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

Monday, February 28, 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. First Presbyterian Church Men's 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: 10:30am Date: Monday February 28, 2005 Location: First Presbyterian Church, Naples, Florida posted by Marcus | 4:35 AM   Become: Be Smart, Be Thrifty, Just Be This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. February 28, 2005 V3N9 discusses Become.com. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this unique resource by Michael Yang on the Internet. View this site at: Become: Be Smart, Be Thrifty, Just Be http://www.become.com/ posted by Marcus | 4:28 AM   The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) http://www.ciese.org/ To catalyze and support excellence in teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and other core subjects through innovative, research-based instructional strategies and use of novel technologies. CIESE collaborates with K-12 and university educators, researchers, policymakers and educational organizations to develop curriculum materials, conduct professional development programs, and research new methodologies to strengthen STEM education. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   RSS for Journalists By Jonathan Dube http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=78383 As the Web keeps growing, tracking the latest information related to our jobs and interests gets harder every day. We need a butler to surf the Web for us, find the headlines we crave and hand them to us on a silver platter. That butler is RSS. RSS will save you time and make your Web surfing much more efficient. Rather than tediously checking dozens of Web sites for new information, RSS enables you to go to one place and find all the latest content from each of those sites. RSS makes it easy to read lots of sites -- from weblogs to major media ? in very little time. You simply decide which Web sites or topics you want to track, tell your RSS reader and then it will continually download all the latest headlines for you, saving you time by collecting them in one place for you to scan quickly. This has been added to Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation links. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Think Engineering http://www.ciese.org/engineering/ Bridges, bones, and beach preservation…what’s the connection? Think Engineering! CIESE's science and mathematics curriculum materials have been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, the White House Office of Science and Technology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and others. Now, CIESE expands it curriculum focus to include engineering design and problem-solving for middle and secondary school students. From familiar icons like the Brooklyn Bridge, to futuristic applications in biomedical engineering, to preserving the shoreline, engineers play an important role in improving the quality of life for millions of people around the world. Launched to coincide with National Engineers Week, February 20-26, this site is designed to increase awareness of the impact that engineers and engineering have on the world around us. Inside you’ll find a wealth of online resources for K-12 engineering, along with opportunities to learn about cutting edge technologies envisioned through Stevens Technogenesis. Visit these pages to learn about the exciting world of engineering. Discover important research taking place at Stevens and other universities to solve pressing problems through multidisciplinary engineering approaches. Connect with practicing engineers and engineering researchers in an online discussion board. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Role of Peer to Peer File Sharing in Law Firm Marketing by Andy Havens http://www.llrx.com/columns/marketing7.htm Andy Havens describes how a popular P2P application can be leveraged as an innovative tool when used to accomplish specific marketing objectives. This has been added to the P2p section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the Advertising, Marketing and Public Relation Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Semantic Email by Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy, and Henry Levy http://eprints.osti.gov/cgi-bin/dexpldcgi?qry1107100557;18 Abstract By Authors: This paper investigates how the vision of the Semantic Web can be carried over to the realm of email. We introduce a general notion of semantic email, in which an email message consists of an RDF query or update coupled with corresponding explanatory text. Semantic email opens the door to a wide range of automated, email-mediated applications with formally guaranteed properties. In particular, this paper introduces a broad class of semantic email processes. For example, consider the process of sending an email to a program committee, asking who will attend the PC dinner, automatically collecting the responses, and tallying them up. We define both logical and decision-theoretic models where an email process is modeled as a set of updates to a data set on which we specify goals via certain constraints or utilities. We then describe a set of inference problems that arise while trying to satisfy these goals and analyze their computational tractability. In particular, we show that for the logical model it is possible to automatically infer which email responses are acceptable w.r.t. a set of constraints in polynomial time, and for the decision-theoretic model it is possible to compute the optimal message-handling policy in polynomial time. Finally, we discuss our publicly available implementation of semantic email and outline research challenges in this realm. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Practical Semantic Analysis of Web Sites and Documents by Thierry Despeyroux I.N.R.I.A. http://eprints.osti.gov/cgi-bin/dexpldcgi?qry1107100557;20 Abstract: As Web sites are now ordinary products, it is necessary to explicit the notion of quality of a Web site. The quality of a site may be linked to the easiness of accessibility and also to other criteria such as the fact that the site is up to date and coherent. This last quality is difficult to insure because sites may be updated very frequently, may have many authors, may be partially generated and in this context proof-reading is very difficult. The same piece of information may be found in different occurrences, but also in data or metadata, leading to the need for consistency checking. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, February 27, 2005   Computer Recycling 1) BBC News: PC Ownership to 'Double by 2010' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4095737.stm 2) Oasis: Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment http://snipurl.com/d32z 3) PC World: How to Dispose of an Old Notebook http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,119445,00.asp 4) Tech Soup: Ten Tips for Donating a Computer http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articlepage.cfm?articleid=524&topicid=1 5) CompuMentor: Computer Recycling & Reuse Program http://www.compumentor.org/recycle/default.html 6) Vnunet: Refurbished PCs http://www.vnunet.com/features/1155286 7) Refurbished Computers Buyers Guide http://www.realise-it.org/buyersguide.asp 8) About.com: Bill to Curb Electronic Waste Introduced http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/technologyandresearch/a/ewastebill.htm Given current rates of computer consumerism and technological advances, one might expect to find a lot of computers out there in the world. What happens to these old computers? This Topic in Depth explores this issue, reviews some options for recycling computers, and provides tips for anyone considering purchasing a refurbished computer. The first article from BBC News (1) reports on research which suggests that "the number of personal computers worldwide is expected to double by 2010 to 1.3 billion machines." The second article from Oasis, a project of the Irish eGovernment initiative, (2) reviews some of the issues surrounding waste from electrical and electronic equipment. This next article from PC World (3) gives some ideas for how to dispose of an old notebook computer. One option, of course, is to donate your notebook, which is discussed in this article from Tech Soup (4). Another resource for information on computer recycling and reuse is this website from CompuMentor (5). Given the current market for computers, many are considering refurbished computers. This article from Vnunet (6 ) explains what a refurbished computer is while the next website provides some tips for buying a refurbished computer (7 ). Finally, this article from About.com reports on the recently introduced National Computer Recycling Act (8).[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Theoretical Librarian http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/ Theoretical Librarian is the blog of Gerry McKiernan, Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer at Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA 50011. Theoretical Librarian, in general, will include announcements of past, present, and future personal publications and presentations as well as postings on current and emerging technologies and their actual and potential application for enhanced information and library services. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Business-Higher Education Forum http://www.bhef.com/ The Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) is a non-profit membership organization of leaders from American businesses, colleges and universities, museums, and foundations. The purpose of the group is to join together to examine issues of national importance and, when appropriate, to speak with one voice by issuing reports, white papers, and policy positions, and by sponsoring roundtable discussions with elected public officials, representatives from both the corporate and the academic communities, and with the general public. Founded in 1978, the Forum was hosted by the American Council on Education until it became an independent organization in September 2004. February 16, 2005 Press Release: Systematic Failures in U.S. Math and Science Infrastructure Threaten Global Leadership A Commitment to America’s Future; Responding to the Crisis in Mathematics & Science Education How can business, higher education, and policy leaders contribute to the improvement of the mathematics and science competency of all of America’s students? In A Commitment to America’s Future; Responding to the Crisis in Mathematics & Science Education, the BHEF Mathematics and Science Initiative outlines a plan-of-action, to be undertaken in each state by a coalition of education, business, and policy leaders, which focuses on system-wide improvement of the teaching and learning of mathematics and science. It also calls for national and state-specific public information programs that make mathematics and science education a public priority. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The People's Network - Online Services From England's Public Libraries http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/ The lottery funded People's Network provides access to the internet from all public libraries across England. With further support from the Big Lottery Fund, MLA is now developing online services for the People's Network. The vision is to create a new web-based resource which complements and builds on the services of public libraries in England. It will bring easy access to knowledge, information, the support of library staff and opportunities to learn, enjoy and be inspired. The first of these services, allows you to have your enquiries answered by library staff just as if you spoke to a member of staff in your local library. It is currently being piloted before its launch to the public in Spring 2005. Try out the Enquiry Service. This has been added to the Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Innovate - Journal of Online Education http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ Innovate is a leading online journal exploring the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in all sectors (K-12, college and university, corporate, government). It is the leading online journal exemplifying the use of IT tools to enhance professional communication about using IT in education. The Innovate-Live portal, featuring Innovate-Live webcasts and Innovate-Live discussion forums, is the interactive centerpiece of Innovate. Please take a few minutes to view a Flash Presentation on the portal. Innovate-Live webcasts offer readers an opportunity to explore with Innovate authors, in more depth than an article allows, Innovate articles, and it offers authors an opportunity to go into more detail with respect to a particular aspect of their topic. Innovate-Live forums enable participants to discuss special topics that will eventually become special issues of Innovate focusing on those topics. Once manuscripts developing from this discussion or submitted in response to a call for manuscripts, forum participants will be encouraged to use the forum to comment on the manuscripts as well as on the topic. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   2005 Economic Report of the President http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/index.html The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices. The Economic Report of the President is transmitted to Congress no later than ten days after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government. Supplementary reports can be issued to the Congress which contain additional and/or revised recommendations. Documents are available as ASCII text and PDF files. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, February 26, 2005   Moodle - Free Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning Moodle - Course Management System http://moodle.org/ Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy. Moodle is Open Source software, which means you are free to download it, use it, modify it and even distribute it (under the terms of the GNU General Public License). Moodle runs without modification on Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Netware and any other system that supports PHP, including most webhost providers. Data is stored in a single database: MySQL and PostgreSQL are best supported, but it can also be used with Oracle, Access, Interbase, ODBC and others. Moodle has 50 language packs, including: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and US versions), Finnish, French (France and Canada versions), German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   ACME Laboratories http://www.acme.com/ ACME Laboratories states on its home page: Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972. On the net since 1991. There are a number of unique freeware applications as well as some very good tutorials. At one time they had complete code for an Internet search engine that I had listed in BotSpot® back in 1996. Worth a visit..... I have added this to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   KeePoint Keepad™ http://www.keepoint.com/prodinfo_personal.asp KeePoint Keepad™ is a novel concept in web research tools, which enables you to do all your web information gathering and organizing tasks, from navigating and searching to saving, categorizing and even sharing your selections, with the innovative one touch Kee-Tools. It eliminates the costs otherwise involved in printing, filing, sorting, managing, and sometimes even losing important information. Keepad, like the Keepoint it is based on, takes us beyond the search engines, making the internet a truly rich resource that it was envisioned to be. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Internet Fosters Pseudo A.D.D. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/10info.html You know the syndrome -- you sit down to do some work, and before you know it, you're checking e-mail, monitoring the weather report, assembling a new playlist, or filling up a shopping cart with books. A growing number of computer scientists and psychologists are studying the phenomenon of shortened attention span in the age of the Internet. Harvard Medical School professor John Ratey calls it "pseudo" attention deficit disorder or pseudo-A.D.D. Dr. Ben Bederson, head of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, says the key is to design in a minimal amount of user distraction: "We're trying to come up with simple ideas of how computer interfaces get in the way of being able to concentrate." He notes that it all comes down to "flow" -- the state of deep cognitive engagement that people achieve when performing an activity, like writing, that requires a certain amount of concentration. Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychology professor at the Claremont Graduate University who's written on "flow," says interruptions do have their place. "I shouldn't knock distraction completely, because it can be useful. It can clear the mind and give you a needed break from a very linear kind of thinking." But "predictive interfaces" that try to identify those moments when a distraction, like e-mail, can safely interrupt the user's momentum are unlikely to be successful, says Bederson. "That's very, very hard for a computer system to guess." posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Measurement Decision Theory http://edres.org/mdt/ Advocated by Wald (1947), first applied to measurement by Cronbach and Gleser (1957), and now widely used in engineering, agriculture, and computing, decision theory provides a simple model for the analysis of categorical data. It is most applicable in measurement when the goal is to classify examinees into one of two categories, e.g. pass/fail or master/non-master. From pilot testing, one estimates: 1)) The proportion of master and non masters in the population, and 2) The conditional probabilities of examinees in each mastery state responding correctly to each item. After the test is administered, one can compute (based on the examinee's responses and the pilot data): 1) The likelihood of an examinee's response pattern for masters and for non-masters, and 2) The probability that the examinee is a master and the probability that the examinee is a non-master. This tutorial provides an overview of measurement decision theory. Key concepts are presented and illustrated using a binary classification (pass/fail) test and a sample three-item test. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Power and Interest News Report (PINR) http://www.pinr.com/ The Power and Interest News Report (PINR) is an independent organization that utilizes open source intelligence to provide conflict analysis services in the context of international relations. PINR approaches a subject based upon the powers and interests involved, leaving the moral judgments to the reader. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, February 25, 2005   Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/home.php The Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and one of the Schools in the Institute of Advanced Studies - the part of the ANU devoted to research and research training. They are Australia's premier university centre for astronomical research. Their mission is to: 1) advance the observational and theoretical frontiers of astronomy and its enabling technologies; 2) provide national and international leadership; and 3) train outstanding scientists. Their headquarters are located on Mount Stromlo, a twenty minute drive from the centre of Canberra, Australia's capital city. They run Australia's two largest optical observatories: Mount Stromlo Observatory itself (damaged by the Canberra bushfires of 18 January 2003) and Siding Spring Observatory, which is located near the town of Coonabarabran, in the Western Plains of NSW. