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

Monday, January 31, 2005   Software for Research This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. January 31, 2005 V3N5 discusses Jay Tate's excellent site Software for Research (Using Windows). Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this comprehensive site. View this site at: Software for Research (Using Windows) http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/01/software-for-research.html posted by Marcus | 7:50 AM   SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides http://www.sparknotes.com/ SparkNotes books and SparkNotes.com exist to help students learn and practice basic skills, write a paper, study for a test and achieve their academic goals. They believe that doing well in school and learning is its own reward, and that learning is more than just getting a diploma from a brand name college. Created by Harvard students for students everywhere and geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes study guides are the perfect aid for studying and writing papers. Each guide contains thorough summaries and insightful critical analysis of a nearly endless range of subjects including English literature, Shakespeare, History and Math and Science. They offer hundreds of study guides for free to read on the web, and many SparkNotes and SparkCharts as downloadable, printable PDFs. And it doesn't stop there. They built their name with literature guides, but SparkNotes has even more to offer high school and college kids. No matter what the subject—The SAT, English Grammar, Spanish, Chemistry—SparkNotes will help you figure it out fast, and have fun doing it. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Knowledge Base Editor's Digest http://www.montagueinfotech.com/digest.htm This Digest consists of articles and abstracts from the Montague Institute Review and content from other publications and Web sites. Note that it's possible for an article to appear in more than one of the categories in the left sidebar. To find articles on more specific topics, see the A - Z Index. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   FOAF Vocabulary Specification http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/#sec-foafvocab The FOAF project is based around the use of machine readable Web homepages for people, groups, companies and other kinds of thing. To achieve this they use the "FOAF vocabulary" to provide a collection of basic terms that can be used in these Web pages. At the heart of the FOAF project is a set of definitions designed to serve as a dictionary of terms that can be used to express claims about the world. The initial focus of FOAF has been on the description of people, since people are the things that link together most of the other kinds of things they describe in the Web: they make documents, attend meetings, are depicted in photos, and so on. The FOAF Vocabulary definitions presented here are written using a computer language (RDF/OWL) that makes it easy for software to process some basic facts about the terms in the FOAF vocabulary, and consequently about the things described in FOAF documents. A FOAF document, unlike a traditional Web page, can be combined with other FOAF documents to create a unified database of information. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   NOVA scienceNOW http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/ For more than three decades, NOVA has been unrivaled in bringing authoritative, innovative, and entertaining science documentaries to television. Now the same award-winning producers have teamed up with veteran reporter Robert Krulwich to cover the timeliest developments and intriguing personalities in science and technology today. Presenting multiple stories in a magazine format hosted by Krulwich and reported by a diverse team of correspondents in the field, NOVA scienceNOW will air five times a year in the NOVA time slot, Tuesdays at 8 PM ET. The first NOVA scienceNOW episode premieres on January 25, 2005. It includes segments on the potential catastrophic flooding that threatens New Orleans, the "booming sands" of Death Valley, a profile of "swarm-robot" pioneer James McLurkin, and a special report by Krulwich on the brain structures called "mirror neurons," which may affect everything from language evolution to the visceral appeal of spectator sports. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Planet Digital Repository http://ants.etse.urv.es/planetdr/ The URV Educational Content Repository is a content server that implements the ECL protocol using web services. It is based on the repositories interoperability stardard: IMS DRI. This website acts as a client of the different web services provided by the content repositories that implemement their services from ECL. The ECL functions implemented by the URV's web services consist of search service, submit service and request service. There are different types of search, first, the quick search, that allows to ask for contents that verify in any field of the associated meta-data the wished word. The advanced search consists of two types: search by main meta-data category, where any field of a LOM meta-data category could be specified. The second type is accumulated search, that allows to make search on any field, linking together conditions of different LOM categories. It is possible to invoke the web services provided by the URV, or the web services implemented by any active content servers. It is also possible to invoque a feredated search, (a simulated gather service) linking together the results of the requests of all the active content servers. In the future we plan to create a decentralized peer-to-peer repository linking heterogeneus ECL-compliant content servers. It will be based on related projects such as Dermi and PlanetSim. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Juicy Studio - Keeping Developers Informed http://juicystudio.com/ Juicy Studio is an independent UK site, run by Gez Lemon. It's an unfortunate surname, but explains why the site is Juicy. The mission of the site is to promote best practice for web developers, and programmers in a fast moving industry. Whether you're a novice or a professional, there's something for you. An ever-increasing range of tutorials, from Programming and Web Development, to general IT related issues. A Glossary of Terms, explaining the abbreviations and acronyms used throughout the tutorials. When you're on the move, visit the Juicy Studio WAP site to keep up with the latest tutorials, and search the Glossary of Terms database. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, January 30, 2005   Women in Science and Mathematics 1) Yahoo News: Harvard President Criticized for Remarks http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050118/ap_on_re_us/harvard_president&e=2&ncid= 2) Harvard University: Letter from President Summers on Women and Science http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/womensci.html 3) Social Forces: Gender Differences in Mathematical Trajectories http://fp.arizona.edu/soc/socforcegendermath.pdf 4) Society of Women Engineers: To the Editor http://www.swe.org/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=swe_001267&ssSourceNodeId=20 5) Engineers Week: MentorNet Founder Responds to Harvard University President’s Comments on Women in Science http://www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/mentornet.shtml 6) Nelson Diversity Surveys http://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu/faculty/djn/diversity/top50.html 7) Institute for Mathematics and its Applications: Career Options for Women in Mathematics http://www.ima.umn.edu/cwims/abstracts/2-4abstract.html Recent comments by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers, regarding women and mathematics have spurred numerous articles and responses. The first article from Yahoo News (1) gives an overview of the event, his comments, and some reactions. The comment most at issue is whether or not innate sex differences might leave women less capable of succeeding at the most advanced mathematics. The second website (2) offers Summers’ apology and clarifies his comments. The third article (3), although from 2001, reviews some previous research on gender differences in mathematics and discusses findings from a study that, based on longitudinal data, found that “gender differences are slight, late developing, and subject-specific.” This response from the Society of Women Engineers (4) offers some further insight on why there are fewer women than men in mathematics and science careers. This next website from Engineers Week (5) invites others to join the discussion forum on this issue. This website (7) posts the Nelson Diversity Survey, which gives 2005 statistics for diversity in science and engineering facilities at research universities, while the next website looks to the future (6) and offers some short abstracts describing some prospective Career Options for Women in Mathematics. [Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Virtual Information and Intellectual Freedom: Challenges for Knowledge Organizer and Information Manager http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/15/0742229 Development of the Internet and the increasing popularity of the WWW have opened up a new realm of information access, storage, and delivery for librarians and information professionals. Libraries are striving to respond to the pervasive and persistent growth of global networking and manage the demand for access to this dynamic medium. Working in the trenches of the digital revolution, librarians and information professionals are beginning to offer Internet services to patrons; their work marks the beginning of the grassroots implementation of the “Public” digital library. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Chinese To Overtake US Net Use http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4190937.stm The Chinese net-using population looks set to exceed that of the US in less than three years, says a report. China's net users number 100m but this represents less than 8% of the country's 1.3 billion people. Market analysts Panlogic predicts that net users in China will exceed the 137 million US users of the net by 2008. The report says that the country's culture will mean that Chinese people will use the net for very different ends than in many other nations. This one we really need to watch and analyze all the possibilities and ramifications ...... very interesting ..... posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Intelligent Searching http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3453331 IBM has been working on intelligence systems that can pull subtext from stored data (including both structured information in databases and unstructured information such as e-mail or video files). IBM's OmniFind (IBM's enterprise search engine for file systems, content repositories, databases, collaboration systems, applications and intranets) integrates with any portal or content management system. IBM's natural language processing known as PIQUANT (for "the Practical Intelligent Question Answering Technology") analyzes the semantic structure of a passage, culling information that wasn't overtly present on a database or file system and allowing users to find answers to specific questions -- even if the keywords they use do not exist in the article they're searching. And IBM's WebFountain system converts the disparate ways information is presented online into a uniform format that can be analyzed. (John Battelle, a search expert and co-founder of Wired magazine, calls WebFountain and Google "kissing cousins," since they were both inspired by an earlier concept of a system that would count inbound and outbound links to identify central sites in a community.) posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Ohio State University-Astrophysics and Cosmology http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~astro/ The Astrophysics and Cosmology section at Ohio State University describes its eclectic research in the formation of molecules, theoretical astrophysics, stellar structure, astro-particle physics, early universe cosmology, and various astrophysical environments. Users can find summaries of the numerous research interests, the activities, and accomplishments of the faculty and the graduate students. The website offers lists, full texts, and abstracts of published works and pre-prints. Users can find links to other cosmology groups who are working on similar problems as those at Ohio State. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/]. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   The Why Files http://whyfiles.org/teach/index.html The Why Files portrays science as a critical human endeavor conducted by ordinary people. They use news and current events as springboards to explore science, health, environment and technology. They cover the details and larger issues of science in an effort to show science as a human enterprise and a way of viewing the world. They describe research results, but their overarching goal is to explain the process, culture and people that shape science. This real-life approach to science writing makes this ideal for teachers and students alike. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, January 29, 2005   Nutrition.gov Nutrition.gov http://www.nutrition.gov/ Nutrition.gov provides easy access to the best food and nutrition information from across the federal government and educational institutions. It serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers, educators and health professionals. Providing science-based dietary guidance is critical to enhance the public's ability to make healthy choices in the effort to reduce obesity and other food related diseases. Since dietary needs change throughout the lifespan, specialized nutrition information is provided about infants, children, teens, adult women and men, and seniors. Users can find practical information on healthy eating, dietary supplements, fitness and how to keep food safe. The site is kept fresh with the latest news and features links to interesting sites. The Nutrition.gov Web site contains more than 1000 links to current and reliable nutrition information. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   2005 Index of Economic Freedom http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/ The 2005 Index of Economic Freedom measures 161 countries against a list of 50 independent variables divided into 10 broad factors of economic freedom. Low scores are more desirable. The higher the score on a factor, the greater the level of government interference in the economy and the less economic freedom a country enjoys. These 50 variables are grouped into the following categories: 1) Trade policy, 2) Fiscal burden of government, 3) Government intervention in the economy, 4) Monetary policy, 5) Capital flows and foreign investment, 6) Banking and finance, 7) Wages and prices, 8) Property rights, 9) Regulation, and 10) Informal market activity. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   In Search of Better Searches http://www.syracuse.com/technology/poststandard/dempsey/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1104918968312170.xml Syracuse Post-Standard staff researcher Jan Dempsey offers six tips on honing your online searches. First, don't mistake quantity for quality -- zero in on authoritative sources like encyclopedia articles, almanacs or other reference tools. When possible, try to access primary sources -- information often becomes progressively more garbled the more often it's repeated. Find out where the information originated and go to that site or e-mail the source. "Especially with statistics, if there's no source cited, don't trust it," warns Dempsey. Remember to use your local library -- many of them now offer online access to catalogs, databases and even reference librarians, 24/7. Don't rely on a single favorite search engine. As good as Google or Yahoo is, it's not perfect. Get in the habit of checking several search engines or using a meta-search engine such as www.info.com, which scans several search engines at one time. And when you're typing in your search request, use the advanced features that can help you make your search more precise. Dempsey suggests: "When you're trying to figure out words to include in the search box, try to visualize the results. If you are looking for an article on the greatest American presidents, names such as Lincoln, Roosevelt and Washington would normally appear in the article. Use those names in your search (i.e., greatest presidents washington lincoln roosevelt)." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   memeorandum - Headline News and Related Blogs http://www.memeorandum.com/ memeorandum presents a distinctly readable and relevant hourly synopsis of the latest online news and opinion, combining weblog commentary with traditional news reports. Weblogs (or blogs) are crucial for making memeorandum possible. Weblogs are online publications (usually arranged in a journal format) produced by small groups or individuals (bloggers), normally without the guidance — and interference — of editors. This freedom empowers bloggers to publish their immediate reactions to news and events, allowing memeorandum to capture these reactions within minutes. The common practice among bloggers of linking liberally in postings is key to helping memeorandum determine when two disparate writings share a common theme. Headlines: memeorandum organizes commentary around headlines drawn from both traditional print/online publications (e.g. Washington Post) and web-only sources (e.g. SpinSanity). No attempt is made to separate so-called "straight news" from op-ed, editorial, or other pieces that disclaim objectivity. Any judgment of fairness is left solely to the reader. Articles are ordered by one of two ranking methods: most relevant first (the default ranking), and newest first. These are explained in more detail here. Balance: although efforts were made to include voices on both sides of the (mainly "Anglosphere") political spectrum, the resulting balance will inevitably leave many hoping for something different. But of course, the same is true for most other publications. Breadth: memeorandum quotes some — but not most — weblogs and other publications, emphasizing the influential and popular. From an editorial point a view, this approach has both an upside and downside. The advantages are clearer from a technical viewpoint, as computing resources and manpower are limited. In any case, expect the roster of quoted publications to grow and evolve over the time. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Cliche Finder http://www.westegg.com/cliche/ Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use? Are you searching for a cliché using the word "cat" or "day" but haven't been able to come up with one? Just enter any words in the form below, and this search engine will return any clichés which use that phrase...Over 3,300 clichés indexed! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   LegalTorrents http://www.legaltorrents.com/ LegalTorrents is a collection of legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved files, from electronic/indie music to movies and books, which we have made available via BitTorrent - we (concept/updates - simon c., code - reed, bandwidth - joe/tommy, logo - tony kinglux) are also hosting a 'guaranteed' high speed seed for them. Everyone that grabs the BitTorrent client and downloads helps contribute more bandwidth, because BitTorrent utilizes your unused upload bandwidth. Please note that all of the current torrents are made available under a Creative Commons license with the full permission of the rights holder. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, January 28, 2005   DNS Stuff DNS Stuff http://www.dnsstuff.com/ DNSstuff: Free fast, advanced and comprehensive web-based DNS tools, going beyond just ping, tracert/traceroute, WHOIS and DNS lookups. Neat site with lots of DNS stuff that will allow you to do some serious checking and finding information about all your domains and IP numbers. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   MP3Blogs Aggregator http://www.mp3blogs.org/ An aggregated feed of mp3 weblogs: updated every hour on the hour. Read online or via our RSS feed. Never miss a link to your new favourite tune again. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   The Bandwidth Report http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/ The Bandwidth Report is a monthly roundup of broadband penetration figures from the US and elsewhere. Each month we'll report on the speed of our connections, both at work and at home. Additionally, we'll predict the growth of broadband based on current trends. Thanks to Nielsen//NetRatings, Jupiter Research, Ipsos-Reid, the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication, the International Telecommunication Union, and the Leichtman Research Group for providing the original data. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Magazines on Web Tools and Content by Reid Goldsborough http://www.infotoday.com/linkup/lud011505-goldsborough.shtml A list by Reid Goldsborough discussing various magazine on web tools and content. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   MindHacks http://www.mindhacks.com/ On MindHacks.com you'll find a blog where Tom and Matt (and guest authors) post extra demos and commentary on how to look inside your brain using neuroscience and psychology. Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment workings of our brain with a view to understanding ourselves a little better and learning a little more, in a very real sense, about what makes us tick. It's by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb, and published by O'Reilly. Visit O'Reilly's Mind Hacks catalog page for a longer description, sample hacks, the table of contents and a full index. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Fifty Writing Tools - The Workbench of Roy Peter Clark http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=61811 A fine resource of writing tools that will definitely assist the writer in attempting to accomplish their goal. These fifty writing tools are listed by Roy Peter Clark and are definitely worth a look and bookmark. His friend Tom French, who won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, told him he liked his tool list because it covered writing from the "sub-atomic to the metaphysical level." By sub-atomic, he meant the ways words, phrases, and sentences work. By metaphysical, he meant the ways writers live, dream, and work. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, January 27, 2005   WebRoots WebRoots http://www.webroots.org/ Nonprofit Library for Genealogy & History-Related Research. A Free Resource Covering the United States and Some International Areas. Items include books, journals, diaries, manuscripts, memoirs, letters, etc, most are text files. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   OpenNet Initiative - Documenting Internet Content Filtering Worldwide http://www.opennetinitiative.net/ The ONI mission is to investigate and challenge state filtration and surveillance practices. Their approach applies methodological rigor to the study of filtration and surveillance blending empirical case studies with sophisticated means for technical verification. Their aim is to generate a credible picture of these practices at a national, regional and corporate level, and to excavate their impact on state sovereignty, security, human rights, international law, and global governance. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm The aim of this site is to catalog all deceased authors, and all authors of books published before 1964, including their full name(s), date of death, date of birth, pseudonyms, sex & nationality (for non-EU citizens who died after c1920), and their books published before 1964. The purpose of this site is: 1) by cataloging the dates of death of authors, to enable the determination of the expiry of their copyright where a “life + x years” rule applies. Where the date of death is unavailable, the date of birth or date of their first publication can be used to set an upper limit to the duration of copyright – see my Authors by Year of Death webpages to see whose copyright expires each year in the near future, 2) by cataloging the dates of publication of books, to enable the determination of the expiry of their copyright where a “publication + x years” rule applies. In the US, for works published from 1923 thru 1963 the copyright status also depends on whether the initial copyright was renewed – see my Catalog of Copyright Entries (Renewals) webpages for guidance on this, and 3) to identify those books already available on the Internet, to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort by “electronic republishers”. This is a mammoth project, and is only partially complete. The online webpages here currently catalog 85 000 authors out of what is estimate to be at least 300 000 deceased authors, and over 135 000 (20 000 online) out of what is estimated to be at least 2 000 000 books published before 1964. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Software for Research (Using Windows) http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~jaytate/software.htm An excellent resource covering software for research (using Windows) by Jay Tate covering the following research software areas: 1) Getting Started, 2) Managing Information, 3) Finding Information, 4) Analyzing Information, 5) Presenting Research, and 6) Buying Software. This is well worth the visit and bookmark as it lists many software resources for research. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Student Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This also has been added to my white paper link compilation titled Online Research Tools. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   The XML Bookmark Exchange Language Resource Page http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/ The XML Bookmark Exchange Language, or XBEL, is an Internet "bookmarks" interchange format. It was designed by the Python XML Special Interest Group on the group's mailing list. The original intent was to create an interesting, fun project which was both useful and would demonstrate the Python XML processing software which was being developed at the time. Mark Hammond contributed the original idea, and other members of the SIG chimed in to add support for their favorite browser features. After debate which ranged far afield from the original idea, compromises were reached which allow XBEL to be a useful language for describing bookmark data for a range of browsers, including the major browsers and a number of less widely used browsers. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Future Brief http://www.futurebrief.com/ Future Brief provides its visitors with brief introductions to breaking news of future-oriented research, with links to more detail for those interested, directly on their home page. It's a simple, fast way to keep an eye on the rapidly changing world for the busy professional who has no time to "surf" a dozen or more websites every day. They do it for you. In addition, they provide Daily Brief, an extremely brief newsletter that sends the day's story summaries and related links to you directly. For those who have the time and interest, they provide a resources section with additional sources of information and an events page where relevant conferences, seminars and other meetings are listed. Finally, they have initiated a new commentary section where experts in their fields will present thought-provoking and cutting edge assessments of the current trends that will define our global future. This has been added to Information Futures Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, January 26, 2005   Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N2 February 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N2 February 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N2.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The February 2005 V3N2 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 28 page .pdf document (509KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online resources and sources covering all aspects of social informatics. 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 Analyzing Social Networks on the Semantic Web by Li Ding, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi; and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subject: Military Resources. posted by Marcus | 2:07 PM   Google Groups Beta Google Groups Beta http://groups-beta.google.com/ Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account. They compiled some especially memorable articles and threads. For example, read Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of what became the World Wide Web or Linus Torvalds' post about his "pet project". You can find more in-depth information about the archive here. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Development Gateway Foundation http://www.developmentgateway.org/ The Development Gateway Foundation is an enabler of development. They help improve people’s lives in developing countries by building partnerships and information systems that provide access to knowledge for development. They exploit powerful and affordable information and communication technologies (ICT) that were previously unavailable to: * Increase knowledge sharing; * Enhance development effectiveness; * Improve public sector transparency; and * Build local capacity to empower communities. The Development Gateway is an independent not-for-profit organization. It was conceived by World Bank President James Wolfensohn and initially developed in the World Bank. Operations began in July 2001. This has been added to Grant Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Azureus - Java Bittorrent Client http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ Azureus is a java bittorrent client. It provides a bittorrent protocol implementation using java language. Azureus offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. Azureus now features an embedded tracker easily set up and ready to use. Azureus was the September 2004 Project of the Month on Sourceforge! This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Integrating Data Mining, Databases and Information Retrieval (IDDI-05) http://iddi05.unibg.it/ Mass storage devices allow organizations to store very large volumes of data; in the form of relational data, textual documents, semi-structured (XML) documents. An important issue organizations would like to address is “how to take advantage from such large volumes of data”, in order to extract useful information for decision making, to improve the quality of their activities, for sharing useful knowledge, etc.. Researchers working on data mining and knowledge discovery techniques are providing solutions for discovering useful and/or unexpected information from large volumes of data; in particular, they argued that a strong integration between data mining tools and databases is necessary to foster the day by day exploitation of such techniques. In more than thirty years, researchers belonging to the Information Retrieval community produced a number of proposals of categorization techniques, indexing criteria, retrieval models and user interfaces for dealing with textual and multimedia documents. Today the emerging research themes of IR research deal with collections of multimedia documents heterogeneously structured and rapidly changing in time, and semi-structured (XML) documents. These problems are also faced by the database and data mining communities, even if from a complementary perspective. The workshop is addressed to researchers in data mining, databases, and IR, working on the extension of existing data models, languages and techniques, or on the definition of new data models, languages and techniques, with the aim of improving the capabilities of current systems. In particular, they encourage papers concerning the extraction of information from collections of data, possibly stored in some form of database. Hence they are interested in contributions presenting ideas and solutions based on the integration of data mining and/or database and/or information retrieval. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   PodCast Alley http://www.podcastalley.com/ PodCast Alley is one of the best places to find all information relating to podcasts and podcasting. They are striving to develop the biggest and best directory of podcasts available on the internet. Podcasting is a great way for professionals and individuals alike to create audio news files (podcasts) that people can download to their iPods and listen to when they are away from their computers. Listen to my latest and two years archives of my weekly podcast on Current Happenings On the Internet by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   FedBizOpps (FBO) http://www2.eps.gov/index.html FedBizOpps.gov is the single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000. Government buyers are able to publicize their business opportunities by posting information directly to FedBizOpps via the Internet. Through one portal - FedBizOpps (FBO) - commercial vendors seeking Federal markets for their products and services can search, monitor and retrieve opportunities solicited by the entire Federal contracting community. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, January 25, 2005   February 2005 Zillman Column February 2005 Zillman Column - Information Quality Resources and Sources http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Information Quality Feb05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The February 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Information Quality Resources and Sources. This February 2005 Zillman Column Information Quality Resources and Sources is a comprehensive listing of resources and sources that explain how to determine the quality and competency of information sources on the World Wide Web. With the recent release of the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s report titled: “Search Engine Users”, we have seen that there is a remarkable need to educate the majority of users of the Internet on how to determine the quality and competency of information available on the world wide web. Download this excellent 12 page free .pdf (362KB) column today and begin using the many resources about determining the quality of information in the World Wide Web! © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 2:41 PM   UNESCO Free Software Portal UNESCO Free Software Portal http://snipurl.com/c1cm The UNESCO Free Software Portal gives access to documents and websites which are references for the Free Software/Open Source Technology movement. It is also a gateway to resources related to Free Software. This site also includes a number of excellent links and resources for free software as well as the open source movement. Also is a link to an excellent directory titled Free Software Foundation (FSF) UNESCO Free Software Directory listing over 3500 reviewed and freely available software. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Digital Audio Book Service for the Blind http://www.overdrive.com/news/pr/20050105.asp State libraries for the blind in Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, New Hampshire, and Oregon, along with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), part of the Library of Congress, have partnered to launch "Unabridged.info," a digital audio book service for visually impaired users (http://www.unabridged.info). Those users will be able to check out and download digital spoken-word audio books directly to their computers and then replay them on a PC, transfer them to a portable MP3 playback device, or burn them onto CDs. The service is powered by a new digital audio book system from OverDrive (http://www.overdrive.com), and content is delivered as encrypted Windows Media Audio files, making use of Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) service. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Search Engine Users: Internet Searchers Are Confident, Satisfied and Trusting – But They Are Also Unaware and Naïve http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/146/report_display.asp http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Searchengine_users.pdf Internet users are extremely positive about search engines and the experiences they have when searching the internet. But these same satisfied internet users are generally unsophisticated about why and how they use search engines. They are also strikingly unaware of how search engines operate and how they present their results. Internet users behave conservatively as searchers: They tend to settle quickly on a single search engine and then stick with it, rather than switching as search technology evolves or comparing results from different search systems. Some 44% of searchers regularly use just one engine, and another 48% use just two or three. Nearly half of searchers use a search engines no more than a few times a week, and two-thirds say they could walk away from search engines without upsetting their lives very much. Internet users trust their favorite search engines, but few say they are aware of the financial incentives that affect how search engines perform and how they present their search results. Only 38% of users are aware of the distinction between paid or “sponsored” results and unpaid results. And only one in six say they can always tell which results are paid or sponsored and which are not. This finding is ironic, since nearly half of all users say they would stop using search engines if they thought engines were not being clear about how they presented paid results. My latest column - February 2005 is titled Information Quality Resources and Sources and is an excellent educattion resource for properly identifying information quality and competency on the world wide web. posted by Marcus | 4:18 AM   Representational State Transfer (REST) by Paul James http://www.peej.co.uk/articles/rest.html Introduction to Article by Author: REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is a phrase coined by Roy Fielding in his dissertation Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. It is an attempt to describe the undocumented architectural design principles behind the Web. In fact you are using the World's largest and most popular REST system right now, yes, the World Wide Web......With all the talk of Web Services by the big software companies of this World, REST has (or will, maybe) come back into the limelight as an HTTP RPC protocol (like SOAP and XML-RPC). posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   MrSapo - Power Interface Search http://www.mrsapo.com/ MrSapo.com provides Internet users with the ability to query multiple search engines from the same interface, thus making accessing the right information much easier and a lot quicker. MrSapo.com combines this power of search with simplicity of use. Search terms are entered into a field, and the user can simply choose, from a host of tabs at the top, which search engine he wants to use; to view another source, he just clicks the appropriate tab. There are also tabs to choose the media type - websites, news, images, audio, video or weblogs. [Thanks to Tara at ResearchBuzz for this find] This will be added to the Search Engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   National Statistics Online (UK) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ Perhaps you have a burning desire to find detailed statistical information about agriculture in Wales, or even about poverty in London's East End. All of this information can be found on the very thorough and usable National Statistics homepage, which provides information on Britain's economy, population, and society. Given the amount of information on the site, visitors would do well to look through the UK at a Glance area. Here they will find basic information on the gross domestic product, consumer spending, unemployment, and population estimates. Along with these aggregate figures for the entire nation, visitors can visit the neighborhood statistics section, where they can retrieve summary statistics for different locales around England and Wales. A number of fine reports based on the 2001 Census are also available for the general public's consideration, and they include considerations of the state of children's dental health to the provisioning of programs for the elderly. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Dropload http://www.dropload.com/ Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 7 days, regardless if they have been picked up or not. You can upload any type of file, mp3, movies, docs, pdfs, up to 100MB each! Recipients can be anyone with an email address. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, January 24, 2005   Deep Web Research 2005 by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. January 24, 2005 V3N4 discusses January 2005 LLRX's feature article Deep Web Research 2005. Web search guru Marcus P. Zillman's guide extensively documents resources that include articles, books, websites, presentations, search engines, and technology applications that facilitate the challenging task of accessing information, published in many formats, that encompass the hundreds of millions of pages comprising the "deep web. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this featured article on LLRX. View this site at: January 2005 LLRX Featured Article: Deep Web Research 2005 http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2005.htm posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   net.TUTOR http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/ net.TUTOR offers interactive tutorials on basic tools and techniques for becoming an effective Internet researcher. Managing cognitive load -- the amount of information people can process -- is essential to effective teaching or training. Bombarding learners with too much information at once, called cognitive overload, is one of the chief obstacles to learning. A commonly cited research study notes that working memory, the kind we use when learning new information, can hold seven (plus or minus two) chunks of information. Dividing each net.TUTOR lesson into segments (Classroom, Quiz, etc.) and then further subdividing these segments into a manageable number of chunks, allows users to digest new concepts and skills in a manner that prevents overload. Web-based tutorial users will also enjoy a great deal of flexibility in managing their cognitive load, selecting instructional tasks from a menu of lessons, depending upon the amount and kinds of skills they bring with them, and once engaged in a lesson, selecting which portions of that particular lesson they wish to complete. Because the limited capacity of working memory is rapidly overwhelmed by large amounts of new information, frequent opportunities to practice are important. Rehearsal encodes or moves information into long-term memory. The net.TUTOR user is presented with practice opportunities throughout the classroom portion of the lesson. Finally, online testing is used to reinforce material. Elaborative rehearsal involves presenting questions which allow the user to apply knowledge in an appropriate context, thus encoding it into permanent memory. When feasible, net.TUTOR test questions may also provide an authentic assessment of user skill levels by calling on the user to apply the appropriate techniques and practices from the lesson. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Econometrics Links http://www.feweb.vu.nl/econometriclinks/ The econometriclinks.com website is a collection of Econometric Links offered by the Econometrics Journal. The links covered include time series analysis, microeconometrics, labormetrics, cliometrics, finance metrics, risk metrics, credit metrics, crash metrics, pension metrics, analyst metrics, Web metrics, econophysics, environmetrics, spatial econometrics, markometrics, marketing research, customer service metrics, inventory metrics, demand metrics, psychometrics, medicometrics, and other schools of applied statistics related to (inter)human behaviour. (Econometrics theory is not included). The website is intended to support anyone teaching econometrics. The links are organized so that newly added links are listed at the top of the page followed by a section listing Econometricians. The remaining sections provide links to Econometrics papers, such as preprints, articles and dissertations; econometric software; code and data; (metadata) data sources (which are listed alphabetically); news lists; conferences and summer courses, and journals. The entire table of contents can be searched using a Web browser. Visitors are encouraged to email their additions, especially conferences. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Opening the Gates To Information Commons http://www.econtentinstitute.org/issues/ISarticle.asp?id=157663&story_id=42354113250&issue=11012004&PC While respecting the right of corporations to charge for information, some information professionals are calling for fewer restrictions on its distribution and are lobbying for, or actively participating in, the creation of "information commons" -- a new way of producing and sharing information, creative works and democratic discussions. Like information portals, these "commons" (drawn from the historical existence of the English commons -- pieces of land to which members of a community had specific rights of access) are digital repositories of thematically related information. The information may include everything from scholarly journals to information on knitting. However, instead of being run by corporations, they tend to be run in a collective manner by like-minded individuals -- associations or university departments for instance -- and they are accessible to all. Proponent Marjorie Heins, a former American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and founder of Free Expression Policy Project, doesn't support free distribution of all information; her main concern is the "copyright mentality" that sees media giants attempting to squeeze the last dollar out of all content they control "rather than striking a more reasonable balance between fair return for effort and tying up information... The balance has gone awry." posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   EurekAlert! Science News http://www.eurekalert.org/ EurekAlert! is an online press service created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The primary goal of EurekAlert! is to provide a forum where research institutions, universities, government agencies, corporations and the like can distribute science-related news to reporters and news media. The secondary goal of EurekAlert! is to archive these press releases and make them available to the public in an easily retrievable system. For registered reporters, freelancers and journalists, EurekAlert! is a place to access embargoed news, peer-reviewed journals and the most current scientific news. For public information officers (PIOs), EurekAlert! is an inexpensive and effective way to distribute science-related press releases. For the general public (anyone who does not fit in the categories above) EurekAlert! is an excellent research tool. No registration is required to view public information on the EurekAlert! Web site. The only information that is not immediately available to the public is the embargoed releases. Once the embargo is lifted from a press release, it becomes public information and is consequently moved into the public archives. To find information about a particular topic on EurekAlert!, click on any topic under News by Subject, or type a specific search term into the Search window. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer&Trade; Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Stock.XCHNG http://www.sxc.hu/ Stock.XCHNG was launched in February 2001, as an alternative for expensive stock photography. The idea was to create a site where creative people could exchange their photos for inspiration or work. In about two years the site evolved into this massive community you see now - there are about 200.000 registered users and more than 100.000 photos online! posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, January 23, 2005   The Use of Remote Sensing in Meteorology 1) The Water Planet - Meteorological, Oceanographic, and Hydrologic Applications of Remote Sensing http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect14/Sect14_1.html 2) The Satellite Meteorology Module Library http://www.eumetcal.org/euromet/english/navig/begins.htm 3) Satellite Data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/satellite.html 4) Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division http://www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/index.html 5) National Weather Service: Satellite http://www.nws.noaa.gov/sat_tab.php 6) Weather Satellites http://www.msc.ec.gc.ca/education/teachers_guides/module13_weather_satellites_e.html 7) Satellite Meteorology for Grades 7 -12 http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satmet/ 8) Satellite Image Home Page http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/satellite/ First, NASA provides a tutorial on the use of satellites to observe terrestrial atmosphere and climate change throughout the world (1). After extended introductions of the various meteorological satellites, users can find information on forecasting el Niños, snow events, flooding, and other events. The second website, developed by The Network of European Meteorological Services (EUMETNET), offers a comprehensive tutorial on satellite meteorology (2). Through the eight online chapters, students can learn about radiative transfer, data acquisition, operational applications of satellite imagery, and much more. Next, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) provides data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) and Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) to assist in the understanding of "short-term and long-term local, regional and global scale atmospheric, oceanic and land processes" (3). Along with reports of the Earth's climatic state, visitors can find numerous hourly, daily, monthly, and annually meteorological data for the United States and the globe. The fourth website, supplied by the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), describes the Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division's (SMCD) "research on the use of satellite data for monitoring meteorological, climatological, and environmental characteristics" (4). The website features the GOES Temperature and Moisture Soundings Fields project and weather data for aviation applications. Next, the National Weather Service offers satellite imagery of the United States in loops of 24, 12, 6, and 3 hours (5). Users can also find images of areas with current severe storms or special events. At the sixth website, Project Atmosphere Canada provides a tutorial addressing the general characteristics of polar orbiting and geostationary satellites and of visible, water vapor, and infrared imagery (6). Educators can find two classroom activities to help students understand complexities in data acquisition and resolution. Next, the University of Wisconsin-Madison allows students to explore satellite meteorology through nine modules equipped with hands-on activities and motivating images (7). Through the Gallery, users can learn about low, medium, and high level clouds as well as precipitation producing clouds and fog. Lastly, the Australian Government's Bureau of Meteorology collects and uses satellite data "to monitor day to day weather conditions and longer term climate change over the entire globe (8)." The website offers the latest infrared and visible light images and animations of Australia's weather. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005.http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Mappr - An Interactive Environment For Exploring Place, Based On the Photos People Take http://mappr.com/ Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found online, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. Mappr adds place to pictures. Mappr takes advantage of the cornucopia of descriptive information provided by Flickr's users to organize their photos. Flickr's admirable policy of openness with its data provides a way to anticipate and envision a future where cheaply-available GPS technology generates this placement as a matter of course. There's no reason to wait for this technology to become common; by mapping the millions of photos that Flickr makes available, we can start looking at its broad scale potential now. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   The Media’s Portrayal of Hacking, Hackers, and Hacktivism Before and After September 11th by Sandor Vegh http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/vegh/index.html Abstract This paper provides a thorough analysis of the mainstream media representation of hackers, hacking, hacktivism, and cyberterrorism. The intensified U.S. debate on the security of cyberspace after September 11, 2001, has negatively influenced the movement of online political activism, which is now forced to defend itself against being labeled by the authorities as a form of cyberterrorism. However, these socially or politically progressive activities often remain unknown to the public, or if reported, they are presented in a negative light in the mass media. In support of that claim, I analyze five major U.S. newspapers in a one–year period with 9–11 in the middle. I argue that certain online activities are appropriated for the goals of the political and corporate elite with the help of the mass media under their control to serve as pretext for interventions to preserve the status quo. Thus, the media portrayal of hacking becomes part of the elite’s hegemony to form a popular consensus in a way that supports the elite’s crusade under different pretexts to eradicate hacking, an activity that may potentially threaten the dominant order. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Got A Question? Talk To Your Agent http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_1/galitsky/index.html The role of automated advisors in e-commerce and various financial and business services has grown dramatically. Providing fast answers to questions about products and services has become an important marketing tool. Now the challenge is to build a question answering (Q/A) system with the precision of a vertical domain and the coverage of a horizontal domain. The best solution may be multiagent architecture, which allows each agent to answer questions in a vertical domain, while an entire community of agents -- i.e., the multiagent community -- covers a horizontal domain. A new report suggests the multiagent question-answering approach is adequate for natural language question-answering systems, in which the sources of knowledge are quite heterogeneous. The meta-agent controls the cooperation between question answering agents and chooses the most relevant answer(s). Multiagent implementation is tightly connected with the context of an entity that appears only in semantic-based systems. Context machinery is helpful when it yields a meaning of an expression (given a predicate and its attribute), compared to pure keywords, which have only individual meanings. Horizontal question answering systems cannot provide as deep and accurate question answering as multiagent ones, incorporating numerous domains. One example: AskJeeves has fewer than 50 answers (links) concerning tax topics. But the multiagent approach delivers more than 2,000 answers on tax and associated topics. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Working Draft: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) 1.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-P3P11-20050104/ http://www.w3.org/P3P/ The P3P Specification Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the "Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1)." P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C workshops and the privacy community. Read about privacy and P3P. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   British Library Preserves Famous Voices From the Past http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/europe/view/123508/1/.html Archivists at the British Library are digitizing countless rare and valuable recordings of famous historical figures, such as Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi and the Aga Khan III. The recordings are currently stored on discs and wax cylinders, but by transferring them to CD format the BL will make the audio collection available to a global audience. "The sound recordings that we hold at the British Library aren't just of British interest. We have one of the largest collections in the world and in particular one of the widest collections in the world. We keep not only commercial discs, we have international music from all areas of the world, marvelous collections from Asia, we have some speech recordings also of international importance though naturally there we tend to focus on the English language," says BL project director Richard Fairman. The BL currently has about two dozen CDs available and next year plans to produce a disc of speeches by Albert Einstein, timed to coincide with his anniversary next year. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, January 22, 2005   National Library for Health UK's National Library for Health Website http://www.library.nhs.uk/ The National Library For Health website is currently providing four topical RSS feeds: Hitting The Headlines; What's New; Document Of The Week and FocusOn. In addition, as reported by Managing Information, the site now offers a universal search feature for national and local data hosted by "500 NHS library services across England." [beSpacific January 11, 2005]. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet Miniguide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta http://desktop.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta is a free, downloadable desktop search application that enables you to instantly find any file, email or attachment on your computer. Yahoo! Desktop Search puts the power of Yahoo! Search on your computer, ensuring that you can always find what you're looking for - instantaneously. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Slope One Predictors for Online Rating-Based Collaborative Filtering by Daniel Lemire and Anna Maclachlan http://www.ondelette.com/lemire/abstracts/SDM2005.html Abstract: Rating-based collaborative filtering is the process of predicting how a user would rate a given item from other user ratings. We propose three related slope one schemes with predictors of the form f(x) = x + b, which precompute the average difference between the ratings of one item and another for users who rated both. Slope one algorithms are easy to implement, efficient to query, reasonably accurate, and they support both online queries and dynamic updates, which makes them good candidates for real-world systems. The basic slope one scheme is suggested as a new reference scheme for collaborative filtering. By factoring in items that a user liked separately from items that a user disliked, we achieve results competitive with slower memory-based schemes over the standard benchmark EachMovie and Movielens data sets while better fulfilling the desiderata of CF applications. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Mailinator™ http://www.mailinator.net/ Mailinator™ - Its no signup, instant anti-spam service. Here is how it works: You are on the web, at a party, or talking to your favorite insurance salesman. Wherever you are, someone (or some webpage) asks for your email. You know if you give it, you're gambling with your privacy. On the other hand, you do want at least one message from that person. The answer is to give them a mailinator address. You don't need to sign-up. You just make it up on the spot. Pick jonesy@mailinator.com or bipster@mailinator.com - pick anything you want (up to 15 characters before the @ sign). Later, come to this site and check that account. Its that easy. Mailinator accounts are created when mail arrives for them. No signup, no personal information, and when you're done - you can walk away - an instant solution to one way spammers get your address. Its an anti-spam solution for everyone. The messages are automatically deleted for you after a few hours. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   The Researcher's Companion http://www.federalsurrey.ac.uk/researcherscompanion/FIF/title.asp A nice resource from the University of Roehampton and University of Surrey offewring the navigational site to the various resources, sources and sites for research including special emphasis on the following subjects: 1) Dance, 2) Education, 3) Electronic Engineering, 4) Nursing, 5) Psychology, and 6) Sports Medicine. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Probability Abstract Service http://www.economia.unimi.it/PAS/ The Probability Abstract Service is an archive of research article abstracts which publishes a bi-monthly newsletter. PAS is based at the Department of Economics, Business and Statistics of the University of Milan, Italy. The service is free to authors and readers. PAS was founded in 1991 by Rich Bass, Chris Burdzy and Mike Sharpe. It was managed till October 2004 by Chris Burdzy and Larry Susanka. This service is currently mantained by Stefano M. Iacus. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, January 21, 2005   OpenReader™ Consortium Project OpenReader™ http://www.openreader.org/ OpenReader™ is a cooperative project to create a universal, open standards digital publication distribution format which will be platform-independent and capable of high typographic presentation quality. Supported publication types include books (“ebooks”), periodicals, newspapers, and business documents — most any kind of content best presented to the reader in a page-based manner. Platform independence and open standards are very important goals of the OpenReader format design. This means that publications in the OpenReader format will be readable on a wide range of computing devices, such as desktop/laptop PCs (Windows, Linux and Mac), and portable handhelds (tablets/webpads, PDAs and PDA/cellphone combos, dedicated ebook readers, etc.) posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   eco5.com http://www.eco5.com/ eco5.com website provided you with one of the the world's largest financial, economic, and political link collections. By means of their service you have direct access to the statistics, reports and websites that are most frequently used in professional research, including: 1) The most wanted links to enable quick access to your most requested research sources, 2) Quick and easy access to all listed links via the quick search function, 3) The most useful free data sources categorized in eight different menus. The data collections comprise a range of historical data, forecasts, studies and working papers, 4) Career opportunities in leading financial companies and in academics. Find information about leading educational institutions, economic departments and off-the-job programs, 5) A wide range of links to national institutions such as the central banks, stock exchanges and government bodies of 61 countries. 6) Links to the most important international institutions such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund or the World Trade Organization, 7) Access to all constituents of the most important stock indices worldwide. For each constituent you can find links to the official website and company reports, 8) Access to the most important news sources of each country and region in English and respective native language, and 9) Links to mathematical and statistical software as well as other useful programs. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   eDigitalResearch http://www.edigitalresearch.com/ eDigitalResearch.com was founded in October 1999. Since then they have been working with some of the top global organisations, universities and academics to provide business focused market research capitalising on the tremendous impact of digital technology. Their propriety research programmes are developed in-house by their experienced team of developers allowing them to develop bespoke client programmes and react to the immediacy of the Internet. They are able to translate complex market research data into concise management reports that highlight key business issues effecting the ROI. They are founders of the British Life Internet project in conjunction with City University and Sheffield University carrying out groundbreaking research sampling the UK population utilising digital communications. They are also pro actively working with ciber who bring together a unique blend of expertise in bibliometrics, cybermetrics, web log analysis, research evaluation, scholarly communication, user studies, commercial publishing strategies and policy analysis. They have provided detailed website usability, functionality and customer service best practice research for a report commissioned by the Hewson Group titled “Insights and Return-on-Investment from the End-to-End User Experience of Internet Sites and Services in the UK”. The Hewson Group created the European Centre for CRM Research. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Analytical Sciences Digital Library (ASDL) http://www.asdlib.org/ ASDL is an electronic library that collects, catalogs, and links web-based information and discovery material pertinent to innovations in curricular developments and supporting resources about chemical measurements and instrumentation. Browse the peer-reviewed collection of websites and online articles dealing with the science of chemical measurement and instrumentation. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Online Etymology Dictionary http://www.etymonline.com/ This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries. The basic sources of this work are Weekley's "An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English," Klein's "A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language," "Oxford English Dictionary" (second edition), "Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology," Kluge's "Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache," Ayto's "20th Century Words," and Chapman's "Dictionary of American Slang." A full list of sources used in this compilation can be found here. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   FreshPatents http://www.freshpatents.com/ FreshPatents.com displays the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to grant/deny. Free innovative services like keyword monitoring, RSS feeds and browse by location. Learn about new ideas for free. New applications are published Monday. Dates listed are for the previous Thursday's official USPTO publication date. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, January 20, 2005   Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Rotary Club of Coral Gables Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/ Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 12:00pm Date: Thursday, January 20, 2005 Location: Coral Gables Country Club, 997 N. Greenway Drive, Coral Gables, Florida posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   El Futuro de las Noticias: El Bibliotecario de la Informacion Digital El Futuro de las Noticias: El Bibliotecario de la Información Digital http://www.masternewmedia.org/es/2004/11/28/el_futuro_de_las_noticias.htm A Spanish version of The Future Of News: The Digital Information Librarian by Robin Good where he interviews Marcus P. Zillman. El Bibliotecario de la Información Digital es uno de los roles profesionales emergentes que está mejor calificado para conducir y potenciar a su máximo provecho la revolución en el manejo de la información, búsqueda, recuperación y edición independiente de noticias. En particular, los antecedentes académicos y la experiencia en investigación que generalmente tienen estas personas, los hacen altamente adecuados para el emergente rol del newsmaster (director de noticias) y para la estimación de expresiones corolarias de esta importante nueva profesión. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Andilinks Information Sector Database http://www.andilinks.com/ Andilinks' mission is to identify products and sites that yield the best information fastest and for the least effort and cost. This is an excellent all-in-one page resource that does a fine job of providing a database of current information on a number of selected topics. This has been added to the Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   2004 Tsunami Disaster: Scholarly and Factual Analyses http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/Tsunami-Analyses.html On Sunday, December 26, 2004 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, centered about 100 miles west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra created a tsunami which struck the rim of the Indian Ocean and killed over 150,000 people throughout the region. This document catalogues web links to known online analyses and discussions of the demographic, economic, as well as political and security implications of The Tsunami Disaster. This document is edited by Dr T. Matthew Cioleka ans is part of Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. This has been added to my comprehensive listing of December 26, 2004 Asian Tsunami Information and Stories available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Metacritic® http://www.metacritic.com/ Metacritic® compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for film, video/dvd, books, music and games. Their unique Metascores® show the critical consensus at a glance by taking a weighted average of critic grades. Metacritic's mission is to help you make an informed decision about how to spend your money on entertainment. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   A List Apart (ALA) Magazine http://www.alistapart.com/ A List Apart is for people who make websites. A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards. From its birth, ALA joined The Web Standards Project in calling on browser makers to improve their support for CSS, (X)HTML, XML, ECMAScript and the DOM. The magazine soon became a trusted resource for information and tutorials on incorporating these technologies into a professional (or even hobbyist) web design practice. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Webnote http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/ Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer. It allows you to quickly write something down during a meeting, class, or any other time that you have a web browser available. You start by creating a workspace and creating notes in the workspace. You can save your workspace at any time and return to them from the same computer or any other computer. You can also share your notes with others by providing the workspace name (or url) to a friend. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, January 19, 2005   GovTrack.us GovTrack.us http://www.GovTrack.us/ GovTrack.us is a nexus of information about the United States Congress. This site is a crossroads for data on the status of legislation, the activities of representatives, campaign contributions and other statistics, and public commentary. Best of all, you can track Congress with personalized email updates. An award winning site that deserves your review. GovTrack.us fills the need for a source of information useful for people. It is both a large collection of data as well as a tool for filtering out what you don't want to see. You can dig deep in GovTrack, finding information the mass media does not have room for, and you can let GovTrack send information to you, like a newspaper customized to your interests. It's the power of the Internet put to use to close the citizen-country divide. On this site you'll find the status of legislation, the speeches of representatives on the House and Senate floors, voting records, campaign contribution summaries, and more, plus the opinions of other users through their blog entries. And you can follow only the issues that interest you through email updates and RSS feeds This has been added to eCurrentAwareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Project 2020 http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020.html Future Brief reports: The US government's National Intelligence Council sponsors "Project 2020", a discussion of what the world will be like fifteen years from now. They have recently [Jan 2005] published a report, "Mapping the Global Future" which is causing considerable comment and controversy. You can download a copy of this 123-page report (6.7M) by clicking here. An HTML version that can be read in sections can be found here. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   VRD 2004 Online Proceedings http://www.vrd2004.org/proceedings/index.cfm The Virtual Reference Desk 2004 (VRD 2004) Online Proceedings offers presentations, handouts, models, papers, and other materials presented at the VRD 2004 Digital Reference Conference in Cincinnatie, OH, on November 8-9, 2004. Other papers not appearing in this online proceedings will be published in a print publication entitled Creating a Reference Future to be published by Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. in 2005. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Global Ideas Bank http://www.globalideasbank.org/ The Global Ideas Bank aims to promote and disseminate good creative ideas to improve society. It further aims to encourage the public to generate these ideas, to participate in the problem-solving process. These ideas we term social inventions: non-technological, non-product, non-gadget ideas for social change. These are a mix of existing projects, fledgling initiatives and new bright ideas. In this way, the Global Ideas Bank is part-suggestions box, part-ideas network and part-democratic think-tank, giving the "ordinary" person a chance to have their creativity recognised, rewarded and even put into practice. The Global Ideas Bank further aims to provide information and a community to help those individuals who wish to make their idea or project a reality in their own community. Read Robin Good's review by clicking here. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Bloomberg Unveils Global Law Firm Rankings for M&A http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=AGTHIST_20050110_OTE0004&woher= Sullivan & Cromwell and Linklaters Led the Way in 2004; Huge Rise in Activity Seen in 2004, Very Active Season Expected in 2005 Bloomberg, the leading global provider of business and financial news and data, today unveiled its Bloomberg Law Merger, Acquisition and Divestitures rankings for 2004. The global rankings are compiled by Bloomberg as part of Bloomberg Law, a comprehensive legal information, news and analytics resource accessible on the Bloomberg terminal at BLAW . The Bloomberg Law rankings are based on the total value of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures handled by firms worldwide. This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   TTS Interactive Demo http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html A fine example of the latest technology demonstration of text to speech from the research labs at AT&T. Just enter text, choose a voice, then click the SPEAK button. The future looks to be very exciting for this technology and how it will be embedded into every day life! posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, January 18, 2005   YouSendIt YouSendIt - Email Large Files Quickly, Securely, and Easily http://s20.yousendit.com/ The YouSendIt team was formed to tackle a common problem: secure transmission of large documents online without the use of clumsy client software, mail servers with limited storage space, and sharing passwords. By eliminating the size constraints and security risks of sending files by email, YouSendIt has turned the most common form of communication on the Internet into the best method of secure document transmission. Founded in early 2003 in Silicon Valley, the YouSendIt team leverages countless years of software development, hardware design, and raw creativity to solve real-world needs. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   NetBeans http://www.netbeans.org/ NetBeans is dedicated to providing rock solid software development products (NetBeans IDE, NetBeans Platform) that address the needs of developers, users and the businesses who rely on NetBeans as a basis for their products. NetBeans is also a vibrant community where people from just about any country you can think of, have the ability ask questions, give advice, make a wide variety of contributions and ultimately share in the success of our products. You will find students on our mailing list, developers from top companies and individuals looking to sharpen their skills. In June of 2000 NetBeans was made Open Source by Sun Microsystems who remains the project sponsor. Please see our History section for a more detailed information. Today two products exist: the NetBeans IDE and NetBeans Platform. Both products are free for commercial and noncommercial. The source code to both are available to anyone, to reuse as they see fit, under the terms of use. Our legal section contains all information regarding licensings, copyright issues, privacy policy and terms of use. Complete product information can be found under in our Products section. Our community is healthy and growing thanks to the individuals, companies and complementing products (see third-party page) that are making NetBeans a success. In the year 2003 there were well over 2 million downloads of the NetBeans IDE and 35,000 downloads of the NetBeans Platform. Today there are over 100,000 developers participating in the NetBeans.org project. Each month we have visitors from over 130 identifiable countries who are using and contributing to NetBeans. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Interactions.org http://www.interactions.org/ Interactions.org is designed to serve as a central resource for communicators of particle physics. The site is updated daily with news, information, images and links from the world of particle physics. It provides links to current particle physics news from the world's press, high-resolution photos and graphics from the particle physics laboratories of the world; links to education and outreach programs; information about science policy and funding; links to universities; a glossary; and a conference calendar. Although Interactions.org is not designed to provide basic education about the science of particle physics, it provides links to many such educational sites. The Interactions.org web site was developed and is jointly maintained by the InterAction collaboration, whose members represent the world's particle physics laboratories in Europe, North America and Asia, with funding provided by science funding agencies of many nations. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   All in one Search Pages are a very convenient and concise method to search and/or browse for information on the web. I have reviewed many of these over the years and I have selcted a few for you to visit and become acquainted with. These are definitely worth the bookmark and I have added many of them to my various Subject Tracer Information Blogs. All in One Search Site - The Directory of Directories http://proagency.tripod.com/ Ancient Thespians One Minute Web Guide http://www.AncientThespians.com/ Andilinks Information Sector Database http://www.andilinks.com/ CEOExpress: Business Portal For Executives Created By a Busy Executive http://www.ceoexpress.com/ Cybermetrics - Searching the Web http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/links08.html Fagan Finder - Search Engines, Reference, Tools, and More http://www.faganfinder.com/ HotSheet.com - News, Finance, Travel, Shopping, Entertainment and More http://www.hotsheet.com/ Journal Links http://www.journalinks.be/ Search Portfolio LITE Top 100 Web Search Tools http://www.searchportfolio.com/searchlite.html Spire Project Light http://spireproject.com/spir.htm Wall Street Executive Library - The Web's Best Business Sites http://www.executivelibrary.com/index.asp posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been MIT's introductory pre-professional computer science subject since 1981. It emphasizes the role of computer languages as vehicles for expressing knowledge and it presents basic principles of abstraction and modularity, together with essential techniques for designing and implementing computer languages. This course has had a worldwide impact on computer science curricula over the past two decades. The accompanying textbook by Hal Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman is available for purchase from the MIT Press, which also provides a freely available on-line version of the complete textbook. These twenty video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman are a complete presentation of the course, given in July 1986 for Hewlett-Packard employees, and professionally produced by Hewlett-Packard Television. The videos have been used extensively in corporate training at Hewlett-Packard and other companies, as well as at several universities and in MIT short courses for industry. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer Information Blog and Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Good-Tutorials.com - 5795 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials http://www.good-tutorials.com/ Good-Tutorials started in August 2002 as Photoshop Design. It moved to Good-Tutorials.com in February of 2003 and underwent a complete redesign in November 2003. It is the largest Photoshop tutorial resource on the web today. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, January 17, 2005   Google Hacks 2nd Edition This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. January 17, 2005 V3N3 discusses Google Hacks 2nd Edition. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this newly released book (2nd edition) by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest. View this site at: Google Hacks - 2nd Edition http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks2/ posted by Marcus | 11:58 AM   Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Miami Dadeland-Pinecrest Rotary Club Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/ Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 7:30am Date: Monday, January 17, 2005 Location: Miami Marriott Dadeland, 9090 S. Dadeland Boulevard, Miami, Florida 33156 posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   SnipSnap http://snipsnap.org/ Wikis are good for quickly getting down to work. Its extremly easy text markup and the simple user interface explain the popularity. On the other hand, mind mapping software and sketching tools also appear to have great popularity. One reason is, that making a picture of an idea often improves understanding very much. In SnipSnap we have tried to put these two ideas together to form a new way to discuss and document ideas. With the {graph} macro you can write down MindMaps, Organizational Charts and similar hierarchical information as text and SnipSnap draws the picture for you. But we have not been content with just hierarchical ideas. They even included ways to express data and ideas for project management and software development. You can write down work packages and mile stones of your project plan to be laid out as a Project Structure Plan. Software developers may express ideas using the UML renderer. The text based representation makes it easy to keep track of changes and allows for quick changes. SnipSnap includes Groovy Scripting for a while now but has not been documented much until now. A small example explains how to use the scripting feature to write a servlet-like script that returns the HTML code for the rendered snip only, without portlets and other SnipSnap GUI elements. The possibilities are endless, as each groovy template script can be used as a view or edit handler for any typed snip. Think of web forms for special snips or other complex handling of snip content. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   WHO Offers RSS Feeds http://www.who.int/about/licensing/rss/en/ World Health Organization (WHO) news headlines and summary texts are now available via "really simple syndication" (RSS). RSS is a straightforward way for you to keep up-to-date with the latest news from WHO. To use RSS on your computer you need to obtain a program called a News Reader, which allows you to collect and display RSS feeds from your chosen web sites. Every time a news article is published on the WHO web site, you will receive an automatic update without having to visit our site. You will find further information about RSS and details of how to access WHO RSS feeds at the above URL. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Guide to Punctuation http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/doc/punctuation/node00.html The above document is a textbook, and it is written for people who find punctuation difficult. If you're not too sure where commas ought to go, if you're puzzled by colons and semicolons, if hyphens and apostrophes are something of a mystery to you, then this document is for you. The document starts at the beginning and assumes no knowledge of punctuation at all. Each punctuation mark is introduced in turn; its proper use is described with the aid of lots of examples; wherever possible they give you some simple rules for checking your punctuation. The space devoted to each punctuation mark reflects the degree of difficulty that most people have with it. For example, apostrophes and bracketing commas, which between them probably account for about half of all punctuation mistakes, receive a great deal of discussion, while question marks are dealt with much more briefly, since hardly anybody finds them difficult. A notable feature of the document is its inclusion of many examples which are badly punctuated. These are always marked with an asterisk (*), and the text explains in each case what is wrong. All of the most frequent punctuation mistakes are treated in this way. The punctuation described here is the style which is currently the norm in Britain and the Commonwealth. Standard American usage differs in a few respects; in these cases, American usage is also described, but examples of specifically American punctuation are always marked as follows: (A). If you are writing expressly for an American audience, you should follow the American norms. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   OASIS Releases OpenDocument 1.0 Committee Draft Specification for Public Review http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-01-04-a.html OASIS has announced the release of Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) 1.0 Committee Draft Version 2 for public review prior to consideration of the specification for approval as an OASIS Standard. The second revision of the OASIS OpenDocument CD specification, previously called the Open Office Specification, contains revised definitions in response to new developments in the office application space, as well as error corrections and clarifications. The 723-page Committee Draft includes three embedded Relax-NG schemas. The OASIS TC was chartered to define an XML-based file format specification for office applications that would be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications. According to the TC's requirements, this format should "(1) retain high-level information suitable for editing the document, (2) be suitable for office documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents, (3) be friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based languages or tools; (4) keep the document's content and layout information separate such that they can be processed independently of each other, and (5) borrow from similar, existing standards wherever possible and permitted." Public review of the OASIS Committee Draft is invited from potential users, developers and other stakeholders. It constitutes "an important part of the OASIS process to assure interoperability and quality. Comments are therefore solicited from all interested parties." The 30-day public review period ends on February 3, 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Google's Big Plans - Are Libraries Doomed? http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041227-2.shtml The Internet doesn't scare Carol Brey-Casin, president of the American Library Association, and neither does Google. As part of its effort to make offline information searchable online, Google announced in December 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. Asked if librarians should feel threatened by Google's initiative, Brey-Casin responds, "We had this conversation when the Internet began to get popular, and what's happened is that library visits have doubled in the last decade to 1.2 billion." Outsell, a research and advisory firm for the information industry, agrees, stating that, "This isn't a death knell for libraries; it's another shove to get librarians out from behind the stacks and harness their expertise, including subject-matter expertise, and to enhance users' ability to find, use and access information in any format. Getting out of the business of simply storing books should be a welcome goal." posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, January 16, 2005   Tsunamis and Technology 1) SmallBizPipeline: Tsunami Scams Have Got Me Steamed http://www.smallbizpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57700373 2) National Geographic: Can Satellites Aid Earthquake Predictions? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0720_040720_earthquake.html 3) World Socialist Web Site: The Asian tsunami: why there were no warnings http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/warn-j03.shtml 4) Why Files: Perilous Predictions http://whyfiles.org/094quake/6.html 5) USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Latest Earthquakes http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/ 6) Princeton Earth Physics Project http://lasker.princeton.edu/ScienceProjects/curr/eqmag/eqmag.htm 7) Christian Science Monitor: A Low-tech Solution to Tsunamis http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0110/p07s01-wosc.html A writer from the SmallBizPipeline recently wrote an article reviewing some of the ways technology has been used to facilitate aid distribution and locate those missing after the Tsunami that hit several countries in Asia on December 26, 2004. This article (1) reports from a socialist perspective on the reasons why there was no early warning for the people who suffered from the recent tsunami, many of which are not related to a lack of technology. Nonetheless, predicting the next big earthquake is still beyond the control of scientists, according to this article from the Why Files (4). This website from the USGS (5) provides an overview of the magnitude of the most recent earthquake and links to other pages that help put the catastrophe in perspective in terms of previous earthquakes. This next website (6) proposes a lesson plan for calculating the magnitude of an earthquake, with links to some related information. Finally, this article (7) from the Christian Science Monitor highlights a low-tech way to minimize the effect of Tsunamis --mangroves. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] This has been added to my comprehensive listing of December 26, 2004 Asian Tsunami Information and Stories available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Learning Sciences and Brain Research http://www.teach-the-brain.org/ This space is for teaching practitioners from all levels, forms and places of education and learning. Our vision is that you will use it to address - in your own terms and according to your own priorities - the challenge of belonging to an occupation at the leading edge of scientific, professional and technological development. In particular, we hope the space will offer an opportunity for you to discuss, freely and openly, issues and experiences about the brain and its role in the process of learning that relate to your own involvement in education. Teaching practitioners today are at the epicentre of far-reaching changes in many key aspects of formal education. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy was designed from its inception (September 1995) as a dynamic reference work. In a dynamic reference work, each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, their dynamic reference work is responsive to new research. You can, however, cite fixed editions which are made on a quarterly basis and stored in their Archives. The Abridged Table of Contents lists entries that are assigned and/or published. The Unabridged Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected. This has been added to the Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) is a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its focus is social science research on computer-mediated communication via the Internet, the World Wide Web, and wireless technologies. Within that general purview, the journal is broadly interdisciplinary, publishing work by scholars in communication, business, education, political science, sociology, media studies, information science, and other disciplines. Acceptable formats for submission include original research articles, meta-analyses of prior research, synthesizing literature surveys, and proposals for special issues. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science by Joan M. Reitz http://lu.com/odlis/ ODLIS is designed to be a hypertext reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries. The primary criterion for including a term is whether a librarian or other information professional might reasonably be expected to encounter it at some point in his (or her) professional career, or be required to know its meaning in the course of executing his or her duties and responsibilities as a librarian. A newly coined term is added when, in the author's judgment, it seems likely to become a permanent addition to the lexicon of library and information science. Since the author's professional training occurred in the United States, the dictionary reflects North American practice. However, because the dictionary was first developed as an online resource available worldwide, with an e-mail contact address for feedback, users from many countries have contributed to its growth, often suggesting additional terms and commenting on existing definitions. Expansion of the dictionary is an ongoing process. Broad in scope, ODLIS includes not only the terminology of the various specializations within library science and information studies but also the vocabulary of publishing, printing, binding, the book trade, graphic arts, book history, literature, bibliography, telecommunications, and computer science when, in the author's judgment, a definition might prove helpful to librarians and information specialists in their work. Entries are descriptive, with examples provided in boldface when appropriate. The definitions of terms used in Anglo-American Cataloging Rules follow AACR2 closely and are therefore intended to be prescriptive. The dictionary includes some slang terms and idioms, and a few obsolete terms, often as See references to the term in current use. When the meaning of a term varies according to the field in which it is used, priority is given to the definition that applies within the field with which it is most closely associated. Definitions unrelated to library and information science are generally omitted. As a rule, definition is given under an acronym only when the full term is rarely used. Alphabetization is letter-by-letter. The authority for spelling and hyphenation is Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language (College Edition). URLs are current as of date of publication. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   A Typology of Virtual Communities: A Multi-Disciplinary Foundation for Future Research by Constance Elise Porter University of Notre Dame http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue1/porter.html Abstract: Despite the growing popularity of virtual communities, there is no consensus among researchers regarding the appropriate definition or types of virtual communities. In this paper, a virtual community is defined as an aggregation of individuals or business partners who interact around a shared interest, where the interaction is at least partially supported and/or mediated by technology and guided by some protocols or norms. The central objective of developing this typology was to develop a classification system that would be useful to researchers from various disciplinary perspectives such that the classification system might be used as a foundation for theory construction. The proposed typology serves its intended purposes and is evaluated against criteria put forth by Hunt (1991). The proposed typology uses establishment type and relationship orientation as the key categorization variables, reconciling problems posed by other researchers who attempt to use attributes as categorization variables. It is simple, pragmatic for practitioners and useful for researchers seeking to develop an understanding of the virtual community phenomenon. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, January 15, 2005   First Color View Pictures of Saturn Moon Titan's Surface http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm The above image was returned yesterday, January 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. This is the colored view, following processing to add reflection spectra data, and gives a better indication of the actual color of the surface. Initially thought to be rocks or ice blocks, they are more pebble-sized. The two rock-like objects just below the middle of the image are about 15 centimeters (about 6 inches) (left) and 4 centimeters (about 1.5 inches) (center) across respectively, at a distance of about 85 centimeters (about 33 inches) from Huygens. The surface is darker than originally expected, consisting of a mixture of water and hydrocarbon ice. There is also evidence of erosion at the base of these objects, indicating possible fluvial activity. The image was taken with the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, one of two NASA instruments on the probe. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Descent Imager/Spectral team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit the above URL. posted by Marcus | 1:44 PM   Free Online-Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) Free Online-Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html http://www.foldoc.org/ The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architectures, operating systems, networking, theory, mathematics, telecoms, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing. It aims to provide a one-stop source of information about all computing terms and includes many useful cross-references and pointers to related resources elsewhere on the Internet, as well as bibliographical references to paper publications. It lacks many entries which one can find in paper computing dictionaries but contains more encyclopedia-like entries and entries on subjects such as current hardware and software products, companies, and institutions. It also contains many definitions in related areas such as communications and networking. The dictionary started in 1985 and has grown, with the help of nearly 1200 contributors, to contain over 12000 definitions totalling 4.7 megabytes of text. It is freely available on the Internet via the World-Wide Web. It currently handles around 10000 WWW queries per day. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang Out Online by Catherine M. Ridings Lehigh University and David Gefen Drexel University http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue1/ridings_gefen.html Abstract: Understanding the attraction of virtual communities is crucial to organizations that want to tap into their enormous information potential. Existing literature theorizes that people join virtual communities to exchange information and/or social support. Theories of broader Internet use have indicated both entertainment and searching for friendship as motivational forces. This exploratory study empirically examines the importance of these reasons in assessing why people come to virtual communities by directly asking virtual community members why they joined. The responses to the open-ended question “Why did you join?” were categorized based upon the reasons suggested in the literature. Across 27 communities in 5 different broad types, 569 different reasons from 399 people indicated that most sought either friendship or exchange of information, and a markedly lower percent sought social support or recreation. The reasons were significantly dependent on the grouping of the communities into types. In all the community types information exchange was the most popular reason for joining. Thereafter, however, the reason varied depending on community type. Social support was the second most popular reason for members in communities with health/wellness and professional/occupational topics, but friendship was the second most popular reason among members in communities dealing with personal interests/hobbies, pets, or recreation. These findings suggest that virtual community managers should emphasize not only the content but also encourage the friendship and social support aspects as well if they wish to increase the success of their virtual community. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Cancer Monthly http://www.cancermonthly.com Cancer Monthly provides cancer patients with the results of hundreds of therapies for advanced and metastatic cancers so that patients can compare treatments, have more meaningful discussions with their doctors, and ultimately, make more informed treatment decisions. Every month, Cancer Monthly summarizes the latest clinical results of cancer therapies presented by oncologists, researchers, and other cancer professionals working in hospitals and research institutions around the world. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Einstein Puzzle http://www.babichev.info/en/projects/einstein/index.html Einstein puzzle is cross-platform open source remake of old DOS game Sherlock which was inspired by Albert Einstein's puzzle. Einstein said that only those with an intelligence quotient of 98 percentile and higher should be able to solve it. This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   eWatermark - Digital Watermark http://www.ewatermark.com/ They provide a technique for protecting the copyrights of digital content that enables everyone, from professionals to general users, to easily protect their copyrights without having to perform complicated procedures. They provide a technique for authenticating digital content. This enables communications requiring authentication to be conducted easily. Their products are designed for those content holders, such as Webmasters, creators, and photographers, who want to protect their copyrights online. They consider these people professionals who know their tasks on the Web. In this Web site, they introduce their technology and products, and demonstrate how their products are different from others on the market. This has been added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Astronomy Research at Rutgers http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/ast-research.html "Astrophysics research at Rutgers ranges from late stages of stellar evolution to the early universe, and includes both observational studies at many wavelengths and theoretical work." After listing the 15 astrophysics research interests, this website summarizes the university's projects and instrumentation. Some of the summaries contain links to more in-depth information about the specific investigation. Visitors can learn about gravitational lensing; the Ultraviolet Detector Lab, which develops and tests space image sensors; and much more. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, January 14, 2005   IRIS Seismic Monitor IRIS Seismic Monitor http://www.iris.edu/seismon/ Seismic Monitor allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time, visit seismic stations around the world, and search the web for earthquake or region-related information. You can also view seismograms and make dataset requests via its WILBER interface. The date and time of the map (in Universal Time) are located in the lower right hand corner. Earthquakes are shown as colored circles, where the size of the circle tells you the magnitude of the quake, using the legend at the top left of the map. Only earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater are displayed. Age of Earthquake: the last 24 hours, from 24 to 48 hours, from 3 days to 2 weeks, and from 2 weeks up to 5 years. The distribution of earthquakes over the past 5 years is represented by the purple dots and demonstrates how earthquakes define the boundaries of tectonic plates, as well as the relationship between topography and earthquakes. The Earth's shadow shows the line between day and night as well as the progression of the seasons. This has been added to my comprehensive listing of December 26, 2004 Asian Tsunami Information and Stories available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   BTbot - BitTorrent Search Engine http://www.btbot.com/ BTbot is a full automatic BitTorrent search engine that automatically crawls the web for sites containing links to BitTorrent files. BTbot is a popular and fast growing search engine for bittorrents, ringtones for cell phones, friends and extraterrestrial intelligence. They are a small and dynamic company which was funded in May 2004 and which started with a simple bittorrent file search. Since that time several new services (of course all services deal with searching) were added but the bittorrent search is still the most popular service. They provide their users with simple and clean search interfaces and very fast responses. For example, a bittorrent search takes less than 0.2 seconds in average. For technology previews and deeper information about btbot you may want to visit the btlabs, a department founded especially for the development of new technology and algorithms. This has been added to the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   SlickDeals http://www.slickdeals.net/ The most frequently updated and complete deal site on the web! They provide you with the day's hottest deals every day. They also have over 800 coupons for all your favorite online stores. Browse around and you're bound to save more than a few dollars! This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   XtremWeb http://www.XtremWeb.net XtremWeb is a research project belonging to light weight Grid systems. Its a Free Open Source and non-profit software platform to explore scientific issues and applications of Desktop Grid, Global Computing and Peer to Peer distributed systems. Like the other Distributed System Platforms, an XW platform uses a) remote resources (PCs, workstations, servers) connected to Internet or b) a pool of resources (PCs, workstations, servers) inside a LAN. Participants of an XW platform cooperate by providing their CPU idle time. The XtremWeb software platform allows to setup and run Distributed System projects. Such project must be based on a community of participants. For example, XtremWeb platforms allow a High School, a University, ... or a Company to setup and run a Global Computing or Peer to Peer distributed system for either a specific application or a range of applications. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Vocabulary Builder http://freshmeat.net/projects/vocabularybuilder/?branch_id=50355&release_id=183759 Vocabulary Builder helps you practice for the SAT, GRE, or any vocabulary-intensive examination, or simply to increase your vocabulary. It asks you a series of multiple-choice questions. You can edit the words, categorize them to make them easier to memorize, and even track your progress. The program also has a built-in dictionary and gives you easy access to many online dictionaries (using dict.org server). This has been added to Student Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Use Whatever Works: Print or Online http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/dec04ttb/libraries/ Seventh Circuit Librarian Gretchen Van Dam says: "The law library of today is an appropriately balanced combination of research and reference materials in print and online formats. That means the law librarian of today is an expert at determining when print works best for the researcher and when online access is the superior method." And Third Circuit Librarian Susan English points out: "Ease of access is the key factor in today's busy work environment, whether the researcher is a librarian, law clerk or judge. The challenge for today's librarians is to provide the right mix of online and hard copy resources and to hone our researchers' skills by offering appropriate and timely training." Judge John W. Lungstrum, chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (CACM), takes the position: "We cannot afford to expend our limited resources on any items that are not necessary to our important mission." posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, January 13, 2005   Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/BIBLIO.HTM The Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information and the accompanying Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes 1,770 titles. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated. Please Note: The Index and the Bibliography do not have a search engine at this time, hovewer all pages are word searchable by using the CTRL+F function. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   United Nations Official Document System (ODS) http://documents.un.org/ The United Nations announced the availability of its Official Document System (ODS), the premier full-text web resource for official United Nations documentation, to the general public at the above URL as of 31 December 2004. The ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation originating from duty stations worldwide, including selective documents of the regional commissions: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases (posted at http://www.un.org/News/Press/full.htm), UN sales publications (contact: http://unp.un.org), the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information. Please click on Help for more detailed information. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Blog Reading Explodes in America http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4145191.stm Americans are becoming avid blog readers, with 32 million getting hooked in 2004, according to new research. The survey, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, showed that blog readership has shot up by 58% in the last year. Some of this growth is attributable to political blogs written and read during the US presidential campaign. Despite the explosive growth, more than 60% of online Aericans have still never heard of blogs, the survey found. Blogs, or web logs, are online spaces in which people can publish their thoughts, opinions or spread news events in their own words. Companies such as Google and Microsoft provide users with the tools to publish their own blogs. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   e-Health and the Elderly: How Seniors Use the Internet for Health - Survey http://www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia011205pkg.cfm A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey of older Americans found that as the Internet becomes an increasingly important resource for informing decisions about health and health care options, less than a third (31%) of seniors (age 65 and older) have ever gone online, but that more than two-thirds (70%) of the next generation of seniors (50-64 year-olds) have done so. The differences among seniors and 50-64 year-olds are striking and indicate that online resources for health information may soon play a much larger role among older Americans. Twenty-one percent of seniors have gone online to look for health information compared to 53% of 50-64 year-olds; 8% of seniors get "a lot" of health information online compared to 24% of 50-64 year-olds; the Internet is 5th on a list of media sources of health information for seniors compared to first among 50-64 year-olds; and 26% of seniors trust the Internet “a lot” or “some” to provide accurate health information, compared to 58% of 50-64 year-olds. The survey is a nationally representative, random digit dial telephone survey of 1,450 adults age 50 and older, including 583 respondents age 65 and older. The report was released at a briefing held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, January 12, 2005. This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   A Study of Web Search Trends by Dr. Amanda Spink & Dr. Bernard J. Jansen http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a4.html Abstract:This article provides an overview of recent research conducted from 1997 to 2003 that explored how people search the Web. The article reports selected findings from many research studies conducted by the co-authors of the paper from 1997 to 2003 using large-scale Web query transaction logs provided by commercial Web companies, including Excite, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, and AlltheWeb.com. The many studies are also synthesized in the recent book "Web Search: Public Searching of the Web" by Amanda Spink and Bernard J. Jansen (Kluwer Academic Publishers). The researchers examined the topics of Web searches; how users search the Web using terms in queries during search sessions; and the diverse types of searches, including medical, sex, e-commerce, multimedia, etc. information. Key findings include changes in search topics since 1997, including a shift from entertainment to e-commerce queries. Further findings show little change in many aspects of Web searching from 1997-2003, including query and search session length. The studies also show more complex Web search behaviors by a minority of users who conduct multitasking and successive searches. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   An Overview of Steganography for the Computer Forensics Examiner by Gary C. Kessler http://www.garykessler.net/library/fsc_stego.html Abstract: Steganography is the art of covered or hidden writing. The purpose of steganography is covert communication-to hide the existence of a message from a third party. This paper is intended as a high-level technical introduction to steganography for those unfamiliar with the field. It is directed at forensic computer examiners who need a practical understanding of steganography without delving into the mathematics, although references are provided to some of the ongoing research for the person who needs or wants additional detail. Although this paper provides a historical context for steganography, the emphasis is on digital applications, focusing on hiding information in online image or audio files. Examples of software tools that employ steganography to hide data inside of other files as well as software to detect such hidden files will also be presented. This has been added to Provacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, January 12, 2005   Tor Tor: An Anonymous Internet Communication System http://tor.eff.org/ Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and more. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features. Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against "traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The Quick Reference Site http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/indexe.html An excellent resource of downloadable quick reference cards covering the majority areas of programming and IT development. The site also has eBooks, Papers & Tutorials as well as a Goodies section. Well worth the visit and bookmark as the author/creator is constantly adding new resources. This has been added to the Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Imagining the Internet - Elon/Pew Predictions Database http://www.elon.edu/predictions/ This site examines the potential future of the Internet while simultaneously providing a peek back into its history. We invite you to navigate through three useful resource areas that: illuminate the views of stakeholders - The Experts Survey; give an historic overview - The 1990 to 1995 Predictions; and allow your participation - Share Your Vision Today. This has been added to the Information Futures Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Links to Document Viewers http://www2.eps.gov/DocViewers.html Reading documents sent over the Internet requires a number of viewers and the list below is taken from the above URL. Having the required viewer on your computer will make the accessability to documents received an user friendly event rather than attempting to find that "viewer" to read the document. Selected available viewers include: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) ArNoNa CADViewer (.dwf) - (Windows, Mac, and Unix platforms) Autodesk Volo View Autodesk WHIP! (.dwf) - (Windows platforms) Bidview (.cal) Drawings .dwg and .dxf (Flatout) Microsoft Word (.doc) Microsoft Excel (.xls) Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt) MaxView Viewer(.max and .svd) Plot files (HP2 design) - .hpg or .plt SourceView (.svd) IMT Viewer This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata by Adam Mathes http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html This paper examines user generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata - data about data - allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users find relevant information. The creation of metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation. In libraries and other organizations, creating metadata, primarily in the form of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies. The primary problem with this approach is scalability and its impracticality for the vast amounts of content being produced and used, especially on the World Wide Web. The apparatus and tools built around professional cataloging systems are generally too complicated for anyone without specialized training and knowledge. A second approach is for metadata to be created by authors. The movement towards creator described documents was heralded by SGML, the WWW, and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. There are problems with this approach as well - often due to inadequate or inaccurate description, or outright deception. This paper examines a third approach: user-?created metadata, where users of the documents and media create metadata for their own individual use that is also shared throughout a community. This has been add to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   SIQSS Report: Ten Years After the Birth of the Internet, How Do Americans Use the Internet in Their Daily Lives? http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/ A report titled "Ten Years After the Birth of the Internet, How Do Americans Use the Internet in Their Daily Lives?" has been released by The Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (SIQSS). The New York Times covered the report on December 30th, 2004, in an article entitled "Internet Use Said to Cut Into TV Viewing and Socializing" by John Markoff. Click here to see the article (requires registering at the NYT website). The Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (SIQSS) is dedicated to employing empirical data, and statistical methods informed by the best of social theory, to address complex questions about the nature of society and social change. Located on the Stanford Campus in the heart of Silicon Valley, SIQSS is well placed to assess changes brought about by the information technology revolution and the increasingly educated workforce. The Institute is unique. In a field dominated by 'think tanks' devoted to narrow policy questions or a particular political viewpoint, SIQSS will focus on broad social questions relying on empirical evidence rather than ideology. The combination and cooperation of distinguished faculty in the fields of political science, sociology, economics, psychology, education and history and a National Advisory Board of leading figures from business, finance, and government will ensure a creative, realistic, socially relevant, and methodologically rigorous approach to studying social change. This has been added to Internet Demographics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, January 11, 2005   OneWorld OneWorld.net http://www.oneworld.net/ They bring together the latest news and views from over 1,600 organizations promoting human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide. The OneWorld network spans five continents and produces content in 11 different languages, published across its international site, regional editions, and thematic channels. Many of these are produced from the South to widen the participation of the world's poorest and most marginalised peoples in the global debate. From this page you can launch into all the OneWorld sites in English Africa, Canada, Latin America, South East Europe, South Asia, UK, U.S., or in other languages... América Latina, en Catalunya, España, maailma.net, Nederland, Unimondo.org, UnSeulMonde.ca posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Best Free Reference Web Sites 2004 http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/MARSBestRef2004.htm Best Free Reference Web Sites 2004 - Sixth Annual List - RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS). This is an annual series initiated under the auspices of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web. View selection criteria. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. AARP http://www.aarp.org/ American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ American Women’s History: A Research Guide http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html AskOxford.com http://www.askoxford.com/ Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System http://federalreserve.gov/ Cyberschoolbus http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/ Earthtrends: the Environmental Information Portal http://earthtrends.wri.org/ Epicurious http://eat.epicurious.com/ Eric Weisstein’s World of Science: A Wolfram Web Resource http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/ ERsys http://www.ersys.com History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web http://historymatters.gmu.edu Household Products Database http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov Math Forum http://mathforum.org NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog http://www.ndltd.org/browse.en.html NIST Chemistry WebBook http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ NSSN National Resource for Global Standards http://www.nssn.org/search.html The NYPL Picture Collection Online http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/ Pew Internet & American Life http://www.pewinternet.org/ Picture History http://www.picturehistory.com/ Plants Database http://plants.usda.gov Research and Documentation Online http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/index.html ScienceDaily Magazine http://www.sciencedaily.com/ Sparknotes http://www.sparknotes.com/ The Straight Dope http://www.straightdope.com/ ThomasRegister http://www.thomasregister.com/ University of Michigan Documents Center http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs U.S. Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov/ The Valley of the Shadow http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ Where to find MSDS [Materials Safety Data Sheets] on the Internet http://www.ilpi.com/msds/index.html posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Videora - Personal Video Using P2P and RSS http://www.videora.com/ Videora 1.0 is the first version of our new personal video downloading program. Utilizing BitTorrent peer to peer technology and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, Videora automatically and intelligently finds and downloads video you want to watch. With easy to use features like Wish Lists and Season Passes you will be able to watch your favorite video, no matter where you are in the world. All you need to get started is a broadband internet connection and Windows. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. Click here for Robin Good's excellent review of Videora. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Future of the Internet http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/145/report_display.asp The Future of the Internet: In a survey, technology experts and scholars evaluate where the network is headed in the next ten years. A wide-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and analysts finds that most internet experts expect attacks on the network infrastructure in the coming decade as the internet becomes more embedded in everyday and commercial life. They believe the dawning of the blog era will bring radical change to the news and publishing industry and they think the internet will have the least impact on religious institutions. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Answers.com - Reference Search Engine and Service http://www.Answers.com/ Answers.com is a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information. Our editors take our content from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases, carefully chosen for breadth and quality. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   The Social Structure of Free and Open Source Software Development by Kevin Crowston and James Howison http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/crowstonhowison.pdf Abstract: Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary development by emphasizing FLOSS’s distinctive social and communications structures. But what do we really know about the communication patterns of FLOSS projects? How generalizable are the projects that have been studied? Is there consistency across FLOSS projects? Questioning the assumption of distinctiveness is important because practitioner-advocates from within the FLOSS community rely on features of social structure to describe and account for some of the advantages of FLOSS production. To address this question, we examined 120 project teams from SourceForge, representing a wide range of FLOSS project types, for their communications centralization as revealed in the interactions in the bug tracking system. We found that FLOSS development teams vary widely in their communications centralization, from projects completely centered on one developer to projects that are highly decentralized and exhibit a distributed pattern of conversation between developers and active users. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, January 10, 2005   Smarter Bots This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. January 10, 2005 V3N2 discusses Smarter Bots. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman describing this new site and the reason for its development. View this site at: Smarter Bots http://www.SmarterBots.com/ posted by Marcus | 2:32 PM   StumbleUpon Reviews StumbleUpon Reviews http://www.stumbleupon.com/ StumbleUpon is an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites. As you click Stumble!, you'll get high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended (rated I like it) by friends and other SU members with similar interests. Rating these sites shares them with your friends and peers – you will automatically 'stumble upon' each others favorites sites. In effect, StumbleUpon's members collectively share the best sites on the web. You can share any site by simply clicking I like it. This passes the page on to friends and like-minded people – letting them "stumble upon" all the great sites you discover. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Doodle http://freshmeat.net/projects/doodle/?branch_id=50722&release_id=182772 Doodle is a tool that searches your hard drive for files using pattern matching on meta-data. It extracts meta-data using libextractor and builds a suffix tree to index the files. The index can then be searched rapidly. It is similar to locate, but can take advantage of information such as ID3 tags. Doodle also supports using FAM to keep the database always up-to-date. This has been added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Virtual Universe http://freshmeat.net/projects/virtualuniverse/?branch_id=45237&release_id=183407 The "Virtual Universe" is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet, interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The "Virtual Universe" is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of the Internet. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   McAfee(R) AVERT Reports Top 10 Threats for 2004 and Advises on Future Threats and Trends http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-03-2005/0002762037&EDATE= McAfee, Inc. the pioneer and worldwide leader of intrusion prevention solutions, announced the top 10 malicious threats identified by McAfee(R) AVERT(TM), the company's Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team, to affect both enterprise and home users worldwide in the 2004 calendar year. McAfee AVERT reports that Bots and Mass Mailers are still the predominant method by which virus writers impact enterprises, whereas Exploits and Adware account for over 60% of the malicious threats tracked, significantly impacting consumer and home users. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) http://www.icdlbooks.org/ The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create a digital library of international children's books. This five-year research project has 5 primary goals: 1. to create a collection of more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet; 2. to collaborate with children as design partners in the development of computer interface technologies that support children in searching, browsing, reading, and sharing books in electronic form; 3. to better understand the concepts of rights management and "fair use" in a digital age; 4. to evaluate the impact that access to digital materials may have on collection development and programming practices in school and public libraries; 5. to develop a greater understanding of the relationship between children's access to a digital collection of multicultural materials and children's attitudes toward books, libraries, reading, technology, and other countries and cultures. The materials included in the collection reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, lifestyles, and priorities of peoples around the world. The collection's focus is on identifying materials that help children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live. It is hoped that through a greater understanding of one another that tolerance and acceptance can be achieved. The collection has two primary audiences. The first audience is children ages 3-13, as well as librarians, teachers, parents, and caregivers, who work with children of these ages. The second audience is international scholars and researchers in the area of children's literature. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google by Rudi Cilibrasi and Paul M. B. Vitanyi http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CL/0412098 Abstract by Authors: We propose a new method to extract semantic knowledge from the world-wide-web for both supervised and unsupervised learning using the Google search engine in an unconventional manner. The approach is novel in its unrestricted problem domain, simplicity of implementation, and manifestly ontological underpinnings. We give evidence of elementary learning of the semantics of concepts, in contrast to most prior approaches. The method works as follows: The world-wide-web is the largest database on earth, and it induces a probability mass function, the Google distribution, via page counts for combinations of search queries. This distribution allows us to tap the latent semantic knowledge on the web. Shannon's coding theorem is used to establish a code-length associated with each search query. Viewing this mapping as a data compressor, we connect to earlier work on Normalized Compression Distance. We give applications in (i) unsupervised hierarchical clustering, demonstrating the ability to distinguish between colors and numbers, and to distinguish between 17th century Dutch painters; (ii) supervised concept-learning by example, using Support Vector Machines, demonstrating the ability to understand electrical terms, religious terms, emergency incidents, and by conducting a massive experiment in understanding WordNet categories; and (iii) matching of meaning, in an example of automatic English-Spanish translation. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, January 09, 2005   Tsunamis 1) Pacific Tsunami Warning Center http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/ 2) Tsunami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami 3) Tsunami Society http://www.sthjournal.org/soc.htm 4) West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center http://wcatwc.gov/ 5) The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/index.htm# 6) FEMA for Kids: Tsunami http://www.fema.gov/kids/tsunami.htm 7) Pacific Tsunami Museum http://www.tsunami.org/index.htm 8) Tsunami Data at the National Geophysical Data Center http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/tsu.shtml First, "the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, provides warnings for teletsunamis to most countries in the Pacific Basin as well as to Hawaii and all other US interests in the Pacific outside of Alaska and the US West Coast" (1). Users can find a lengthy discussion about the general attributes of tsunamis. The second website, provided by Wikipedia, describes the characteristics and occurrences of tsunamis (2). Visitors can find out about recent tsunamis that have taken place throughout the world. Next, the Tsunami Society presents its efforts to "disseminate knowledge about tsunamis and their hazards" (3). Researchers can learn about past and upcoming symposiums, Society awards, and more. At the fourth website, the National Weather Service provides tsunami information for the most recent earthquakes with magnitudes between 4.0 and 6.5 occurring off the West Coast of the United States (4 ). Visitors can also experience a virtual earthquake. Next, the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program illustrates its efforts to reduce the damages caused by tsunami through warning guidance, mitigation, and hazard assessment (5). The website provides numerous links to educational sites for children. The sixth website, developed by FEMA, supplies colorful descriptions of tsunamis for children (6). Users can find tsunami photos, a game, and information about survival kits. Next, the Pacific Tsunami Museum explains its goal "to promote public tsunami education for the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Region" (7). Visitors can view tsunami pictures and images from the Hilo Bay web camera. The website is equipped with a handy tsunami glossary as well as a comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions page. Lastly, the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) furnishes tsunami data for events from 49 B.C. to the present for the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, and the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans (8). Visitors can find an interactive map detailing the events and a series of tsunami slides. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] This has been added to my comprehensive listing of December 26, 2004 Asian Tsunami Information and Stories available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Cryptography and Security http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/crypto-security.html This page by Ronald L. Rivest contains pointers to other web pages dealing with cryptography and security, organized into the following sections: 1) Conferences, 2) Other compilations of links. 3) Bibliographies, 4) Government Sources, 5) Non-Profit Organizations and Associations, 6) Commercial Enterprises, 7) University Sites and Course Material, 8) Other Sites, 9) Books and Publishers, 10) News Groups, Newsletters, and FAQ's, 11) Alert Sites, 12) People, 13) Algorithms, Protocols, Etc., 14) Software, 15) Number Theory Links, and 16) Miscellaneous . This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations and Acronyms http://www.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/kopien/babel.html BABEL is the oldest computer oriented Abbreviation/Acronym Glossary that has always been free; without ads; available in HTML, TEXT and PALM formats; continuously updated on schedule three times a year. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures http://www.nist.gov/dads/ This web site is hosted in part by the Software Quality Group of the Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division, Information Technology Laboratory. This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypical problems, and related definitions. Algorithms include common functions, such as Ackermann's function. Problems include traveling salesman and Byzantine generals. Some entries have links to implementations and more information. Index pages list entries by area and by type. The two-level index has a total download 1/20 as big as this page. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Lycos 50 with Dean: 2004 Web's Most Wanted http://50.lycos.com/121504.asp The Lycos 50 with Dean offers a snapshot of the 2004 most wanted and searched for web sites. Top 10 for 2004 included: 1. Janet Jackson, 2. Paris Hilton, 3. Clay Aiken, 4. Britney Spears, 5. Nick Berg, 6. KaZaA, 7. Tattoos, 8. Pamela Anderson, 9. Michelle Vieth, and 10. Poker . posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Top Yahoo! Searches 2004 http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2004/ The top searches for Yahoo in 2004 covered many many areas and the top 10 were: 1) American Idol, 2) Paris Hilton, 3) Jessica Simpson, 4) Britney Spears, 5) Harry Potter, 6) WWE, 7) Usher, 8) NASCAR, 9) NBA, and 10) NFL . Other segments are included as well. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, January 08, 2005   Syndicate IQ Syndicate IQ http://www.syndicateiq.com/ Syndicate IQ helps our clients achieve a simple objective: "To manage, measure, and monetize syndicated content". As more publishers, marketers, and enterprises utilize blogs and syndicated content (aka RSS) solutions, the importance of accurate measurement becomes paramount to justify continued investments. Any strategy to monetize syndicated content begins with analysis and data on who, how, and when the content is consumed including the distribution channels. Syndicate IQ experience and technology enables a set of robust, accurate, invaluable services allowing clients to evaluate and implement the best strategy for utilizing syndicated content. Founded in 2004, Syndicate IQ builds on the founding team’s years of experience in online marketing. Recognizing a pressing need within the industry, the founders built the Trigon Engine to deliver services for content creators, publishers and marketers seeking new revenue streams from syndicated content. Before starting Syndicate IQ, team members built solutions enabling a wide range of performance marketing services. We built cost-effective solutions that drove millions of leads and hundreds of millions of dollars in sales to thousands of clients. Their team has built other solutions for syndicated content and continues to identify new opportunities that leverage the unique characteristics of syndication. Syndication marketing creates a true “one-to-one” connection with end-users across a broad range of content types including articles, promotion, and media clips. End-users might be retail consumers, or they might be employees in an enterprise. Whoever they are, and however you choose to communicate with them, the Trigon Engine enables and enhances your connection to your end-users, creating value at both ends of the content stream. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   January 2005 Web Server Survey http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/01/01/january_2005_web_server_survey.html In the January 2005 survey we received responses from 58,194,836 sites, a robust gain of 1.27 million sites from the December survey. After months of little change in market share between the two major web servers, Apache added nearly a full percentage point to its lead over Microsoft, which is now 47.5 percentage points (68.4% to 20.9%) as measured by hostnames, with a slightly smaller gain in active sites. While this month's 1 percent shift is modest by historic standards, it follows a 12-month period in which Apache's lead grew by just 0.09 percent (from 46.56 to 46.65%), despite adding 7.6 million sites between Dec. 2003 and Dec. 2004. Microsoft added 2.46 million sites during the same period. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   blinkx TV - TV Video Search http://www.blinkx.tv/ blinkx TV allows you to search the web for video and audio clips. Unlike other search providers, blinkx TV not only lets you search using standard keyword and Boolean queries but you can also use conceptual search. This type of search is provided by blinkx only, and allows you to enter normal text for which blinkx TV will return results whose content is conceptually similar to your search text. blinkx TV also includes Smart Folders which allow you to to view video clips, audio clips and web sites that deal exactly with the kind of topics that you want to know about - without having to be connected to the Internet! Automatically updating their content as new information becomes available, Smart Folders organize information for you. Smart Folders are just like normal folders and you can put them wherever you normally put folders. Smart Folders are just like normal folders. You can create them from your query or from individual results that a query produces and put them wherever you normally put folders, be it on your hard drive, in your My Documents folder or on your desktop. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Genome-Tools http://freshmeat.net/projects/genome-tools/?branch_id=46085&release_id=183048 Genome-Tools provides flexible tools and a simple API for genomic sequence processing on genomes published in the standard Genbank format. A CGI-based Web interface is also available. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) http://www.ire.org/ Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) provides educational services to reporters, editors, and others interested in ivestigating journalism and works to maintain high professional standards. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Technology Research Advances of 2004 http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/122904/TRN's_Top_Picks_122904.html TRN's Top Picks - Technology Research Advances of 2004. Each year sees more researchers at work and more research papers published than the last -- the volume of scientific and technological research has doubled every decade for the past three centuries. The profusion of technology research in 2004 includes notable advances in biotechnology, communications, computing, engineering, energy, security, nanotechnology, applied physics and the Internet. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, January 07, 2005   Galaxy Evolution Explorer Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) http://www.galex.caltech.edu/ The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) is an orbiting space telescope that will observe galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history. Such observations will tell scientists how galaxies, the basic structures of our Universe, evolve and change. Additionally, GALEX will probe the causes of star formation during a period when most of the stars and elements we see today had their origins. Led by the California Institute of Technology, GALEX will conduct several first-of-a-kind sky surveys, including an extra-galactic (beyond our galaxy) ultraviolet all-sky survey. During its 29 month mission GALEX will produce the first comprehensive map of a Universe of galaxies under construction, bringing us closer to understanding how galaxies like our own Milky Way were formed. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   SandBox(sm): Wiki Applications and Uses http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/SandBox.htm SandBox(sm): Wiki Applications and Uses is a categorized registry of applications and uses of wikis by corporations, colleges and universities, libraries, and other select institutions and organizations. As defined by Ward Cunningham, the father of the wiki, a 'wiki' is a freely expandable collection of interlinked Web 'pages', a hypertext system for storing and modifying information - a database, where each page is easily editable by any user ...". 'Wiki' is derived from the the Hawiian phrase 'wiki wiki' for 'quick' or superfast'. SandBox(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library. Ames, IA 50011. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources page. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   A Critical Approach to Open Source Software by Stefan Görling http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/gorling.pdf Thesis Abstract: The purpose of this masters' thesis was to discuss a number of assumptions regarding the benefits of Open Source software projects. By studying what has been written about Open Source combined with a number of own data collections, this thesis argues that: • Brooks law is still valid in Open Source projects • Many Open Source projects are failures • Open Source culture is a product of the 90s, not the 70s • Open Source is no guarantee for reduced lock-in effects • Our most famous Open Source projects are not built up by nerds working for free, but professionals, employed by commercial companies to contribute to the projects. • Large Open Source projects are often hierarchical and bureaucratic • Opening your source does not automatically lead to a large number of contributors • Open Source breeds diversity, not a single winner • Open Source projects often targets the community itself, rather than external actors • Companies benefiting from Open Source are often based on traditional business models rather than revolutionary visions • Open Source is not necessarily an efficient way to develop software posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   CleanSoftware.org http://www.cleansoftware.org/ "CleanSoftware.org is a resource to help Windows users find the best free daily-use software, free from nasties: adware, spyware, harmful/intrusive components, and threats to privacy." (via Slashdot) Versions of the software included are accompanied by red, yellow and green dots indicating the level of reliability. The Full Software Index (updated at the discretion of the site admin, Jem Berkes), includes Internet Software (Web, mail, news, chat, P2P), Multimedia (audio, video, graphics) software, Office and publishing software, Security and Antispam Software, and Utility software. [beSpacific 12-28-04] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Reuters AlertNet - Humanitarian News Network http://www.alertnet.org/ Reuters AlertNet is a humanitarian news network based around a popular website. It aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe. AlertNet attracts upwards of three million users a year, has a network of more than three hundred contributing humanitarian organizations and its weekly email digest is received by more than 10,000 readers. It was started in 1997 by Reuters Foundation - an educational and humanitarian trust -- to place Reuters' core skills of speed, accuracy and freedom from bias at the service of the humanitarian community. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html Based on billions of searches conducted by Google users around the world, the 2004 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year's major events and trends. They hope you enjoy this aggregate look at what people wanted to know more about this year. Pulling together interesting search trends and patterns requires Google’s human and computing power together. Search statistics are automatically generated based on the millions of searches conducted on Google over a given period of time - weekly, monthly, and annually. With some help from humans, and a pigeon or two when they have time, these statistics and trends make their way from the depths of Google's hard drives to become the Google Zeitgeist report. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, January 06, 2005   FCIC - The Handbook 2004 Consumer Action Handbook http://www.consumeraction.gov/ This 180-page guide from the Federal Consumer Information Center can help with your consumer problems and questions. Find help on such topics as buying and leasing cars, shopping from home and protecting your privacy and yourself from fraud. The Handbook also features thousands of names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses for corporate consumer contacts, state and federal government agencies, local and national consumer organizations and more. Use its sample complaint letter and listings of consumer contacts at hundreds of companies, and trade associations, state and federal government agencies, local and national consumer organizations and more. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   AllAboutCookies.org http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ Cookies are the tools that give websites a sense of memory, allowing them to recognize one user from another. Most sites use them to do anything from counting the number of viewers they have to delivering tailored editorial content. Online they help us shop, use chat services and take part in communities. The advertising that funds many free sites relies on the reporting information delivered by counting cookies and website editors can use cookies to understand which of their pages are most popular. For web users AllAboutCookies.org should explain how cookies work and how they can be managed. For website owners AllAboutCookies.org should explain the privacy issues you must respect and help you generate appropriate privacy policies and audits. We would encourage you to link your new cookie policy directly to these pages. For web marketers AllAboutCookies.org is a key resource to understand how third party research and advertising software must be adapted to respect the privacy needs of internet users. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Why There's No Escaping the Blog by David Kirkpatrick and Daniel Roth http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1011763,00.html Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they've become a force business can't afford to ignore. A very interesting article from Fortune Magazine discussing the impact of bloggers and the blogging revolution. Businesses need to begin monitoring blogs for both positive and negative comments and to react accordingly in the rapid changing marketplace! A truly exciting time!! posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Seismosurfing the Internet for Earthquake Data - Expanded Version http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html Web connections to original seismic data or seismic research information. Extremely comprehensive resource for seismic data and research covering the following areas: 1) Global. 2) California, 3) Alaska & PNW, 4) Inter-mountain US, 5) Eastern US, 6) Americas, 7) Europe, 8) Africa, Asia & Oceania, 9) Volcanos, and 10) Others. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory http://www.academic-genealogy.com/ An excellent site for academic genealogy resources whose mission states: To promote scholarly educational access to all key worldwide Internet genealogical and family history databases and resources. This site is By: V. Chris & Thomas M. Tinney, Sr. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Business Cycle Indicators http://www.globalindicators.org/ In December 1995, The Conference Board became the official source for the widely-publicized composite indexes of leading, lagging, and coincident indicators. For almost 30 years, these economic data series-often referred to as "the leading index" or "the leading indicators"-were compiled and published by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Conference Board has also assumed responsibility for compiling a larger set of economic indicators that was also previously provided by the federal government in both a conventional publication, the Survey of Current Business, and in electronic format (both diskettes and on the Internet). The Board publishes this under the title Business Cycle Indicators. This has been added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, January 05, 2005   Web Standards Group Web Standards Group http://webstandardsgroup.org/ The Web Standards Group is for web designers & developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code). They aim to: a) Provide web developers and designers with a forum to discuss issues and share knowledge (via our discussion list and regular meetings, b) Provide web standards information and assistance to developers, and c) Promote "web standards" within the development community. They currently have 1244 members from 70 countries. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   MobiQuitous 2005 http://www.mobiquitous.org/ The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services July 17-21, 2005, San Diego, California (ACM and IEEE Co-Sponsorship Pending) The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. The second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous systems: networks and services (Mobiquitous-05) will cover these aspects, representing a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer experiences needed to build the overall ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include: applications, service-oriented computing, middle ware, networking, agents, knowledge management and databases. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Museums of the World http://www.museum.com This web site is primarily a listing of hundreds of history, natural history and art museums and historical sites such as castles with links to their web sites. It is international in scope and may be searched by keyword or place and also browsed. The only annotation with the link to a particular museum is the number of their online images. Also included are a listing of suppliers of services and materials to museums, and a listing of art galleries. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   International Small Business Journal http://isb.sagepub.com/ International Small Business Journal provides a forum and focus for the discussion and dissemination of views and research on the small business sector thourghout the world. The emphasis is on systematic studies which help to improve the general understanding of small business and so contribute to more effective policies for and management of small business. Articles cover theoretical and methodological developments, empirical studies, practical applications and reviews of relevant literature. The journal is intended for academics and teachers, policymakers at all levels, trade and business associations, financial institutions, small firms' representative bodies, and planning and industrial development authorities. The International Small Business Journal is a truly global, multi-disciplinary forum for the dissemination and discussion of research on the small business. The emphasis of the journal is on high quality, research based studies which contribute to theory, critical understanding and policy formulation on small firms. This refereed journal is of relevance to academics, policy makers and analysts, in government and business, seeking to understand the sector, trade and business institutions, small business representative bodies and those in support agencies. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Journal of World Business http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10909516 Journal of World Business formerly known as The Columbia Journal of World Business. The Journal of World Business publishes manuscripts that are broad in scope, but demonstrate keen insights into problems facing the professional practitioner as well as the academician. With specifically designated editorial review boards to recognize the importance of contributions from the Pacific Rim, Latin America, and Europe, the structure of the editorial team has a keen understanding of problems facing the global manager in three areas: human resource development, marketing, and strategic management. Publisher: Elsevier. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Interdisciplinary Information Sciences http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/iis The aim of Interdisciplinary Information Sciences is to promote high quality scholarship on important issues in information sciences, and to provide a forum for exchanging ideas on "Information" among disciplines so as to evolve new scientific research fields. The journal publishes papers which address topics of information and communication, computer science, information systems, and their impacts on the behavior and system of individual, groups, and society. Publisher: Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, January 04, 2005   beSpacific beSpacific - Accurate, Focused Law and Technology News http://www.bespacific.com/ Just awarded "Best Overall Legal Blog" beSpacific focuses on the expanding resources in the public and private sector related to law and technology news. Daily postings provide updates on issues including copyright, privacy, censorship, the Patriot Act, ID theft, and freedom of information. The weblog was launched to the public January 4, 2003. The archives cover entries back to September 2002. Sabrina I. Pacifici has been an active member of the online legal community for many years. She created the webzine LLRX.com in 1996 and is the site's owner, editor, publisher and web manager. She created the journal PLL Perspectives in 1989, and served as its only editor and publisher until 1996. Sabrina has authored many articles on legal technology topics delivered numerous presentations at professional conferences nationwide, and has been a law firm librarian in Washington, DC for 25 years, the past 20 with a global 50 law firm. She is the web manager of the firm's cyberlaw site and firmwide research intranet, authors in-house blogs, and provides research and practice technology services. My personal congratulations to Sabrina!! This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The State of Blogging: Pew Internet Report http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/144/report_display.asp http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_blogging_data.pdf By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November established new contours for the blogosphere: 8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users; 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online; and 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. Still, 62% of internet users do not know what a blog is. This has been added to Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus | 4:22 AM   Iokio - Data Visualization Software and Browser/Reader http://www.iokio.com/index.html Iokio Omniscope is a desktop application for navigating and publishing data. It turns your data into interactive visualisations using an intuitive interface then creates files for opening in the free Omniscope Viewer. These features: 1) Open data from spreadsheets and databases, 2) Highly interactive point and click navigation, 3) Create tiny and secure IOK files containing your data, and 4) Open and explore IOK files in the free viewer. Read the review by Robin Hood by clicking here. This has been added to mt white paper Online Research Browsers. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework by Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Carl Lagoze, and Simeon Warner http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december04/vandesompel/12vandesompel.html Abstract: Motivated by preservation and resource discovery, we examine how digital resources, and not just metadata about resources, can be harvested using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). We review and critique existing techniques for identifying and gathering digital resources using metadata harvested through the OAI-PMH. We introduce an alternative solution that builds on the introduction of complex object formats that provide a more accurate way to describe digital resources. We argue that the use of complex object formats as OAI-PMH metadata formats results in a reliable and attractive approach for incremental harvesting of resources using the OAI-PMH. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology (DRAFT) http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/infolitscitech.htm Based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, five standards and twenty-six performance indicators were developed. Each performance indicator is accompanied by one or more outcomes for assessing the progress toward information literacy of students of science and engineering or technology at all levels of higher education. This document is intended to be a living document with future opportunities for input from the community and is published here for broad professional review of this initial version. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks by Carol Jean Godby, Jeffrey A. Young, and Eric Childress http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december04/godby/12godby.html Abstract: This paper proposes a model for metadata crosswalks that associates three pieces of information: the crosswalk, the source metadata standard, and the target metadata standard, each of which may have a machine-readable encoding and human-readable description. The crosswalks are encoded as METS records that are made available to a repository for processing by search engines, OAI harvesters, and custom-designed Web services. The METS object brings together all of the information required to access and interpret crosswalks and represents a significant improvement over previously available formats. But it raises questions about how best to describe these complex objects and exposes gaps that must eventually be filled in by the digital library community. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Monday, January 03, 2005   Military Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Military Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Military Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 12 page .pdf document 450KB. [Updated 01-03-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 1:24 PM   Military Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. January 3, 2005 V3N1 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Military Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing online military resources and sites available on the world wide web. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Military Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.MilitaryResources.info/ posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Scrutinizer http://freshmeat.net/projects/scrutinizer/?branch_id=55272&release_id=182688 The scrutinizer is designed to protect Web servers from HTTP (D)DoS attacks. It's a toolkit consisting of an analysis engine which analyzes Web server access logfiles in almost real time, an Apache module which is able to block wrongdoers on the Web server, an extension to block offenders with netfilter firewalls, and a set of visualization tools. The analysis engine uses statistical anomaly detection to expose offenders. The enginge has to be trained with old log files so that it can adapt itself to your system. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Internet Research: Privacy, Ethics and Alienation – An Open Source Approach by David M. Berry http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/berry2.pdf Abstract: This paper examines some of the ethical problems involved in undertaking Internet research and draws on historical accounts as well as contemporary studies to offer an analysis of the issues raised. It argues that privacy is a misleading and confusing concept to apply to the Internet, and that the concept of non-alienation is more resourceful in addressing the many ethical issues surrounding Internet research. Using this as a basis, the paper then investigates the Free/Libre and Open Source research model and argues for the principles of ‘open source ethics’ in researching the online world, which includes a participatory and democratic research method. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) , established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Advancing Economic Research on the Free and Open Source Software Mode of Production by Dalle, J.-M., P. A. David, Rishab A. Ghosh, & W. E. Steinmueller http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/davidetal.pdf Abstract: Early contributions to the academic literature on free/libre and open source software (F/LOSS) movements have been directed primarily at identifying the motivations that account for the sustained and often intensive involvement of many people in this non-contractual and unremunerated productive activity. This issue has been particularly prominent in economists' contributions to the literature, and it reflects a view that widespread voluntary participation in the creation of economically valuable goods that is to be distributed without charge constitutes a significant behavioral anomaly. Undoubtedly, the motivations of F/LOSS developers deserve to be studied more intensively, but not because their behaviors are unique, or historically unprecedented. In this essay we argue that other aspects of the "open source" phenomenon are just as intriguing, if not more so, and possibly are also more consequential topics for economic analysis. We describe the re-focusing and re-direction of empirical and theoretical research in an integrated international project (based at Stanford University/SIEPR) that aims at better understanding a set of less widely discussed topics: the modes of organization, governance and performance of F/LOSS development -- viewed as a collective distributed mode of production.. We discuss of the significance of tackling those questions in order to assess the potentialities of the "open source way of working" as a paradigm for a broader class of knowledge and information-goods production, and conclude with proposals for the trajectory of future research along that line. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Working Draft: Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xsl11-20041216/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ The XSL Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the "Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1." Version 1.1 updates the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, January 02, 2005   Speculative Search Game (Google Game) Speculative Search Game http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~amichail/spec/ A game where you predict which web pages will rank more highly on Google in the future! The output of the game will be used to build a speculative search engine that ranks those web pages more highly today. This has been added to Information Futures Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html The Encyclopedia is an on-line A-Z maintained by astronomer/author David Darling and is part of The Worlds of David Darling website Some of the content is based on his books, including The Universal Book of Astronomy, The Complete Book of Spaceflight, The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia, and Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology. Other entries are unique to the on-line Encyclopedia and have, in some cases, been suggested or provided by outside parties. The goal is to provide a comprehensive source of information covering contemporary astronomy, astrobiology, and astrophysics, SETI, space missions, advanced propulsion concepts, historical aspects, and biographies (past and present). It is intended to be of use to the interested layperson, student, and academic alike. Every effort is made to keep the Encyclopedia accurate and up to date. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   NetAnatomy http://www.netanatomy.com/ NetAnatomy is designed to teach human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical, health sciences, and nursing students. NetAnatomy also serves as a place to review anatomy after one’s initial exposure to the subject, e.g. students beginning a clinical rotation, USMLE (National Board) preparation, etc. View how anatomical content is selected for inclusion for information on the factors that govern anatomical content at this website. Content will be added to NetAnatomy over time. We currently see no future point in time at which NetAnatomy will be considered "complete". Distribution via the Internet allows pertinent anatomical content to be readily added to all subject areas as new images and text that address the mission of NetAnatomy are acquired and developed; thus we view NetAnatomy as a continuously evolving website. Current development efforts are focused on Gross Anatomy which will be added as a separate content area within NetAnatomy as well as extensively integrated with the Cross-Sectional and Radiographic components of the website. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Probability Web http://www.mathcs.carleton.edu/probweb/ The Probability Web is a collection of probability resources on the World Wide Web (WWW). The pages are designed to be especially helpful to researchers, teachers, and people in the probability community. The Probability Web was conceived by Phil Pollett at the University of Queensland, who maintained it from October 1995 to February 2001. It is now being maintained by Bob Dobrow. This has been added to Information Futures Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/lernertirole3.pdf Abstract by Author: This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as the open source movement itself grows and evolves. At the same time, it is heartening to us how much of open source activities can be understood within existing economic frameworks, despite the presence of claims to the contrary. The labor and industrial organization literatures provide lenses through which the structure of open source projects, the role of contributors, and the movement's ongoing evolution can be viewed. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   XBRL International http://www.xbrl.org/ XBRL is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data which is set to revolutionise business reporting around the world. It provides major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information. It offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data. XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language. It is one of a family of "XML" languages which is becoming a standard means of communicating information between businesses and on the internet. XBRL is being developed by an international non-profit consortium of approximately 250 major companies, organisations and government agencies. It is an open standard, free of licence fees. It is already being put to practical use in a number of countries and implementations of XBRL are growing rapidly around the world. This site provides information about the nature, uses and benefits of XBRL. It explains how individuals and companies can join the effort to move forward and make use of the language. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, January 01, 2005   Let me take this opportunity to wish all my readers, viewers and subscribers a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2005! There will be no postings today January 1, 2005 ..... Cheers!! Marcus 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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