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

Thursday, March 31, 2005   White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. White Papers By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/ I am extremely pleased to announce that I have completely updated all my white papers including white paper link compilations that are associated with selected Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. All are downloadable in .pdf format and continue to be freely available at the above URL. posted by Marcus | 6:19 AM   NASA's Spitzer Marks Beginning of New Age of Planetary Science http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-09/release.shtml NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has for the first time captured the light from two known planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. The findings mark the beginning of a new age of planetary science, in which "extrasolar" planets can be directly measured and compared. "Spitzer has provided us with a powerful new tool for learning about the temperatures, atmospheres and orbits of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth," said Dr. Drake Deming of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., lead author of a new study on one of the planets. "It's fantastic," said Dr. David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass., lead author of a separate study on a different planet. "We've been hunting for this light for almost 10 years, ever since extrasolar planets were first discovered." The Deming paper appears today in Nature's online publication; the Charbonneau paper will be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal. So far, all confirmed extrasolar planets, including the two recently observed by Spitzer, have been discovered indirectly, mainly by the "wobble" technique and more recently, the "transit" technique. In the first method, a planet is detected by the gravitational tug it exerts on its parent star, which makes the star wobble. In the second, a planet's presence is inferred when it passes in front of its star, causing the star to dim, or blink. Both strategies use visible-light telescopes and indirectly reveal the mass and size of planets, respectively. In the new studies, Spitzer has directly observed the warm infrared glows of two previously detected "hot Jupiter" planets, designated HD 209458b and TrES-1. Hot Jupiters are extrasolar gas giants that zip closely around their parent stars. From their toasty orbits, they soak up ample starlight and shine brightly in infrared wavelengths. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Landmark Supreme Court Cases http://www.landmarkcases.org/ There is always a great demand for educational materials regarding the most important US Supreme Court Cases and this website is an outgrowth of that sustained interest. Developed by Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society, this website was developed in order to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities regarding such cases. The general teaching strategies offered here include political cartoon analysis, moot court, continuum exercises, and website evaluation. Some of the cases covered here include Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Miranda v. Arizona. The site also offers some detailed explanations of important related concepts, such as federalism, national supremacy, and judicial review. Additional, the site provides background summaries of each case and pertinent discussion questions for a variety of reading levels and abilities. This has been added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Deepnet Explorer - P2P/RSS-ATOM Web Browser http://www.deepnetexplorer.com/ Deepnet Explorer is the first browser with fully integrated P2P file sharing capabilities and a built-in RSS/ATOM news reader. It's free, so now it's easy to browse the web, share files and read news simultaneously. We are seeing more and more browsers adding P2P and News Aggregator capabilities for a true deep web experience ....... This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   OpenSecrets - Tracking Political Finances http://www.opensecrets.org/ This site is from The Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government. Resources to track industries, check up on candidates and research out your own back yard. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   ResumeVault - Tools fort Hiring Professionals http://www.resumevault.net/ ResumeValut helps identify, evaluate and hire the best talent while dramatically reducing the cost and time required. Their unqique products are developed for the needs of hiring professionals with emphasis on applicant screening and candidate management. Their web based tools help to supply you with fully qualified, technically quantifiedcandidates that meet the specifications of each position. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, March 30, 2005   reSearcher posted by Marcus | 11:38 AM   reSearcher - Open Source Electronic IR/IM Tools http://www.theresearcher.ca/index.html reSearcher is an award-winning integrated suite of open source tools for locating and managing electronic information resources, designed for use by students and researchers in academic libraries. The four main modules of reSearcher are: 1) GODOT, a full-text link resolver and interlibrary holdings locator and requesting system. 2) CUFTS, a full-text link resolver, knowledgebase, and electronic collection management tool, 3) Citation Manager, a tool for capturing, managing and exporting bibliographic data in a wide range of formats, and 4) dbWiz, a cross-database search tool. reSearcher enables academic libraries to provide students and researchers with streamlined access to an integrated array of information resources. Together, reSearcher's components deliver rich portal-type functionality, presenting a unified interface to research databases, library and union catalogues, internet search engines, and other electronic information sources. reSearcher is developed by Simon Fraser University Library for the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL). reSearcher is used daily by students, faculty, and staff in universities, colleges, university-colleges and institutes throughout Western Canada. 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 | 4:25 AM   Sciengy RPF!™ http://sciengy.com/products/ Recognize, Predict, Forecast!™ (RPF!™) is an application for solving various problems of data analysis (mining): class recognition, value prediction, and process forecast. RPF!™ has convenient user-friendly interface enabling the following features: 1) specify your problem details (input and predicted characteristics), 2) import your data from CSV text files, 3) educate self-organizing neuronets with just several clicks, 4) a neuronet's structure is generated automatically, and 5) finally predict output values using these neuronets. Available features also include measuring the accuracy (various characteristics) of the predictions; data visualization features allow analyzing visual representation of your data and the predictions made. This software is freely available. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ and Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Portable Firefox http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Papers Written By Googlers http://labs.google.com/papers.html This is a partial list of papers written by people now at Google, showing the range of backgrounds of people in Google Engineering. Areas that papers cover: 1) algorithms, 2) compiler optimization, 3) information retrieval, 4) artificial intelligence, 5) file system design, 6) machine learning, 7) profiling, 8) computer architecture, 9) user interface design, 10) data mining, 11) genetic algorithms, 12) web information retrieval, 13) search engine design, 14) data compression, 15) computer graphics, 16) robotics, 17) text processing, 18) natural language processing, 19) software engineering and design, 20) operating systems and distributed systems, and 20) various other topics. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   M2K (Music-to-Knowledge)Toolkit http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k/ The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is proud to announce the official release of its M2K (Music-to-Knowledge) Alpha 1.0 toolkit. M2K is an open-sourced Java-based framework designed to allow Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) researchers to rapidly prototype, share and scientifically evaluate their sophisticated MIR and MDL techniques. M2K builds upon and extends the D2K/T2K datamining framework developed by the Automated Learning Group (ALG) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). M2K Alpha 1.0 downloads, installation requirements & instructions, and a wide range of documentation, can be found at the above URL. 2K Alpha 1.0 is currently the strongest in audio-based approaches to MIR/MDL tasks. They would like to encourage all MIR/MDL researchers with interests in symbol-based and metadata-based techniques to join in and help them extend the functionality of M2K. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   The Soundex Indexing System http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/census/soundex.html To use the census soundex to locate information about a person, you must know his or her full name and the state or territory in which he or she lived at the time of the census. It is also helpful to know the full name of the head of the household in which the person lived because census takers recorded information under that name. The soundex is a coded surname (last name) index based on the way a surname sounds rather than the way it is spelled. Surnames that sound the same, but are spelled differently, like SMITH and SMYTH, have the same code and are filed together. The soundex coding system was developed so that you can find a surname even though it may have been recorded under various spellings. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ and Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 29, 2005   Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N4 April 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N4 April 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N4.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The April 2005 V3N4 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 32 page .pdf document (651KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online resources and sources covering all areas of grids and distributed computing. 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 WebScales: Towards a Highly Scalable Metasearch Engine. posted by Marcus | 3:32 PM   refBASE posted by Marcus | 6:21 AM   refBASE - Web-based, Platform-independent, Multi-user Interface for Managing Scientific Literature & Citations http://refbase.sourceforge.net/ refBASE is a web reference database based on php and mysql that offers a web-based, platform-independent, multi-user interface for managing scientific literature, references and citations. As an example, the IPÖ Literature Database is an implementation of refbase that aims to provide a comprehensive and platform-independent literature resource for scientists working in the field of polar & marine sciences. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Yahoo! Buzz Index http://buzz.yahoo.com/ Watch the latest Internet Buzz and find out where all the happenings are taking place! This site updates its Buzz constantly in the following areas: 1) TV, 2) Music, 3) Sports, 4) Movies, 5) Actors, 6) Video Games, and 7) Weekly Buzz. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs? http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Brain Tumor Trials And Treatments http://virtualtrials.com/ The Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research is the owner and maintainer of this site and is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life and survival times for brain tumor patients. They attempt to achieve that goal by using computer technology to streamline the flow of information, organize the brain tumor community and raise money for brain tumor research. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Technology Grant News Technology Grants http://www.technologygrantnews.com/ With Technology Grant News, published 4 times a year, you will learn about the latest technology grants and funding available, with profiles of winning projects and directions in technology development. It is available In Print and In Print with CD. Areas included: Higher Education, Grants for Non Profit Organizations, University Grants, Non Profit Funding, K-12 Grants, School Grants, Education Grants, Science Education Grants, and Vocational Education Grants. This has been aded to Grant Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Government Information Online (GIO) http://govtinfo.org/ Government Information Online (GIO) is a national pilot project that will establish a viable model for online cooperative virtual reference and information service that specializes in answering questions about government information. Libraries contributing their time and expertise to the project (over thirty institutions across the United States) represent public libraries, academic institutions, as well as state library and archive departments. All the project's participants are official depository libraries who participate in the U.S. Government Printing Office's Federal Depository Library program, and many are also official depository libraries for their respective state governments. The project's participants share the belief that government information is a core source of reliable knowledge that enhances the lives of our patrons. Further, with a growing share of government information available in an electronic formats and on the web, the project will further enhance the search capabilities of professional librarians. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, March 28, 2005   April 2005 Zillman Column April 2005 Zillman Column - Prediction Markets and Information Futures http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Prediction April05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The April 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Prediction Markets and Information Futures. This April column is a comprehensive listing of prediction market and information futures resources and sources on the World Wide Web. The ability to predict the future of information is an exciting emerging field of study and this column highlights the many new and very interesting resources and sites available over the Internet to the researcher or interested individual! Download this excellent 13 page free .pdf (375KB) column today and begin using the many resources available on the World Wide Web to predict information futures! © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:08 PM   This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. March 28, 2005 V3N13 discusses BlogWiki2005. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this upcoming workshop. View this site at: BlogWiki2005 http://www.BlogWiki2005.com/ posted by Marcus | 1:46 PM   BlogBib posted by Marcus | 6:21 AM   BlogBib - An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging http://blog-bib.blogspot.com/ An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs...This annotated bibliography created by Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian @ Eastern Connecticut State University includes definitions, articles about blogging and about library blogs, books, studies, links to samples of the myriad library blogs, tools for creating and using blogs, and links to presentations on blogging. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus | 4:26 AM   Yahoo Search Developer Network http://developer.yahoo.net/ Create Applications Using Yahoo!Search. Yahoo! Search Web Services allow you to access Yahoo content and services in your favorite programming languages. This means you can now build Yahoo directly into your own applications. Build just about anything you can imagine. Here are a few ideas: 1) A flash-based tool for searching images and video simultaneously, 2) A plugin for your favorite web publishing tool, and 3) A utility that adds your favorite business into your smart phone's address book. To see what others in the community have developed, take a look at the Applications page in their Wiki. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   DIRLINE® (Directory of Information Resources Online) http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/ DIRLINE® (Directory of Information Resources Online) is an online directory of over 8,400 health-related organizations and other resources which are willing to respond to public inquiries in their specialty areas, including toxicology and environmental health organizations. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources (Library of Congress) http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html Global Gateway is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture. The site offers more than 80 thousand digital items. In addition, it is a portal to international research centers, collections, and other resources available at the Library of Congress and through its Web site. Sections include: 1) Centers for International Research, 2) Portals to the World, 3) About International Colections, 4) Research Guides and Databases, 5) Featured Presentations, 6) Research Opportunities, 7) International Exhibitions, and 8) International Cybercasts. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   A Bloggers' Code of Ethics http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php CyberJournalist.net has created a model Bloggers' Code of Ethics, by modifying the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics for the Weblog world. These are just guidelines -- in the end it is up to individual bloggers to choose their own best practices. CyberJournalist.net follows this code and urges other Weblogs to adopt this one or similar practices. Integrity is the cornerstone of credibility. Bloggers who adopt this code of principles and these standards of practice not only practice ethical publishing, but convey to their readers that they can be trusted. This will be added to my just updated Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators prsentation. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Calculate The Estimated Fuel Cost Of Your Trip - Fuel Cost Calculator http://www.fuelcostcalculator.com/ Using current gasoline prices from AAA's daily, online Fuel Gauge Report, as well as the latest highway fuel economy ratings from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the AAA Fuel Cost Calculator estimates the amount and cost of gasoline needed to complete a vacation trip. Although the total number of miles driven and prices paid for gasoline during your trip may vary from the estimates provided, the AAA Fuel Cost Calculator is intended to help you determine the cost of fuel needed to complete a vacation drive. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, March 27, 2005   Cyborg Technology 1) UC Santa Barbara Department of English: Cyborg Resources http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/research/topics/cyborg/ 2) Helsinki Institute of Technology: Brain-Computer Interface http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/bci/ 3) USC: Neural Engineering Lab http://neural-eng.no-ip.info/ 4) Discovery School: Future Body http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/futurebody/ 5) NPR: Thinking Is Doing With Cyborg Technology http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4533546 6) Kevin Warwick: Project Cyborg http://www.kevinwarwick.org/ Discussions of cyborg technology tend to be relegated to science fiction literature and TV programs like Star Trek. This Topic in Depth looks into current issues and developments in the area of cyborg technology. The first website, from the UC Santa Barbara Department of English, (1) lists a variety of resources on cyborgs, from philosophical articles and literary criticism to current scientific practices. A related area of research is brain-computer interfacing (BCI), which is described on this website from the Helsinki Institute of Technology (2). Research on neural engineering, which combines work in electrical and computer engineering, tissue engineering, materials science, and nanotechnology, is also described on this website from USC (3). The Discovery School (4) suggests this lesson on technology for grades six through eight, in which students explore how the human body uses electric signals to send messages to and from the brain, and then how the nervous system uses those signals, with the option for additional discussions regarding the potential for cyborg technology. The next website from National Public Radio (5) provides a current look at applications of cyber technology, most of which are in the area of healthcare. For example, this program reports on how "scientists make it possible for quadriplegics to control a television, play simple computer games and check e-mail... by just thinking about it." Another interesting experiment--Project Cyborg--involves the neuro-surgical implantation of a device into the median nerves of this researchers' left arm and is described this website (6).[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   Statistical Education Through Problem Solving http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/ Statistical Education Through Problem Solving (STEPS) was a collaborative project between seven universities throughout the United Kingdom "to develop problem-based teaching and learning materials for statistics." The materials draw on specific problems arising in Biology, Business, Geography and Psychology to help students learn that statistical issues are "important natural parts of the process of reaching conclusions." The software developed as a result of this project, which utilizes the computer and graphical illustration to support learning, is available to educational institutions free of charge and can be downloaded from this website. (Note that other organizations are expected to purchase the software.) A glossary of statistical terms is provided in the software program as well as on this website. Although the funding for the project ended in 1995 and the website was last updated in January 2004, the material is still current and useful for teaching statistics. The authors note that the STEPS modules are intended to be used to support existing coursework, and "not intended to replace lecturing staff or to provide a self-study course in statistics. This has been added to Statistics 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 | 4:20 AM   From Contact to Contract—Social Networking on the Internet by Lisa Daniel http://www.shrm.org/ema/EMT/articles/2005/winter05cover.asp Social networking sites offer some possibilities for finding candidates, but there are downsides as well. This article details experiences in using social networks to find employees and details the positive and negative attributes associated with online social networking for finding candidates for various job openings within your organization. Of course this is just one use of the many utilizations of online social networking for the business community including sales, marketing and customer support. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ The Visual Thesaurus offers stunning visual displays of the English language. Looking up a word creates an interactive visual map with your word in the center of the display, connected to related words and meanings. Click on these words or meanings to explore further. Discover and learn from this engaging dictionary and thesaurus with over 145,000 words and 115,000 meanings, audio pronunciations, spell checking, printing, and much more! Find a word and explore. To try it now, type a word into the search box above and "Look It Up!" This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Librarians' Resource Centre http://www.sla.org/chapter/ctor/resources/lrc/cover.htm The Librarians' Resource Centre is a selective and searchable collection of resources compiled to facilitate our informational research and retrieval. Founded by Margaret Gross, it has been maintained by Dave Hook since May of 2001. Since its inception, the LRC has always been run by volunteers. The Librarians' Resource Centre is organized into three major divisions. "Reference Resources" provides links to search engines, topical guides, ready reference and databases on the net. "Subject-Specific Resources" presents web resources specific to particular topics. The third section is devoted to professional development for library and information professionals. Wherever possible meta sites or pathfinder resources are presented. The Librarians' Resource Centre is intended to be a place to start searching. Consulting the LRC is analogous in many ways to consulting a bibliography of bibliographies. Resources in the database have been selected and evaluated by information professionals. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Cosmochemistry http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/ccp/ NASA's Cosmochemistry Program (CCP) assists cosmochemical investigations that involve laboratory studies of extraterrestrial materials, examine the geochemistry solar system bodies, and/or study the formation and development of the solar system. Visitors can read abstracts of the proposals that have been awarded funding. The website offers a detailed strategy for the implementation of the program, which includes discussions of the facilities and methods, demographics, management, and challenges. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, March 26, 2005   WebScales posted by Marcus | 6:24 AM   WebScales: Towards a Highly Scalable Metasearch Engine http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~meng/pub.d/PIreport04.html The main objective of this collaborative project is to develop enabling techniques for a large-scale metasearch engine that aims at covering a much larger portion of the Web and at the same time retrieving more up-to-date and more useful documents than existing search engines and metasearch engines. A metasearch engine is a system that provides unified access to multiple existing search engines. Upon receiving a query, the metasearch engine determines the appropriate search engines to invoke, the documents to retrieve from each invoked search engine and finally the set of documents to be shown to the user. The main problems to be studied in this project include (1) how to automatically discover useful search engines on the Web; (2) how to automatically and accurately categorize search engines into a concept hierarchy and how to use user profiles to map user queries to appropriate concept(s) in the hierarchy; (3) how to automatically incorporate search engines into a metasearch engine; (4) how to perform accurate database selection for longer queries; and (5) how to merge results returned from multiple search engines. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Resources for School Librarians http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/reslibs.html An excellent resource of link compilations covering resources for school librarians in the following categories: 1) Learning and Teaching, 2) Information Access, 3) Program Administration, 4) Technology, 5) Education and employment, and 6) Continuing Education. This site is maintained by Linda Bertland, retired school librarian, Philadelphia, PA. . This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   University of California-Los Angeles: Online Archive of American Folk Medicine http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/ The Archive of American Folk Medicine is the result of more than 50 years of work by UCLA-associated folklorists who "documented beliefs and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative healthcare. In order to make the data more readily available to the worldwide community of researchers and medical practitioners, the Online Archive of American Folk Medicine was established in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Michael Owen Jones, a professor of folklore and history at UCLA." The Archive draws from over 3,200 published works, and is intended to serve folklorists, sociologists, and historians. The website provides basic and advanced search options; and records include brief entries for Citation, Condition, Belief, Method of Treatment, and more. Users should be aware that the Archive website has not been updated in several years but it remains a valuable resource for researchers and others interested in folk medicine. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Rersources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Registry of Standard Biological Parts http://parts.mit.edu/ The development of well-specified, standard, and interchangable biological parts is a critical step towards the design and construction of integrated biological systems. The MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts supports this goal by recording and indexing biological parts that are currently being built and offering synthesis and assembly services to construct new parts, devices, and systems. In the future, they hope to expand this support in the areas of standards for biological part families, parameter measurement and quality control, and development of an open community of biological engineers and scientists. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   The Medieval Science Page http://members.aol.com/mcnelis/medsci_index.html This page is intended to provide a convenient and comprehensive set of links to all Internet resources worldwide which deal with aspects of medieval science, both in Western and other cultures. The site is edited by James McNelis. Associate Professor; Ph.D., Medieval British Literature. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Protecting Teens Online http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/152/report_display.asp The Pew Internet Project announces the release of its latest report on youth, Protecting Teens Online. More than half of American families with teenagers use filters to limit access to potentially harmful online content – a 65% increase from the number of those who used filters in 2000. But big majorities of both teens and parents believe that teens do things on the internet that their parents would not approve of. A new survey of 1,100 youth – those ages 12 to 17 – and 1,100 of their parents shows that 54% of internet-connected families now use some sort of internet filter or monitoring software, up from 41% of internet-connected families who used filters in 2000, the most recent time the Pew Internet & American Life Project surveyed on the issue. In all, about 19 million youth live in homes with internet connections and the number of children living in homes with filters has grown from 7 million in 2000 to 12 million today. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, March 25, 2005   InfoLibrarian posted by Marcus | 6:44 AM   InfoLibrarian http://www.infolibrarian.com/ They are a group of professionals working in the area of library and computer fields. Their objective behind this project is to give maximum information to working library and information science professionals, teachers and students at one place. Here, they have made an attempt to collect information from different sources and given brief description, wherever possible. An excellent resource and well worth the visit and bookmark! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   OpenSearch http://opensearch.a9.com/ OpenSearch is a collection of technologies, all built on top of popular open standards, to allow content providers to publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication. You can see how this works on A9.com. Many sites today return search results as a tightly integrated part of the website itself. Unfortunately, those search results can't be easily reused or made available elsewhere, as they are usually wrapped in HTML and don't follow any one convention. OpenSearch offers an alternative: an open format that will enable those search results to be displayed anywhere, anytime. Rather than introduce yet another proprietary or closed protocol, OpenSearch is a straightforward and backward-compatible extension of RSS 2.0, the widely adopted XML-based format for content syndication. Any site that has content—and a search box—can choose to return results in OpenSearch RSS. This includes travel sites, classifieds, encyclopedias. If you can provide search results for something, it probably can fit into the OpenSearch model. Returning OpenSearch results is easy—the format is the standard set of XML elements, plus three additional elements designed to support navigation between pages. This will be added to the search engine section of all 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications by Jesse James Garrett http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: 1) standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS; 2) dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model; 3) data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT; 4) asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest; and 5) JavaScript binding everything together. This essay by Jesse Garrett explains Ajax and what the future holds for this exciting application. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   TreePad - Organizer, PIM, Information Manager and Text Editor http://www.treepad.com/ TreePad™ is an award-winning Organizer, PIM / Database, Personal Information Manager and Word Processor. Portability and compactness are smoothly blended into TreePad™ with its other distinctive features: versatility and power, as well as simplicity and intuitiveness of use. Pioneer in Tree Structured data-management: one of the most imitated programs on the Web since 1995. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer&Trade; Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Google Code http://code.google.com/ Code.google.com is their site for external developers interested in Google-related development. It’s where they will publish free source code and lists of their API services. A lot of people worked together to both prepare source code for release and prepare code.google.com for launch and ongoing maintenance. They really care about free and open source software (F/OSS) at Google, and this site is one aspect of that affection. They have chosen 4 projects to start out. Perftools, sparsehashtable, coredumper and goopy/functional. Details can be found here. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Webbed Footnotes http://web.media.mit.edu/~golder/projects/webbedfootnotes/ If you like reading and discussing the news, this is the tool for you. Webbed Footnotes is a new, unique tool that enhances the web browsing experience. With Webbed Footnotes, you can annotate web pages with comments and can read and reply to the annotations left by others. Your comments will be placed on top of the page and will be visible to subsequent readers. When participating in this project, you will first be asked to install some software (see below). Next, you will be asked to visit our copy of the day's New York Times articles as much as you like for two weeks, read some articles and comment on them. You browse and read on the web like normal, except you get the added ability to comment directly on the webpage. You have the additional ability to "approve" of others' comments that you like. This promotes high-quality contributions. This feature is described in more detail after signing up. By participating in this project, you will be contributing to the development of new and interesting tools for online collaboration. It's entirely confidential -- you'll be asked during signup to choose a username to your liking. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, March 24, 2005   An audblog posting mp3 broadcast from Vision Miami Networking Meeting Thursday March 24, 2005 interviewing members of the Altius Group Advertising and Brand Communications Agency. Also interviewed Captain Asaad of the Sailing Vessel "RA" and his electronic ship's log blog available at racharters.net. posted by Marcus | 7:46 PM   Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators - The Future of the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Tamiami Airport Business Association - Good Morning West Kendall! Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/ Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 7:45am Date: Thursday, March 24, 2005 Location: Calusa Country Club, 9400 SW 130 Avenue, Miami, Florida Listen to the Tamiami Airport Business Association members being interviwed by Marcus discussing their various businesses after this morning's presentation by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. by clicking on the below audblog link: posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   Open Source Primer - NonProfit Open Source Initiative (NOSI) http://www.nosi.net/taxonomy/term/3?PHPSESSID=fd1e74988f8ad719c702419dbddc9fce NOSI’s acclaimed primer describes what open source software is and what impact this type of software may have on the nonprofit sector. The primer includes: 1) case-studies of nonprofits of various sizes that are using open source software, 2) a process for evaluating whether or not open source is right for an organization, and 3) useful resources and information. Written primarily in non-technical language, the Primer is accessible to a wide audience, including nonprofit managers with little hands-on technical expertise. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Lexonomy - A Taxonomy Primer http://www.lexonomy.com/publications/aTaxonomyPrimer.html What’s the difference between a taxonomy and a thesaurus? What are the various types of controlled vocabularies, and how do they fit into a Web site’s Information Architecture? How do you use the various schemes to greatest advantage? Learn how to “take control” of these dynamic and effective tools for creating navigation schemes and search systems. Read the above article by Amy J. Warner, Ph.D. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2005 http://www.jcdl2005.org/ The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. The theme of JCDL 2005 highlights the powerful role of digital libraries as cyberinfrastructure. This cyberinfrastructure has the potential to engender the creation of new tools, research methodologies, and processes that will enable scientists and learners to investigate the natural world, the social world, and the human-built environment in new and previously unimaginable ways. As global interests in computation, information management, networking, and intelligent sensing converge, the conduct of research and education will be transformed. They welcome researchers and practitioners with broad and diverse interests including: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative applications in the sciences, humanities, and education. Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of disciplines and professions involved in digital library research and practice, including computer science, information science, librarianship, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. All domains - academe, government, industry, and others - are encouraged to participate as presenters or attendees. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Tech Buzz Game http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/ Press Release: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050315005882&newsLang=en Yahoo! Research Labs, Yahoo!'s organization for advanced research in science and technology, has teamed with O'Reilly Media, the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies, to develop a joint research project called the Tech Buzz Game, an online prediction market that allows consumers to forecast the popularity of technology concepts, products and trends. The game was introduced today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference. The Tech Buzz Game leverages search query volume and frequency on Yahoo! Search to measure a term's popularity or "buzz." It mirrors the functionality of the stock market, enabling participants to "buy" and "sell" virtual shares in their favorite technology terms based on their estimates of future value. The game, which is powered by NewsFutures (http://www.newsfutures.com), the leading provider of prediction markets software, utilizes new patent pending market and auction mechanisms invented at Yahoo! Research Labs by Dr. Gary William Flake, Yahoo!'s principal scientist, and Senior Research Scientist Dr. David Pennock. The Tech Buzz Game is divided into separate markets that fall into topic areas such as hardware, software, mobile and web. Each market pits rival technologies against one another. For example, the "Browser" market includes Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox among others. Participants would buy stock in the technology they believe will increase in search popularity. "The Tech Buzz Game is a fundamentally new type of online auction that will allow us to determine how well emerging trends can be predicted by the collective wisdom of crowds as correlated with Internet search terms," said Yahoo!'s Dr. Flake. This has been added to Information Futures Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Open Source Community Building by Matthias Stürmer http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/sturmer.pdf Abstract Building an active and helpful community around an open source project is a complex task for its leaders. Therefore investigations in this work are intended to define the optimum starting position of an open source project and to identify recommendable promoting actions by project leaders to enlarge community size in a healthy way. For this paper eight interviews with committed representatives of successful open source projects have led to over 12 hours of conversation about community building. Analysing the statements of these experienced community members exposed helpful activities that led to the presently prospering communities of their projects. Summarizing the conclusions of this qualitative research a table with conditions for successful open source project initialisation and a subject-level promotion matrix of community building could be created. They include suggestions o­n how to start a new open source project and how to improve and increase the community of an already advanced open source project. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Social Network Analysis http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/knowledge_management/km2/social_network.asp "Social network analysis is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organisations, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities." (Valdis Krebs, 2002). In the context of knowledge management, social network analysis (SNA) enables relationships between people to be mapped in order to identity knowledge flows: who do people seek information and knowledge from? Who do they share their information and knowledge with? In contrast to an organisation chart which shows formal relationships - who works where and who reports to whom, a social network analysis chart shows informal relationships - who knows who and who shares information and knowledge with who. It therefore allows managers to visualise and understand the many relationships that can either facilitate or impede knowledge creation and sharing. Because these relationships are normally invisible, SNA is sometimes referred to as an 'organisational x-ray' - showing the real networks that operate underneath the surface organisational structure. This resource is from the National Electronic Library for Health's (NHS) Knowledge Management Toolbox. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, March 23, 2005   FreeScience: Peer-to-Peer Scientific Digital Library posted by Marcus | 6:07 AM   FreeScience - Peer to Peer Scientific Digital Library http://www.bdaweb.net/freescience_learnmore_it.php Allows any researcher to share his scientific papers (as well as notes, data and designs draws, ecc...) into a P2P OAI-PMH compliant network, by mean of which your works will be instantly available to hundred of thousands researchers worldwide. You can also browse the huge OAI archive (about 1 million of documents from the best research institutes) and download the full text for free. Furthermore, the FREESCIENCE software is completely free, as is access to documents in the BdA network. FREESCIENCE offers three domains of action: 1) Search and download of full-text scientific one million plus documents, 2) Sharing of your own documents in the OAI network with over one hundred thousand researchers, and 3) Direct communication and science community with instant messaging or text conferencing. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources white paper annotated link compilation. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The Launching of Mozilla Firefox- A Case Study in Community-Led Marketing by Sandeep Krishnamurthy http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/sandeep2.pdf Abstract: Mozilla Firefox is a Free/Libre/Open Source (FLOSS) browser supported by the Mozilla Foundation. This browser was recently released and has met with considerable success- it has been downloaded more than 20 million times and has already taken considerable market share from its prime competitor- Microsofts Internet Explorer. In this paper, I chronicle how the efforts of 63000 volunteers led to a community successfully competing with a powerful corporation. I identify four factors as the key facilitators to Firefoxs success- complacent competition, product superiority, presence of marketing leader and volunteer support. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Proteome BioKnowledge® Library http://www.proteome.com/ Six database volumes of biological information about proteins comprise BIOBASE's Proteome BioKnowledge Library. Each volume focuses on a different organism important in pharmaceutical research. Proteome scientists manually collect and curate the information in each BioKnowledge Library volume from current scientific literature. The information in each volume represents thousands of independent research results. The BioKnowledge Library currently contains information about more than 60,000 scientific references on more than 80,000 proteins, including data on protein classification and function. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   National Science Foundation Discoveries http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/ NSF's goal is to support the people, ideas and tools that together make discovery possible. That's why they say NSF is "where discoveries begin." Learn about many of the advances made possible with NSF support in "Discoveries." If you're looking for a specific discovery, please use their discovery search page. Other features of their Web site also provide information about research results. NSF's public investment in science, engineering, education and technology helps to create knowledge and sustain prosperity. Read about the Internet, microbursts, Web browsers, extrasolar planets, and more... a panoply of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF support. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Online Conversions http://www.onlineconversion.com/ Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Lawrence Lessig Codebook http://codebook.jot.com/WikiHome Lawrence Lessig first published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace in 1999. After five years in print and five years of changes in law, technology, and the context in which they reside, Code needs an update. But rather than do this alone, Professor Lessig is using a wiki to open the editing process to all, to draw upon the creativity and knowledge of the community. This is an online, collaborative book update; a first of its kind. Once the the project nears completion, Professor Lessig will take the contents of this wiki and ready it for publication. The resulting book, Code v.2, will be published in late 2005 by Basic Books. All royalties, including the book advance, will be donated to Creative Commons. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 22, 2005   Theory of Computing - Open Access Journal posted by Marcus | 6:07 AM   Theory of Computing (ToC) http://theoryofcomputing.org/ Theory of Computing (ToC) is a new Open Access online journal dedicated to the widest dissemination, free of charge, of high quality research papers in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science. The journal will not differ from the best existing publications in its commitment to and method of peer review to ensure the highest quality. The scientific content of ToC is guaranteed by a world-class editorial board. Following the model of the highly successful Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, ToC is an all-volunteer operation. The key difference between ToC and existing publications (paper as well as electronic) in the areas covered by ToC is its commitment to free access. We believe that the Theory community can no longer turn a blind eye to the plight of CS libraries, around the country and around the world. Publisher: University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The Nation's Report Card: An Introduction to The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005454 The Nation's Report Card: An Introduction to The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) explains the major features of NAEP in a non-technical manner. It highlights the history and development of NAEP, how the data are collected, scored, and analyzed, and how the results are reported. This introductory guide to NAEP is designed to meet the information needs of teachers, parents, and other members of the general public about the nation's premier assessment of what America's elementary and secondary students know and can do. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   LionShare Releases Personal Repository Milestone http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20050304144500 Born of the recognition that the vast majority of learning and teaching material lives on peoples' PCs, the LionShare project aims to provide a simple and trusted way to share those materials with others. The open source application isn't quite done yet, but a useable beta has just been released. There are, of course, reasons why people keep most of their interesting stuff on their own machines — convenience and control being pretty important ones. Compared to a curatorial repository or a plain webserver, material on your hard disk is easier to access and control, and can be in any state of completion. The LionShare team figured that, if these riches are to be exposed to others, as much of that convenience and control needs to be retained. Hence the choice for a peer-to-peer application. In terms of convenience, this kind of programme has the advantage that it sits on your own machine and talks to its peers on other PCs directly. The material that you manage is therefore always 'there'. In terms of control, a peer-to-peer also has the advantage that the user herself determines what is shared at any given point in time. Conventional peer-to-peer clients also have some flip-sides, though. Convenience doesn't extend to a guarantee that a peer with a particularly interesting resource will be available when you go look for it, for example. Likewise, control generally extends to what is shared, not with whom or under what conditions. Hence the ongoing kerfufle around peer-to-peer clients such as the eDonkey, KaZaa and Limewire that are widely used to illegally distribute copyrighted materials.That illicit use makes peer-to-peer file sharing applications rather unpopular with college or university administrators, who fear the mores and lawyers of the rights owners. LionShare technical aim, then, is to address these drawbacks in order to make a peer-to-peer file sharing application that can work in an educational environment. Chief amongst these is to build in trust by making it impossible to use the application anonymously. All LionShare users need to authenticate first, so that each available resource shows by whom it is shared. Likewise, there is built in support for a server to enable people to share things even if their machines are not running. What it does now .... The current, 0.6, release is already a good deal of the way there. It does the authentication thing, with single sign on, provided the institutional network has a Kerberos implementation. Because that's in place, you can easily see whom you're sharing what with. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Best Online Reference Sites http://ansernet.rcls.org/deskref/ Best Online Reference Sites compiled by librarians in the Ramapo Catskill Library System. There are 496 links for you to choose from! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Kid's Search Tools http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm Ramapo Catskill Internet Guides. This web page consists of categorized web search form dialog boxes for a number of internet based searchable information resources for kids. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Swiss Infodesk http://www.snl.admin.ch/swissinfodesk/index.html Swiss Infodesk is an annotated link directory of selected online information about Switzerland. If you would appreciate support in your research, the research service of Swiss National Library is at your disposal. As the French and German version of Swissinfodesk are not identical with the English version, please have also a look at these two versions. Specialising in Swiss publications and authors, the Swiss National Library (SNL) contains a vast, unique store of information all about Switzerland. And the people working there are qualified information specialists who know how to find the answer to just about any question concerning Switzerland. Topics include: 1) Geography, 2) Politics, 3) Education, Training, Research; 4) History, 5) Law, 6) Media, 7) Economy, 8) Culture, Language; 9) Sports, 10) Portals, 11) Pictures, Address listings, and 12) Calendars. Searchable by topic or by alphabet. In English, French or German. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, March 21, 2005   Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog posted by Marcus | 6:17 AM   This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. March 21, 2005 V3N12 discusses Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this Subject Tracer™. View this site at: Prediction Markets http://www.PredictionMarkets.com/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   NameVoyager http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/ Explore the sea of names, letter by letter...watch trends rise and fall, and dive in deeper to see your favorite name's place in the historical tides. The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager is an interactive portrait of America's name choices. Start with a "sea" of nearly 5000 names. Type a letter, and you'll zoom in to focus on how that initial has been used over the past century. Then type a few more letters, or a name. Each stripe is a timeline of one name, its width reflecting the name's changing popularity. If a name intrigues you, click on its stripe for a closer look. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Finding What You Need With the Best Search Engines http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm Finding what you need with the best search engines. This is a collection of search engines and similar resources that Phil Bradley uses on a regular basis when he is looking for different types of information. It's not an exhaustive list, nor is it comprehensive. It's a list of what he personally finds very useful. Phil states that other similar lists exist - he's not pretending that his is original in concept. You might also want to try the following resources as well: http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2156031 This will be added to Searching the Internet white paper and resources. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   SearchEngineDev - Search Engine Directory of SEO Resources http://www.searchenginedev.com/ SearchEngineDev is a Search Engine directory of SEO resources for web developers. The directory is a comprehensive, categorized, searchable collection of links with plenty of resources to help you with Search Engine optimization issues. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   International Economic Journal http://www.iejournal.com/ International Economic Journal is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to publishing high-quality papers and sharing original economics research worldwide. We invite theoretical and empirical papers in the broadly-defined development and international economics areas. Papers in other sub-disciplines of economics (e.g., labor, public, money, macro, industrial organizations, health, environment and history) are also welcome if they contain international or cross-national dimensions in their scope and/or implications. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Journal of Information Science http://jis.sagepub.com/ The Journal of Information Science is an international journal of high repute covering topics of interest to all those researching and working in the sciences of information and knowledge management. The Editors welcome material on any aspect of information science theory, policy, application or practice that will advance thinking in the field. Information Science is a broad based discipline which has a potential impact in almost every sphere of human activity in the emerging information age. There have been significant advances in information technology and information processing techniques over recent years and the pace of innovation shows no sign of slowing. However, the application of these technologies is often sub-optimal because theoretical understanding lags behind. The Journal seeks to achieve a better understanding of the principles that underpin the effective creation, organization, storage, communication and utilization of information and knowledge resources. It seeks to understand how policy and practice in the area can be built on sound theoretical or heuristic foundations to achieve a greater impact on the world economy. Articles written from a theoretical or applied perspective are welcomed. However, theoretical articles should consider the possible application of the proposed theory in other fields of research, commerce, education or government. Conversely, articles focusing on applied information science topics should seek to highlight the underlying theoretical principles and show how their application has been novel or lead to unusual or exemplary results. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, March 20, 2005   Clouds 1) Project Atmosphere Canada: Clouds http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/education/teachers_guides/module7_clouds_e.html#cbasic 2) Weather http://teacher.scholastic.com/ilp/index.asp?SubjectID=4&SubheadID=8&TopicID=106 3) Understanding Clouds and Fog http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wcloud0.htm 4) Dan's Wild Weather Cloud Gallery http://www.wildwildweather.com/clouds.htm 5) Fractal Clouds http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~cahalan/FractalClouds/FractalClouds.html 6) Web-Weather for Kids: Clouds http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/webweather/cloudhome.html 7) Clouds http://www.bom.gov.au/info/clouds/ 8) Clouds http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/clouds/ First, the Project Atmosphere Canada offers a module to educate primary and secondary students about cloud formation and characteristics (1). The website outlines key points and offers a more in-depth discussion of water vapor, cloud formation, convection, air motion, severe weather, and more. The second website, by Scholastic, supplies many pdf documents of activities and lesson plans for all types of weather phenomena including clouds (2). Students can learn about condensation, discover what makes up a cloud, and find a key identifying the cloud types. Next, USA Today offers an online tutorial of the differing characteristics of clouds (3). Users can learn about Mammatus clouds, contrails, cloud seeding, and other cloud-related topics. At the fourth website, visitors can view meteorologist Dan Satterfield's amazing cloud photographs (4). Educators may find useful materials to supplement their lectures. Next, NASA's Climate and Radiation Branch furnishes "information on the fantastic variety of cloud forms and structures, and their implications for climate" (5). While the website is still being constructed, users can find useful information about the Bounded Cascades Fractal Cloud model, animations, and definitions of inhomogeneous cloud terminology. The sixth website, created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, addresses how clouds impact our lives, how they cause chaos, and how they form (6). The enlightening descriptions are packed with colorful images and short quizzes. Next, The Australian Government's Bureau of Meteorology describes the useful of clouds as an indicator of weather conditions (7). After learning how moist air can form clouds, individuals can view images of the ten most common cloud types. Lastly, Enchanted Learning offers a table of the cloud types with their abbreviation, appearance, composition, and altitude along with explanations of cloud formation and the atmosphere (8). Educators can find simple activities dealing with cloud types and the water cycle. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Global Information Technology Report http://snipurl.com/dehw "The United States is no longer No. 1 in making the best use of information and communications technologies (ICT), a new study says. It dropped to fifth place this year and Singapore is now on top. Singapore's ranking in the so-called "Networked Readiness Index" was based on several factors, including quality of math and science education and low prices for telephone and Internet services, said the World Economic Forum report. 'Singapore's remarkable performance is a consequence of the government's consistent and continuous efforts' to foster the technology, the report said. Augusto Lopez-Claros, co-editor of the report, praised Singapore for its ability 'to make, in a relatively short period of time, enormous progress in putting (the technology) at the service of improved living standards.'" The complete article is available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Northern Light's Market Intelligence Centers http://www.centerformarketintelligence.com/ Market Intelligence Centers provide an overview of selected industries and business trends, with a detailed picture of market segments, issues, breaking news, companies, and government regulatory actions. Their editors scour the Web and their Business Research Engine for authoritative news, analysis and commentary, and useful resources to create a concise, easy-to-navigate market intelligence site for an industry. Daily updates and dynamic content keep the information up-to-date. They will be adding new industries weekly, so check back from time to time if your industry is not already listed below. Note that Northern Light's Market Intelligence Centers are available free of charge to enterprise and individual subscribers to their Business Research Engine. Visitors who are not subscribers are invited to browse the Market Intelligence Centers but are not able to view the full-text of the selected articles or execute the Live Queries unless you choose to subscribe to the Business Research Engine. Free trials are available, just follow the links at the bottom of their page. This has been addded to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Corante - Technology and Science News and Business Intelligence http://www.corante.com/ Corante is a leading news and business intelligence service on technology and science that's read by many of the sector's top entrepreneurs, executives, funders, followers and thinkers. An information service that delivers targeted news coverage of multiple verticals via its website and email newsletters, Corante is also helping to pioneer the emergence of blogging as an influential and important form of reportage, analysis and commentary. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This also has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Russia Profile http://www.russiaprofile.org/index.wbp The availability of high-quality news reporting on the Internet continues to improve, though at times finding reputable sources can still be difficult for certain parts of the world. Russia Profile is one such source, as it is produced by the Independent Media group, which is responsible for publishing The Moscow Times along with a number of other magazines across Russia. The goal of this website is to both broaden the scope of news coming out of Russia and "to provide a platform for an informed discussion of issues related to or concerning Russia". From the site's homepage, visitors can read about the latest from Russia Profile, view a calendar of events, and subscribe for free to the print edition of Russia Profile. Visitors can also participate in a number of online forum discussions. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) OpenCourseWare (OCW) http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ Freely available OpenCourseWare at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The philosophy behind JHSPH OCW is to make JHSPH course materials now used in the teaching of almost all undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. JHSPH OCW will not only advance technology-enhanced education at JHSPH, but it will also serve as a model for universities to disseminate knowledge in the Internet age. This venture builds on the tradition at JHSPH, and in American higher education, of open dissemination of educational materials, philosophy and modes of thought, and will help lead to fundamental changes in the way colleges and universities use the Web as a vehicle for education. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide and Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, March 19, 2005   eGlossary posted by Marcus | 7:08 AM   eGlossary http://eglossary.com/ eGlossary is a comprehensive directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries. What's the Word? With search and indexing capabilities that empower you to find the exact word you need exactly when you need it, eGlossary is the ultimate word source on the internet. Add your favorite glossary. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   U.S. Copyright Office - Orphan Works http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/ The Copyright Office seeks to examine the issues raised by “orphan works,” i.e., copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate. Concerns have been raised that the uncertainty surrounding ownership of such works might needlessly discourage subsequent creators and users from incorporating such works in new creative efforts or making such works available to the public. The Office is now seeking written comments from all interested parties. Specifically, the Office is interested in whether there are compelling concerns raised by orphan works that merit a legislative, regulatory or other solution, and what type of solution could effectively address these concerns without conflicting with the legitimate interests of authors and right holders. Comments are due March 25, 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   The Directory of Open Access Repositories - DOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ University of Nottingham, UK and University of Lund, Sweden are developing a new service for Open Access to research information. A new service is starting development to support the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. The new service, called DOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world. Such repositories have mushroomed over the last 2 years in response to calls by scholars and researchers worldwide to provide open access to research information. DOAR will provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories, as well as archives set up by funding agencies - like the National Institutes for Health in the USA or the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Europe. Users of the service will be able to analyse repositories by location, type, the material they hold and other measures. This will be of use both to users wishing to find original research papers and for third-party "service providers", like search engines or alert services, which need easy to use tools for developing tailored search services to suit specific user communities. The project is a joint collaboration between the University of Nottingham in the UK and the University of Lund in Sweden. Both institutions are active in supporting Open Access development. Lund operates the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which is known throughout the world. Nottingham leads SHERPA, an institutional repository project that has helped establish Open Access archives in 20 of the leading UK research universities. Nottingham also runs the SHERPA/RoMEO database, which is used worldwide as a reference for publisher's copyright policies. This has been added to Rsearch Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   VisioBrand - Brand Directory and Search Engine http://www.visiobrand.com/ VisioBrand is a Swiss company leading the search engine visual market for e-branding. As a virtual catalogue of Brands with an integrated powerful match making system, it represents a great benefit for individuals, marketing and communication professionals and Brands by significantly simplifying the search process and raising its efficiency and by improving their communication and interaction. With the abundance of information available in the Internet today, it may take you long hours of your precious time to find the information you need. VisioBrand facilitate your search by providing you only pertinent and carefully selected links to high-quality branded goods and services. VisioBrand is an e-catalogue of categorized lists of Brands that is fast, precise and easy to use. This is a unique place in the web, where you can have visibility of and access to the Brands of your choice and branded products within one site. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Moreover RSS News Feeds http://w.moreover.com/new/other/categories_rss.html This page contains a complete list of the free, advertising supported RSS news feeds available from Moreover. There are more than 330 news categories to choose from. Please be patient while the page loads. Please Note: Moreover free feeds are for individual, non-commercial use only. Please see their terms and conditions for complete usage guidelines. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Next big step for the Web--or a detour? By Paul Festa http://news.com.com/Next+big+step+for+the+Web--or+a+detour/2100-1032_3-5605922.html Is the "Semantic Web" the new Internet, or a complex technology in search of a problem to solve? That's a question that advocates attending the Semantic Technology Conference hope to put to rest. Standards specialists, venture capitalists, computer scientists and technology executives are meeting at the four-day conference to discuss enterprise applications for the Semantic Web--the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) growing collection of protocols designed to make a wealth of new information accessible and reusable through the Web. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, March 18, 2005   Prediction Markets http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Prediction Markets.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 13 page .pdf document 458KB. [Updated 01-01-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 12:54 PM   BlogWiki2005 Workshop posted by Marcus | 6:18 AM   BlogWiki2005 http://www.BlogWiki2005.com/ Announcing BlogWiki2005 Workshop | May 19-20, 2005 | Coral Gables FL | WHAT: BlogWiki2005 Workshop WHEN: May 19-20, 2005 WHO: Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library; Sabrina I. Pacifici, Founder, Editor, Publisher and Web Manager of LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com; and Marcus P. Zillman, Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library and VPL Blogosphere. WHERE: University of Miami, Wesley Foundation, Coral Gables, Florida. Note: Coral Gables is located in the Miami, Florida area. WHY: Blogs, Wikis, News Aggregators and RSS/Atom Feeds are emerging technologies that have and will continue to transform all fields of communication, scholarship, and library and other information services. The goals of BlogWiki2005 are to provide an introduction to these technologies and practical examples of their applications that libraries and other organizations can easily implement to their advantage. The BlogWiki2005 Workshop is a focused, comprehensive program presented by experienced specialists designed for the newbie as well as the seasoned veteran. Each workshop participant will receive a detailed manual containing copies of all workshop presentations as well as compilations of reliable and authoritative resources and references about blogs, bots, wikis, and RSS/Web feeds. TIME: May 19 2005 8:30am - 5:00pm May 20 2005 8:30am - 12:00pm WHERE: University of Miami Wesley Foundation Coral Gables, Florida COST: $195.00 Per Registrant through April 15, 2005 $249.00 Per Registrant April 16 - May 18, 2005 $295.00 Per Registrant at the Door May 19, 2005. The full program and schedule, as well as profiles of the presenters, are available at [ http://www.BlogWiki2005.com/ ] posted by Marcus | 4:26 AM   Healthlink http://healthlink.mcw.edu/index.html Healthlink is a free, noncommercial health information service from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). One quite useful section of the website allows visitors to locate health-related articles by topic. Titled Browse By Topic, this alphabetized section offers a wide variety of categories to choose from such as Arthritis, Endocrine System, Preventative Medicine, and Women's Health, to name just a few. Each topical page presents the latest articles dealing with that subject and also allows visitors to view archived articles listed alphabetically or by date. Healthlink also provides articles written by MCW columnists, as well as reflective essays by MCW health professionals. Additional offerings include articles regarding health care information for consumers, and a free email newsletter from MCW. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Basic Medical Library Management Resources http://nnlm.gov/libinfo/mgmt/ This web site is for both professional and non-professional librarians new to health or hospital libraries. It seeks to provide instant access to quality resources which will help the medical librarian meet the needs of the patron. Areas covered include: 1)Administration, 2) Information, 3) Databases and Internet Sites, 4) Collection Development, 5) First Steps, and 6) Additional Resources. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The 325 Project http://www.the325project.org/ The goal of the "325 Project" is to comprehensively document the year 325 when the west became Christian. To do so, we are collecting contemporary and near contemporary texts, statues, coins and other artifacts as the source of facts about that time. Specifically - produce a "factlog": a catalog of artifacts on a topic and the facts justified by them. Release previews to solicit comments, both on technical approach and content. This presentation: Preview/0.1 of the project's factlog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   NYPL - Databases and Indexes Online http://www.nypl.org/databases/index.cfm The New York Public Library subscribes to over 300 commercially-produced research databases. To begin your search, first choose a database to find articles and other information. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   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 | 4:00 AM Thursday, March 17, 2005   Guide to Downloading Patent Copies Guide to Downloading Patent Copies on the Internet http://nip.blogs.com/patent/2004/09/guide_to_downlo.html The USPTO has never provided the ability to download multiple page TIFF or PDF copies of patents/patent applications. Thankfully, a number of web sites and computer programs have stepped up to fill that void. This is an excellent blog posting that is updated regularly giving the needed resources. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 9:14 AM   Business Plans and Profiles Index http://www.clpgh.org/locations/business/smallbusiness/bplansindex.html A Subject Guide to Sample Business Plans and Profiles for Specific Business Types. This index lists types of small businesses and a corresponding sample business plan, profile or book about the business with sources provided after each entry. Entries that refer to actual sample plans are in bold print. If the plan or profile is online, a link is provided. This has been added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Federal Acquisition Jumpstation http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/fedproc/home.html The Federal Acquisition Jumpstation links you to Internet sites of federal procurement information. This page is designed to provide the business community a central starting point to quickly access federal procurement documents and establishing a "single face" for federal acquisitions. At destinations linked from this page, you can retrieve acquisition forecasts, announcements of upcoming and current acquisitions, solicitations, small business assistance information, plus federal acquisition regulations. The Jumpstation is continually updated to add links as new acquisition sites appear on the Internet. This has been added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   TheWeblogProject http://theweblogproject.com/ TheWeblogProject is the first open source, FREE, grassroots movie to promote and evangelize bloggers, the blogosphere, and their potential. TheWeblogProject is conceived to be a completely different kind of movie, because featured stars, producers, fundraisers and actors of TheWeblogProject movie have all a unique trait: they are all bloggers. They have no other agenda but the one of helping bloggers tell everyone else what this media revolution is all about. TheWeblogProject is different from a traditional movie in several other respects: 1) It will be distributed, FREE, via P2P and via the Internet Archive, under a Creative Commons Attribution License, 2) It will be Folksonomy-enabled, and 3) It will be Open Source(d). Complete source footage will be distributed to all supporting bloggers (and not) for unlimited remixing. This has been added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   MeansBusiness - 20,000 Ideas From Today's Top Business Experts http://www.meansbusiness.com/ MeansBusiness is the largest and fastest growing database of business ideas in the world. They provide corporations, universities and consultants with the latest and most advanced business thinking from the world's leading business experts-on demand. Executives use Means Business to help them innovate, solve complex problems, and create new strategies. Leading universities-both corporate and academic-use Meansbusiness to create superior learning and competitive advantage for their organizations. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This wil be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Journal of Research Practice (JRP) http://jrp.icaap.org/ The Journal of Research Practice (JRP) seeks to develop our understanding of research as a type of practice, so as to extend and enhance that practice in the future. The Journal aims to highlight the dynamics of research practice, as it unfolds in the life of a researcher, in the growth and decline of a field, and in relation to a changing social and institutional environment. The Journal welcomes deliberation on the basic issues and challenges encountered by researchers in any specific domain. The Journal aims to explore why and how different activities, criteria, methods, and languages become part of research practice in any domain. This is expected to trigger inter-disciplinary dialogue, mutual learning, facilitate research education, and promote innovations in different fields. The Journal's scope is not defined in terms of academic disciplines. It cuts across disciplines and fields by drawing out the living dimensions of research unfolding through history, culture, research communities, professions, and of course the lives of individual researchers. The Journal seeks to study the evolving patterns of thinking and practice that underlie open inquiry in any domain. The scope also includes topics such as research training, research design, research utilisation, research policy, and innovative forms of research. The Journal targets all researchers, scholars, research-inclined professionals, and research students, irrespective of their disciplinary background. It seeks to attract reflective articles on the dynamics and challenges of research practice in context, as well as articles presenting experiences and learning from research carried out in an innovative way. In order to promote wider participation in these deliberations, JRP will be published electronically in the open-access mode. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, March 16, 2005   Knowledge Discovery Resources 2006 Knowledge Discovery Resources 2006 http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/KD Resources.pdf Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled "Knowledge Discovery Resources 2006" is a 20 page research paper listing selected resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find the latest information about knowledge discovery available on the Internet. Each source is described along with the URL address than can be accessed. It is freely available as a .pdf file (413KB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated 09-10-06. Other white papers are available by clicking here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 2:28 PM   ARC - A Cross Archive Search Service posted by Marcus | 6:59 AM   ARC - A Cross Archive Search Service http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ ARC is an experimental research service of Digital Library Research group at Old Dominion University. Arc is used to investigate issues in harvesting OAI compliant repositories and making them accessible through a unified search interface. It is not a production service and may be subject to unscheduled service interruptions and anomalies. 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.This will be added to the Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources White Paper. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   New Approaches To Television Archiving by Jeff Ubois http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/ubois/index.html Abstract: Worldwide, more than 30 million hours of unique television programming are broadcast every year, yet only a tiny fraction of it is preserved for future reference, and only a fraction of that preserved footage is publicly accessible. Most television broadcasts are simply lost forever, though television archivists have been working to preserve selected programs for fifty years. Recent reductions in the cost of storage of digital video could allow preservation of this portion of our culture for a small fraction of the worldwide library budget, and improvements in the distribution of online video could enable much greater collaboration between archival institutions. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Information Services Market Place: The World Directory of Independent Information Professionals (ISMP) http://www.ismp.info/ Information Today, Inc. welcomes you to Information Services Market Place: The World Directory of Independent Information Professionals (ISMP). As a comprehensive directory of individuals working in this segment of the information industry, ISMP is the authoritative source for companies looking to hire or outsource work and for professionals seeking other qualified professionals for subcontracting projects and networking. This has been added to Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Search for Classes http://www.searchforclasses.com/ SearchForClasses is a source to research online and on-campus college degrees. Selecting the ideal career and educational paths are among your most important life choices. They offer information on hundreds of on-campus and online programs, plus valuable tools to help you sort through and identify the best program for your needs. Bachelor degrees, MBAs, and other college certification programs can be easily browsed and searched. SearchForClasses invites you to visit their numerous online and on-campus colleges -- and to meet other students from all over North America. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Informing Science Journal http://inform.nu/ The academically peer refereed journal Informing Science endeavors to provide an understanding of the complexities in informing clientele. Fields from information systems, library science, journalism in all its forms to education all contribute to this science. These fields, which developed independently and have been researched in separate disciplines, are evolving to form a new transdiscipline, Informing Science. Informing Science publishes articles that provide insight into how best to inform clients using information technology. Authors may use epistemologies from engineering, computer science, education, psychology, business, anthropology, and such. The ideal paper will serve to inform fellow researchers, perhaps from other fields, of contributions to this problem. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Economics of Scientific and Biomedical Journals by Haekyung Jeon–Slaughter, Andrew A. Herkovic, and Michael A. Keller http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/jeon/index.html Abstract: The emergence of e–journals brought a great change in scholarly communication and in the behavior of scholars. However, the importance of scholars’ behavior in the pricing of scientific journal has been largely ignored in the recent debate between libraries and publishers over site license practices and pricing schemes. Stanford’s survey results indicate that sharply increasing costs are the main reason for individual subscription cancellation, driving users to rely on library or other institutional subscriptions. Libraries continue to be a vital information provider in the electronic era and their bargaining power in the market and the importance of roles in scholarly communication will be increased by branding and a strong relationship with users. Publishers’ strategy for thriving in the electronic era is not to lose personal subscribers. Cooperation among the three sectors — scholars, libraries, and publishers — promises optimal results for each sector more than ever. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 15, 2005   TurboScout Search Engine posted by Marcus | 6:17 AM   TurboScout Search Engine - Access Search Engines Without Retyping http://www.turboscout.com/ A 21 year-old undergraduate from Singapore launched TurboScout.com, a new search tool that helps Internet users to access and compare original results from over 90 search engines across 7 categories on a single web page, removing the hassle of retyping keywords into different search engines. Comparing results from different search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, and Ask Jeeves is a common practice for many users. This is because different engines use different ranking methods and thus no single engine can give users exactly what they’re looking for. That’s where TurboScout.com comes in handy. Says William Chee, founder of TurboScout.com. "Grown out of the frustration of typing and retyping keywords into different search engines, I decided to create an online search tool to get rid of these hassles and make such searching 20 times faster. Users who visit http://www.turboscout.com only need to enter keywords once, and getting original results from different search engines is as simple as clicking the engine’s name. No more retyping keywords into different search engines." This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Video Blogging Software http://www.seriousmagic.com/videoblog.cfm Visual Communicator makes it incredibly easy to create professional looking video blogs and personal video messages in just minutes. Create your very own video blogs to share your opinions / rants about anything and everything—politics, sports, hobbies, travel, work, movies—you name it. Look Like the Pros. Complete with dazzling real-time 3D video fx, chroma keying and teleprompter, Visual Communicator will not only make your video blogs look professional but also make you look like a pro. You can easily publish your video blogs in Windows Media or Real Networks format and upload them to any website to be viewed by people all over the world and who knows perhaps become famous. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   commons-blog http://www.info-commons.org/blog/index.html commons-blog is an American Library Association-sponsored site collecting news, discussion, and commentary related to the information commons in theory and practice, along with announcements of updates to the info-commons.org main site. commons-blog is edited by Frederick Emrich, who posts with the byline info-commons. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   White Papers: Symposium on Community-Based Health Information Outreach, National Library of Medicine and National Network of Libraries of Medicine httphttp://medstat.med.utah.edu/symposium/whitepapers.html An excellent resource for freely available white papers from the Symposium on Community-Based Health Information Outreach held at the National Library of Medicine, December 2 - 3, 2004. White Papers covered the following major areas: 1) Symposium Goals, 2) Outcomes and Evaluation Perspective, 3) Communications/Research Perspective, and 4) Futurist Perspective. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Educause Podcasting http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=788 The latest information on Podcasting from Educause including Pimary Publications (seminars contributed by Educause live), Related Resources (recent community blog content, community contributions [articles, papers, reports], blogs), and Conference Resources (conference materials). This will be listed in a future mp3 broadcast at Listen To Marcus mp3 Broadcasts. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Biographical Dictionary http://www.s9.com/biography/ This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords. The Biographical Dictionary is valuable classroom resource. Students and teachers use it for English, Social Studies, History, and other programs. Check out these ideas. Thus has been added to Student Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, March 14, 2005   Virtual Private Library posted by Marcus | 9:08 AM   This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. March 14, 2005 V3N11 discusses Virtual Private Library™. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing the Virtual Private Library and its gateway to 43 Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. View this site at: Virtual Private Library http://www.VirtualPrivateLibrary.com/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   Potential Advantages Of Semantic Web For Internet Commerce by Yuxiao Zhao and Kristian Sandahl http://eprints.osti.gov/cgi-bin/dexpldcgi?qry1105836626;4 Abstract By Author: Past decade saw much hype in the area of information technology. The emerging of semantic Web makes us ask if it is another hype. This paper focuses on its potential application in Internet commerce and intends to answer the question to some degree. The contributions are: first, we find and examine twelve potential advantages of applying semantic Web for Internet commerce; second, we conduct a case study of eprocurement in order to show its advantages for each process of e-procurement; lastly, we identify critical research issues that may transfer the potential advantages into tangible benefits. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Pew Internet Report on Politics and the Internet http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_2004_Campaign.pdf The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report and a commentary about the internet's role in the 2004 election. The report is based on a post-election survey and documents how and why the internet became an essential part of American politics in 2004. Fully 75 million Americans - 37% of the adult population and 61% of online Americans - used the internet to get political news and information, discuss candidates and debate issues in emails, or participate directly in the political process by volunteering or giving contributions to candidates. And the commentary by internet-and-politics scholar (and their colleague) Michael Cornfield is available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Asian Tsunami Web Archive http://tsunami.archive.org/ This Web archive is a collection of over 1500 sites relating to the December 2004 Tsunami disaster in Asia. A shapshot of these sites has been taken once a week starting from the first week of January 2005 in order to build an archived record of this world shattering event. This has been added to my Asian Tsunami December 26, 2005 Resources posting. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Science and Technology Resources on the Web http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/engr/stem.htm Free resources that contain searchable abstracts for multiple science/technology/engineering journals, magazines, and governmental publications. (Articles may not be free. Site registration is required in some cases). This is an excellent research resource from the University of Missouri Libraries and has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   VhaYu Technologies http://www.vhayu.com/index.asp Vhayu delivers the fastest and easiest to use real-time software solutions to the world’s leading financial institutions for the capture and high speed analysis of massive amounts of streaming and historical data. The company's proven software solutions meet the needs of mission critical financial applications which rely on the fastest technology available to perform algorithmic trading, quantitative research, pre & post trade analytics, strategy development, real-time compliance, back testing and market sweeping for best execution. Vhayu’s products are linearly scalable, fault tolerant and cost effective. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   World Wind - Satellite Imagery http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there. Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, March 13, 2005   Technology and Religion 1) PBS: Can Religion Withstand Technology? http://www.pbs.org/kcet/closertotruth/explore/show_14.html 2) Institute for the Future Blog: Emerging Technologies and Their Social Implications http://blogger.iftf.org/Future/000510.html 3) Cybertheology http://www.cybertheology.net/ 4) National Faculty Leadership Conference: Theology/Technology http://esoptron.umd.edu/theo_techno/ 5) TechNewsWorld: Technology and Religion http://www.technewsworld.com/story/33078.html 6) Wired: on Muslims and technology http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66305,00.html 7) Cornells Minister of Technology http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/issue/forward_cornell.asp?trk=nl 8) Readings in Faith and Science http://itest.slu.edu/theologicalview/readings2/index.html This issue of Topic in Depth explores the relationship between technology and religion in today's world. This first website, from PBS, features interviews with "a skeptic, a devout Muslim scientist, and an expert in the sociology of religion" who address the question, Can Religion Withstand Technology? (1). This blog from the Institute for the Future discusses how religion is making use of technology (2). One way that religion and technology interact, of course, is through the use of the Internet in communicating religious ideas, as is evidenced by this collection of websites listed on cybertheology (3 ), which also offers a number of articles on theology and technology. This next website from researcher at the University of Maryland (4) is "dedicated to illustrations of the trends to refer to and use metaphors from technology in conveying fundamental ideas in theology" and presents some of the data collected so far as part of this research project. In this article from TechNewsWorld (5), an associate deputy of interfaith relations for the Episcopal Church discusses his views on "the future of religion and technology -- and what he views as their joint role in the survival of humanity." Wired offers this perspective on how technology has impacted Islamic traditions (6). W. Kent Fuchs, Dean of Cornell University's College of Engineering, discusses the ways that religion and technology can help each other in this short article (7 ). Finally, this website (8) offers a large selection of articles specifically addressing Faith and Science from the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science & Technology. This will be added to Theology 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 | 4:25 AM   Curiae Project http://curiae.law.yale.edu/ The Curiae Project provides Supreme Court records and briefs and other relevant materials free of charge on the Internet. Cases are selected for addition to the site based on a ranking developed from citation data in historical and constitutional texts. The ranking data are available here. The Curiae Project is located at the Yale Lillian