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/ The Directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics. The Directory was last updated on February 25, 2005 and currently includes 2940 entries. Each entry in the Directory is verified and updated at least annually. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Who Knows? Better Yet, Who Do You Trust? http://informationr.net/ir/10-2/paper216.html Why does a manager seek out a particular colleague when looking for information? Because that individual knows the most about the subject, right? Wrong, according to a recent research study. Maureen Mackenzie of the Dowling College School of Business has done three studies exploring how managers in for-profit business environments select individuals as sources of information. Her results indicate that the manager's relationship with an individual, more than his or her knowledge, is the real reason for seeking them out. Here's why. Seeking information under pressure is an uncomfortable position for most managers. They prefer to be the source, solution and provider of information. Also, because of perceptions defining their role, managers are expected to have all the answers on demand. Therefore, when a manager must reach out and ask for help, Mackenzie says they prefer someone with whom they have a trusting relationship -- despite the apparent opportunity cost. Managers will ask someone they know, like or trust more often than individuals who are the foremost subject matter experts. The results of this study offer a different perspective of how a specific user-group may deal with a bombardment of potentially relevant information. Mackenzie believes these insights could help corporate leadership and information architects develop training and orientation processes that maximize manager effectiveness, rather than systems that may not reflect real-world manager tendencies. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services http://www.w3.org/2005/01/ws-swsf-cfp.html http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ Position papers are due 22 April for the W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services to be held 9-10 June in Innsbruck, Austria. Participants will discuss possible future W3C work on a comprehensive and expressive framework for describing all aspects of Web services. The workshop's goal is to envision more powerful tools and fuller automation using Semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation http://pareonline.net/ Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE) is an on-line journal supported, in part, by the Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation at the University of Maryland, College Park. Its purpose is to provide education professionals access to refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice, especially at the local education agency (LEA) level. Manuscripts published in Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation are scholarly syntheses of research and ideas about issues and practices in education. They are designed to help members of the community keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends and research developments. While they are most often prepared for practitioners, such as teachers, administrators, and assessment personnel who work in schools and school systems, PARE articles can target other audiences, including researchers, policy makers, parents, and students. This has been added to Educationa and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Item Response Theory http://edres.org/irt/ Item Response Theory is the study of test and item scores based on assumptions concerning the mathematical relationship between abilities (or other hypothesized traits) and item responses. Other names and subsets include Item Characteristic Curve Theory, Latent Trait Theory, Rasch Model, 2PL Model, 3PL model and the Birnbaum model. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, February 24, 2005   Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N3 March 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N3 March 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N3.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The March 2005 V3N3 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 33 page .pdf document (608KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online resources and sources covering all aspects of privacy. 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 review covers Security Resources 2005 a professional Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 11:51 AM   Academic Technology Resources Academic Technology Resources http://www.utoronto.ca/cat/clearinghouse/index.html Academic Technology Resources is a comprehensive site of resources and sites including links to the following sections: 1) Organizations, 2) Conferences and Events, 3) Funding, 4) Instructional Design, 5) Journals and Research, 6) UofT Resources, and 7) Web Development Tools. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Mentor Directory and Resources http://www.peer.ca/mentor.html A comprehensive directory of mentor resources including the following links: 1) Learn, 2) Take, 3) Events, 4) Links, 5) Review, 6) Tools, 7) Ask, 8) Profile, 9) Search, 10) Find, 11) WIN, 12) Read, 13) Benefits, 14) Join, 15) List, 16) Coaching, and 17) Read. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Educational and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   A Drug Recall http://www.adrugrecall.com/ A Drug Recall site provides Celebrex, Vioxx, and Naproxen (Aleve) side effects information, news and resources on recalls and other harmful, defective drugs. Learn about the Vioxx recall and more about Celebrex side effects warnings. A Drug Recall site provides news and legal information about defective and potentially harmful drugs. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Meta Search Engine Factors In Contextual Analysis http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3468611 Watson, a new meta desktop search engine released by Intellext, forms contextually based queries that are designed to produce more relevant search results. "It understands the overall gist of what you're working on and selects terms of the query that you use over and over. It tempers that with what slide or paragraph you're on at that moment," says Intellext founder Jay Budzik. Once Watson figures out what the user is looking for, it goes out and rummages through indices created by other applications to offer additional suggestions. The advantage of the index-free approach is that it doesn't hog resources by creating filing systems that other applications have already produced, says Intellext CEO Al Wasserberger: "We don't want to index the Internet -- or your desktop. There are lots of people that know how to do that. We leverage all third parties; we don't do it ourselves." Watson can gather results from Web sites, desktop search applications, online news sites, as well as subscriber services and search engines. In a corporate setting, the meta search engine also culls information from a company's corporate knowledge management system, databases and intranet. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Connotea - Social Citations and Remote Reference Management http://www.connotea.org/ Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users. By saving your links and references to Connotea they are instantly on the web, which means that they are available to you from any computer and that you can point your friends and colleagues to them. In Connotea, every user's bookmarks are visible both to visitors and to every other user, and different users' libraries are linked together through the use of common tags or common bookmarks. You can save links to any online content, but there is special functionality for articles from Nature journals, PubMed, HubMed or D-Lib Magazine — Connotea recognises URLs from these sites and imports the bibliographic information for the article you bookmarked. You can bookmark pages and papers by clicking on add and copying-and-pasting the URL into the form there. However, the easiest way of saving a link is to use the Connotea bookmarklets while you're browsing. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Appropriate Resolvers, Dynamically: Adding REL and Title Attributes To OpenURLs - A Prototype http://curtis.med.yale.edu/dchud/resolvable/ This simple prototype demonstrates an easier way to connect remote web resources and related local services. To use it, you first need a bookmarklet. Choose your institution from the following list (or, if yours is not listed, choose one that sounds interesting, and see the FAQ below). To get a bookmarklet, click and drag the link at the right side of the row with your institution, dropping the dragged link into your web browser favorites toolbar. This should leave a bookmark with the text of the link you dragged right there in your personal bookmark/favorites toolbar. Then, go to one of the services listed at bottom (you might want to do this in another browser window or tab, to keep this page open nearby). At that service's suggested link, click the bookmarklet you just added to your toolbar. You should now see OpenURL resolver buttons, which are linked to your institution's resolver as you normally see. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, February 23, 2005   March 2005 Zillman Column March 2005 Zillman Column - Tutorial Resources http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Tutorial Resources Mar05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The March 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Tutorial Resources. This March 2005 Zillman Column Tutorial Resources is a comprehensive listing of tutorial resources and sources on the World Wide Web. The Internet is an excellent medium for the delivery of continued education and tutorial resources to keep you up to date and current in your profession, special interest and hobby. Download this excellent 14 page free .pdf (385KB) column today and begin using the many tutorial resources available on the World Wide Web! Knowledge is the key to our future! © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 10:20 AM   Internet Society The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) http://www.isoc.org/ The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 100 organization and over 20,000 individual members in over 180 countries. It provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Since 1992, the Internet Society has served as the international organization for global coordination and cooperation on the Internet, promoting and maintaining a broad spectrum of activities focused on the Internet's development, availability, and associated technologies. The Internet Society acts not only as a global clearinghouse for Internet information and education but also as a facilitator and coordinator of Internet-related initiatives around the world. Through its annual International Networking (INET) conference and other sponsored events, developing-country training workshops, tutorials, statistical and market research, publications, public policy and trade activities, regional and local chapters, standardization activities, committees and an international secretariat, the Internet Society serves the needs of the growing global Internet community. From commerce to education to social issues, our goal is to enhance the availability and utility of the Internet on the widest possible scale. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. I am proud to have been a member of the Internet Society for over ten years!! posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative http://odrl.net/ The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an international effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standard for the Digital Rights Management expression language. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Jargon File Resources http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/ This page indexes all the WWW resources associated with the Jargon File and its print version, The New Hacker's Dictionary. It's as official as anything associated with the Jargon File gets. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   International Crisis Group http://www.crisisweb.org/ The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, multinational organization, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   xISBN Search http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/xisbn/ xISBN is a library web service that supplies International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) associated with individual intellectual works represented in the OCLC WorldCat database. Give it an ISBN, and it returns a list of associated ISBNs. OCLC Research's experimental web service supports automatic expansion of ISBN queries. The assumption is that people wanting an item should get all associated editions and printings of that item when they search a database like a library catalog or an online bookseller's database. The xISBN service is based on OCLC Research's FRBR activities (FRBR is a model for grouping bibliographic records for works) and the world's premiere bibliographic database, OCLC WorldCat. The OCLC Research FRBR algorithm was used to build tables of ISBNs for all intellectual works represented in WorldCat. The xISBN web service was then built to provide a useful means to query these tables: when a user has one ISBN, they can send that value to the service which then returns a string of all ISBNs for the work. The ISBNs returned from the service can in turn be re-used in an "or" query to a bibliographic database to improve the chances of a user finding any/all instances of the work in a given database. So a user finding an item of interest at Amazon (for example) could conveniently query his/her local library online catalog to find out if any editions or printings (hardback or paperback, first printing or third printing, and even cases where various titles have been used) of the item are held by the library. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Grey Literature Network (GreyNet) http://www.greynet.org/ The Grey Literature Network Service was founded in 1993. The goal of GreyNet is to facilitate dialog, research, and communication between persons and organisations in the field of grey literature. GreyNet further seeks to identify and distribute information on and about grey literature in networked environments. Its main activities include the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, the creation and maintenance of web-based resources, a moderated Listserv, and The Grey Journal. Definition of Grey Literature: "Information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commerical publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity." This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, February 22, 2005   The Digital Object Identifier System® Digital Object Identifier (DOI) http://www.doi.org/ The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOIs are names assigned to any entity for use on digital networks. They are used to provide current information, including where they (or information about them) can be found on the Internet. Information about a digital object may change over time, including where to find it, but its DOI will not change. The DOI system provides a framework for persistent identification, managing intellectual content, managing metadata, linking customers with content suppliers, facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated management of media. DOIs can be used for any form of management of any data, whether commercial or non-commercial. The system is managed by the International DOI Foundation, an open membership consortium including both commercial and non-commercial partners, and has recently been accepted for standardisation within ISO. Several million DOIs have been assigned by DOI Registration Agencies in the US, Australasia, and Europe. Using DOIs as identifiers makes managing intellectual property in a networked environment much easier and more convenient, and allows the construction of automated services and transactions. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Christian Classics Ethereal Library http://www.ccel.org/ Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves! All of the books on this server are believed to be in the public domain in the United States unless otherwise specified. Copy them freely for any purpose. Outside of the US, check your local copyright laws. This has been added to Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   ePresence Interactive Media http://epresence.tv/ ePresence Interactive Media is a research project of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. The goal of their research is to make webcasting: 1) Highly interactive, 2) More engaging, 3) Accessible in real-time and later via structured, navigable, searchable archives, 4) Useful for knowledge transmission, building, and sharing, and 5) Scalable and robust. Work to date has succeeded in the creation of a viable and innovative webcasting system. This includes support for video, audio, and slide broadcasting; slide browsing and review; submitting questions, integrated moderated chat, live software demos and the automated creation of event archives. They have recently formed a Project Partnership. Their mandate is to further develop the ePresence Interactive Webcasting system and work toward an eventual open source release. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Announcing FamPat - A New International Patent Database from Questel•Orbit by Nancy Lambert http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050214-2.shtml Questel•Orbit recently announced the release of FamPat, the family-based version of its international patent database PlusPat. An interesting feature of FamPat is that it gives searchers a choice of how broad a patent family they may display. First, some background. Like PlusPat, FamPat has probably the broadest country and time coverage of any subject-searchable patent database. It covers 75 patenting authorities, and some countries go back to the early 20th century (or even earlier: Germany goes back to 1877). The very early records only have numeric information. However, this includes ECLA classes in some cases, so they can be retrieved in subject searches. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Operating Manual for Social Tools http://www.corante.com/om/ The Operating Manual for Social Tools project is sponsored by ZeroDegrees, an online service that enables individuals to leverage their relationship connections with other individuals and organizations for business, career, and personal success. ZeroDegrees has agreed to sponsor this site for the next four months to provide a forum for the discussion of rules and expectations for online social networks that will make social networks more useful while respecting the needs and privacy of their members. ZeroDegrees has agreed to exercise zero influence over the content of the discussions. The paid contributors are working for a fixed, non-renewable term. ZeroDegrees has further agreed that if the contributors feel ZeroDegrees has tried to influence them in any way, they can resign from the project but will still be paid. The project is produced by Corante, a leading social media company. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   EdRef College Search Directory http://www.edref.com/ EdRef.com is a free online college directory providing information on more than 7,000 US colleges and trade schools. EdRef.com tries to present unbiased information on substantially all of the colleges in the country. All EdRef.com content is free of charge for the use of students and educators. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, February 21, 2005   Listent To Marcus - Current Awareness Happenings On the Internet This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. February 21, 2005 V3N8 discusses The Organizer's Toolbox. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this unique resource on the Internet. View this site at: The Organizer's Toolbox http://www.onlineorganizing.com/ExpertAdviceToolbox.asp posted by Marcus | 4:35 AM   Patent Lens™ Patent Lens™ - Patent Informatics and Analysis Component of the BIOS Initiative http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/50 The patent informatics and analysis component of the BIOS initiative aims to assist both professionals and non-professionals to understand and navigate the intellectual property landscape within the life sciences. The patent system was created to encourage public disclosure of inventions and clear definition of each invention being protected, so that when the patent monopoly is not in force. for example when it has expired or where it was not granted, the invention may be used for further innovation. These tools are an important and necessary component of the BIOS initiative, as they can assist the user to determine the IP boundaries of what is free and what is not free. Perhaps more appropriately this can be framed as: what are the constraints on deliverable innovations, and what are the usable building blocks for future innovations? The resource was initially developed by CAMBIA, as the CAMBIA IP Resource (formerly www.cambiaIP.org). The Intellectual Property (IP) resource currently consists of a fully text-searchable patents database which has recently been greatly expanded to contain 1,500,000 life science patents from the US, Australian and European-based databases, and we are working to include others. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[Thanks to Gerry McKiernan for this find] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Secunia - Vulnerability and Virus Information and Alerts http://secunia.com/ Secunia offers a complete list of software and operating systems in the Secunia database. Their database currently includes 4534 pieces of software and operating systems. Click a product to view all current Secunia Advisories affecting it. Please note that info is added to their database daily, through software suggestions from customers and vulnerability reports affecting new software. Excellent resource for current awareness of virus vulnerability and information through ongoing alerts and website. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   About Famous People http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/index.html About Famous People is an one stop site to learn all about those famous men and women in history. You'll find Presidents, First Ladies, Civil War Generals, Actors, Great and Fascinating Women, Musicians, and Much Much More. Check back as more Famous People are added! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Education Web Page http://www.educationwebpage.com/ A very comprehensive site of competent links for educators and those interested in educational resources and home teaching. Well worth the time to visit and review and I would recommend that you visit the site index and search first to obtain your navigational bearings to best review the entire site. This will be added to Education Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   e-Business Intelligence Blog http://www.e-bi.org/ e-Business Intelligence Blog - Daily Intelligence Blogger in Politics, Business and Defense. e-BI.org is a multiblog created to demonstrate the efficiency of open source intelligence in a network-centric society. e-BI.org is a Romanian Open Source Intelligence supporting tool at National and Coalition Level. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog and eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Open Source Publishing http://www.arl.org/newsltr/237/opensource.html Terry Ehling, Director of Electronic Publishing at Cornell University Library, says that the first joint DPubS v.2 beta project between Cornell and Penn State will involve the delivery of "Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies." She concludes: "Presses and libraries can leverage one another's strengths. Together they can offer a broad range of sophisticated, cost-effective publishing services to their communities." posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, February 20, 2005   Biodiesel 1) Biodiesel America http://www.biodieselamerica.org/biosite/index.php?id=141,0,0,1,0,0 2) National Biodiesel Board http://www.biodiesel.org/ 3) Canadian Renewable Fuels Association http://www.greenfuels.org/ 4) European Biodiesel Board http://www.ebb-eu.org/ 5) Biodiesel Association of Australia http://www.biodiesel.org.au/ 6) U.S. Department of Energy: Biomass Program http://www.eere.energy.gov/biomass/ 7) The Earthrace http://www.earthrace.net/ As global dependence on fossil fuels is increasingly called into question, many nations, organizations, and individuals are exploring the use of biodiesel, a renewable fuel derived from vegetable oils (or animal fat), as an alternative power source. The first website presents (1) Biodiesel America, "a campaign whose mission is to change 100,000 diesel school busses to biodiesel by 2010." Biodiesel America has an educational mission, and its website offers a Biodiesel 101 section, as well as sections for biodiesel resources, news, online discussion forums, and more. The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) (2) represents "the biodiesel industry as the coordinating body for research and development in the United States." The NBB site offers a database full of downloadable reports, buyer's information, biodiesel news, market information, and a variety of other resources. The nonprofit Canadian renewable Fuels Association (CRFA) (3) works "to promote renewable fuels for automotive transportation and government liaison activities." In addition to information about biodiesel and ethanol, the CRFA website contains several downloadable newsletters, and a collection of related links. The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) (4), also a nonprofit organization, works to promote biodiesel use in the European Union (EU). The EBB website offers downloadable articles regarding biodiesel in the EU, downloadable reports from EU member states, a list of upcoming events, an EBB email information service, and basic statistical tables representing biodiesel production by country. The Biodiesel Association of Australia (BAA) (5) "was founded in late 2000 to ensure that the biodiesel industry is established and flourishes in Australia." The BAA website contains basic, concise information about biodiesel; links to related news articles; downloadable BAA newsletters and biodiesel-related documents; an online discussion forum; and a collection of related links. From the U.S. Department of Energy, the sixth (6) website presents information about the Biomass Program, whose mission is to work with U.S. industry to transform "abundant biomass resources into clean, affordable, and domestically produced biofuels, biopower, and high-value bioproducts." The final website (7) presents the Earthrace, a fantastic plan aimed at raising awareness about biodiesel by breaking "the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat." Powered by biodiesel, it is hoped that the Earthrace vessel will be able to travel approximately 24,000 nautical miles in fewer than 65 days.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   JavaScript Kit- Comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS Tutorials and Over 400+ Free JavaScripts http://www.javascriptkit.com/ Comprehensive JavaScript tutorials and over 400 free scripts. Just added a complete JavaScript Reference. Also features DHTML, CSS, and web design tutorials, and a large developer's help forum. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Number Watch http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/number%20watch.htm John Brignell, Professor Emeritus from the Department of Electronics & Computer Science at the University of Southampton, is the author of this informal website "devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media." Brignell says he aims to "nail" a few of the "Single Issue Fanatics (SIFs), politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists (junk, pseudo- or just bad)," who use misleading numbers to write catchy articles or who try to keep numbers away from public notice. Since April 2000, he has been posting a "number of the month" as well as a "number for the year," which offer his commentary on media usage of misleading numbers and explanations for why the numbers are misleading. He also posts book reviews and an extensive list of online resources on statistics and statistics education. The FAQ section includes answers to some interesting questions, such as "Is there such a thing as average global temperature?" and some more basic questions such as "What is the Normal Distribution and what is so normal about it?" The Bits and Pieces section includes a variety of short articles on statistics and his definitions for some terms he uses on the website. Visitors are also invited to join the discussion forum (complete with a few advertisements) and view comments by others who want to discuss "wrong numbers in science, politics and the media." A few comments sent to Brignell and his responses are also posted online. This site is also reviewed in the February 11, 2005_NSDL MET Report_. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Who Will Win The Blog Race? http://billburnham.blogs.com/burnhamsbeat/2005/01/the_coming_blog.html If Google or Yahoo is able to dominate blogger traffic it would have a tremendous competitive advantage against its rival, but Bill Burnham, a student of blogging, speculates that some of the main blog aggregation sites -- Bloglines , , and del.icio.us -- are unlikely to be interesting acquisition opportunities for Google or Yahoo because "it is unclear what these sites really add to the existing capabilities of Yahoo and Google," since these sites focus on end-users rather than bloggers, and Google -- "and Yahoo already have plenty of end-users." Burnham predicts that the upcoming round of blog-inspired mergers and acquisitions "will be a nervous game of musical chairs as quickly placed wagers either pay off or are permanently bypassed. Watching how this, the Great Blog Battle, plays out will be entertaining indeed!" posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   CHANCE Magazine http://www.amstat.org/publications/chance/ CHANCE Magazine is a joint publication of the American Statistical Association and Springer-Verlag. The magazine features articles about statistics and the use of statistics in society in a style that is intended to be accessible to a broad public audience or anyone with "an interest in the analysis of data." Topic areas include statistics used in the social, biological, physical, and medical sciences, as well as information about statistical computing and graphical presentation of data. The monthly featured article is available online free of charge, but the regular columns, book reviews, and other sections are available only through paid subscription. The February 2005 feature article discusses "which aspects of music can be described by quantitative models" and includes supplemental sound clips. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   The National Security Archive http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html The National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions in one non governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats. The Archive's approximately $2.3 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues and from private philanthropists such as the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation. As a matter of policy, the Archive receives no government funding. The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository for these materials. Over the past decade, the Archive has become the world's largest non governmental library of declassified documents. Located on the seventh floor of the George Washington University's Gelman Library in Washington, D.C., the Archive is designed to apply the latest in computerized indexing technology to the massive amount of material already released by the U.S. government on international affairs, make them accessible to researchers and the public, and go beyond that base to build comprehensive collections of documents on specific topics of greatest interest to scholars and the public. The Archive's holdings include more than two million pages of accessioned material in over 200 separate collections. Supporting some 30 terminals, the Archive's computer system hosts major databases of released documents (over 100,000 records), authority files of individuals and organizations in international affairs (over 30,000 records), and FOIA requests filed by Archive staff and outside requesters on international affairs (over 20,000 records). This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, February 19, 2005   Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15708268 An excellent journal from Science Direct and Elsevier B.V. covering many aspects of the Semantic web. A sampling of articles from the current issue ( V2N2 ) covers: 1) Special Issue Title page, 2) World Wide Web Conference 2004 – Semantic Web Track, 3) A subscribable peer-to-peer RDF repository for distributed metadata management, 4) Learning to integrate web taxonomies, and 5) Semantic email: theory and applications. Well worth the read and sample issue online. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Librarians Must Rethink the Future http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/feb05/voice.shtml Google's move to digitize the collections of five of the world's leading research libraries marks a major leap forward in the movement to shift the nexus of knowledge from the bricks-and-mortar library to the Web, says Barbara Quint, editor of Searcher Magazine, and librarians must rethink their role accordingly. "Whatever we do and for whomever we do it, we must design our tasks under the principle of Do-Once, Serve-Many. We must look beyond constituency limitations. We must create products and services that can meet the needs of all users of the content inside these those products and services, not just that of our immediate constituencies. That will mean designing or joining projects that integrate and network with others working the same or similar content, the same or similar users… We must recognize that the weight of the future may collapse the structures of the past, that the systems we have relied upon to filter and measure and archive and distribute quality information may dissolve and leave us floating in a sea of disparate data. But the same dangerous future also will provide the tools to build new and better systems, tools open to new players -- like us… Above all, we must recognize that new tasks abound and, now that we are freed from shelf patrol duties, we're the ones to do them." posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   WAG the Dog Web Localizer by Ross Singer http://rsinger.library.gatech.edu/localizer/localizer.html The Web Localizer is an attempt to create a framework that takes web resources that are not written or intended for your use or community and rewrites them so they can work within your controlled environment. The goal is to extend the library (or any service, group, community or individual that can define its relation to other objects on the web) into the places and interfaces that people are already using (and probably are not "endorsed" or "supported" by the library). Google Scholar or Elsevier's Scirus are perfect examples of these sorts of services. The creators don't actually care if the user has access to the asset that a particular link points to, that is for the user and content provider to work out. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Metadata FAQ - Metadata for Education http://www.cetis.ac.uk/metadatafaq/FrontPage This Metadata FAQ has been developed collaboratively during 2004 by participants from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and other organisations including CanCore?, ADL, JES and Co and CETIS. This FAQ provides guidelines and information and has no official status within any of these organisations. The intention is to continue this work and encourage participation from the wider community with the assistance of a Wiki hosted by CETIS. Subtopics include: 1) General Questions, 2) Metadata Standards, 3) Creating and Using Metadata, 4) Technical Issues, and 5) Resources. This has been added to Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   DREI - Digital Reference Education Initiative http://128.230.185.43/ Digital reference has already had a tremendous impact on library practice across library types and geography. Anecdotal evidence of impact can be seen in the growing number of digital reference publications, conference presentations, and large-scale digital reference projects such as the Virtual Reference Desk project, QuestionPoint and the State of Washington LSTA efforts. Digital reference is no longer a limited experiment in some libraries, but increasingly a new reality in many reference service environments. However, this new reality has outpaced the library training and education infrastructure to support it. The Digital Reference Education Initiative (DREI) seeks to bring together the collective expertise of practitioners, library educators, and digital reference software developers interested in issues of education and training in order to develop core competencies, and educational approaches to digital reference. DREI's main goal is to create an adaptable collection of core competencies, standards, tools, and training materials that may be used in various library and other information industry settings, and to provide access to these materials through this site. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Tools for Thought http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30JOHNSON.html In an essay in the New York Times, author Steven Johnson ("Mind Wide Open" and "Everything Bad Is Good for You") suggests that word processing "has been less revolutionary than you might think," because "writers don't normally rely on the computer for the more subtle arts of inspiration and association. We use the computer to process words, but the ideas that animate those words originate somewhere else, away from the screen. The word processor has changed the way we write, but it hasn't yet changed the way we think." But he thinks that tools for thought may finally become a reality for people who manipulate words for a living, with the advent of a dozen new programs that share "two remarkable properties: the ability to interpret the meaning of text documents; and the ability to filter through thousands of documents in the time it takes to have a sip of coffee. Put those two elements together and you have a tool that will have as significant an impact on the way writers work as the original word processors did." Johnson notes that "there's a fundamental difference between searching a universe of documents created by strangers and searching your own personal library. When you're freewheeling through ideas that you yourself have collated -- particularly when you'd long ago forgotten about them -- there's something about the experience that seems uncannily like freewheeling through the corridors of your own memory. It feels like thinking." posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, February 18, 2005   ACM SIGKDD Current Explorations Issue ACM SIGKDD: Current Explorations Issue http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue.php?issue=current The December 2004 Volume 6 Number 2 of ACM's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining focuses on Web Content Mining. Articles include 1) Extracting Relational Data from HTML Repositories, 2) Learning Important Models for Web Page Blocks based on Layout and Content Analysis, 3) Learning by Googling, 4) Correlating Summarization of Multi-source News with K-way Graph Bi-clustering, 5) Information Diffusion Through Blogspace, 6) Mining Structures for Semantics, 7) Learning to Extract Information from Large Domain-specific Websites using Sequential Models, 8) Mining Semantics for Large Scale Integration on the Web: Evidences, Insights, and Challenges, and 9) A number of contributed articles ...... This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   How To Conduct A Background Check by Genie Tyburski, Web Manager, The Virtual Chase http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/background_checks.html An excellent article by Genie Tyburski, Web Manager of The Virtual Chase. This is another one of her fine Internet research articles and discusses the best and current methods and resources on conducting a background check. A listing of resources as well as current privacy issues are discussed. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog and Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Science News Blog Links Faculty and Students http://www.library.gsu.edu/scholarship/articles/vogel-2004-11-IRSQ-blog.pdf Although surveys indicate most Americans still haven't a clue what blogs are, their numbers and uses are spreading. Two librarians at Georgia State University have developed a weblog to deliver information about library news, services and resources to GSU's science faculty and students. Designed and built totally in-house, Science News reflects the many advantages blogs offer. They can be updated easily, frequently and continuously, making them an appealing alternative to static newsletters and e-mail updates. Since active blogging began in July 2003, more than 200 items have been posted to Science News, including daily updates on the science collection's move from one library building to another; alerts when library resources will be temporarily unavailable; notices when new multi-volume reference works are available; recent acquisitions; new databases and updates to existing databases; information about database-related resources like PubMed and SciFinder guides; online journal access; new class and subject guides; and the like. After Science News was up and running, the next step was to get the word out to the science faculty and students. Adding to the challenge was the fact that the new service is a blog, Web technology unfamiliar to many patrons. So the librarians decided to de-emphasize the "gee-whiz" aspect of the blog system itself, and focus instead on demonstrating the format's tangible benefits. Science News is at http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/science. (Preprint of "Delivering the News with Blogs: The Georgia State University Library Experience") posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor — Part I: the SIMD processing units by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-1.ars The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose POWERPC processor core connected to eight special-purpose DSP cores. These DSP cores, which IBM calls "synergistic processing elements" (SPE), but going to call "SIMD processing elements" (SPE) because "synergy" is a dumb word, are really the heart of the entire Cell concept. IBM introduced the basic architecture of the SPE, and they're going to introduce the overall architecture of the complete Cell system in a session...... posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Journal of Web Semantics: Preprint Server http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/ Here you can find fulltexts and bibliographic data of a number of electronic versions of the publications of the Journal of Web Semantics, including submitted ontologies and archived open-source code. Currently there are 33 publications available. The search facilities comprise catalogue search, fulltext search und navigation. Navigation allows gaining an overview about the extent and composition of the document collection. Links include: 1) Home, 2) Demo, 3) Ontologies, 4) All Papers, and 5) FAQ . This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=102537 The journal Netnomics is intended to be an outlet for research in electronic networking. As more and more transactions will be carried out electronically, new economic issues and problems will start to arise. A network-based real time macroeconomy will emerge with its own set of economic characteristic, which will create new opportunities for economic research. Topics that could be addressed are: pricing schemes for electronic services, electronic trading systems, data mining and high-frequency data, real-time forecasting, filtering, economic software agents, distributed database applications, digicash-ecash systems, and many more. Evidently, this is only the beginning. In the long run, a whole new field of research will emerge. Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. ISSN 1385-9587. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, February 17, 2005   Infopeople Best Search Tools Chart Best Search Tools Chart http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html A quick guide (cheat-sheet) to Internet search engines and subject directories. Last updated January 11, 2005 by Joe Barker for and copyright protected by the Infopeople Project, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. This document may be printed or copied for non-commercial use without further permission of the author, provided this notice is present. The Adobe Acrobat PDF version prints on 2 pages. See also Best Search Engines Quick Guide. This is a nice reference sheet that gives a quick view of the various attributes of the leading search entities and directory resources on the Internet. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   SiteLibrary - A Collective Effort To Help Connect the Pieces of the Web http://www.sitelibrary.net/ A haven for web wanderers including: 1) Link Collectors Community: To share interests in exploring the web. Portal includes directory editors community forums and weblogs with topics such as link indexing, search, web technologies, online communities, culture, and language, 2) SiteLibrary Web Directory: High quality and user-friendly directory, and 3) Bookmarks Parking Directory: A project to organize browser favorites into a searchable bookmarks directory. Provides internet favorites storage, with a quick-add bookmarklet, personalized categories, site descriptions and keywords, search, topic area for crosslinking similar bookmarks, and listings of new, popular, and top-rated sites. Save your link collection online for easy access from anywhere, and help your favorite sites get popular. Their mission: To maintain a community built on trust and respect, with a goal of building a high-quality, user-friendly, and unique system of indexing websites on the internet. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Pretrieve Search - Free Public Record Search Engine http://www.pretrieve.com/ Pretrieve LLC was founded with the purpose of developing a public record search engine that would make Internet based research free, faster and easier for everyone. The big search engines didn't go deep enough to find the searchable databases that they were looking for, and they needed a way to tap into the resources of the Deep Web. They also wanted to eliminate some of the inefficiencies of Internet based research by creating a user friendly interface that presented a categorized menu of information sources and reduce the amount of redundant data entry. Their goal was to develop a specialized search engine for retrieving public record information that was familiar to operate but delivered results in a more meaningful way. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Competitive Intelligence Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Streamload - Share Videos and Photos - Online MP3 Storage and Access http://www.streamload.com/ Streamload is a service that enables you to send, receive, store and access Megafiles™ to any person and from any Internet connected device. Share your videos as easily as you send email. Streamload provides the tools to store and share your videos with ease. Send videos in full-quality to your family and friends. It's permanent. It's secure. It's the highest-quality solution. Access your digital music anytime, anywhere. Streamload allows you to organize, store, and stream all your digital music. You never have to leave your MP3s behind again. Whether you are on the road or at a different computer, Streamload remembers your music so you don't have to. Share full-quality images with anyone. Use your camera's full potential and say goodbye to expensive photo printing services. Streamload enables you to share your photos with others using thumbnail previews while allowing them to print original, full-quality prints at home. Easily send and receive huge files. It's easy to move huge files around with Streamload. Send up to 50,000 gigabytes (50 TB) of files to anyone by sending secure email links, or directly transfer files to the recipient's Streamload Inbox. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   INSNA - International Network for Social Network Analysis http://www.insna.org/ This page contains information about the International Network for Social Network Analysis and related subjects. Here you will find Social Networks information, reference sources and links to related home pages. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Advanced Thinker’s Forum (ATF) http://www.advancedthinkers.com/ The Advanced Thinker’s Forum (ATF) is a network of individuals interested in the problem of large-scale change and its consequences. This network believes that the most relevant dialogues on this subject need to happen in the space that falls between traditional business, technology, and social disciplines. Each member of the Advanced Thinker’s Forum is an individual who has significant expertise and experience in some aspect of this problem and is committed to exploring how their insights intersect with others who approach large-scale organizational change from different perspectives. ATF attendees have backgrounds in many areas including Learning, Knowledge Management, Change, Performance, Collaboration, and Organization Development. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, February 16, 2005   FY2006 U.S. Government Budget Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2006 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy06/index.html Issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year. Other related and supporting budget publications, such as the Economic Report of the President, are included, which may vary from year to year. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives by Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/ananiadou/ Introduction In this article we describe the role of the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM). NaCTeM is operated by a consortium of three Universities: the University of Manchester which leads the consortium, the University of Liverpool and the University of Salford. The service activity is run by the National Centre for Dataset Services (MIMAS), based within Manchester Computing (MC). As part of previous and ongoing collaboration, NaCTeM involves, as self-funded partners, world-leading groups at San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), the University of Geneva and the University of Tokyo. NaCTeM’s initial focus is on bioscience and biomedical texts as there is an increasing need for bio-text mining and automated methods to search, access, extract, integrate and manage textual information from large-scale bio-resources. NaCTeM was established in Summer 2004 with funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), with the consortium itself investing almost the same amount as it received in funding. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Project Management Institute (PMI) http://www.pmi.org/ Project Management Institute (PMI), with more than 150,000 members in over 150 countries, is the world’s foremost advocate for the project management profession. A vital and forward-thinking organization, PMI is comprised of 236 chartered chapters, 34 new potential chapters, 33 Specific Interests Groups (SIGs) and two colleges. PMI sets industry standards, conducts research and provides education, certification and professional exchange opportunities designed to strengthen and further establish the profession. PMI advances the careers of practitioners, while enhancing overall business and government performance, through documentation of return on investment. Project management is a strategic competency that has successfully been applied in such high profile projects as rebuilding the Pentagon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the transformation of IBM by Lou Gerstner from an IT hardware giant to an IT software and computer services leader, organizing and managing the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, and the upcoming Summer Games in Beijing, just to name a few. If project management can play a major role in these success stories, just imagine what it might be able to do for your own organization! posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   WebMonkey Refrence Resources http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/ WebMonkey reference resources including: 1) JavaScript Code Library, 2) HTML Cheat Sheet, 3) Special Characters, 4) Color Codes, 5) Windows Browser Chart, 6) Stylesheets Guide, and 7) Unix Reference Guide. This is an excellent reference resource for WWW items. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   An Introduction to Activism on the Internet http://www.backspace.com/action/all.php This document offers a brief introduction to a few different techniques of electronic advocacy using email, the Web, and other “new media” to bring about social change. This document is not intended to endorse electronic campaigning tactics at the expense of other offline tactics. Constituencies that are less connected to the Internet, for instance, are less likely to be reached by Internet organizing alone. Any campaign determining its strategy should analyze its goals and consider the best way to influence, facilitate, create, or seize power. Electronic campaigning techniques may work best when supplementing offline tactics... or may be entirely unsuitable given a campaign’s intended audience, targets, timing, or resources. As with other campaigning tactics, strategies that work in one context will not necessarily work in another. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   LogFinder- Reduce Unnecessary Log Files http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_02.php#002370 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released logfinder, a software tool to help people reduce the unnecessary collection of personal information about computer users. Often computer network servers automatically log information about who has visited a website and when, or who has sent and received email. Such data tells a lot about a user's browsing and email habits and could be used in privacy-invasive ways. Moreover, log data must be turned over to government entities with court orders and can be subpoenaed by opposing sides in court cases. By finding unwanted log files, logfinder informs system administrators when their servers are collecting personal data and gives them the opportunity to turn logging off if it isn't gathering information necessary for administering the system. Logfinder was conceived by security consultant Ben Laurie and written by EFF Staff Technologist Seth Schoen. It's intended to complement EFF's recent white paper, "Best Practices for Online Service Providers," in which the organization argues that administrators should remove as many logs as possible and delete all personally identifying data from them. "People who choose to follow our recommendations in the white paper might not know what kinds of logs they have," said Schoen. "Logfinder is an example of one way a system administrator could become aware of the presence of logs, as well as discover sensitive information being collected in known logs." Download logfinder. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, February 15, 2005   Adult Literacy Education Wiki Adult Literacy Education Wiki http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Main_Page Teachers, tutors, administrators, researchers, adult learners and others can add and discuss research questions here using knowledge from research, experience teaching adult learners, or experience as an adult learner. If you already have a login, or wish to create a new login account (free), click here. Help them develop this resource by contributing your ideas and making improvements to these pages. They welcome your feedback - this Wiki as all Wikis is a work in progress ..... join the construction. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   EServer http://eserver.org/ The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works. In today's world of corporate publishing, value is placed on works that sell to broad markets. Quick turnover, high-visibility marketing campaigns for bestsellers, and corporate "superstore" bookstores have all made it difficult for unique and older texts to be published. (Further, the costs this marketing adds to all books discourage people from leisure reading as a common practice.) And publishers tend to encourage authors to write books with strong appeal to the current, undermining (if unknowingly) writings with longer-term implications. The EServer (founded fifteen years ago, in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon as the English Server), attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. Now based at Iowa State University, they offer 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. In addition to short and longer written works, they publish hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings. Their collections grow as increased membership has new works to publish with them, and as they teach new members how to publish works to the Web and to the more than million readers who visit their site per month. 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   WWW Virtual Library - Central Database http://conbio.net/VL/database/ This site is a catalog of all the VL Divisions worldwide, and is a service provided to the 250+ VL Maintainers and the public at large. Their hope is that this centralized, distributed responsibility database will serve as the definitive, searchable index of all the various parts of the Virtual Library Project. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources http://www2.etown.edu/vl/ This section of the WWW Virtual Library system is an Internet directory of over 2600 annotated links to high-quality sources of information and analysis in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics. Most of the sites are in English and are carefully selected for their long-term value, favoring those with cost-free, authoritative information and analysis online. Each site is described only in general terms because of the typically rapid changes in the details of its contents. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   IT Facts http://itfacts.biz/ IT Facts blogs the latest IT news from throughout the Internet and is divided into the following categories: Advertising, Broadband, Consoles, Consumer electronics, E-commerce, E-government, E-mail, Employment, General, Handhelds, Internet usage, Mobile usage, Music, OS, Outsourcing, PCs, Peripherals, Power & Energy, Search engines, Security, Semiconductors, Servers, Software, Software dev, Spending, Telecom, Television, Venture capital, VOIP, Wireless data, and WWW. This has been added to the Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Transforming and Enriching Documents for the Semantic Web by Dietmar Roesner, Manuela Kunze, Sylke Kroetzsch http://eprints.osti.gov/cgi-bin/dexpldcgi?qry1108303975;1 They suggest to employ techniques from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Knowledge Representation (KR) to transform existing documents into documents amenable for the Semantic Web. Semantic Web documents have at least part of their semantics and pragmatics marked up explicitly in both a machine processable as well as human readable manner. XML and its related standards (XSLT, RDF, Topic Maps etc.) are the unifying platform for the tools and methodologies developed for different application scenarios. This has been added to the Semantics Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, February 14, 2005   Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. February 14, 2005 V3N7 discusses Internet Alerts. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog covering alerts resources on the Internet. View this site at: Internet Alerts http://www.InternetAlerts.info/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   Yahoo! Next Yahoo Next http://next.yahoo.com/ What is Yahoo! Next? It's a showcase of some of Yahoo!'s newest and coolest projects - the cutting edge of what Yahoo!'s doing today and working on for tomorrow! Included: Y!Q BETA, My Yahoo! Ticker Beta, Yahoo! Desktop Search Beta, My Yahoo! Search Beta, Yahoo! Travel FareChase Beta, Yahoo! Video Search, Yahoo! Maps Traffic, Mobile Search, and Yahoo Research Labs. This has been added to tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Information Science Today http://www.InformationScienceToday.org/ Information Science Today is a voluntary organization intended to improve the use of information in the developing countries. This organization will work for the development of information in every field of study. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Social Capital Blog http://socap.blogspot.com/ Farez Rahman's posts on information related to the dynamics, members and relationships within social networks. Papers and notes on online trust and reputation models can be found here. See also the Social Capital Reading Stack. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Grouper - P2P Personal Media File Sharing http://www.grouper.com/ Grouper is a new Windows based application that allows users to share their personal media within private groups. Grouper uses P2P technology connecting you directly to your friends’ hard drives where you can share large files in a safe, encrypted environment. Grouper is a simple install and requires no firewall reconfiguration. 1) Groups: Create groups for all aspects of your life (friends, family, school, work). -You decide which files you want to share with each group, 2) Search: Find files quickly via drill down by group(s)member(s)media type(s) and Search by key word, 3) Download: Download photos, home movies, documents, and more - Unlimited file transfer size, 4) Listen: Stream music directly from your friends’ PCs – Just like borrowing, Create/save playlists from multiple friends, 5) Communicate: IM to communicate privately with individual group members, Drag and drop files you are sharing into IM and chat windows, and 6) Share: Easily share entire folders of files with one click sharing and no uploading. Browse files a friend is sharing across all the groups you are in with them. Read Robin Good's review of this excellent P2P application by clicking here. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   MorgueFile - Public Image Reference Archive by MConnors.com http://www.morguefile.com/ A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use. The term "morgue file" is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This is the world wide web's morguefile. Click on Image archive to view and download photos, registration is not required. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   ContentNext http://www.ContentNext.com/ ContentNext is an independent media and information company covering the business of digital media. The company operates two award winning sites: paidContent.org and MocoNews.net. By digital media, we mean the digital sectors where media and entertainment companies operate: online, wireless, desktop and off-desktop applications, products and services. Areas of coverage include: online publishing, portals, content commerce technologies, digital music, digital movies, mobile content, digital sports, digital gaming, broadband content/IP-TV, RSS and XML Syndication, nanopublishing, B2B information industry where it is merging with B2C, venture investment, and mergers and acquisitions in the sector, and other related and emerging areas in digital media. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, February 13, 2005   Telematics 1) SkyCross: Future Telematics Applications Rely on Wireless Integration http://www.skycross.com/telematics_rf_design.asp 2) Global Telematics: The Meaning of Telematics http://www.globaltelematics.com/telematics.htm 3) Whatis.com: Telematics http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0%2C%2Csid7_gci517744%2C00.html 4) Tekrati: Automotive Industry Jumps into Electronics, Says Telematics Research Group http://www.tekrati.com/T2/Analyst_Research/ResearchAnnouncementsDetails.asp?Newsid=4321 5) Institute of Transportation Studies: Intelligent Transport Systems http://www.calccit.org/itsdecision/serv_and_tech/Traveler_information/Telematics/telematics_summary.html 6) Automotive Design & Production: Sweden Does Telematics http://www.autofieldguide.com/articles/120407.html 7) Telematics Update http://www.telematicsupdate.com/ The design of wireless communication systems for the collection and dissemination of data is known as telematics and has been applied in mobile telephony, vehicle tracking, online navigation and emergency assistance. This article from SkyCross (1) provides a nice overview of the technology and its applications. A little history of developments in telematics is described in this website from Global Telematics (2). Most references to telematics are made in relation to automotive applications; however, this article from Whatis.com (3) highlights some other applications such as the study and development of monitoring water and air pollution, medical informatics and health care and distance learning. An overview of just how pervasive telematics is in the automotive industry is provided in this article from Tekrati (4). This next website from Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and Caltrans (5) provides an overview of the applications of telematics as it relates to transportation and raises some implementation issues as well as costs and benefits of these systems. In Europe, telematics is used more widely for sharing information on road conditions, as is described in this article about telematics research in Sweden (6). Finally, Telematics Update (7) summarizes recent news coverage related to telematics and posts summaries of research reports that are available to purchase.[Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys and Resources http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age. To help you get started with this process with your students, Kathy Schrock's has designed a series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Historical Collections Go Digital http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050125/ap_on_hi_te/dusty_to_digital_8 Historical collections gathering dust across the country are finding new life on the Web, as institutions turn to digital imaging to both preserve and make accessible their treasures. "Our future depends on us being able to turn our collections inside out -- to show people what we have," says Wisconsin Historical Society archivist Michael Edmonds. The Wisconsin institution has been digitizing rare books and letters for the last five years, and has created a site called American Journeys, which details eyewitness accounts of early pioneer exploration. The result has been impressive -- while the bricks-and-mortar Historical Society receives about 50,000 visitors annually, its Web site plays host to 85,000 unique online visitors each year. Archivists across the country are seeing similar results. The Duke University Libraries Web site includes sheet music from the 1800s and an extensive collection of Egyptian hieroglyphics, while the National Archives site features the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation. And while most historical documents still exist in their original format only, some archivists envision a day when online researchers will be able to request that documents be "scanned on demand," perhaps for a fee. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   PSRC: Physical Sciences Resource Center http://www.psrc-online.org/ Developed by the American Association of Physics Teachers, "the Physical Sciences Resource Center (PSRC) is a web-based databank that provides K-20 teachers links to a wide range of teaching and learning resources in the physical sciences." Users can search the numerous resources by topics, type, or keyword. With each entry, the website provides a description, information on the author, subjects covered, level, intended users, resource types, possible costs, and other useful facts. Interested individuals can register at the website in order to store their search preferences, join discussion forums, submit materials, and store resources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Education World - The Educators Best Friend http://www.education-world.com/ In the spring of 1996, the founders of Education World recognized the need for a Web site that would make the Internet easier for educators to use. They wanted to create a home for educators on the Internet, a place where teachers could gather and share ideas. They wanted to create a complete online resource where educators could start each day to find the lesson plans and research materials they were looking for. The result is Education World, the Educator's Best Friend, a resource that includes: 1) search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet; 2) original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts; 3) site reviews; 4) daily features and columns; 5) teacher and principal profiles; 6) Wire Side Chats with the important names in education; and 7) employment listings. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   CoolGov http://coolgov.com/ The basic premise for this site is: the U.S. government provides lots of neat resources, more and more of which can be found on the internet. Basically, they are just going to try and find the coolest stuff there is and post it here. Always good to see a refreshing and new eyes approach to whats cool in the many governmental resources available freely on the Internet. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, February 12, 2005   BlogBridge BlogBridge - A New Kind of Blog Reader http://www.blogbridge.com/ BlogBridge is a new kind of Blog reader, designed for the non-technical user to discover, follow and enjoy literally hundreds of feedss without loosing their mind. BlogBridge is an Open Source project, so it is free to download and use. On this Web site you will find lots of information both for end users and for developers. Here is what you will find on this site: 1) Product - User information about BlogBridge. Screenshots, feature lists, help, tips and tricks, etc., 2) Developers - Technical information about BlogBridge. Information needed by developers, such as API documentation, source code, related projects, etc., 3) Project - Information about the BlogBridge Project. Schedules, Requirements, Plans, etc., 4) FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions, for Users and Developers, and 5) Download - Links to download and run BlogBridge. This has bee added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   LifeHacker http://lifehacker.com/ Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Net Impact http://www.net-impact.org/ Net Impact is a powerful and influential network of over 10,000 MBA students and professionals committed to using the power of business to create a better world. Through education, career resources, events, and access to an international network, Net Impact helps members to utilize their business skills for positive social change. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   MemeStreams - Don't Hate the Media, Become the Media! http://www.memestreams.net/ Memestreams is a collaborative web log. The members of their community work together to find interesting content on the web. As you use MemeStreams, the site learns your interests, and provides you with new links it thinks you will like. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   The USGenWeb Project http://www.usgenweb.org/ The USGenWeb Project is a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free access for everyone. Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects at the national level and this website provides an entry point to all of those pages, as well. Although the basic unit of organization for The USGenWebProject is at the county level, State Websites include very important information as well, including such resources for postings of unknown county queries, family reunion bulletin boards, state histories, and maps showing the changing county boundaries, among others. Many states also have ongoing projects as diverse as the transcription of Civil War regiments or the reuniting of families with lost photos, bibles, etc. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   The Great Software List http://www.anova.org/software/ The Great Software List is an advocate of great software and ignores mediocre software. It is composed of high quality programs that share most or all of the following features: (1) Ease of use with a well-designed user interface; (2) A generous array of keyboard shortcuts (preferably customizable); (3) High degree of customizability where applicable; and (4) Affordability. This page is provided so that you don't have to spend weeks finding the perfect program. You can go there and confidently download software of the highest quality and not fear that you might waste money. You won't go wrong choosing any of the programs on this list. And if you do find a great software program not listed here, maybe you'll share your find with the creator and maintainer of the list Zaine Ridling and it might make the list. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, February 11, 2005   SIMILE Project Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments (SIMILE) http://simile.mit.edu/ SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the W3C, HP, MIT Libraries, and MIT CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores. We seek to be able to provide end-user services by drawing upon the assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, and metadata held in such stores. SIMILE will leverage and extend DSpace, enhancing its support for arbitrary schemata and metadata, primarily though the application of RDF and semantic web techniques. The project also aims to implement a digital asset dissemination architecture based upon web standards. The dissemination architecture will provide a mechanism to add useful "views" to a particular digital artifact (i.e. asset, schema, or metadata instance), and bind those views to consuming services. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Access Grid™ http://www.accessgrid.org/ Access Grid™ is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid. For example, the Access Grid (AG) is used for large-scale distributed meetings, collaborative work sessions, seminars, lectures, tutorials, and training. The Access Grid thus differs from desktop-to-desktop tools that focus on individual communication. The Access Grid has over 1,500 users worldwide. Each institution has one or more AG nodes, or "designed spaces," that contain the high-end audio and visual technology needed to provide a high-quality compelling user experience. The nodes are also used as a research environment for the development of distributed data and visualization corridors and for the study of issues relating to collaborative work in distributed environments. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Journal of Maps http://www.journalofmaps.com/ The Journal of Maps is a new inter-disciplinary online, electronic, journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to publish their maps. Using full peer review and a reverse publishing method (where the author pays for the review process), all published maps will be freely distributed to anyone wishing to view them. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Fighting the Googlization of Research http://www.intelligenteai.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57702079 "There's a growing mentality, particularly among the younger generation, that if it doesn't come up in an Internet search engine then it doesn't exist," laments Elsevier ScienceDirect marketing director Amanda Spiteri. To combat this misconception, Elsevier and other publishers are beefing up their Web services. ScienceDirect has expanded from a simple Web database of Elsevier scientific journals to a resource linking to 170 other publishers and a total of 1,800 scientific, medical and technical journals. In 2001 Elsevier launched its Scirus.com specialized search engine, designed to produce query results that draw from top-quality sources, such as the journals of the American Institute of Physics. "Our crawlers look specifically at scientific sources, and we developed our own scientific taxonomy that improves the accuracy of indexing and search results," says Scirus marketing manager Susan Vugts. Meanwhile, Thomson Financial is tackling "Googlization" by adding detail to publicly available resources such as the SEC's Edgar database. "Indexing is critical in terms of timeliness and making sure that facts are findable, so we add 15 to 20 index values to every document type," says Thomson document management director Mary Ann Wismer. Other Research resources include Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and my various white papers on information retrieval and knowledge discovery. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Advanced Collaboration with the Access Grid http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/daw/ Access Grid attempts to meet the challenges of embracing human factors in remote collaboration. Michael Daw describes the system and its claim to be an Advanced Collaboration Environment. Collaboration between institutions based in different cities, countries or continents is becoming the norm in both commercial and academic worlds. The ability to attend meetings and interact with people effectively without incurring all the negative implications associated with travel - such as cost, expense, environmental impact and reduction in productivity - is a truly worthwhile goal. Access Grid was invented by the Futures Group within Argonne National Laboratory in 1998 as a response to perceived weaknesses of traditional videoconferencing in handling group-to-group collaboration between large numbers of sites and its lack of emphasis on advanced data sharing. Access Grid takes the concept of collaboration further than merely sharing voice and video into what is termed as an Advanced Collaboration Environment. he Access Grid is based upon the metaphor of virtual venues. Just as one can meet other people in physical rooms and interact with objects in that room, virtual venues are places in which participants can see and hear each other. They are also places in which virtual objects can be left, such as data, applications or services. The original intention of the Access Grid was to do for humans what the Grid does for machines. Recent releases of research software, known as 'Access Grid 2', have focussed more on integrating core Grid technology, utilising X.509 certificates for security and looking more at the integration of applications and services to support 'virtual organisations', such as groups of biologists or physicists who work across institutional boundaries. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Beyond Email: Wikis, Blogs and Other Strange Beasts http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/beyond-email-rpt/ Robert Bristow reports on a one-day workshop Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century held at Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds on 22 November 2004. Many working in Higher Education are now thoroughly familiar with the particular problems and opportunities presented by the use of the Web and email, the applications that up to now have been the 'killer' applications which made the Internet such a vital part of the communications armoury of universities. However, new applications and ways of communicating are now starting to appear which push the accepted paradigms and demand both new perceptions and levels of technical awareness. This one-day workshop was promoted with the aim of helping IT Services and the UK Higher Education Web community work out how to respond to use of new devices. A particular problem that has been identified is that many of these devices are personally owned by students or staff, and are not under the control of IT services in the usual way. An innovative feature of this workshop was the accent on collaborative working within the workshop. A wireless LAN (Local Area Network) was provided with a gateway to the Internet. A Wiki was established for participants to add their own comments as the workshop sessions developed, and a number of participants were able to download, install and run applications mentioned in the sessions. The participants were a mixture of senior IT and IS managers from universities, IT and ISA staff and Web professionals. This has been added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, February 10, 2005   Institution Accreditation Database Postsecondary Educational Institutions and Programs Accredited by Accrediting Agencies and State Approval Agencies Recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education http://www.ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ The database lists approximately 6,900 postsecondary educational institutions and programs, each of which is accredited by an accrediting agency or state approval agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education as a “reliable authority as to the quality of postsecondary education” within the meaning of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA).The database does not include a number of postsecondary educational institutions and programs that elect not to seek accreditation but nevertheless may provide a quality postsecondary education.The U.S. Department of Education recommends that the database be used as one source of qualitative information and that additional sources of qualitative information be consulted. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is this FREE web site. For an overview of what's available here please visit their site map. Each month they add new teaching and learning resources from Federal agencies. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Research Tools You Might Have Missed http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-01-29-n34.html Here is a collection of research tools by Philipp Lenssen in his Google Blogoscoped that you very well could have missed due to information overload. Many of these research tools access the Google API. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Internet Sacred Text Archive Home http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm This site is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language. This site has no particular agenda other than promoting religious tolerance and scholarship. Views expressed here are not necessarily endorsed by the hosting organization (sacred-texts.com), our ISP or any sponsoring individuals or organizations. Sacred texts went live on March 9th, 1999. In its first year of operation sacred-texts had about a quarter million hits. As of 2004, it is receiving well over a quarter million hits per day. The texts presented here are either original scans from books and articles clearly in the public domain, material which has been presented elsewhere on the Internet, or material included under fair use conditions in printed anthologies. This has been added to Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Seekport UK - Search the United Kingdom - UK Search Engine http://www.seekport.co.uk/ It is the declared aim of Seekport Internet Technologies GmbH to become one of Europe's leading search engines. They are convinced that search engine technology will see a number of innovations in the near future, improving the quality of search results and facilitating focused internet searches. Seekport Internet Technologies Ltd aims to be a leading force in developing cutting-edge innovative search technology. Sophisticated ranking algorithms and local index teams ensure that their search results contain less spam and are more relevant than the results of their competitors. In this way, Seekport will ensure a search customized to suit local conditions in each country or language area. Innovative technology features, such as an automatic, subject-specific categorisation of the websites in their index, make it even easier for theirr users to find the websites most relevant to them. This will be added to the search engines secion of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/ The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)is a component of the National Institutes of Health. NCRR supports primary research to create and develop critical resources, models, and technologies. NCRR funding also provides biomedical researchers with access to diverse instrumentation, technologies, basic and clinical research facilities, animal models, genetic stocks, biomaterials, and more. These resources enable scientific advances in biomedicine that lead to the development of lifesaving drugs, devices, and therapies. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, February 09, 2005   Google Maps Google™ Maps http://maps.google.com/ Getting from point A to point B just got a lot easier. Google Maps shows you where you want to go — and tells you what you'll find when you get there. Maps are great for getting around, but online maps could be a lot better. So Google decided to make dynamic, interactive maps that are draggable — no clicking and waiting for graphics to reload each time you want to view the adjacent parts of a map. Want to be able to type in the name of a region or neighborhood and see any part of it as easily as with a regular street map? Now you can with Google Maps. Since these maps are draggable, you can use your mouse or the directional arrows to pan left, right, up and down to see areas that are hidden offscreen. You can also use the slider to zoom in and zoom out. It's like having a huge map you can scroll around in. Use Google Maps to search within an area or neighborhood. Type in a starting and a destination address - Google Maps plots the route for you, displaying it visually on the map itself, together with step-by-step directions for getting there (or back from there). You also have the option to type search terms into a single search box under the Maps tab to get local search results and driving directions. Since some early testers preferred separate search boxes for searching different things, that option is included as well. They both work. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Social Informatics http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Social Informatics.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 19 page .pdf document 539KB. [Updated 01-01-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:23 AM   Online Social Networking 2005 (OSN2005) http://www.socialnets.org/ OSN2005 will be a summit for all those interested in working with social networking processes, tools, and media. In addition to attending many workshops, panels, and presentations by leading experts and practitioners, attendees will have the opportunity to be part of a community with a significant role in defining the future direction of online social networking. During the OSN2005 summit we will co-create and publish a manifesto describing what we want and need from online social networking tools. What are the key criteria for choosing and assessing OSN products and services? What gaps exist in currently available software and related tools? What needs to happen before it's common knowledge that OSN products and services can deliver significant value? What are the most promising developments in the OSN industry? Attendees will be invited to participate in a series of focus groups to provide feedback on current OSN technology and articulate specific suggestions for future features and developments. A series of White papers based on these focus groups will be shared with venture investors who want to know where to place their bets in this industry. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF) http://www.nasvf.org/ The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds is an organization of private, public and nonprofit organizations committed to building their local economies by investing and facilitating investment in local entrepreneurs. NASVF began in 1993 as an ad-hoc group of practitioners seeking the best models to encourage capital formation in their states, particularly for new technology ventures. These founders continued to meet each year and in 1997 formally incorporated the group as a not-for-profit named the National Association of State Venture Funds. The name was changed in 2000 to reflect the Association's expanding service to local networks of private investors. Beyond the Conference, the sharing of information among members and the discussion of common issues is facilitated through a newsletter, an electronic mail list, and discussion groups via the Association's web site. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Space Available: The Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy by Heywood Sanders http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20050117_conventioncenters.pdf A Cities and Suburbs Brookings Institution Report Executive Summary: To cities the lure of the convention business has long been the prospect of visitors emptying their wallets on meals, lodging, and entertainment, helping to rejuvenate ailing downtowns. However, an examination of the convention business and city and state spending on host venues finds that: 1) The overall convention marketplace is declining in a manner that suggests that a recovery or turnaround is unlikely to yield much increased business for any given community, contrary to repeated industry projections, 2) Nonetheless, localities, sometimes with state assistance, have continued a type of arms race with competing cities to host these events, investing massive amounts of capital in new convention center construction and expansion of existing facilities, 3) Faced with increased competition, many cities spend more money on additional convention amenities, like publicly-financed hotels to serve as convention "headquarters". This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   On the Theory of Library Catalogs and Search Engines by Bernhard Eversberg http://www.allegro-c.de/formate/tlcse.htm This Supplements the talk by Bernhard Eversberg on "Principles and Goals of Cataloging", German Librarians' Annual Conference Augsburg 2002. Nothing is more practical than a good theory. A banal statement, considering that a theory should always enable its users to easily derive the statements they need for practice. But a theory for catalogs or cataloging? Is that really necessary? A question someone is likely to ask who has never been confronted with the matter nor considered it with any seriousness. Using Internet search engines, and knowing their operation is fully automated, people tend to view with skepticism all practical and theoretical effort invested in catalogs. Any good search engine, however, will always be based on a good theory - though that one may differ quite a bit from a catalog theory. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   HomeTownLocator - Local Resources, Information and Data http://www.hometownlocator.com/ This site contains community profiles for 42,500 US cities, town and ZIP Codes with census, demographic and income data, parks, schools, libraries, hospitals, airports, environmental conditions, local newspapers, media outlets, employment, maps, coordinates and aerial photos. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, February 08, 2005   Research Together Research Together http://www.doctoralstudents.com/ The Research Together website is aimed at all researchers from part time graduate students doing Masters and PhD degrees, right up through full time professors in academia and commercial research workers. They have hundreds of forums, covering topics from engineering, medical and computer research to philosophy, law and linguistics. It is free to join. In North America the site is presented in partnership with NAGPS. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   Making the Case for a Wiki http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/tonkin/ Emma Tonkin considers wikis in the context of emerging technologies and while explaining the benefits they may offer, provides a timely warning on the feasibility of their deployment. These are 'killer applications', software that has changed the world, and membership in this exclusive club is strictly limited, but there exists a rather larger and fuzzier class of other ideas that have enjoyed a more gradual rise to fame, the classic example being the message board or the online journal that received very little attention before its felicitous re-birth as a 'blog'. Most of these are software concepts that have become a recurring theme for the Web, recreated perhaps a thousand times in various forms by web developers because of their wide appeal and broad spectrum of potential applications, yet largely ignored until re-branded into a buzzword. The wiki is another such concept, that could be christened 'simple user-editable data storage'. It was born in 1995 to hold a pattern repository, the term 'Wiki' famously being taken from the Hawaiian term 'WikiWiki', or 'Super fast'. The image below shows a simple wiki such as I might have used to gather my thoughts before beginning to write this article, one theme, or WikiWord, per page, with various links between the pages showing where I have referenced one from another. This has been added my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   EduResources Weblog - Higher Education Resources Online http://radio.weblogs.com/0114870/ This weblog focuses on locating, evaluating, discussing, and providing guidelines to instructional resources for faculty in higher education. The EduResources emphasis is on free, shared, HE resources. Related topics and news (about commercial resources, K-12 resources, T&D resources, educational technology, digital libraries, distance learning, open source software, metadata standards, cognitive mapping, etc.) will also be discussed--along with occasional excursions into more distant miscellaneous topics in science, computing, and education. The EduResources Weblog operates in conjunction with the EduResources Portal; the Weblog provides a discussion forum for topics related to online instructional resources while the Portal provides a gateway to those resources. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   HERO - Academic Research http://www.hero.ac.uk/sites/hero/uk/research/index.cfm This site aims to provide you with a wide range of high quality information and selected services of relevance to academic research and research training in the UK. This area includes academic research problems, outputs and successes, organisation, funding, training and careers, experts, centres of excellence, facilities, methodologies and ethics. The focus is on academic research activities supported by and being carried out by HEIs and the research councils. This has been added to the Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides: 1) An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in; 2) An interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same abilities; 3) The ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa; and 4) A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Mercora IM P2P Radio http://www.mercora.com/ Mercora is the largest music radio network in the world! We have combined peer-to-peer and internet streaming technologies to create the ultimate and legal music search and discovery service for you. With Mercora P2P Radio, you can search, find and legally listen to hundreds of genres and thousands of artists in near-CD quality sound. This has been added to the P2P section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, February 07, 2005   Internet Scout Project This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. February 7, 2005 V3N6 discusses a truly excellent site Internet Scout Project. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this fine site. View this site at: Internet Scout Project http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus | 7:53 AM   Pricelessware Pricelessware List - The Best of the Best in Freeware http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/index.htm The Pricelessware list is a compilation of software collected through a yearly vote by the participants of the "alt.comp.freeware" newsgroup. It is a list of what people have voted as "the best of the best in Freeware". The software listed here is commonly referred to as "Pricelessware", a term given with great respect and thanks to the authors of these programs for giving us such wonderful quality freeware programs. This has been added to tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   People's Daily Online http://english.people.com.cn/ With publication started in June 1948 and a current circulation of 3 million, People's Daily is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China. According to UNESCO, it takes its place among the world top 10. People's Daily brings you the latest news dispatches of policy information and resolutions of the Chinese Government and major domestic news and international news releases from China. It reflects the views of the Chinese people, expounds on justice and lambasts various forms of malpractice. It also has the following RSS feeds: 1) China, 2) Business, 3) World, 4) Sci.Edu, 5) Culture/Life, 6) Sports, 7) Photos, and 8) Most Popular. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   US-CERT Channels http://www.us-cert.gov/channels/ US-CERT publishes a number of XML RSS 1.0 feeds containing headlines about recently published US-CERT documents. RSS, or RDF Site Summary, allows web publishers to access constantly updated information from other web sites. For example, US-CERT provides an RSS feed for its Cyber Security Tips channel that web publishers can access. By installing calls to the US-CERT RSS files into their web sites, web publishers can ensure that their sites include up-to-date computer security information that is available on the US-CERT site. For sites that are new to RSS channels, we have provided detailed instructions. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Study Shows Some Teens Not As Web-Savvy As Parents By Edward C. Baig http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20050131/1b_teens31.art.htm Think the teenager in your house can out-surf you? Think again. So says a study of 13- to 17-year-olds released today by the Nielsen Norman Group. The results suggest that some businesses are using ineffective strategies to target a teen market of some 20 million. The study found that, contrary to stereotype, teens as a group are not as adept as adults in navigating the Web. In the study, 38 teens were assigned tasks at 23 Web sites, operated by Apple, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble and other companies and organizations. At the Web site of the California Department of Motor Vehicles, teens were asked to make an appointment for a driving permit. At MTV.com, the challenge was to discover when Norah Jones would be in concert in the Golden State. The teens completed such tasks 55% of the time, compared with 66% of adults in a previous study. I had noticed this in my various speeches when I discuss the future of the Internet including Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. A number of teenagers needed to be educated about bots and blogs .... intersting .... posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Why Search Fails by Avi Rappoport http://homepage.mac.com/avirr/whyfail.html' A fine resource created by Avi Rappoport Search Tools Consulting that was presented at the Enterprise Search Summit May 12, 2004. This powerpoint presentation describes the technical and political pitfalls to avoid to have a successful search experience. As searching continue to be the primary focus of the Internet this resource provides you with tools to keep you alert to the many pitfalls out there in the technical as well as political aspects of searching on the Internet. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Internet Satirical Newspaper Association (ISNA) http://glossynews.com/isna/ The Internet Satirical Newspaper Association (ISNA) is the international cooperative of the best satire newspapers and ezines on web. If you are easily offended or despise humorous political questionings, this is no place for you. We feature only the finest, funniest and most thought provoking satire. The format is ever-changing, as are the the times we reflect, so please be patient with me in my update schedule. This has been added to the Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, February 06, 2005   Winter Depression 1) Jan. 24 called worst day of year http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6847012/ 2) Winter Darkness, Season Depression http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/52/50396.htm?pagenumber=3 3) Shed light on SAD to ease winter blues http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-01-28-winter-blues_x.htm 4) Ask the Doctor: Clinical Chronobiology http://chaos.cpmc.columbia.edu/nyspi/askthedr/for_Pt/question4.asp?Departments=sad 5) Norway: A natural research laboratory http://www.sv.uit.no/seksjon/psyk/wd-norw.htm 6) Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms http://www.websciences.org/sltbr/ 7) Psychology Today: Seasonal Affective Disorder http://cms.psychologytoday.com/conditions/sad.html A U.K. psychologist has developed a complex mathematical formula using seven variables to predict winter's emotional low point. The good news is the worst day of the year was last week; nonetheless, seasonal depression remains a problem for many. The first link (1) is to an article about the equation worked out by Dr. Cliff Arnall, who specializes in seasonal disorders at the University of Cardiff, Wales. The second link is to a WebMD page (2) about winter depression, often referred to as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). The next link (3) is to a recent news story about the results of a five-year study that found, rather than antidepressant drug therapy or air ionizers, light box therapy is the best remedy for the seasonal condition. The fourth link is to a set of Frequently Asked Questions (4) about SAD offered by Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. The fifth link, to the Winter Depression Research Group at the University of Tromso in Norway(5), explains why Norway is a natural SAD research laboratory. The next link is to a international portal site (6) maintained by medical professionals and researchers in the field of light therapy and biological rhythms. The final webpage(7), from Psychology Today, compares the symptoms of winter depression with summer depression.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Yellow Pages on A9.com http://a9.com/-/home.jsp?nc=1 New from Amazon's A9.com Search - Yellow Pages on A9.com: "Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street." The most powerful technology A9.com invented for Yellow Pages is “Block View,” which brings the Yellow Pages to life by showing a street view of millions of businesses and their surroundings. Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street. The whole process (except for the driving!) is completely automatic, making it fast and efficient. Block View allows users to see storefronts and virtually walk up and down the streets of currently more than 10 U.S. cities using over 20 million photographs. We are driving and at some point hope to cover the whole country.[beSpacific January 27, 2005] This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Martindale Calculators http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html Martindale Calculators is a Web-based tool collection that contains over 19,000 online calculators created by over "3,450" very "creative" individuals, businesses and “tax supported entities world wide.” The collection is organized by the following topics: mathematics; statistics; science A-Z; chemistry; physics, astrophysics and astronomy; engineering A-Z; and electrical engineering, computer engineering, & computer science. Each section includes a wealth of websites to explore, all related to mathematical calculations, mostly course materials and articles. Another section lists online calculators relevant for various industries, such as aviation, cosmetics, insurance, and library science. The list is organized alphabetically and creatively stretches the meaning of “calculator” to include such things as name translators and databases on animal breeds. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Seismic Data Resources http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/ Seismic Data Resources include: 1) Earthquake Examples--New Mexico and other nearby earthquakes, 2) Live Internet Seismic Server--See data as it arrives from around the world!, 3) Other sites featuring LIVE seismograms!, 4) Requesting and using seismic data, 5) Retrieving seismic data from stations, 6) Data Latency--A table which lists the most recent data we have received for each staion, 7) Data Availability--Comprehensive listings of all data in our archive, 8) Tape Browser--Browse the status of station tapes which we have processed (or are currently processing), 9) Dataless SEED Volumes--Access to the dataless SEED volumes stored on our anonymous FTP site, 10) RESP Files--Access to the instrument response files which are compatible with the EVALRESP software, 11) Announcement on GSN timing errors, 12) Travel Time Dataset--The ASL DCC experimental travel time dataset, and 13) Information describing current instrumentation at each Station. This has been added to my December 26, 2004 Asian Tsunami Information and Stories posting. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   HTML - An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/ HTML stands for the HyperText Markup Language. HTML code is the major language of the Internet's World Wide Web. Web sites and web pages are written in HTML code. With HTML code and the world wide web, you have the ability to bring together text, pictures, sounds, and links... all in one place! HTML code files are plain text files, so they can be composed and edited on any type of computer... Windows, Mac, UNIX, whatever. his tutorial is for anyone who is serious about learning HTML code. Perhaps you want your own web page, or an entire web site. Perhaps you're setting up a web site for your business or organization. You've come to the right place. You do not need any prior experience in making web pages to take this course (although I will assume you know how to do some basic things with your computer, like use a word processor). This tutorial is a "hands on" tutorial... you get to test your new HTML skills immediately after you learn the code, chapter by chapter ... all within your web browser! There is no need to go fiddle with other applications while you are learning HTML code with this tutorial. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Rersource for Learning and Online Teaching http://www.merlot.org/ MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. You are welcome to browse the collection or search for materials. Browse the Collection by Subject: 1) Arts, 2) Business, 3) Education, 4) Humanities, 5) Mathematics and Statistics, 6) Science and Technology, and 8) Social Sciences. This has been added to Academic section of the Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, February 05, 2005   Know-Center Know-Center - Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge Management http://www.know-center.at The Know-Center is Austria’s Competence Center for knowledge-based Applications and Systems. The Know-Center has its core competences in the fields of information technology as enabling technologies for knowledge management and in human-oriented knowledge management. As a connecting link between science and industry the Know-Center carries out problem-driven, result-oriented and application-oriented projects in these competence areas. Their close cooperation with scientific institutions, such as Graz University of Technology and JOANNEUM RESEARCH ensures the access to latest research results. Together with their partner companies, the Know-Center transfers these scientific results in innovation for Styria in particular and Austria in general. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The ontoprise® GmbH http://www.ontoprise.de/ The ontoprise® GmbH is the leading provider of semantic technologies and solutions, which support users, business processes and systems at any time with the necessary knowledge. ontoprise®’s products build a central and intelligent knowledge interface for humans and machines. With their partners they develop fascinating solutions for intelligent Knowledge management (Portals, Retrieval, Skill management, Competitive Intelligence), Customer Relationship management, Configuration management, and dialog solutions for specific industries. The ontoprise® GmbH was founded 1999 as a spin off of the University of Karlsruhe. The company is in a continuous and healthy growth phase. ontoprise® has established a solid base of customers, partners and research institutions and thus builds a unique network of know-how in regards to semantic technologies. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research Section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   DERI International - Digital Enterprise Research Institute http://www.deri.org/ Making the Semantic Web Real .... The major objective of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) is to bring current Web technology to its full potential by combining and improving recent trends around the Web. DERI is a cooperation of Hewlett Packard Galway, the Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, and the National University of Ireland, Galway. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Fabl - A Native Programming Language for the Semantic Web http://fabl.net/ Fabl (pronounced "fable") is a native programming language for the Semantic Web. The Fabl object model is the RDF property graph, and the Fabl type system implements a subset of the OWL web ontology language (RDF is the W3C standard data representation for the current generation of Semantic Web technology, while OWL is a W3C standard for describing classes of RDF objects). However, this manual does not assume prior familiarity with RDF, OWL, or other Semantic Web technologies. Learning Fabl is one way of learning about the Semantic Web. Fabl programs themselves are represented as Semantic Web objects. This representation of computation within the Semantic Web allows active content to be integrated seamlessly into RDF repositories, and provides a programming environment which simplifies the manipulation of RDF when compared to use of a conventional language via an API. Fabl programs may be expressed as RDF objects using standard RDF syntax, or via a conventional syntax which might be described as Javascript (or its standardized variant ECMAScript) enhanced with types and qualified property names. The language is designed to be easy to learn for programmers familiar with the conventional JavaScript/HTML/XML/DOM web–programming model. In fact, this alternative syntax allows programmers to create and manipulate RDF objects without needing to learn the XML-based RDF syntax - a syntax that can be difficult to master. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   How To File an FOIA Request by Taylor Holliday http://snipurl.com/cdcs A new First Amendment Center Online research compilation examines the ins and outs of filing requests for government information under the federal Freedom of Information Act. The FOIA article by Taylor Holliday provides an introduction to the act, as well as information on the Privacy Act, how to get started on an FOIA filing, what you can and can't obtain through FOIA requests, pitfalls, appeals and more. The material also includes state FOI information. As in other First Amendment Center Online research sections, this one offers lefthand links to FAQs and cases & resources. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and to the Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Technology Links For the Nonprofit/Philanthropic Sector by Deborah Elizabeth Finn http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/1/27/285548.html An excellent blog posting that gives a very comprehensive listing of recommended technology links for the non profit and philantropic section by Deborah Elizabeth Finn. The lists also has additional links to: 1) The technology-related initiatives in the public interest, 2) Collaboration and diffusion of information that would have been impossible without the internet, 3) News you can use about the nonprofit/philanthropic sector,and 4) News you can use about information and communication technology. This has been added to Grant Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, February 04, 2005   URLINFO.info - Find Nonworking URLs URLINFO.info - Find Nonworking URLS http://www.URLINFO.info/ URLINFO.info is a utility to determine if your nonworking URL has a correction that has been submitted to this site. Just type or cut and paste the URL that receives an error message into the search query form and click search. It will search the entire site to determine if the correct URL has been previously submitted. If it has, you will receive the correct URL, and then you can enter or cut and paste to your browser to view the correct site. I created this little utility to help solve one of the Internet's problems dealing with nonworking URLs that were created primarily by misspelled words/letters/numbers within the URL. As it takes both sides to make this work feel free to spread the word to all those misspellers who need to have their URL corrected .... or if you already know of the nonworking URL and the correct URL, please submit at the above site... This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. Internet posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   EasyAsk eCommerce Search http://www.easyask.com/ EasyAsk is a search and retrieval solutions company that provides single point access to critical content and insight for the enterprise, for e-commerce and ISVs. Knowledge workers spend 15 percent to 30 percent of their day searching for information, and more than 50 percent of those searches fail, states IDC. The technology research firm also adds that, 50 percent of most Web searches are abandoned, which translates into 50 percent fewer online sales. EasyAsk can help organizations overcome these challenges by delivering the industry's most complete, next-generation search platform that leverages any existing corporate information asset. A leading provider of search and information retrieval solutions, EasyAsk's technology extends a rich, engaging user experience to quickly put precise, relevant answers in the hands of employees, partners and customers by providing single-point access to a variety of information sources. As a result, EasyAsk's solutions create real-time access to both products and information that increase employee productivity, improve ecommerce sales, boost employee, partner and customer satisfaction as well as leverage companies' competitive advantage. This will be added to the Search Engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Softbots Stride Forward By Siobhan McBride of ComputerWorld http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1451684505;fp;16;fpid;0 "Can't make next week's videoconference with head office? No problem, your computer-generated avatar will stand in for you; having been created in your image it's a shrewd strategist in complete command of the points you wish to make - including your fallback position. While it sounds like it may be a long time coming, research into intelligent agents, software programs also known as 'softbots', is progressing so quickly scientists predict this scenario could be a reality within 10 years. ... Two researchers headed down this path are Professor Ryszard Kowalczyk, of Swinburne University's faculty of Information and Communication Technology, and Professor Jun Han, also of Swinburne University, who heads a contribution to an Australian-European Union consortium developing service-orientated computing systems of the future. ... The project plan is to develop agents to automate the interchange and composition of software and services via the Internet, including software components to coordinate business activities such as supply, distribution and sales." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   BBC Internet Radio Player http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ The BBC re-launches its Internet Radio Player to make almost every BBC Radio programme available live and on-demand for seven days after broadcast, creating a massive, ever-changing library of music, talk shows, dramas and documentaries. Latest figures show more than 10 million hours of BBC radio is consumed online per month and, from 25 January, the new Radio Player will offer 500 extra hours of programming and offer a range of new features. The re-launch puts audiences in control of their listening, allowing them to listen at convenient times, control their schedules and fast-forward through programmes while exposing them to new shows - and perhaps whole networks - they otherwise wouldn't come across. The new Player provides all the programmes and benefits of the current model - which makes many of the BBC's radio programmes available online - but includes over 80 more programmes, making virtually all of the BBC's national radio output available on-demand via the Internet. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/ Since 1899, Technology Review has been MIT's magazine of innovation. Their mission statement "to promote the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society" defines the unique value that Technology Review's delivers making it a vital resource for business decision makers in emerging growth and global 2000 companies. Technology Review is at the center of the conversation on emerging technologies. No matter where the conversation takes place. With international editions recently launched in China, Italy, Germany and The Netherlands, the exposure of Technology Review magazine, combined with the their signature events, newsletters, and online businesses, reaches over two million business leaders throughout the world each month. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Chandler - OSAF Project http://www.osafoundation.org/Chandler_Compelling_Vision.htm Their product (code-named "Chandler" after the great detective novelist Raymond Chandler,) is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) intended for use in everyday information and communication tasks, such as composing and reading email, managing an appointment calendar and keeping a contact list. Because of the ease with which Chandler users can share information with others, Chandler might be called the first Interpersonal Information Manager. (The product Lotus Agenda has a common designer in Mitch Kapor. Although it was developed in the 1980's and was the first PIM for the IBM PC, Agenda had many advanced features that are still not available in PIMs today. Chandler is the spiritual descendant of Agenda.) Chandler is intended to be an open source personal information manager for email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and general information management, as well as a platform for developing information management applications. It is currently under development and will run on Windows, Mac, and Linux-based PC's. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, February 03, 2005   Competitive Intelligence - Competia Portal - Competia Express Competia Express - Competitive Intelligence Resources http://snipurl.com/cbp9 Competitive Intelligence - Competia Portal have compiled for you the Competia Express that is made up of lists of sites that they have found to be of the most value in your industry. These lists are far from exhaustive, but they should give you a superb head start for industry related competitive intelligence resources and sources. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Competitive Intelligence Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Filangy - Manage and Share Web Information http://www.filangy.com/ Filangy is a new way to manage and share Web information. You’ll never have to go hunting for an article you read online last week or search over and over again. Filangy will create a personal web space for you and make it fully searchable. Currently, they are in an experimental stage (beta) and gradually adding features to their product. The currently offered key features are: 1) Instantly find previously viewed web pages. They will index the pages you visit so you can instantly find information you are looking for from anywhere, 2) Never re-search. They will keep track of your searches. Your previous searches are stored so you can search again with the single click, 3) Make your Bookmarks portable with WebMarks. Import existing Bookmarks. Create new WebMarks with a click and access them from anywhere, and 4) Access your personal web space from any computer. They have gone to great lengths to make Filangy securely accessible from any computer. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/ The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with sadness, anger, and insecurity are common themes expressed in this online presentation of almost 200 audio and video interviews, 45 graphic items, and 21 written narratives. The day after the attacks, the American Folklife Center called upon the nation’s folklorists and ethnographers to collect, record, and document America’s reaction. A sampling of the material collected through this effort was used to create the September 11, 2001, Documentary Project. This collection captures the voices of a diverse ethnic, socioeconomic, and political cross-section of America during trying times and serves as a historical and cultural resource for future generations. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Coyotos Secure Operating System http://www.coyotos.org/ Coyotos is a secure, microkernel-based operating system that builds on the ideas and experiences of the EROS project. Much of the code developed for EROS will migrate directly to Coyotos. The Coyotos project has several objectives: 1) Correct some of the shortcomings of the earlier EROS design, 2) Demonstrate that an atomic kernel design scales up as well as down. We are planning to bring up versions of Coyotos on large-scale multiprocessors, 3) Provide an efficient linux compatibility environment for use as a transitional runtime system, so that we can explore adapting applications to a more secure API foundation, 4) Construct the kernel and key utilities in a new systems programming language (BitC) with a well-defined, mechanically-specified semantics. This will allow us to formally verify security and correctness properties of the system and its key utilities, and 5) Develop the proving technology necessary to do useful verification about a project of this sort. This will be added to the Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   W3C Recommendations Enhance SOAP Performance http://www.w3.org/2005/01/xmlp-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2005/01/xmlp-testimonials http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xop10-20050125/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-soap12-mtom-20050125/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-soap12-rep-20050125/ The World Wide Web Consortium has released three W3C Recommendations to improve Web services performance by standardizing the transmission of large binary data. "Web services have just become faster and more usable," said Yves Lafon (W3C). Read the press release and testimonials and visit the Web services home page. * Using an XML Schema datatype, "XML-binary Optimized Packaging" (XOP) allows efficient serialization of XML element content. * Using a XOP-based selective encoding, the "SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism" optimizes hop-by-hop exchanges between SOAP nodes. * The "Resource Representation SOAP Header Block" allows applications to carry a representation of a resource in a SOAP message. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Project Healthy http://www.projecthealthy.org/ Project Healthy provides consumer health information programs of interest to senior citizens. HEALTHY programs are offered online in live, interactive mode, on CD, and on cassette for talking book readers. Please explore the rest of this website for more information about upcoming programs, topics, previous programs, and helpful links on health topics of interest to seniors. This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, February 02, 2005   EH.net - Economic History Services EH.Net - Economic History Services http://www.eh.net/ EH.Net began in 1994 as the Econhist internet discussion list. It added several other discussion lists and was chartered in 1996 to provide a wide range of internet-based services to economic historians, historians of economics, economists, historians, related social scientists and the public. These services include an Ask the Professor service, research abstract and book review series, a collection of course syllabi, a directory of economic historians, the EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, several databases, numerous links to websites related to economic history, and the popular "How Much Is That?" service - which allows users to easily look up historical prices, interest rates, wage rates, GDP statistics, exchange rates and inflation rates. In 2003 the Economic History Association became EH.Net's owner. Additional support comes from the Business History Conference, the Cliometric Society, the Economic History Society (UK), and the History of Economics Society. In addition, EH.Net hosts discussion lists and websites for several other scholarly organizations. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Beijing Museum Leaps Into Digital Future http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/11/content_407755.htm Beijing's Millennium Art Museum's underground art center offers an innovative approach to using technology to enhance the art appreciation experience. Framed "still lifes" shift and change places with each other, and even speak to viewers in some cases. In the digital gallery, giant plasma screens display Impressionist paintings that morph into surrealist sculptures or futuristic files in an endlessly changing digital montage. "Artworks on each screen are rotated every one to 10 minutes," says MAM vice-director Wang Yudong, enabling visitors to view up to 1,200 works per hour. Wang says the Millennium's exhibits increasingly will feature works in new media, including "digital videos, Internet art/tech, digital photography, and other forms of digital imagery, including animations and virtual reality. Curator Chaos Chen notes that its eclectic exhibits are aimed at keeping "the Chinese audience aware of the most extraordinary developments in art worldwide -- the greatest achievements of humanity." And although Chen acknowledges that MAM's current Web sites (www.mam.gov.cn in Chinese and www.bj2000.org.cn in English) are still somewhat rudimentary, her goal is to create a virtual museum on the scale of the Netherlands Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art (www.wdw.nl), noting that "the entire Witte de With museum has been digitized and entered the virtual world." The Millennium is working with China's Tsinghua University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, along with MIT and the Dutch V2 Institute for Unstable Media to develop a May exhibit that will celebrate on the convergence of art and technology in new media artworks. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Seeking Better Web Searches By Javed Mostafa http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0006304A-37F4-11E8-B7F483414B7F0000 Deluged with superfluous responses to online queries, users will soon benefit from improved search engines that deliver customized results. In less than a decade, Internet search engines have completely changed how people gather information. No longer must we run to a library to look up something; rather we can pull up relevant documents with just a few clicks on a keyboard. Now that "Googling" has become synonymous with doing research, online search engines are poised for a series of upgrades that promise to further enhance how we find what we need. New search engines are improving the quality of results by delving deeper into the storehouse of materials available online, by sorting and presenting those results better, and by tracking your long-term interests so that they can refine their handling of new information requests. In the future, search engines will broaden content horizons as well, doing more than simply processing keyword queries typed into a text box. They will be able to automatically take into account your location--letting your wireless PDA, for instance, pinpoint the nearest restaurant when you are traveling. New systems will also find just the right picture faster by matching your sketches to similar shapes. They will even be able to name that half-remembered tune if you hum a few bars. [beSpacific January 25, 2005] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   College of Exploration http://www.coexploration.org/ The College of Exploration, is a not-for-profit educational organization, with locations and activities in Virginia, Connecticut, Washington in the USA and Dorset in the UK. We design, develop, deliver, and evaluate education programs, workshops, courses, events and collaborative learning environments for learners of all ages, with a particular emphasis on Web-based courses and workshops for educators, teachers, and students. The College of Exploration has IRS 501c3 status in the USA. Since 1993, The College of Exploration has been helping educators, school districts, universities, agencies, institutions, government departments, scientists, and research centers in a wide range and variety of online education events, as well as “blended” designs of live presentation and online support. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   New York Times Latest Headlines http://nytimes.blogspace.com/ A neat blog that gives the latest headlines of the New York Times and then you can click to read the complete article. A great way to speed read for the latest happenings and current awareness in our global world without having your bot think for you ;-) This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus | 4:02 AM   AIRWeb '05: First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/ Search is the single most common application used on the Web. The attraction of hundreds of millions of searches per day provides significant incentive to content providers to do whatever necessary to rank highly in search engine results. The use of techniques that push rankings higher than they belong is often called spamming a search engine. Such methods typically include textual as well as link-based techniques. Like e-mail spam, search engine spam is a form of adversarial information retrieval; the conflicting goals of accurate results of search providers and high positioning by content providers provides an interesting and real-world environment to study techniques in optimization, obfuscation, and reverse engineering, in addition to the application of information retrieval and classification. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, February 01, 2005   Gifts In Kind Gifts In Kind - Global Leaders In Product Philanthropy http://www.giftsinkind.org/ A generous 3M corporate product donation in 1983 marked the beginning of Gifts In Kind International, a charitable organization that today is the 3rd largest charity in the U.S. Today's top manufacturers and retailers, including 44 percent of the Fortune 500 companies, rely on Gifts In Kind International to design and manage the donation process. Driven by a mission of providing an effective conduit for the donation of products, goods and services from the private sector to the charitable sector, Gifts In Kind International is the recognized leader in the field of product philanthropy. Ranked as one of the most cost-efficient charities in the world, Gifts In Kind International operates at less than 1 percent of the value of products, goods and services contributed annually. This has been added to Grant Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Favelets from Jeffrey Zeldman http://www.zeldman.com/goodies/ Jeffrey Zeldman created these Favelets (aka Bookmarklets) web design tools a while back and found them handy. You might like them, too. To test, click any link. To install, drag to your browser’s Favorites or Bookmarks bar. Alternatively: Point at link. Hold down mouse button and choose “Add Link to Favorites.” Included are 1) Resize 800, 2) Resize 1024, 3) Betas Validate, and 4) Fussy Parsing. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Google Video http://video.google.com/ Google's mission is to organize the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows. Just type in your search term (for instance, ipod or Napa Valley) or do a more advanced search (for instance, title:nightline) and Google Video will search the closed captioning text of all the programs in their archive for relevant results. Click on a program title on your results page and you can look through short snippets of the text along with still images from the show. Visit the "About this show" side panel to learn when this show will air next. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Educause 2004 Conference Presentations and Resources http://snipurl.com/ca7c Whether or not you are able to attend EDUCAUSE 2004, you may be interested in resources from the conference. These include presentation materials (PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, and others) from the conference sessions, audio tapes of the sessions, all four issues of the daily newspaper, and a photo gallery. More resources will be added as they receive them, so if you don't find what you're looking for, check back. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Business Filings Database Updated By Kathy Biehl http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup29.htm This excellent LLRX.com colum has just been updated as of January 17, 2005. All 50 states make some level of corporate and business filings available online. In a few instances only limited information (such as name availability) is retrievable. The majority of the states, however, use their Web presence to disseminate a range of public business records -- and most of them offer access at no charge. This update reflects changes that have been made in the previously listed databases. The scope of this roundup does not yet include tax filings. Taxing authorities are mentioned for two states (Maryland and New Jersey) because they offer the only online route to business organization and trade name information in those jurisdictions. Unless otherwise stated, each database listed below is free. Before using an online public records database, it is always a good idea to look for a disclosure of how recently the information was updated. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Steven Bell's Resources http://staff.philau.edu/bells/ An excellent site of resources by Steven Bell covering: 1) Powerpoint Resource Page, 2) Web Presentations Page, 3) Keeping Up Page, 4) Business Resources, and 5) Drexel IST Courses. The Keeping Up Page and Business Resources are well worth the visit for those interested in current awareness and keeping up to date on internet happenings and resources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report. 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. 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