' minds. The bastion of online publishing is under threat as never before. RSS is the very antithesis of the website. It is not a 'home page' for visitors to call at, but rather it provides a synopsis, or snapshot, of the current state of a website with simple titles and links. While titles and links are the joints that articulate an RSS feed, they can be freely embellished with textual descriptions and richer metadata annotations. Thus said, RSS usually functions as a signal of change on a distant website, but it can more generally be interpreted as a kind of network connector—or glue technology—between disparate applications. Syndication and annotation are the order of the day and are beginning to herald a new immediacy in communications and information provision. This paper describes the growing uptake of RSS within science publishing as seen from Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) [6] perspective. This will be added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, December 23, 2004   EIN News EIN News - World News Media Monitoring http://www.einnews.com/ EINnews provides you access to breaking news that is organized within 260+ country, regional, U.S. States and specialized topic sections. EINnews content is derived from monitoring over 4,000 different online sources and is designed to save you money by reducing time needed for your online research. More than one million people turn to EINnews for breaking news each year. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   NetMiner - Social Network Analyzer http://www.netminer.com/ Its unique feature lies in the integration of standard and the latest social network analysis(SNA) methodology with modern graph drawing techniques in the spirit of exploratory data analysis(EDA). NetMiner also allows you to analyze your network data professionally and easily. It helps you to fast-detect underlying patterns and structures of the network. Cyram NetMiner can be used for general research and teaching in social networks. Also, it can be effectively applied to various business fields, where network-structural factors have great deal of influences on the performance: e.g. intra- and inter-organizational, financial, Web, criminal/intelligence, informetric, telecommunication, distribution, transportation networks. This will be added to my white paper miniguide Online Social Networking. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Arts and Humanities Internet Resources http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/resources/subject_portal/fass_arts.shtml This collection of Web sites for the Humanities has been selected by University of Waikato Library staff. It is not a static collection and it will undergo changes as and when better and more relevant websites are identified. Areas included: 1) Electronic Journals--Electronic Databases, 2) General, 3) Art History, 4) Asian Studies, 5) English, 6) European and Hispanic Studies, 7)--History, 8) Language and Linguistics, 9) Music, 10) Religious Studies, 11) Screen and Media Studies, and 12) Theatre. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Ambient Intelligence: Changing Forms of Human-Computer Interaction and their Social Implications by Mahesh S. Raisinghani*, Ally Benoit, Jianchun Ding, Maria Gomez, Kanak Gupta, Victor Gusila, Daniel Power and Oliver Schmedding http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i04/Raisinghani/ Abstract: Ambient intelligence appears poised to cause remarkable changes in the way people live. With digital information, the ease of interaction between humans and computers can be greatly increased by broadening the interface media available and allowing for mobile and portable communication free of inhibiting wires and stationary units. Additionally, some forms of ambient intelligence allow computers to adapt to their user's preferences. The result of ambient intelligence is ultimately a more empowered computer with the benefits of added convenience, time and cost savings, and possibilities for increased safety, security, and entertainment. This technology has the potential to significantly impact business and government processes, as well as private life. The paper describes developments to date in ambient intelligence and its closely related counterpart, ubiquitous computing and communication. It discusses the driving forces behind this digital information technology, describes the equipment and devices involved, the obstacles to implementing ambient intelligence on a large scale in real-world scenarios, and considers the future outlook. The authors believe that the introduction of this digital information technology will have wide-ranging implications, which will for the most part be beneficial and valuable. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and also added as a link to the Journal of Digital Information A SPECIAL ISSUE on Social Aspects of Digital Information in Perspective (Volume 5, issue 4, December 2004) in my white paper titled Online Social Networking. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Lingway http://www.lingway.fr/en/ Lingway is an editor of document management software based on language engineering, located in Paris. Specifically, Lingway’s technology consists of a natural language search engine, categorization and coding tools, software for generating an XML structure from textual documents, as well as information extraction and document visualization functions. This has been added to Web Data Extractors White Paper. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   PuzzleDonkey http://www.puzzledonkey.com/ This is the fourth PuzzleDonkey competition in the fabulous world famous award winning phenomenon. Previous competitions can be found here. As before, your task is to work your way through the set of puzzles which get progressively more difficult. When you reach the end you will be treated to all sorts of goodies, as well as a nice warm feeling of satisfaction. Enjoy the puzzles, and try not to get too worked up over them. It's only a game after all .... This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, December 22, 2004   wURLdBook Research wURLdBook Research - Personal Internet Intelligence http://www.wurldbook.com/ wURLdBook's mission is to help people stay connected to information on the Web. wURLdBook is a free web based information aggregator. wURLdBook offers you a new way to unobtrusively navigate, collect, categorize, annotate, clip, archive, find, publish RSS (including enclosures) and share information with others that is important to you on the web. Using wURLdBook's integrated RSS news aggregation technology you can keep up-to-date on your favorite blog, news feed or RSS search. You can also republish RSS content you find to redistribute to friends and colleagues. With wURLdBook you can capture, along with the web site location (URL), meta-information or "micro content" related to your favorite sites or archive whole news stories for later reference to search against. You can add attachments to your web references which is an auxillary URL pointing to a file such as music files, pdf (e.g. manuals, documents), text or movies to have quick reference to them or publish them as RSS enclosures to share with others. To get you started, you can even import your existing bookmarks to kick-start your web reference collection. This has been added to the following Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs: Research Resources, Student Research, and Business Intelligence Resources. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Martus - The Global Social Justice Monitoring System http://www.martus.org/ Martus - Human Rights Bulletin System is a software tool that allows users to document incidents of abuse by creating bulletins, uploading them at the earliest opportunity, and storing them on redundant servers located around the world. Download your own Martus software to use for recording and storing information concerning the abuse of human rights. The Martus download includes everything you need to enter Martus bulletins on your computer. English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Thai language versions are available. Martus server software is also available, as well as source code files. It is compatible with Linux, Windows and Mac! This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Bibliomining Bibliography http://biblio.syr.edu/bibliomining/articles/ The purpose of this bibliography is to collect the work published about the bibliomining process in libraries. While there are many pieces on data mining, and bibliometrics, the focus on this bibliography are those projects which would be considered part of the bibliomining process. Sections include: 1) Introductions, 2) Specific Bibliomining Applications including a) Management and Decision-Making, b) Collection Development / Acquistions, c) Reference and Reader's Advisory (Recommendations), d) User Studies, e) Digital Libraries, f) Bibliometrics, g) Data Warehousing, and h) Specific Technologies; and 3) Privacy Issues Sampling. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Federal News Radio http://www.federalnewsradio.com/ Federal News Radio covers both the Federal Government and those who do business with the government concentrating on management, procurement, technology, security, policy and pay & benefits. Federal News Radio is also the only place to read and hear federal icon Mike Causey everyday. By hiring respected sources for federal information, like federal icon Mike Causey, and partnering with respected news organizations like the Associated Press, FederalNewsRadio.com evolved into an interactive, multimedia news and information source. FederalNewsRadio.com is the up-to-the-minute source for decision makers in and around the federal government. We cover the latest in federal legislation, human resources, procurement, benefits, technology, security, management, and of course, news. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Power Users of Technology By Joyce Malyn-Smith and Vivian Guilfoy https://secure.edc.org/publications/prodview.asp?1609 Power Users of information and communication technologies are individuals who break out of the confines of traditional learning, demographic or technological barriers by constantly using, sharing, creating, producing or changing information in creative, innovative and/or unintended ways so that they become force multipliers in their own environments. Published by Education Development Center, Inc. A freely available 23 page .pdf document. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   KIPnotes - Business History and Management Literacy http://www.kipnotes.com/ KIPnotes is dedicated to business history and management literacy. For more than a decade they have been collecting books, films and interviews on the histories of industries, companies, executives, products/services, economics, scandals and business fiction. And they have gathered essential books on management's investing, financing and operating decisions. The result: the largest multimedia collection of business histories and management titles available anywhere. Entries are organized by subject, company, year and author. You'll find tales of operating successes and failures, stories of entrepreneurial heroes and exploitive villains, legacies of empire builders, corporate raiders and asset strippers, lessons of seized opportunities and lost advantages. Thrill of victory, agony of defeat, photographs of the main characters - all in KIPnotes. This has been added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:01 AM Tuesday, December 21, 2004   Research Buddy! Research Buddy - Saves References To WebPages in Bibliographical Reference Form http://researchbuddy.mozdev.org/ Research Buddy saves references to webpages in a bibliographical reference form. The extension is designed to be used in the following way: 1) The user finds a quote on a webpage and wants to reference the quote in his/her paper, 2) The user selects the text of this quote, and, in the right-click menu, selects "Research Buddy" (this step is optional: the page can be referenced without selected text), 3) The plugin opens the main Research Buddy dialog, which allows the user to select which research topic the page should be filed under, and 4) The user clicks on "Add to selected topic", and the reference is saved to the topic. Depending on the preferences, the page (and it's images) may be saved to the user's disk. Users can also add new topics, delete old topics, rename topics, and view the bibliography for a topic. The Research Buddy preferences allow the user to configure the behavior of the plugin. Preferences are stored in a file, so they persist between web sessions: a) Bibliography format string (defaults to a generic reference string, b) Root directory to store pages in (set to the mozilla profile directory by default), c) Save the html of the referenced page (this is useful for ensuring access to the content regardless of the availability of the website. on by default, d) Save the images on the referenced page (useful for pages where content is at least partially contained in images. off by default to save disk space), e) Many bibliography strings will require an "Author" field. Due to the difficulty of accurately finding the author of a given webpage, they decided that this task be left up to the user, and f) The citations are stored in xml format, and an html file is only generated when the user clicks on "View Topic". This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and added to Student Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   TEXT FILES Resource Site http://www.TextFiles.com/directory/ This site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day. he files on TEXTFILES.COM are maintained by somewhat arbitrary guidelines, so if a file you're looking for is not in one section, try a few others. Files are often in the "8+3" format, but since they're coming from all sorts of sources, this isn't guaranteed. Our focus is on the years 1980-1995, but files from before and after sometime sneak in. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   MelissaDATA http://www.melissadata.com/ Melissa Data Corp, founded in 1985 by Raymond F. Melissa, is the leading provider of data quality solutions to help you achieve the highest level of quality contact information. You'll find their versatile line of software, components, database, and services are easy-to-use and cost-effective. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Bibliomining for Automated Collection Development in a Digital Library Setting: Using Data Mining to Discover Web-Based Scholarly Research Works by Dr. Scott Nicholson http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/archive/00000625/ http://www.BiblioMining.com/ Abstract: This research creates an intelligent agent for automated collection development in a digital library setting. It uses a predictive model based on facets of each Web page to select scholarly works. The criteria came from the academic library selection literature, and a Delphi study was used to refine the list to 41 criteria. A Perl program was designed to analyze a Web page for each criterion and applied to a large collection of scholarly and non-scholarly Web pages. Bibliomining, or data mining for libraries, was then used to create different classification models. Four techniques were used: logistic regression, non-parametric discriminant analysis, classification trees, and neural networks. Accuracy and return were used to judge the effectiveness of each model on test datasets. In addition, a set of problematic pages that were difficult to classify because of their similarity to scholarly research was gathered and classified using the models. The resulting models could be used in the selection process to automatically create a digital library of Web-based scholarly research works. In addition, the technique can be extended to create a digital library of any type of structured electronic information. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Internet Living Swahili Dictionary http://www.yale.edu/swahili/ The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary is a collaborative work by people all over the world. Together they are working to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language - Kiswahili - both within Swahili and between Swahili and English. They are preparing print-based dictionaries and multi-media Swahili learning applications, all accessible to you through this home page. They invite you to become a contributing editor - help refine our lexicon by using our unique Edit Engine. Swahili is the most widely spoken African language, with more than 50 million speakers in East Africa and Central Africa, particularly in Tanzania (including Zanzibar) and Kenya. They suggest that first-time visitors to the Kamusi Project take a few minutes to read through their page of Frequently Asked Questions. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer&trade Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   QuestAgent http://freshmeat.net/projects/questagent/?branch_id=55013&release_id=181332 QuestAgent is a full text search toolkit for offline (CD/DVD) and online publications. It supports indexing of HTML, XML, PDF, MS Office, OpenOffice, and text documents. It has several customizable search interfaces and supports highlighting of query terms and phrases in found HTML documents. The provided GUI application makes indexing and deployment of search engines simple. This has been added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, December 20, 2004   Online Social Networking Internet MiniGuide This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. December 20, 2004 V2N51 discusses his white paper Online Social Networking - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation . Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this very exciting white paper featuring many excellent resources and sites for online social and business networking ... the next wave of the Internet! View this white paper at: Online Social Networking - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/09/online-social-networking-internet.html posted by Marcus | 4:35 AM   IMSA Internet Search Wizard IMSA Internet Search Wizard http://21cif.imsa.edu/locate The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) 21St Century Information Fluency Team updates its Internet Search Wizard, featuring the nation's most popular search engine and new instructional enhancements. Their Internet search tool uses the Google Public Service Search to bring you results from today's most widely used search engine. But the real news are the instructional features that help you get the most out of advanced Internet searching. The new Wizard presents: 1) Common advanced search parameters with mouse-over explanations of what each parameter does and when you might use it, 2) Links to expanded explanations of search tips and recommended MicroModules for deep dives into concepts, and 3) A visual display of your custom search query. As you type in the advanced search boxes, the actual Google search formula is being created before your eyes! The new Search Wizard still delivers "one stop shopping" for searchers with tabs at the top of the page to help common search tasks such as Spell Check, Thesaurus Lookup, Evaluation Template, Citation Template, Internet Safety, FAQs and other Helpful Tips. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Help2Go - Free Computer Advice and Tutorials http://www.help2go.com/ Help2Go is a community committed to offering free computer help and tutorials, in a way that everyone can understand, not "geek-speak". Sections include: 1) Get Computer Help, 2) Spyware Help, 3) Article and Tutorials, 4) Our Best Tutorials, and 5) All Forums. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Supybot, A Superb Python IRC Bot http://freshmeat.net/projects/supybot/?branch_id=31808&release_id=181322 Supybot is a clearly-written Python IRC framework and bot, intended to be both easily extensible and very flexible. Several modules are included by default. Numerous plugins are already written, including Google, Factoids, RSS, Quotes, and Relay. Plugins and their commands achieve greater utility via command nesting, something that no other IRC bot does. The user database is based on "capabilities" rather than obscure flags or arbitrary numeric "userlevels", giving the bot flexibility and fine-grained control (think ACLs vs. standard *nix permissions). Developing your own additions to the bot is simple with the base classes provided; writing a new command for the bot is as simple as writing a function. Unlike many other IRC frameworks, this simplicity is achieved at no cost to generality, which lets new programmers and old programmers alike feel at home in the framework. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The database contains textual information and references. It also contains copious links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere. You can do a search by entering one or more terms in the text box above. Advanced search options are accessible via the Limits, Preview/Index, History, and Clipboard options in the grey bar beneath the text box. The OMIM help document provides additional information and examples of basic and advanced searches. The links to the left provide further technical information, searching options, frequently asked questions (FAQ), and information on allied resources. To return to the page, click on the OMIM link in the black header bar or on the graphic at the top of any OMIM page. NOTE: OMIM is intended for use primarily by physicians and other professionals concerned with genetic disorders, by genetics researchers, and by advanced students in science and medicine. While the OMIM database is open to the public, users seeking information about a personal medical or genetic condition are urged to consult with a qualified physician for diagnosis and for answers to personal questions. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   UMKC Libs: Guide to Evaluating Resources on the WWW http://www.umkc.edu/lib/Instruction/MNLsubjguides/webeval.htm A very nice and succinct guide that easily spells out the requirements for evaluating resources on the world wide web that includes: 1) Traditional Standards for Print Resources, 2) Pitfalls of Web Resources, 3) Evaluating Web Sources, and 4) Other Guides to Web Evaluation. This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   WebSite101 http://website101.com/ WebSite101 is a basic training for operating a small business online in the manner of a beginning college course. It is designed as a valuable tutorial for small business and entrepreneurial minds online. We offer resources to learn how to get established online with those great ideas, but without great funding. Thus has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, December 19, 2004   Wireless Downtowns 1) Wireless World: City WiFi Networks Growing http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041112-073705-3562r.htm 2) Wireless Philadelphia: Fact Sheet http://www.phila.gov/wireless/facts.html 3) NYCwireless: Network Map http://www.nodedb.com/unitedstates/ny/newyork/? 4) Case Study: chaska.net, Chaska, Minn.[.pdf] http://www.tropos.com/pdf/chaska_casestudy.pdf 5) Gainesville Digital Downtown [.pdf] http://www.digitaldowntown.net/PDF/Tri-Fold_Brochure.pdf 6) Sacramento Bee Editorial: Go Wireless Downtown http://snipurl.com/bh11 7) NodeDB.com http://www.nodedb.com/ Coming soon to an urban center near you: wireless connectivity for your laptop or PDA, brought to you by City Hall. At least that's the hot trend among U.S. municipalities, 48 of which now offer wireless access, according to a recent report. Most municipal systems are the result of public-private partnerships, and many offer some level of free access. The first website (1) is an overview of the wireless downtown phenomenon which notes the importance of such systems for local economic development. The second link (2) is to a fact sheet about Wireless Philadelphia, which, as one of the first and largest downtown wi-fi projects, helped spark the national trend. The third website is a node map of NYCwireless (3) and the 147 access points where that municipal network currently can be accessed. The fourth link leads to a case study of chaska.net (4) , which provides wireless access to the 7,500 homes and 18,000 residents of that Minneapolis suburb. The fifth website is a pdf (5) of a slick brochure produced by the city of Gainesville, Fla., to promote its Digital Downtown project. The sixth link is to a Sacramento Bee editorial (6) making the case for downtown wireless. The seventh website is a free database listing 10,840 wireless access points in 767 locations worldwide (7) , organized by geographic region. [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   The Daily Scrabble® Puzzle Blog http://members.tripod.com/~mchunkat/blogger.html This puzzle page will be updated daily with new puzzles. On alternate weekdays they will post anagram crosswords and Scrabble®gram type puzzles. On Sundays they will post a crossword puzzle with straight clues. The author Mohan Chunkath is a longtime crossword puzzle enthusiast and Scrabble® player. He represented India in the World Scrabble® Championships in 1999 and 2001. The site carries crosswords and anagram puzzles of varying difficulty levels. This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   The Search Is On For Digital Video http://news.com.com/Striking+up+digital+video+search/2100-1032_3-5466491.html Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all are quietly developing new search technology for ferreting out snippets of digital video from the vast archives of television programming. "Google's trying to bring TV to the Web the same way they're bringing books to the Web," says one media executive. And while Google's effort is perhaps the most ambitious, Microsoft has its sights set on the interactive TV market for cable providers and Yahoo is planning to debut a multimedia search engine and is working with Web entertainment and news aggregators to index video clips already online. The Internet's evolution into a viable entertainment platform will open up vast new video libraries that will require new search technology to organize and make content relevant to viewers, just as search engines have done for the billions of pages on the Web. The task is daunting -- while users can generally discern very quickly if a Web search result is what they're looking for, each video clip could take from 15 seconds to several minutes to peruse. To tackle the problem, Google is recording live TV shows and indexing the related closed-caption text of the programming. It uses the text to identify themes, concepts and relevant keywords to use for later searching. Each result will appear in a thumbnail picture accompanied by some captioning text. "The business models are too soon to tell, but everyone is interested," says one person close to the deal. "First, the meetings are about, 'Don't sue us for nicking your closed captioning,' and then it's the commercial possibilities." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/index The world of religious icons and other illustrative and symbolic elements is well-documented both in print publications, and to a lesser extent, in various online archives and exhibitions. But what about the world of graphical user interfaces, such as the icons that populate many of our computer screens? Curious visitors will find their fill at this online museum of graphical interfaces, many of which even some long-time computer users may have forgotten about. Divided into categories such as icons, sounds, components, and interfaces, the site contains over 2675 pictures and 651 icons from 51 interfaces. Visitors may want to browse through some of these sections, especially ones like the "Splashes" area where they can view some of those iconic images that are (or were) displayed while various programs are in the process of launching. Here visitors can view such classics as those splashes created for Netscape Navigator 2.0 and Microsoft Word 1.1. Also, even the most stoic user may shed a tear while listening to some of the "classic" sounds of such platforms as Windows 95, which are also available here. Rounding things out here are a selection of historical articles on graphical user interfaces, and a few advertisements from the not-so-distant past, including one featuring a certain Harvard drop-out-turned billionaire. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Metadot Open Source Portal Server http://www.metadot.com/metadot/index.pl?id=2037 Metadot Portal Server is a leading open source portal system. Its revolutionary ease of use allows non technical people to create very powerful websites and portals just with the clicks of a mouse. Its architecture makes it extremely easy to customize and deploy. It is available for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It provides collaboration, content management, as well as My News Page (like My Yahoo) and online database applications. Typically it is used to create web portals, intranets, extranets, organization and project websites. When it was first released in April 2000, it revolutionized the way complex websites are built by giving easy-to-use tools to non-technical users allowing them to create powerful database-backed websites without having to involve a webmaster or the IT department! It runs primarily on Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl and supports also commercial environments like Sun Solaris, Windows OSes and Oracle database. It is available for free and it can be downloaded here. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Open Acess 2004 Special Issue http://snipurl.com/ba3p The newest issue of Serials Review (vol. 30, no. 4) is devoted to open access. David Goodman was the special editor for this issue, which contains 12 major articles on the subject. Moreover, all of them are OA. Thanks and congratulations to David and to Serials Review. [ Peter Suber - Open Access News ] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, December 18, 2004   FQS Forum Qualitative Social Research (FQS) - Online Gateway for Qualitative Research http://www.qualitative-research.net/ FQS is a multilingual online journal for qualitative research. The main aim of FQS is to promote discussion and cooperation between qualitative researchers from different nations and social science disciplines (Anthropology, Communication, Criminology, Cultural Sciences, Education, Ethnology, History, Linguistics, Management Information Systems, Medicine, Nursing, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology). The unique attributes of the Internet—speed, flexibility, interactivity—are employed to develop, in comparison to traditional print media, new discourse forms and standards for quality. It is an experimental project which means being an open project where FQS' content and formal design are developed together with all of its participants—readers, authors, editorial board members and editors alike. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   TrustWatch - Website Verification Service http://www.trustwatch.com/ TrustWatch is a web site rating system that gives Internet users information on the security and trustworthiness of domains and web sites. Before you exchange sensitive information, such as a providing a credit card number, personal identification information or other confidential data, TrustWatch allows you to check that the site has been verified by a trusted third party and is using appropriate safeguarding measures. TrustWatch is a free, publicly-available utility that checks several sources and then reports back to the user a verification rating for that domain or web site. Based on a variety of factors, TrustWatch reports a rating very much like a credit bureau reports an individual's credit score. TrustWatch has been developed by GeoTrust, a leader in identity and trust services, and the world's second largest Certification Authority. GeoTrust's business is helping individuals and organizations obtain trusted digital identities - whether that's for a person, device or an application. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Playing with Taxonomies http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=7357&CategoryID=21 Taxonomies are critical to good information systems. But can non-librarians develop effective taxonomies? Several Web sites now being built use socially developed taxonomies. Del.icio.us and Flickr both attract large groups of people describing their content in a way that they all can share. Del.icio.us lets participants share Web bookmarks; Flickr offers online photo sharing. Finding information on either site demands some agreed-upon, dynamic way of classifying content, and changing that classification as the content grows exponentially. Feedback is immediate; you see whether others agree (use) or disagree (don't use) your tags. Stewart Butterfield of Ludicorp, developer of Flickr, thinks this user-driven approach has advantages. "If you can hire enough excellent librarians, you will get better keyword results than with social approaches. However, as the content grows, tagging (and retagging) becomes an order of magnitude more difficult. In other words, social approaches are 80% as good as and 10 times easier than top-down approaches." Would Flickr's approach work in the buttoned-down corporate world? Butterfield says, "Anticipate resistance in the CIO crowd who don't want to risk losing control in a social self-correcting process and do not want anything to get lost." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Google Suggest http://labs.google.com/suggest/ As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time. This is similar to Google's "Did you mean?" feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, except that it works in real time. For example, if you type "bass," Google Suggest might offer a list of refinements that include "bass fishing" or "bass guitar." Similarly, if you type in only part of a word, like "progr," Google Suggest might offer you refinements like "programming," "programming languages," "progesterone," or "progressive." You can choose one by scrolling up or down the list with the arrow keys or mouse. Their algorithms use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers. An example of this type of popularity information can be found in the Google Zeitgeist. Google Suggest does not base its suggestions on your personal search history. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Resources for Industry Analysis http://www.lib.duke.edu/reference/subjects/business/industry.htm Duke Universities Libraries Resources for Industry Analysis. Industry analysis is a type of business research that focuses on the status of an industry or an industrial sector (a broad industry classification, like "manufacturing"). A complete industrial analysis usually includes a review of an industry's recent performance, its current status, and the outlook for the future. Many analyses include a combination of text and statistical data. There are many sources of industry analysis: investment firms, business and trade periodicals, trade associations, and government agencies. To conduct a thorough industry analysis, include a variety of sources. Categories included: 1) Introduction, 2) General Sources, 3) Statistics and Financial Ratios, 4) Trade Magazines, and 5) Trade Associations. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide and Competitive Intelligence Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Harvard Business School Baker Library Business Research Guides http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/ Baker Library produces guides to help in the use of resources at Baker and beyond for business and career research. The list below includes guides to general business topics, information on specific industries and specific course support projects that may be helpful in other contexts. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, December 17, 2004   The International Economics Network The International Economics Network http://www.internationaleconomics.net/ The International Economics Network is a collection of key resources for international economics, as well as other related disciplines, including, inter alia, global business and finance, international law, and international development. It was inspired by the absence of an annotated, selective international economics-specific portal, together with Jamus Jerome Lim's personal interest in the subject and a desire to make the existing body of working papers and news articles on international economics conveniently accessible to a wide audience. Hence the birth of the site. The site is constantly growing as resources are added on an almost daily basis - mostly in the News & Commentary and Research Papers sections. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The Internet Site for Economists http://www.inomics.net/ Inomics is an Internet service especially tailored to the needs of economists. At this site you can find job openings for economists, conference announcements, a human-edited directory as well as a database of research papers in economics. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Finance Site List http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/fin/journal/jofsites.htm An excellent listing of finance sites from Ohio State University and divided into the following categories: 1)Finance Journals, 2)Institutional Working Paper Sites, 3)Personal Working Paper Sites, 4)The Finance Profession, 5)Research Centers, 6)LinCollections, 7)Asset Pricing & Investments, 8)Derivatives, 9)Corporate Finance and Governance, 10)Financial Institutions, 11)Research Software and Data, 12)Educational Resources, 13)Of Interest to Students, and 14)Misc. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Friendster, Eurekster Team Up for Personalized Search http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3445791 Friendster has rolled out a new internet search service powered by Eurekster that taps into your online social network to personalize and enhance search results. The new service takes advantages of the preferences and interests of Friendster members and their friends to filter search results to more closely match personal interests than general web search engines. The service is powered by Eurekster, which uses the Yahoo web index and also includes Overture sponsored listings. Friendster.com is mentioned in my annotated internet miniguide white paper titled Online Social Networking that was just recently updated. It is available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org/ CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There's no need to install any special software. Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer. You can share you library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you. In turn, this can help you discover literature which is relevant to your field but you may not have known about. Only links to the papers are stored, the papers themselves stay in archives like JSTOR or PubMed. At the moment the database is dominated by biological and medical papers, but there is no reason why, say, history or philosophy bibliographies should not be equally prevalent. The system currently supports: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) portal, American Meteorological Society, arXiv.org e-Print archive, CiteSeer, IngentaConnect, JSTOR, MetaPress, PLoS Biology, PubMed, PubMed Central, ScienceDirect, but more systems will be supported soon. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Scirus - The Science Specific Search Engine http://www.infotoday.com/newslink/newslink0412.htm#spotlight Amidst the latest buzz about Google Scholar, it's easy to forget about all the other specialized search engines out there that have been designed to target specific research needs. Scirus , which was launched by Elsevier in 2001, claims to be the most comprehensive scientific, technical and medical-specific search engine out there, covering some 167 million Web pages. Scirus also includes more than 18 million full-text articles and abstracts from sources such as the American Institute of Physics, MEDLINE, ScienceDirect, BioMed Central, pre-print servers, patent sources, repositories and databases. Scirus's superior indexing and classification technology, its focused content, and advanced search capabilities distinguish it from more general search engines like Google Scholar, says Scirus general manager Ammy Vogtlander. "Google is a huge brand for good reason -- it's good for general purposes, but it's still frustrating for scholarly research," says Vogtlander. Elsevier developed Scirus using the Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) engine and continues to tweak the technology and work with its information partners to sharpen Scirus's capabilities. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, December 16, 2004   PKP Open Journal Systems Open Journal Systems (OJS) http://pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/ Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Through its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research, and the context it provides for research, OJS seeks to improve both the scholarly and public quality of referred research. OJS is open source software made freely available to journals worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal's readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a global scale (see PKP Publications). This has been added to Research Resources Subject Traver™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/ The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) is an e-journal that provides open access to all of its content. IJEDICT aims to strengthen links between research and practice in ICT in education and development in hitherto less developed parts of the world, e.g., developing countries (especially small states), and rural and remote regions of developed countries. The emphasis is on providing a space for researchers, practitioners and theoreticians to jointly explore ideas using an eclectic mix of research methods and disciplines. It brings together research, action research and case studies in order to assist in the transfer of best practice, the development of policy and the creation of theory. Thus, IJEDICT is of interest to a wide-ranging audience of researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, government officers and other professionals involved in education or development in communities throughout the world. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Gifting Technologies by Kevin McGee and Jörgen Skågeby http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/mcgee/index.html Abstract: File–sharing has become very popular in recent years, but for many this has become synonymous with file–getting. However, there is strong evidence to suggest that people have strong giving (or gifting) needs. This evidence suggests an opportunity for the development of gifting technologies — and it also suggests an important research question and challenge: what needs and concerns do gifters have and what technologies can be developed to help them? In this paper, we discuss the existing literature on gifting, report on an initial study of gifting in an online sharing community, and suggest some ways the study results can inform future research into gifting desires — as well as the design of specific gifting technologies. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Pulling Sense Out of Today’s Informational Chaos: LiveJournal As a Site of Knowledge Creation and Sharing by Kaye Raynes-Goldie http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/raynes/index.html Abstract: The informational overload currently facing Western society is changing the way we understand the world as well as rendering obsolete our current ways of managing information and creating knowledge. With these changes in mind, I will examine the blogging service LiveJournal as a new and more applicable way of managing information and creating knowledge in today’s society. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Libraries and University Presses Can Collaborate to Improve Scholarly Communications by Mary Alice Ball http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/ball/index.html Abstract Scholarly communication is evolving to meet the challenges and opportunities of the current technological era. Research universities expect academic libraries and presses to overcome cultural differences and collaborate to improve the production and dissemination of scholarship. This paper examines the separate worlds of libraries and presses and explores the common ground between the two where collaborations occur, particularly those related to monographic publications. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web by Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Clay Fink, Anupam Joshi, and R. Scott Cost http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/v2.1/paper/html/id/185/ Abstract: Information retrieval technology has been central to the success of the Web. For semantic web documents or annotations to have an impact, they will have to be compatible with IR technology. We discuss three approaches to using conventional IR systems with documents and annotations in semantic web languages. Each has been implemented. Conference on System Sciences. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, December 15, 2004   SpiderNevi SpiderNevi - Medical Tutorial Search Engine http://www.spidernevi.com/ SpiderNevi medical tutorial search engine project is a non commercial volunteer project started by a group of doctors from UK and India. Its main purpose is to provide a free human edited relevant tutorials directory to medical fraternity. All included links are reviewed by a volunteer team of doctors and medical students before inclusion in the SpiderNevi database. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Mobissimo Travel Search Engine http://www.mobissimo.com/ Mobissimo is a travel search engine with a simple mission: improve the way people seek and discover travel information. The Mobissimo search engine performs real-time queries of the multiple websites that travelers traditionally check manually (plus dozens of others that are often overlooked). In a very short time, Mobissimo returns the most comprehensive travel search results available on the Web today. Mobissimo empowers customers to quickly find and book travel deals that suit their needs. With innovative industry leading technology, the most extensive coverage and selection of worldwide travel suppliers, and a proven business model that supports customers and suppliers alike, Mobissimo is uniquely positioned to deliver to its users a differentiated and superior travel buying experience. This has been added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Google Checks Out Library Books http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_library.html The Libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library Join with Google to Digitally Scan Library Books and Make Them Searchable Online. As part of its effort to make offline information searchable online, Google Inc. announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google. "Even before we started Google, we dreamed of making the incredible breadth of information that librarians so lovingly organize searchable online," said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president of Products. "Today we're pleased to announce this program to digitize the collections of these amazing libraries so that every Google user can search them instantly. "Our work with libraries further enhances the existing Google Print program, which enables users to find matches within the full text of books, while publishers and authors monetize that information," Page added. "Google's mission is to organize the world's information, and we're excited to be working with libraries to help make this mission a reality." Here are the news pages/press releases from each of the institutions involved. More information on how they are individually handling copyright included in some of them. http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/Dec04/library/index http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/january12/google-0112.html http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/041214a.shtml http://www.nypl.org/press/google.cfm http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_library.html http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Center for Research in Scientific Computation http://www.ncsu.edu/crsc/ The Center for Research in Scientific Computation (CRSC), based at North Carolina State University, aims to "foster research in scientific computing and provide a focal point for research in computational science, engineering and applied mathematics." The Center has developed a teaching experimental laboratory "where students are exposed to experimental design and data collection through demos and actual hands-on experience." The Center's multidisciplinary research addresses topics in scientific computation such as Numerical Optimization and Control, Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Modeling and Analysis; Numerical Linear Algebra, and Parallel Computing. This website describes the Center's projects and offers links to the project websites. An online database makes available CRSC technical reports from 1992 to the present. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Instant Message and P2P Threat Network Launched http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118851,00.asp IMlogic with McAfee Inc., Sybari Software, Yahoo, America Online, and Microsoft, among others, launched an instant messaging (IM) threat center clearinghouse to stop IM viruses, malicious software code, and spam before they occur, according to an announcement by IMlogic. The IMlogic Threat Center provides a central location for detecting and analyzing IM and peer-to-peer threats. It also plans to alert IM users of threats and help protect against them. The center will include a knowledge base of threats and use honeypots to detect IM and P2P threats. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Edupage 12-08-04] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Styles Recommended by The American Psychological Association (APA) http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/index.htm A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Styles Recommended by The American Psychological Association prepared by the Humanities Department as part of The Guide to Grammar and Writing and the Arthur C. Banks Jr. Library CAPITAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE Hartford, Connecticut. This guide is based on recommendations of the fifth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Assocation published by the American Psychological Association (2001). This online publication is by no means a substitute for that book, which is an extensive resource for students engaged in serious research in psychology and the social and behavioral sciences. Revised June 2004. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, December 14, 2004   eBiquity eBiquity Research Group Blogger http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/v2.1/blogger/ The eBiquity Group is a research organization that consists of faculty and students from the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE) of UMBC. Their research explores the interactions between mobile, pervasive computing, multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence, and e-services. Group members have research interests in the underlying areas, such as distributed systems, mobile networking and systems, data management for pervasive/mobile systems, ad-hoc networks, knowledge representation and reasoning, personalization, web/data-mining, multi-agent systems and security. Much of their research is driven by applications in the e-sevices area -- e-commerce, m-commerce, home-automation, wireless web etc. Their research efforts are funded by corporate and government sponsors, that include NSF, DARPA, NASA, DoD, HPL, IBM and AetherSystems. They collaborate with colleagues in the industry, as well as other academic institutions in their research. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Accoona - Super Target Your Search http://www.accoona.com/ Accoona provides a great interactive search experience to its users. The user is more involved in determining his/her search results by being able to highlight and emphasize selected key words. This revolutionary, Interactive Search Technology, combined with proprietary Artificial Intelligence Software that understands the meaning of words, delivers SuperTargeted™ Search results that significantly differentiates Accoona in the Search Industry. Accoona Artificial Intelligence now takes the Search Experience to the next level, by merging information from the Web and the Accoona Business Database in real time. For the first time on an Internet Search Platform, Accoona presents business web site content and its relevant business data in a complementary format. This new and just released search engine has the capability to become a true business search engine by combining web and real time business information. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation is prepared by the Humanities Department as part of The Guide to Grammar and Writing and the Arthur C. Banks Jr. Library CAPITAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE Hartford, Connecticut. Revisions to this Guide were made in May 2004 to reflect recommendations in the MLA Handbook's sixth edition (2003) and on the MLA's own Web pages. A research paper presents the results of your investigations on a selected topic. Based on your own thoughts and the facts and ideas you have gathered from a variety of sources, a research paper is a creation that is uniquely yours. The experience of gathering, interpreting, and documenting information, developing and organizing ideas and conclusions, and communicating them clearly will prove to be an important and satisfying part of your education. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   RigZone http://www.RigZone.com/ Rigzone.com is "Your Gateway to the Oil and Gas Industry" providing you with ndustry news and information, the Online Oil & Gas Directory, careers, a classifieds marketplace, and more. Rigzone's vibrant, quickly growing audience and member base spans the upstream oil and gas industry from major corporate executives to influential independents. Visitors include: 1) Drilling rig owners and operators, 2) Offshore support services (tugs, tenders, caterers, parts suppliers, etc.), 3) Oil and gas industry executives from large multi-nationals to smaller independents, 4) Oil and gas industry human resources directors and departments, 5) Oil and gas industry workers and job seekers of all skill levels and areas of expertise, 6) Parts and equipment manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers, and 7) Investors and analysts involved in the oil and gas industry. This has been added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=4290 An increasing amount of research is being done in the area where technology and humans meet. The success or failure of technologies, the question whether technology helps humans to fulfill their goals or whether it hinders them is in most cases not a technical one. Even though this problem has been recognized in many academic disciplines that deal with technology, we are still far from being able to present a set of theories that would allow us to understand the interaction of technology and humans and to put it to practical use. The International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) aims to provide a platform for leading research that addresses issues of human and technology interaction. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Péter Jacsó reviews Google Scholar http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/reference/peter/dec.htm#googlescholar An indepth review of Google's latest entry into the scholarly search field "Google Scholar" and is well worth the read if you have any interest in scholarly and academic search and research. Also if you have an interest in other scholar and academic search entities visit my latest research white paper that lists over 150 academic and scholar search engines and sources and is available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, December 13, 2004   Robin Good This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. December 13, 2004 V2N50 discusses Robin Good's (Edited by: Luigi Canali De Rossi) excellent webosphere. Click on the below audio link to hear Marcus P. Zillman discuss this fine site. View this resource at: Robin Good - MasterNewMedia http://www.MasterNewMedia.org/ posted by Marcus | 7:59 AM   BioEd BioEd Online - Biology Teacher Resources from Baylor College of Medicine http://www.bioedonline.org/ BioEd Online is an online educational resource for educators, students, and parents. BioEd Online utilizes state-of-the-art technology to give you instant access to reliable, cutting-edge information and educational tools for biology and related subjects. Their goal is to provide useful, accurate, and current information and materials that build upon and enhance the skills and knowledge of science educators. Developed under the guidance of our expert Editorial Board, BioEd Online offers the following high-quality resources. This has been addded to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Artists, Musicians and the Internet http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=142 Artists, Musicians and the Internet: They have embraced the internet as a tool that helps them create, promote, and sell their work. However, they are divided about the impact and importance of free file-sharing and other copyright issues. The first large-scale surveys of the internet’s impact on artists and musicians reveal that they are embracing the Web as a tool to improve how they make, market, and sell their creative works. They eagerly welcome new opportunities that are provided by digital technology and the internet. At the same time, they believe that unauthorized online file sharing is wrong and that current copyright laws are appropriate, though there are some major divisions among them about what constitutes appropriate copying and sharing of digital files. Their overall judgment is that unauthorized online file-sharing does not pose a major threat to creative industries: Two-thirds of artists say peer-to-peer file sharing poses a minor threat or no threat at all to them. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Plain Language Action & Information Network http://www.plainlanguage.gov/ The Plain Language Action & Information Network is a government-wide group of volunteers working to improve communications from the federal government to the public. They believe better communication will increase trust in government, reduce government costs, and reduce the burden on the public. People should be able to understand what they write the first time they read it, especially materials that tell people how to obtain benefits or comply with requirements. This Web site contains lots of resources to help writers achieve the goal of clear communication. Take a look at their major guidance document: Writing User-Friendly Documents. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   PROWL http://prowl.rockefeller.edu "PROWL for Intranet provides an interactive environment for protein analysis that can be easily accessed with any web browser over your intranet. PROWL consists of a set of interconnected databases and software tools that enable swift analysis of protein mass spectrometry experiments. PROWL is based on a powerful client-server model. Tasks that are highly interactive are performed on a local personal computer and computationally intensive tasks like database searches are sent to a local fast server. A demo of the system is available by clicking here. The following server-side tools for searching public or proprietary sequence databases are included in PROWL for Intranet:" ProFound; PepFrag; ProteinInfo; M/Z; PAWS. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Pew Hispanic Center http://www.pewhispanic.org/ The Pew Hispanic Center is a non-partisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Its website offers research reports, survey data, and other information on Hispanics in the United States. Demography, economics, education, labor, cultural/ethnic identity, health, immigration, and political participation are among the topics covered. This has been added to Internet Demographics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/home_e.html The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is an independent, pan-Canadian, not-for-profit organization working to improve the health of Canadians and the health care system by providing quality, reliable and timely health information. This has been added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, December 12, 2004   Internet Search Engines 1) Webopedia http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2003/HowWebSearchEnginesWork.asp 2) Evrsoft Developer Network: Search Engine Optimization http://snipurl.com/b3ba 3) SEO-uncovered.com http://www.seo-uncovered.com/thesaurus.htm 4) Web Reference: A Brief History of Search Engines http://www.webreference.com/authoring/search_history/ 5) Submit Today: Search Engines 101 http://www.submittoday.com/search_engines_101.htm 6) Search Engine Watch: Kids Search Engines http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156191 7) SUNY at Albany: How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html If you are reading this Internet Scout report, you most likely have used a search engine before and may have wondered what makes some websites show up on Google and others not. This Topic in Depth provides some background information on search engines. The first website from Webopedia gives an overview of how search engines work (1) provides more information on the mechanics of search engines and debunks some common myths. If any terms used in the article are new to you, this website (3) offers a thesauras of key terms along with tips to help you improve your chances of getting your website to show up on search engines. This brief history from Web Reference (4) provides some perspective on how the technology began, while this article (5) gives some basic information on where we are today with search engine usage and technology. Search Engine Watch offers this listing of kids search engines (6). The University at Albany 7) offers a list of suggestions on how to choose a website for various uses and searching preferences. [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   Government Technology White Paper, Case Study and Webcast Library http://library.govtech.net/data/web/gtech/gtech_index.jsp Find the latest white papers, case studies, webcasts and product information to help you with your technical purchasing decisions. View the Daily Top 50 Reports for the most popular IT reports on technology products and services. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Birthday Stars http://outreach.jach.hawaii.edu/birthstars/index.html Light traveling in empty space is the fastest thing in the universe. It travels at 186,000 miles per second! The stars are so far away from us that their light still takes a long time to reach Earth. One light year is the distance light travels in a year: 5,878,499,812,499 miles. The closest star apart from the Sun is 4.2 light years away, so its light takes 4.2 years to reach Earth. Tell the Birthday Stars computer when you were born, and it will look for a star that is your age in light years away from Earth. This means that the light we're seeing from that star today actually left the star around when you were born, and has taken your entire life to reach Earth. From month to month you may see your birthday star changing. This is because as you get older the light from more and more distant stars has had the time to travel to Earth in during your life. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Blingo http://www.blingo.com/ Seek and you may win. Blingo is a brand new Internet search engine, is offering users something extra along with their search results. Every time users search on Blingo, they also have a chance to win a prize instantly. Visitors to the Blingo website search for words or phrases, just like on other popular search engines, but at Blingo each search is also a chance to instantly win prizes like a Canon digital camera, a one-year subscription to Netflix, an Amazon.com gift certificate, or a music CD. There's no user registration, no spam, no annoying pop-up ads, and no catch to win -- just instant search, instant entry, and instant gratification. Currently in Beta testing, the Blingo site is offering hundreds of prizes in December and will begin offering thousands every month when Beta testing is complete. Prizes will change frequently and will include popular consumer electronics, gift certificates, movies, music, and more. This has been added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   History Guide/InformationsWeiser Geschichte http://www.historyguide.de/ The History Guide/InformationsWeiser Geschichte is a subject gateway to scholarly relevant websites in history maintained in cooperation by a Network Subject Gateways History. History Guide cooperates with the Bavarian State Library, Munich and Clio-online. This service currently lists more than 5,000 metadata records including records from the InformationsWeiser Geschichte (Bavarian State Library) and the Webdirectory of Clio-Online. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   StarProbe Visual Data Miner Suite http://www.roselladb.com/starprobe.htm StarProbe is a star schema based cross platform data mining software suite that works smoothly with most common database systems and incorporates statistics, machine learning, data warehousing, OLAP and business intelligence (BI), providing hotspot analysis, predictive modeling (decision tree, neural network, rule induction/cluster profiling), neural clustering, visualization, statistics, regression, correlation analysis, ... This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, December 11, 2004   Florida Virtual School http://www.flvs.net/_florida_services/index_fls.htm Florida Virtual School, an internet-based public school, offers a rigorous online curriculum for middle and high school students. Their fully accredited, award-winning program serves thousands of students around the globe! Courses are highly interactive with certified instructors. Monthly progress reports are provided. Florida Virtual School provides free online classes and instruction to all public, private, and home school students in Florida. All you need is the right attitude and access to a computer with Internet services. If you live outside of Florida, classes are available on a license or tuition basis. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Center for Social Media http://centerforsocialmedia.org/ The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. It focuses on social documentaries for civil society and democracy, and on the public media environment that supports them. The Center is part of the School of Communication at American University. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   WebRef http://www.webref.org/ A glossary of terms for many different subject areas. Each subject area has its own sub index of subjects all with glossary terms. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer&trade Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Affero: Rating & Reputation Service for Online Volunteers http://www.affero.com/ Affero hosts personal web pages for authors, whether they are bloggers, writers, publishers, community hosts or individual forum participants that describe why they care about certain issues, which causes or organizations they feel need support, and a secured payment mechanism to facilitate impulse gifts from patrons who the member may have inspired or assisted in time of need. Affero also provides a historical record of ratings for the authors and their patrons. Each members' user-history provides a record of their contributions as perceived by other community members, including their history of writing, volunteerism and partronage. The personal web pages each have a unique web address (URL) that members can attach to email signatures, blog entries, articles, bulletin boards or any other digital work. All Affero members build community reputations through various interactions. Over time, these reputations can help facilitate a better understanding of the impact of an authors works, and hopefully inspire more effective dialogue for members in new and existing communities. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   The Best Search Personalization Is Done By Users http://news.com.com/Narrowing+the+search/2010-1038_3-5460452.html A tremendous amount of scientific effort is being expended on devising search algorithms designed to turn up results more relevant to what the user is actually seeking, but some experts say true search personalization has several inherent problems. For starters, people are not static -- their interests change constantly. The data used for personalizing search is unreliable -- how much can you really tell by someone's surfing habits? And how often do you click on a Web page, only to find it's not what you were looking for at all? Meanwhile, home computers are often shared by several people, whose surfing habits obviously differ. To top it all off, most queries are oversimplistic -- how much information could you infer from a two-word conversation with your spouse? Given these weaknesses, some companies are looking at ways to enable searchers to more quickly peruse a set of results, giving them a primary role in the personalization process. One approach is to cluster the results into possibly overlapping categories that can be displayed as folders, subfolders, etc. Other programs display clusters as spatial or temporal objects that are displayed on the computer screen in various dimensions with a time component. Another approach skips the clustering step and directly embeds the search results in to a map of some sort, possibly with an added time dimension. Which is best? Whichever one works best for you -- that's what search personalization is all about. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, December 10, 2004   ThinkBot http://www.pmbrowser.info/thinkbot.htm ThinkBot is an easy way to find other people who are thinking about the same things as you. With a simple command, you can search Thinkbot's database of users and chat instantly to someone who shares your thoughts. This is an excellent example of combining traditional and high tech to create a neat collaboration of social interaction to possibly discover new knowledge or even better a new friend!! This will be added to my annotated white paper Online Social Networking. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   BNET - Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies http://bnet.com/ BNET is a rapidly growing business thought leadership directory. Our mission is to be the best source for busy leaders to find and share the tools that help them solve their most important business problems. BNET provides action-oriented knowledge and tools such as white papers, case studies, webcasts, audio conferences, book summaries, checklists, spreadsheets and other interactive content to help busy leaders solve important problems at work. BNET's audience is made up of managers, directors and senior executives representing a variety of business functions (i.e. Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, etc.) at the world's most successful companies. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! by Lars Marius Garshol http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tm-vs-thesauri.html Abstract: To be faced with a document collection and not to be able to find the information you know exists somewhere within it is a problem as old as the existence of document collections. Information Architecture is the discipline dealing with the modern version of this problem: how to organize web sites so that users actually can find what they are looking for. Information architects have so far applied known and well-tried tools from library science to solve this problem, and now topic maps are sailing up as another potential tool for information architects. This raises the question of how topic maps compare with the traditional solutions, and that is the question this paper attempts to address. The paper argues that topic maps go beyond the traditional solutions in the sense that it provides a framework within which they can be represented as they are, but also extended in ways which significantly improve information retrieval. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ It has been their goal to create a vocabulary oriented site that would be educational, fun, simple to use and friendly. The site has something for everyone and there will be updates on an ongoing basis. Games include: WordSearch, Crosswords, Hangman, Quiz and Match Game. This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Einstein@Home http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. They plan to deploy a production version of Einstein@home around the end of 2004, as part of the American Physical Society's World Year of Physics 2005 activities. The first test of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over the entire sky, using the ten most sensitive hours of data from LIGO's second science run, S2. This same data has already been analyzed using a very powerful dedicated supercomputing cluster (nothing significant was found). For their first test of Einstein@home, they are repeating this search with some small technical changes. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Taxonomy Warehouse http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com Taxonomy Warehouse is a free service (free to users and free to vocabulary publishers) provided by Synapse, the Knowledge Link Corporation (on the web at www.synaptica.com) for the benefit of the information and knowledge management community. The Warehouse aims to provide a comprehensive directory of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes and other authority files from around the world, plus information about taxonomy references, resources and events. The warehouse offers 510 Taxonomies classified by 73 subject domains produced by 260 publishers in 39 languages 65% produced in digital media 100 directly licensable. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, December 09, 2004   Money Science Financial Intelligence Network http://www.moneyscience.org/ An open-access resource for academics and practitioners working in finance and economics, physics, applied mathematics and computing. We aim to provide the single most comprehensive aggregated source for information in the broad field of quantitative finance. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   ResearchBrief http://www.ascd.org/cms/index.cfm?TheViewID=887 ResearchBrief is a Web-based publication designed to offer field-based practitioners and policymakers focused summaries of original, interdisciplinary, high-quality research. Every two weeks, ResearchBrief will present an overview of a recent study-including the research questions, data sources, and findings-as well as implications for practitioners and policymakers. Each issue of ResearchBrief also looks at the broader context of related research and includes links to a wealth of research resources and tools. A panel of nationally renowned scholars and practitioners oversees the production of ResearchBrief and helps to ensure the quality of studies reviewed, as well as the relevancy to ASCD members. This will be added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Educational and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Best of the Web Directory http://botw.org/ Founded in 1994 at the University of Buffalo, Best of the Web has been a pioneer in recognizing the best sites online. From the initial concept of Web Awards, we have transformed into a directory spotlighting the web's premier destinations. All sites listed in the directory are examined by our team of editors, and only if qualified are granted inclusion. Editorial review ensures that all sites are appropriately listed in their most relevant category; all sites included must contain substantive unique content, navigate in a user-friendly manner, contain no broken links or pictures, be up and running 24/7, and conform to universally accepted web standards. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Open Source Access Scientific Publishing http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1ea23b3e-3f15-11d9-8e70-00000e2511c8.html Matthew Cockerill, technical director and co-founder of Bio-Med Central, is a strong advocate of open access scientific publishing; he believes that the progress of science is ultimately defined by peer-reviewed journal articles that act as a foundation for all future research, and he argues that despite scare-mongering by traditional publishing companies "open access publishing will not sound the death knell for scientific societies that publish traditional journals." Rather, he believes that "far-sighted societies, including the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S., recognize that open access better serves their members needs and are moving their funding model away from dependence on surpluses from journal publishing." But John Enderby of the Royal Society cautions: "The open access movement must present more than an ideological argument and provide evidence that its approach yields better scholarly communication." Time will tell, he suggests, and urges a measured approach: "The Royal Society believes the evolution of the present business model offers the most sustainable solution. Experiments with this and other models should be encouraged and we will continue to work with academics, librarians, the government and other learned societies to meet the needs of the communities we serve." posted by Marcus | 4:11 AM   A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html A nice site collection with a number of pages covering word oddities and trivia related to words. These pages are maintained by Jeff Miller, a teacher at Gulf High School in New Port Richey, Florida. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Storming Media http://www.StormingMedia.us/ Storming Media provides unclassified reports and documents from the Pentagon about science, technology, strategy or policy. They provide these papers at significantly below the prices chosen by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), a government agency that sells these items. This has been added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, December 08, 2004   Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. December 6, 2004 V2N49 discusses his latest white paper Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation . Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest white paper. View this white paper at: Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/12/academic-and-scholar-search-engines.html posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   Genealogy Gateway: Genealogy, Family Tree, and Surname Resources http://www.gengateway.com/ Genealogy Gateway is your portal for family tree, surname, ancestry, and genealogy information. The gateways include: Beginners: Census, Database, Ethnic, Family, Listing, Military, Obituary, Scottish, Societies, Software, Surname, USA, Vital Records, and Worldwide. The guides include: Family Historian, Family Tree Guide, Genealogy Detective, Geneology Guide and Surname Guide. The links include: Code and Logo Links, Family Tree Maker, Newsletter Signup, Free Genealogy, and Genealogy Archives. The gateways offer a tremendous number of link resources. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   A Trio of Topical PowerPoint Presentations: Corporate Blogging http://www.llrx.com/features/corporateblogging.ppt Sabrina I. Pacifici documents and illustrates how the development and implementation of blogs within your organization can serve as a key application to facilitate research services, knowledge management, marketing, training, and communications within groups, departments, and enterprise wide. Got Competitive Intelligence? Tips, Tools and Techniques for the Savvy Marketer http://www.llrx.com/features/gotci.ppt Donna F. Cavallini and Sabrina I. Pacifici detail how to use a wide range of reliable free and fee-based sites and services to find and profile companies and people, for client/prospect monitoring, to follow market trends, and to track law firms and the legal industry. Spam, Phishing and Fraud on the Net http://www.llrx.com/features/spam.ppt Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici's guide highlights federal, state, association, advocacy, corporate, commercial and news related resources providing reliable data that addresses the issues of spam, fraudulent website claims and offers, and attempts to obtain personal information to perpetrate ID theft. All of the above excellent presentations are well worth the time to visit! Excellent job Sabrina! posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   LexisNexis AlaCarte http://alacarte.lexisnexis.com/ This is a new service offered from NexisLexis called LexisNexis AlaCarte. Tabs include: Search News, Business Research, Legal, Business Public Records, Hots Topics and Search Additional Sources. Example would be need the latest news on your topic? Search more than 6,000 of the world's leading news sources from the past 2 years. $3/each. Know your source? Click the Search Additional Sources tab to select from more than 20,000 sources and 2.8 billion documents dating as far back as 1968. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Blog Tops U.S. Dictionary's Words of the Year by Greg Fros http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6957386 A four-letter term that came to symbolize the difference between old and new media during this year's presidential campaign tops U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's list of the 10 words of the year. Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blog, defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks," was one of the most looked-up words on its Internet sites this year. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation site. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, December 07, 2004   MedBioWorld MedBioWorld™ http://www.sciencekomm.at/ With over 35,000 directory links, MedBioWorld™ , a medical information division of Healthnostics, Inc., is the largest medical and bioscience reference and resource directory on the Internet. The site is currently ranked #1 for medical and bioscience directories by Google™, with links to 8,200 journals within 80 medical and bioscience specialties; the home pages of 7,000 medical and bioscience associations; and links to over 2,000 bioscience companies. Other research and reference tools include dictionaries and glossaries, search engines, disease databases, clinical trials, medical guidelines, education and training, and medical journal full-text articles and abstracts. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   DigiCULT.Info Issue 9 http://www.digicult.info/pages/newsletter.php DigiCULT announces the release of DigiCULT.Info Issue 9 A Newsletter on Digital Culture November 2004, ISSN 1609-3941. The acceptance of DigiCULT.Info as a voice for the sector is once again illustrated in this issue, not only in the large number of contributions received but also in the quality and diversity of themes presented. Some of the themes examined in this issue include: digital contextualisation for knowledge acquisition - reproducing Greek masks for performance - Austrian digital heritage - e-readiness check for small heritage institutions - news from DigiCULT's Regional Correspondents - examining technologies and cultural heritage - Te Ara digital encyclopedia - thoughts on born-digital art - DiVA academic archive - new guides on digitisation - DSpace in a university trial - event reports. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   OpenSourceCMS - Try Before You Install http://www.opensourcecms.com/ This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs. The administrator username and password is given for every system and each system is deleted and re-installed every two hours. This allows you to to add and delete content, change the way things look, basically be the admin of any system here without fear of breaking anything. At the upper left hand side of your screen you will see a clock that is counting down. What it shows is how much time is left in this two hour demo window. Once the clock hits 00:00:00, opensourceCMS.com will shut down and the demos will be completely refreshed. This takes about 5 minutes, and afterwards opensourceCMS.com will re-activate and the demo's will appear as fresh installations ready to be demo'ed again. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Free Articles Database http://www.writingcareer.com/freearticles.html WritingCareer.com’s FREE ARTICLES DATABASE is a searchable database of free, reprintable content. Visitors can search for specific content to publish with a few clicks of their mouse. Visitors may freely reprint any article from their database, online or offline, without prior permission from the author. Authors submit their content to our database and allow others to reprint their content for free as a way to generate publicity for themselves and/or their businesses. This has been added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   SmartDig™ - Business For Sale Search Engine http://www.smartdig.com/ SmartDig™ is an aggregator of businesses for sale on the Internet and the best source for finding the right business - locally and around the world. SmartDig™ indexes business for sale listings from business brokers, business owners, business for sale forums, as well as corporate and community sites. Their goal is to be the one-stop business for sale search engine portal by ensuring the best possible search experience for business buyers. This has been added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, December 06, 2004   Electronic Journal of Biotechnology Electronic Journal of Biotechnology http://www.ejbiotechnology.info/ Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, is a free international scientific electronic journal, published only in electronic format, that publishes gratuitously papers from all areas related to Biotechnology. It covers from molecular biology and the chemistry of biological process to aquatic and earth environmental aspects, as well as computational applications, biotechnology industry, policy and ethical issues directly related to Biotechnology. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   EPIC: Googlezon And The Newsmasters - Summary Of The World http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/11/29/summary_of_the_world_googlezon.htm Robin Good reports: By the year 2014, what I call newsmasters will be the most sought-after and highly rewarded professional media creators the world has ever seen. Newsmasters are an emerging group of news editors which utilize new tools and techniques to create unique content streams on specialized topics by tapping largely into the RSS content universe as well as in other openly reusable sources of news and information. In the fascinating scenario explored in this story, newsmasters will be the key news directors and producers of the future. They will be able to connect, filter and prioritize information for every media-consumer on the planet, using a single source of media content that contains everything that anyone could possibly ever want to know about. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   BIOS - Biological Innovation for Open Society http://www.bios.net/ The BIOS initiative will develop and validate a new means for the cooperative invention, improvement and delivery of biological technologies, drawing inspiration from the open source software movement to forge a 'protected commons' of knowledge and technology. A detailed description of the CAMBIA BIOS initiative is available by downloading the BIOS Initiative document (PDF file). Help shape the BIOS initiative by participating in the BIOS Forum. This has been added to the Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/ This annotated directory serves as a window on the rich Internet resources for the political units of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Mongolia) and Southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). For both Asia in general and for the individual political units, resources are grouped by various political, social, cultural and economic categories and sub-categories. There are also lists of resources on Asian Americans, and on current hot topics. Emphasis is on non-commercial and high-quality resources. Members of the academic community may find the lists of educational and research resources for Asia, China, Japan, Korea, and Asian American Studies to be of special interest. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Business Sources On the Net http://www.bl.uk/collections/business/bislinks.html The following sites have been identified as containing information of value to business researchers. Selection of the sites has been based on usability and relevance. The listing is selective, not extensive - sites have also been chosen to complement the hard copy and electronic information held in The British Library's science, technology and business collections. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   NewJour - New Journals and Newsletters http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/ NewJour is the place to announce your own (or to forward information about others') newly planned, newly issued, or revised ELECTRONIC NETWORKED journal or newsletter. It is specially dedicated for those who wish to share information in the planning, gleam-in-the-eye stage or at a more mature stage of publication development and availability. It is also the place to announce availability of paper journals and newsletters as they become available on -- move into -- electronic networks. Scholarly discussion lists which regularly and continuously maintain supporting files of substantive articles or preprints may also be reported, for those journal-like sections. We hope that those who see announcements on Bitnet, Internet, Usenet or other media will forward them to NewJour, but this does run a significant risk of boring subscribers with a number of duplicate messages. Therefore, NewJour IS filtered through a moderator to eliminate this type of duplication. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, December 05, 2004   Blog Is the Top Word of the Year 1) Publisher: 'Blog' No. 1 word of the year http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/11/30/words.of.the.year.reut/ 2) Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2004 http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/04words.htm 3) Yon-sama Japan's Word of the Year http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200411/200411170022.html 4) Blogger http://www.blogger.com/start 5) World History Blog http://world-history-blog.blogspot.com/ 6) Black and White Photography http://www.nyclondon.com/blog/ 7) Internet Scout Project Weblog http://scout.wisc.edu/Weblog/index.php This week Merriam-Webster Inc, the company responsible for producing that venerable dictionary announced its top 10 "words of the year" list, with the immensely popular "blog" taking the number one place. The company compiles the list each year by taking the most researched words on its various Web sites, and of course, always omits such consistently favored profanities. Interestingly enough, eight of the entries on this year's list included words related to prominent news events, such as the words incumbent, partisan, and hurricane. Blogs were responsible for creating a decent online (and offline) "buzz" around various political machinations during this presidential election year, including the contention that U.S President George W. Bush wore a listening device during his first debate against Democrat candidate John Kerry. While a Merriam-Webster spokesman was unable to give exact numbers for how many times blog had been looked up on its websites, he remarked that from July onward, the word received tens of thousands of hits per month. The first link offered here leads to a news story from CNN International that gives some background into this year's list, as compiled by the Merriam-Webster company. The second link will take visitors to the official list as offered by the company, and visitors may also see the definition for each word in full. On a somewhat related note, the third link leads to Digital Chosunilbo (a daily news report about Korea) that notes that the Japanese diminutive "Yon-sama" (which means "a humble player") has been selected as the word of the year to celebrate the publication of an annual book of words. If some of our visitors don't yet have a blog of their own, they will want to take a look at the fourth link which will let them create their own free blog quite quickly. The fifth link leads to the World History blog, which as its mission statement suggests, "features all aspects of world history." The sixth link will take visitors to yet another blog, which is in fact primarily dedicated to some rather striking photography of London and New York. The final link is close to our heart here at the Scout Project, as it is our very own blog where we post various items of interest for you, gentle reader. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004.http://scout.wisc.edu/] This has been added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   BRAINTRACK - University Index http://www.braintrack.com/ BRAINTRACK is a worldwide University-Index on the Internet. It contains Internet-Addresses of Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges and other higher educational institutions all over the world. BRAINTRACK is probably the largest University-Index on the Internet. It is produced and maintained by ionos. The company is located in the heart of Europe; in Zurich, Switzerland. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   YACY Distributed Web Crawler http://freshmeat.net/projects/yacyproxy/?branch_id=51198&release_id=179952 YACY is a distributed Web crawler and also a caching HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pages that pass through the proxy are indexed and can be searched using a built-in HTTP server. YACY peers connect each other and form a P2P-based index exchange network based on distributed hash tables. Explicit web crawls can be done locally or collaboratively, forming a global search and distributed indexing engine for the Web. It also provides URL filtering with blacklist sharing among other proxy peers, individual Web/servlet page hosting, a file sharing zone, and a database engine. This has been added to the search engines section of the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Deworming the Internet by Douglas Barnes http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=622364 Abstract: Both law enforcement and markets for software standards have failed to solve the problem of software that is vulnerable to infection by network-transmitted worms. Consequently, regulatory attention should turn to the publishers of worm-vulnerable software. Although ordinary tort liability for software publishers may seem attractive, it would interact in unpredictable ways with the winner-take-all nature of competition among publishers of mass-market, internet-connected software. More tailored solutions are called for, including mandatory "bug bounties" for those who find potential vulnerabilities in software, minimum quality standards for software, and, once the underlying market failure is remedied, liability for end users who persist in using worm-vulnerable software. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   WEB NET MUSEUM http://www.webnetmuseum.org/html/en/index_presentation_en.htm The WEB NET MUSEUM is a dynamic museum with international vocation, of strictly private nature. It is intended to replace more traditional institutions to introduce and support artists, works, experiments and events, in connection with the new digital culture. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   The Blog Revolution Sweeps Across China http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996707 This article describes the sweeping blogging revolution that has millions of Chinese active bloggers. Since blogging requires no technical understanding or skills, no cost and instant publishing to the web, many many people all over the world have become instant bloggers ...amazing times! posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, December 04, 2004   Robin Good Article on Latest Guide http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/12/04/academic_and_scholarly_search_engines.htm Robin Good's article today about my latest annotated Internet Miniguide Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources that was released yesterday. His comments are always greatly appreciated and will be part of my 2005 strategies and implementations. My thanks to you Robin! posted by Marcus | 1:00 PM   Marcus P. Zillman eProfile by Gerry McKiernan Gerry McKiernan is pleased to announce the publication and availability of his latest eProfile in _Library Hi Tech News_ - "Z as in Zillman." '"Z as in Zillman" is a descriptive review of the publications and (mostly free) information resources and services provided by Zillman: "Z as in Zillman," Library Hi Tech News 21, no. 9 (November 2004): 25-30. Self-archived at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Zillman.pdf ] posted by Marcus | 10:34 AM   ERS/USDA Briefing Rooms ERS/USDA Briefing Rooms http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/ Economic Research Service (ERS) of the United States Department of Agriculture offers the economics of food, farming, natural resources and rural America through briefing rooms. Each Briefing Room offers an indepth discussion synthesizing ERS research and the economic issues that frame the analysis. Also inside: recent ERS research developments, readings and data, questions and answers, and a collection of other ERS products and services addressing the issue. Briefing Rooms will continue to expand and evolve to reflect ongoing ERS research and current issues. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   OCLC Top 1000 http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/default.htm OCLC Research has compiled a list of the top 1000 titles owned by member libraries—the intellectual works that have been judged to be worth owning by the "purchase vote" of libraries around the globe. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Scholar's Guide to WWW http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/ A comprehensive guide to resources on the world wide web for scholars created by Richard Jensen and updated with monthly versions. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ The Visual Thesaurus is an animated display of words and meanings -- a visual representation of the English language. Looking up a word creates a visualization with your word in the center of the display, connected to related words and meanings. You can then click on these words or meanings to explore further. Type in a word in the text box, click "look it up," and you'll be rewarded with an interactive map showing the meaning of your word. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Term Paper Research Guide http://www.findarticles.com/p/page?sb=articles_guide_termpaper&tb=art Get support for term paper and college essay research in the sciences, humanities, and the arts, with access to articles from leading academic journals, plus annotated web resources about popular topics. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Medical Research Guide http://www.findarticles.com/p/page?sb=articles_guide_medical&tb=art Another good starting point for health care researchers and medical school students, with annotated resource guides and free access to articles from dozens of academic and professional journals. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, December 03, 2004   NextGRID: Architecture for Next Generation Grids http://www.nextgrid.org/ Grid computing is a new computing pardigm, which provides immense computing and knowledge capability on demand in the same way that electricity grid provides power. Grids are going to revolutionise computing as profoundly as e-mail and the Web revolutionised communications. Grids are now moving out of the laboratories, following the route taken by e-mail and the Web, and are set to change the way business is structured and how people work, learn and indeed live. NextGRID is part of a major initiative to ensure that Europe is a world leader in this technology which is so vital to the new knowledge-based economy. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Koders http://www.koders.com/ Koders is a search engine for source code. It enables developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects hosted at hundreds of open source repositories. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Scopus - World’s Largest Abstract Database of Scientific Literature http://www.scopus.com Scopus is a single Abstract and Indexing (A&I) database, which covers 14,000 scientific, technical, medical and social sciences titles from 4,000 STM publishers. Also 167 million scientific web pages going back forty years. Scopus offers cross-discipline access to 27 million abstracts and citations, back to 1966, including cited references from 1996 onwards. Scopus is about making searching easier and research more efficient. Built over two years together with more than 300 researchers and librarians from 21 research institutions worldwide, Scopus allows researchers to focus on the outcomes of their research, rather than on operating the database to find the literature they need. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   eBrary Library Center http://librarycenter.ebrary.com/ This site is intended to provide librarians and students with important research materials, industry news and information related to librarianship and related fields. This has been addded to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and the Information and Information Science section of Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Reuters RSS Feeds http://snipurl.com/awot Reuters news and television is now available through the Reuters RSS service. With Reuters RSS you can take Reuters world class news and television headlines, free of charge, for individual, non-commercial use and incorporate them into your preferred newsreaders and web logs. News Feeds include: Top News, Business News, US News, International, Politics, Entertainment, Technology, Science, Sports, Health News, Oddly Enough, and Life & Leisure. Television feeds include: World News, Business, Entertainment, Life!, and Oddly Enough. This has been added to the News section of Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Some Secrets Are In Plain Sight http://ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1097814155.php A new focus on "Open Source Intelligence," or OSINT in the military and intelligence worlds, is bringing to light the plethora of information available freely to anyone with the time and know-how to dig for it. With just a brief mention in its 567-page report, the 9/11 Commission floated the idea of creating a new open source government intelligence agency -- giving credence to the idea that intelligence gathering doesn't exclusively rely on hidden sources and classified documents. OSINT is intelligence gained from open -- unrestricted, non-secret -- sources, and it's one of the key forms of intelligence, alongside human-source intelligence (HUMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), among others. It is openly available intelligence, and its sources include all manners of journalism, whether broadcast, printed or blogged. The whole idea of OSINT is anathema to some in the intelligence community, which lives and breathes secrecy. But knowledgeable observers suggest that as much as 80% of the intelligence required to support informed policy-making is available via open-source channels -- and that the habits of secrecy, bureaucracy and "stove-piping" are all that stand between us and greater access to those sources. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, December 02, 2004   Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Scholar.pdf Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled "Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources" is a 38 page research paper listing selected resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find academic and scholarly information and knowledge available on the Internet. Each source is described along with the URL address than can be accessed. It is freely available as a .pdf file (669KB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated 09-10-06. Other white papers are available by clicking here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 2:48 PM   Government Resources on the Web - What's New http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/whatsnew.html The University of Michigan Documents Center Government Resources on the Web - What's New Site. This site has the latest happenings and resources on what is new in government resources and is updated on a very regular basis. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to eCurrent Awareness 2005 Report. posted by Marcus | 6:17 AM   EpistemeLinks - Philosophy Resources http://www.EpistemeLinks.com/ EpistemeLinks.com includes over 16,500 categorized links to philosophy resources on the Internet and has several additional features. Begin browsing the site by using the Philosophers or Topics links or by using one of the specific link category sections. As it is updated often, regular visitors would do well to find out what is new. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Librarian As Information Advisor http://snipurl.com/aw7q With more people equating "research" with a quick, two-word search on Google, librarians need to do a better job at publicizing their expertise and differentiating what they offer from surfing the Web. Rita Vine, co-founder of WorkingFaster.com, says, "To most users the world is just a giant bunch of information behind a screen, all of it accessible by keyword. I think librarians bring to the table an understanding of the nature of publishing. We know that some information might be in books, some might be in journals, others might be found in white papers or government documents. We're about to take a more structured approach than the average person who doesn't understand exactly how information happens." Vines says the world of information has become so complex that librarians need to move away from teaching patrons research methodology and toward the role of information advisor. "It's as if you wanted advice from your stockbroker and your stockbroker said, 'I'm not going to give you advice, I'm going to show you how to do technical analysis and then you can do it yourself, and at the end of the day, once you've figured out how to do this, you're going to pick your own stocks and you're not going to need me.' You can see the lunacy of that. And I think information is getting that complicated. People need advice and recommendations and they need a way for us to simplify their lives. So public sector librarians are moving to become advice givers -- we are actually in the business of saving time." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Codes of Ethics Online http://ethics.iit.edu/codes Site presents codes of ethics of professional societies, corporations, government, and academic institutions, of the over 850 codes they have in their paper archive, who gave them permission to include their code. Earlier versions of codes of ethics of some organizations represented are available so researchers can study the development of codes. A literature review, an introduction to the codes, and a user guide are included. Searchable and also indexed by topic. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Open Access In Scholarly Publishing http://www.infotoday.com/IT/nov04/poynder.shtml Richard Poynder, a U.K.-based freelance journalist who specializes in intellectual property and the information industry, observes that self-archiving is gaining allies in some surprising quarters: "President of Blackwell Publishing Bob Campbell, for instance, has come to believe that not only is it acceptable, but it could benefit publishers. First, by offering easily accessible archives over the Web, it would deflect criticism from those who argue that the taxpayer should be entitled to read what they have paid for. Second, self-archiving may drive traffic toward publishers' versions of articles -- thereby increasing, rather than decreasing, access to their services, through the so-called citation boosting effect, which provides "increasing evidence that self- or open archiving provides an added promotional effect for the official version." Poynder finishes his column with this meditation: "What, then, is the solution to the journal affordability problem? We don't know. What we do know is that, although the merits of OA are indisputable, it looks certain (in the short term at least) to increase, not decrease, library costs. The tragedy for librarians is that while they have done so much to promote OA, their reward has been only further financial pain. No gain without pain, they say. In this case, researchers gain; libraries feel the pain!" posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   CogPrints http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ CogPrints, an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. This is part of my white paper Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, December 01, 2004   Article on Blogs and Business What are Blogs, and Why Your Business Should Use One by Richard Zwicky http://www.isedb.com/news/article/1054 An excellent article describing what is happening in the business community when it comes to blogs and blogging. It also has some pointers on what your blog should do and not do to be read by the many cyber travelers traveling throughout the new blogspace! posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   HighWire Press http://highwire.stanford.edu/ Search over 15 million articles from over 4,500 PubMed journals, including 780,707 free full text articles from 757 HighWire-hosted journals. I have posted on this excellent resource before but as I am now preparing my next white paper on Scholar and Academic Search Engines, I thought it would be a good resource to remind others about! posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Linkman http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=5 Linkman is a complete bookmarking solution to store, organize, annotate and check your favorite Internet pages. Linkman efficiently handles up to tens of thousands of URLs by using a database to store your links. It can call upon many powerful facilities that replace the browser's native bookmark management systems. You can easily add URLs from all opened browser sessions and let retrieve keywords and descriptions automatically. The user interface is highly customizable. You get the capability to import and synchronize from existing bookmark collections and export bookmarks in a variety of formats. You can even build your own Export Templates. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/ Cornell University's Law School has an international reputation for scholarly activity, and Scout Report readers will be glad to learn about the online resources afforded by its Legal Information Institute (LII). Founded in 1992 by co-directors Thomas R. Bruce and Peter W. Martin, the LII publishes electronic versions of "core materials in numerous areas of the law". Some of the key materials that users will find here include Supreme Court decisions, decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals, decisions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Code. For those more casual or first-time users, the site has a well-written introduction to basic legal citation and a lexicon of basic legal terms. The homepage of the site also features a selection of recent law events that have made the news, complete with hypertext links to the complete decisions. The "Law about…" area is helpful, as visitors can browse around to find information about various sectors of law including enterprise law, criminal law, and constitutional law. This has been added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Last Call: QA Specification Guidelines http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-spec-20041122/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-qa-handbook-20041122/ http://www.w3.org/QA/ The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the "QA Framework: Specification Guidelines." The document is designed to help W3C editors write better specifications by making a specification easier to interpret without ambiguity, and clearer as to what is required in order to conform. Comments are welcome through 28 January. "The QA Handbook" is now a Working Group Note. Written for W3C Working Group Chairs and Team Contacts, the handbook provides techniques, tools, and templates for test suites and specifications, and is designed to facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups. Learn more about quality assurance at W3C. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/index.html For many years astronomical images from the world’s telescopes were reserved for an elite of astronomers and technical people. Now anyone with a desktop computer running Adobe® Photoshop® software can try their hand at crafting astronomical images as beautiful as those from the Hubble Space Telescope. This free software plug-in, makes a treasure trove of archival astronomical and spectra from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and many other famous telescopes accessible to home astronomy enthusiasts. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM		archives subject tracers™ Marcus P. Zillman Blog Home Internet Alerts Audio Welcome Marcus P. Zillman Internet Speaker Marcus P. Zillman Internet Consultant Marcus P. 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