Goldman Law Library and developed in cooperation with the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Supreme Court Historical Society. The Curiae Project is made possible by the generous financial support of the National Science Foundation, the Supreme Court Historical Society, and the Yale Lillian Goldman Law Library. This will be added to Law Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Liquid Information Research Project http://www.liquidinformation.org/index-fr.html The Liquid Information is a research project at UCLiC in London in cooperation with Doug Engelbart in California. They are aiming to make text more interactive - turning words into hyperwords. Why? Most electronic communication has focused on the production of information, not the digestion of information. In order to make informed decisions in our work, it's not enough to rely on automated systems - we need to get the right information into our heads. They believe in giving the professional user a more flexible work environment in which he or she can more flexibly navigate through information, change the way it's portrayed and relate it to other information. Extending the user in this way will help the user digest important and useful information. The web is a great step forward in information access and you can think of this project as an effort to turn web 'browsers' into web 'readers'. This is not about 'links' it's about interactive text - text you can issue commands on, such as 'highlight this word in red' or 'look up the dictionary definition of this word'. Please browse through their menu where you will find their production blog, a quick demo, and so on. This has been addded to the tools section of the Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   A Practical Guide to Managing E-Mail Overload http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4438&t=srobbins Stever Robbins offers advice on how to author effective, efficient, and focused business email messages. He also recommends how to read and respond to email. Thoughtful, well constructed and brief responses, which you have taken time to consider before hitting the "send" key, will increase the value of this communications tool. And don't forget that sometimes it is easier to just use the phone. [beSpacific March 4, 2005] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Hyperwords http://www.hyperwords.net/ What are hyperwords? Hyperwords are words you can reach out and touch - words you can perform 'operations' or 'commands' on. In simple terms they are interactive words. Hyperwords are useful in the way you can interact with them. They allow you to point at them and get their glossary definitions for example. Hyperwords allow for news ways of navigating through, viewing, and connecting text: re-formating the text to only see paragraphs with a specific word and seeing dictionary definitions and so on. This results in deep legibility aiding digestion of useful information. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   OCKHAM Alerting Service http://alert.ockham.org/ This is (the beginnings of) a current awareness service based on National Science Foundation Digital Library content. It demonstrates a standards-based method for collecting content, providing access to it, and disseminating it on a regular basis in the form of an alerting service. The method includes: 1) identifying OAI repositories with content of interest, 2) using OAI to harvest content and store it in a central pile, 3) exporting MARC data from library catalogs and storing it in the central pile, 4) indexing the content of the central pile, 5) providing an SRU interface to the index, 6) allowing users to save the SRU URL's as "profiles", 7) allowing users to have the profiles executed on a regular basis, 8) making the results of searches available as HTML, email, RSS, etc., and 9) returning to Step #1. This has been added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, March 12, 2005   Online Programming for All Libraries (OPAL) http://www.opal-online.org/ OPAL is sponsored by the Illinois Network of Libraries Serving the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Participating OPAL libraries develop and deliver online programs, events, and meetings using software from Talking Communities (http://www.talkingcommunities.com). By collaborating within OPAL, libraries are able to develop online programs together and offer a rich array of public online programs for all library users. The software allows people to meet in an online meeting room using Voice over IP (VoIP)and text chat, and they can share and discuss web pages, presentations, and other digital content. OPAL allows library patrons and library staff members to participate in online library programs from anywhere. Everyone is welcome to participate in OPAL programs, and libraries of all types are encouraged to become OPAL members. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Information Literacy Weblog http://ciquest.shef.ac.uk/infolit/ The focus of their Information Literacy Weblog as always is to facilitate the dissemination and sharing of relevant items and information relating to information literacy worldwide. This will be the place to visit if you want to find out about what's going on in the world of information literacy, including upcoming events, recent publications, or new websites on the topic. As well, there will be news about their own information literacy project (see the link on the weblog home page), including reports and commentary from the three authors listed below, and from other people who have something interesting to say about information literacy. They will be involving people from different parts of the world, and with different perspectives--librarians, educators, administrators, and policy makers--with an aim to building a constructive community of interest. Authors include: Sheila Webber is a lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Her key areas for teaching and research include information literacy and business information, and she has written and spoken on these areas nationally and internationally. Bill Johnston is a lecturer in the Centre for Academic Practice, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has spoken, researched and published in the areas of critical thinking, educational perspectives on the student experience, curriculum design, and information literacy. Stuart Boon joined the project in November of 2002 as a research associate in information literacy. He is based out of the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, from which he will be carrying out interviews across the UK. Prior to the current research in Sheffield, Stuart lectured at Dalhousie University's School of Library and Information Studies and worked as research assistant on a three-year information literacy project in Canada with Dr. Heidi Julien. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals http://www.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/ http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.pdf The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. Most sources have been published between 1999 and August 31, 2004; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1999 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet approximately 78 percent of the bibliography's references have such links). This bibliography has been published as a printed book (ISBN 1-59407-670-7) by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). ARL and the author have made the above PDF version of the bibliography freely available. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Trust and Community on the Internet http://www.analyse-und-kritik.net/english/current_issue.htm The Journal Analyse & Kritik has published a special issue on "Trust and Community on the Internet". The issue contains 16 articles within the following categories: 1) Concepts and Background, 2) The Internet as an Environment for Trust, 3) Reputation and Online Auctions, 4) Groups and Networks, and 5) Law and the Internet. These articles are a selection of papers that were presented at the international conference "Trust and Community on the Internet" that was held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefed, Germany in Summer 2003. You can find the complete list of all conference presentations here. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Google Fight : Make a fight with googleFight http://www.googlefight.com/ Pick one of the listed fights and see who Google says the winner is based upon the number of results obtained by Google. Or create your own with the keywords of your choice! This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Chief Blogging Officer http://www.chiefbloggingofficer.com/ Chris Locke hopes you laughed at the name, or at least smiled knowingly. Chief Blogging Officer is a tongue-in-cheek hack on the proliferation of Chief Something-or-Other Officers in business these days. So hey, why not a Chief Blogging Officer? But please don't take it too seriously. Chris doesn't. Chris has written a couple-three books about business and the Internet. You do that enough times, you won't take anything seriously anymore either. It's an unavoidable occupational hazard. This site is well worth the visit and autodiscovery the RSS especially if you are an information junkie or even a wannebe information junkie! Chris has some very interesting things to say about current happenings and the future. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, March 11, 2005   Internet Resources for Institutional Research Internet Resources for Institutional Research http://airweb.org/links/ A listing of Internet institutional research resources from the Association of Institutional Research. This is a very good list of icons along with a map of links, new links, Internet reports, and search links. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 6:17 AM   Free/Open Source Research Community Research Directory http://opensource.mit.edu/research_directory.php A directory of active researchers in the free/open source research community. Listing includes email affiliation, web address and research interest. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Environment News Service (ENS) http://www.ens-newswire.com/ The Environment News Service is the original daily international wire service of the environment. Established in 1990 by Editor-in-Chief Sunny Lewis and Managing Editor Jim Crabtree, it is independently owned and operated. The Environment News Service (ENS) exists to present late-breaking environmental news in a fair and balanced manner. ENS news reports are indexed by Reuters/Dow Jones Factiva, and KeepMedia. Hundreds of websites feature ENS headlines and story briefs. ENS contributors around the world cover issues and events that affect the environment such as: legislation, politics, conferences, lawsuits, international agreements, demonstrations, science and technology, public health, air quality, drinking water, oceans and marine life, land use, wildlife, forests, natural disasters, the indoor environment, hazardous materials, toxics, nuclear issues, renewable energy, recycling, transportation, and environmental economics. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   National Cancer Institute Research Resources http://resresources.nci.nih.gov/ This centralized listing of scientific, tools, reagents and services developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is provided as part of our ongoing commitment to cancer investigators to enable and expedite their research. Products and services included here are: a) available to the research community, and b) accessible without extensive negotiations or intellectual property issues, and at a minimal cost. Find resources by: 1) Scientific category, 2) NCI division or organizational location (links to division home pages), and 3) Search function. This is a directory. To obtain the product, service, or information that the resource provides, researchers must contact the resource manager or access the resource Web site (both listed on the page that describes the resource). The NCI home page provides valuable information on NCI scientific programs, funding opportunities and more. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.. This will be added to Healthcare Rersources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   NASA History Division http://history.nasa.gov/ Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has been adapted for many nonaerospace uses by the private sector. NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and technology in general. Perhaps more importantly, our exploration of space has taught us to view Earth, ourselves, and the universe in a new way. While the tremendous technical and scientific accomplishments of NASA demonstrate vividly that humans can achieve previously inconceivable feats, we also are humbled by the realization that Earth is just a tiny "blue marble" in the cosmos. Check out our "Thinking About NASA History" folder online as an introduction to how history can help you. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   CorpWatch http://www.corpwatch.org/index.php CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. We work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, March 10, 2005   Efficient and Effective Metsearch Project Efficient and Effective Metasearch Project http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~meng/metasearch.html The objective of this project is to develop techniques for building highly scalable and effective metasearch engines and related techniques. A metasearch engine interacts with multiple local search engines so that a single query can be used to search multiple local search engines. They study two types of metasearch engines. The first type combines multiple document search engines and will be called document metasearch engines. The second type combines multiple database driven search engines and will be called database metasearch engines. For both types of metasearch engines, the issues that they study include how to discover and classify search engines, how to build wrappers for search engines, how to identify potentially useful local search engines for each user query, and how to merge the results from multiple local search engines. For database metasearch engines, they also study how to integrate the search interfaces of multiple search engines into a unified interface and how to annotate the retrieved results. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Cetus Links:18,193 Links on Objects and Components http://www.cetus-links.org/ Tens of thousands of interesting pages about object-orientation and component-orientation exist on the Internet. Searching for a particular aspect or a certain page is often very difficult. Search engines offer support, but they frequently show too many unsorted pages with regard to the content. This is where the Cetus Links come in: They help to organise and structure the variety of interesting information, offer quick access and a comprehensive overview of each subject. The Cetus Links, therefore, can be regarded as an index to Internet addresses (http, ftp and mailto) about object-orientation and component-orientation. If you are wondering about the word Cetus ... Cetus is the name of a star constellation. The word Cetus origins from Latin and means whale. Cetus was the hostname of Manfred's first Linux PC. So he kept this name for the Cetus Links... This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Newsfile.co.uk - UK History Site http://www.newsfile.co.uk/ This website is designed to help researchers anywhere in the world who are interested in UK history. It's as simple as that! No hidden agenda - just a pastime. The following is taken from the About Newsfile page: " I am incredibly fascinated by UK history and particularly UK historic mysteries. I just like finding the answers to the unanswered and getting the facts completely straight, which is incredibly difficult at times. I also like sharing as well, hence NewsFiles.co.uk! My favourite research time range is 1830 until about 1950 - so that covers the end of Hanoverians, the entire Victorian era, the brief Edwardian period, two world wars and into the 'modern age'. As far as subject matter is concerned I'm fairly flexible, despite the fact that I've become somewhat 'typecast' (if that's possible with research) with 'The Man They Could Not Hang' story! ..... This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Student.gov - Academic Resources http://www.students.gov/STUGOVWebApp/SG_Ctrl?Topic=1401 Explore interesting subjects, or look for resources to help with school projects and coursework in this great collection of web sites -- filled with useful information in many different topic areas. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Educause Launches Blog Service http://www.educause.edu/blogs/ EDUCAUSE has launched the EDUCAUSE Community Blog Service, a pilot project to create a new, vibrant medium for professional information sharing in the higher education IT community. The blogs represent a growing number of voices in this community, and postings span a wide range of topics, including cybersecurity, teaching and learning, and open source software. Postings are categorized by taxonomy term and by blogger and can be browsed on the EDUCAUSE Web site or received through an RSS syndicated feed. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Statistical Data Mining Tutorials - Tutorial Slides by Andrew Moore http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~awm/tutorials/index.html The following links point to a set of tutorial slides by Andrew Moore on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms. These include classification algorithms such as decision trees, neural nets, Bayesian classifiers, Support Vector Machines and cased-based (aka non-parametric) learning. They include regression algorithms such as multivariate polynomial regression, MARS, Locally Weighted Regression, GMDH and neural nets. And they include other data mining operations such as clustering (mixture models, k-means and hierarchical), Bayesian networks and Reinforcement Learning. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Statistical Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, March 09, 2005   Groowe Search Toolbar Groowe Search Toolbar v2.0 http://www.groowe.com/ Search and browse Google, Yahoo, Teoma, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, MSN and other search engines directly from Internet Explorer toolbar with this FREE utility. Just like you have installed Google toolbar or Yahoo companion, Groowe Search Toolbar is customized for each search engine included in the list so with each engine you will have unique experience. You will be able to perform all kind of searches that some engine supports, for example image search, audio search, video search etc. Groowe Search Toolbar also allows you to browse site's categories or directories and helps you to find wanted category or directory quick and easy. Version 2.0 also includes basic popup blocker. Toolbar doesn't support just search engines, you will also be able to search jobs, downloads and shopping sites. List of supported sites is updateable and you will be informed each time when we add support for some new search engine. Currently supported engines: Google toolbar, Yahoo toolbar, Teoma, MSN, AllTheWeb, HotBot, Gigablast, Altavista toolbar, Vivisimo, Amazon, Lycos, Dogpile, Alexa, Ask Jeeves, Barnes & Noble Shopping, Tucows and Downolad.com. Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP, Internet Explorer 5 or higher. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   GridIron™ XLR8™ http://www.gridironsoftware.com/ For software developers with computationally intensive applications, GridIron XLR8 is a technology that enables the parallel processing of software applications on multiple CPUs. XLR8 creates competitive advantage for your product, improves your end users’ experience and enhances customer satisfaction by significantly accelerating the speed of your application. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   The Search For Search Strategies http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=4628&sid=-1&t=special_reports_convergence2005 At Yahoo, Bradley Horowitz says, "We see an opportunity in helping users manage their personal information. So our desktop search product is not really about the desktop; it's not about where the content is on your hard drive versus on a public-facing Web site. It's really about the user's relationship to that content." At Google, Dipchand "Deep" Nishar says the company's mission is to expand the amount of information available to searchers, since only 5% of the world's content is accessible on the Web, and huge numbers of articles, images, and other types of data are still locked away from Internet users. At MSN, Mark Kroese agrees that more personalized search products, and ones that enable search in places other than the Web, represent the next frontier: "Between Microsoft and Yahoo, we all have similar strategies. It's really going to be about great execution. In Web search, it's going to be really easy to always tab over to another search. In desktop search, I don't think anyone here is going to want more than one indexer on their hard drive." At Ask Jeeves, Rahul Lahiri says that improving the specificity of search results is the key to improving users' experience, because "at the end of the day" the user wants an answer -- not thousands of answers. At Xerox, Information Group, Hervé Gallaire agrees: "I believe there may be means to look at results, removing most of the answers from the inquiry that you get" -- and getting to the "right" answer faster. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Open Access Databases http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/021105/itin_explosion.html Michael Galperin, an investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes for Health, says "the open database movement is here to stay, and more and more people in the community (as well as in the financing bodies) now appreciate the importance of open databases in spreading knowledge." He coordinated the compilation of the 2005 compendium of molecular biology databases; published by Nucleic Acids Research, the Compendium shows a dramatic increase of 171 databases from 2004, bringing the new total up to 719. Galperin says databases that offer valuable content "usually manage to survive, even if they have to change their funding scheme or migrate from one host institution to another." posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Virtual Reference Shelf http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html Virtual Reference Shelf: Selected Web resources compiled by the Library of Congress. These resources are maintained by the Library's Electronic Reference Team and are a companion for the Ask a Librarian service. Areas included: 1) Abbreviations, 2) Almanacs and Fast Facts, 3) Arts and Music, 4) Associations, 5) Awards/Prizes, 6) Books, Periodicals, and Publishing, 7) Business, 8) Calculators, 9) Calendars, Clocks/Times, 10) Children, Teachers & Parents, 11) Consumer Information, 12) Current Events On the Web, 13) Dictionaries/Thesauri, 14) Directories, 15) Education, 16) Encyclopedias, 17) Genealogy, Biography and Archaeology, 18) Government, 19) Grant Resources, 20) Health/Medical, 21) History (General), 22) Language and Literature, 23) Law, 24) Libraries, 25) Maps/Driving Directions, 26) Political Science and Government, 27) Quotations, 28) Science, Technology and Engineering, and 29) Statistics. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Oncogenomics Normal Tissue Database http://ntddb.abcc.ncifcrf.gov/cgi-bin/nltissue.pl The Oncogenomics Section of the Pediatric Oncology Branch announces the release of a high-density gene expression database derived from 42,000 clone cDNA microarrays containing 18,927 unique genes for 158 normal human samples from 19 different organs of 30 different individuals. Following a simple registration procedure, the user has full access to the entire dataset. Users are able to query genes based on IMAGE Clone ID, LocusLink number, Gene Ontology Terms, Gene Ontology ID, Gene Symbol, UniGene ID, Clone Title, Cytoband, and Chromosome. Three normalization options exist for the user to choose from: log2, median-centered log2, and median z-scored log2. The results of the query can be viewed by either a heatmap for multiple genes grouped by organ type or a bar-chart for individual genes also grouped by organ type. Links to various external databases populate the details page when an individual clone is selected. In the details page clones/genes that correlate (hence potentially co-regulated and in the same pathway) with that individual clone can be extracted. Future database developments will focus on enhanced queries which will allow the user to search based on gene expression ratios for the various organ types. Additionally, other organs and diseased tissues will also be added. The data base will be of use to many investigators working on a broad range of human diseases as well as those involved in drug development. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 08, 2005   On the Identity Trail On the Identity Trail: Understanding the Importance and Impact of Anonymity and Authentication in a Networked Society http://www.anonequity.org/en3/index-research.html When Warren and Brandeis published their landmark Harvard Law Review article in 1890, they talked about privacy as "the right to be let alone." At that time, they were responding to the arrival of the camera in society. They could not have imagined what that camera could do in the networked world that we live in today. Although George Orwell was remarkable in his predictions of technology in the dystopian world of 1984, even he would be surprised by the power of today's information technology. These writers had a firm grip on what they thought humankind required in order to maintain a decent, fair and democratic society. Yet today, the pace of technological change may have accelerated to the point where we are no longer able to focus on the space that we need to preserve for humans to live in dignity and freedom. In the age of ubiquitous computing, have we lost sight of the right to be let alone? Over the next four years, a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by University of Ottawa law professor Ian Kerr and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Initiatives on the New Economy (INE) Program will focus on this and other questions relating to the preservation of anonymity and privacy in an information economy. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Majority of Online Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050228/sfm063_1.html Majority of Online Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines, Pointing to a Fluid Competitive Landscape, According to Nielsen//NetRatings. Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search Service Releases Latest Online Search Engine Share: Google Secures 47 Percent of All Searches; Yahoo! Garners 21 Percent; MSN Captures 13 Percent. Nielsen//NetRatings, the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis, reported that a minority of searchers exclusively use only one of the top three search engines-Google Search, Yahoo! Search and MSN Search. According to the latest custom research from Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, 58 percent of Google searchers also visited at least one of the other top two search engines, MSN Search and Yahoo! Search, showing that even though Google's market share is dominant today it continue to have competition ..... posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   OLinks http://olinks.sourceforge.net/ OLinks is an open-source OpenURL resolver intended for use by library consortia, individual libraries, and other organizations with a need to manage citation linking using the OpenURL standard. OLinks 2.2 is available for download. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Idealist http://www.idealist.org/ As spring approaches and numerous college students and others begin to think about their plans for summer and beyond, it seems fitting to revisit the Idealist website. Administered by the nonprofit organization Action Without Borders, this site serves as a portal for anyone interested in a career with a nonprofit organization, volunteering, or internships in a related setting. The homepage is a good place to start, as it contains updates about upcoming nonprofit career fairs, news pieces related to social service and nonprofit groups, and some themed resources for volunteers, nonprofit managers, job seekers, and teachers. The site's homepage also contains a comprehensive search engine that is linked up to each and every database provided here. The Career Center section is a real find, as visitors may peruse sections dedicated to writing effective resumes, working abroad, and also look through a nonprofit job forum as well. Finally, visitors can also sign up for personal email updates and look at the site's contents in Spanish and French. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Working Draft: Specifying the Language of XHTML and HTML Content http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20050224/ http://www.w3.org/International/ The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of "Specifying the Language of Content." Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an aid to specifying the language of content for an international audience. Comments are welcome. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Online Information Sellers: How to Opt Out http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/infobrokers.htm Online Data Brokers: How Consumers Can Opt Out of Directory Assistance and Non-public Information. There are many websites that sell or provide for free, personal information about individuals. This information is gathered from many sources including white pages listings (directory assistance), publicly-available sources and public records. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [beSpacific February 28, 2005] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, March 07, 2005   Internet MiniGuides 2005 posted by Marcus | 6:05 PM   This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. March 7, 2005 V3N10 discusses Internet MiniGuides 2005. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing these newly updated Internet Miniguides on nine different subject areas. View this site at: Internet MiniGuides 2005 http://www.InternetMiniGuides.com/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   Deep Federation Portal™ BrightPlanet's Deep Federation Portal™ (DFP) http://www.brightplanet.com/products/dfportal.asp BrightPlanet's Deep Federation Portal™ (DFP) is a turnkey content solution for existing Web portals that need to provide targeted, comprehensive information to site visitors. Typical DFP clients include non-profit organizations, governmental organizations, B2C and B2B portals, and any Web site that depends on relevant content to maintain a competitive advantage. With BrightPlanet's DFP, you can easily: 1) Provide a comprehensive information Web site (a portal) where interested users can find high-quality information about your organization or government agency, 2) Provide content for a topic of interest (agriculture, health issues, pending legal issues, etc.) to your association members to provide good value and enhance membership retention, 3) Search company information (policies, procedures, products and pricing) using an Intranet with access levels across the enterprise, and 4) Discover and deliver deep content with ease. Content for the DFP may be drawn from standard Web documents, deep Web searchable databases, or from the Web portal's existing documents (option). The highest priority documents are harvested, categorized and placed within a directory structure specific to the portal. All content is fully and automatically indexed. The DFP may have as much depth, breadth and complexity — in any topic domain — as the customer desires. Users may navigate results via the subject tree or through BrightPlanet's powerful site searching. The customer can control all aspects of content placement, qualification and results presentation. After initial setup, all aspects of the product are fully automated for fast updates and minimal recurring costs. The DFP is provided as a hosted, ASP (application service provider) service — seamlessly integrated with the customer's existing Web site. Customers may choose to install the Directory on their own Web servers as an option. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Kellscraft Studio's Web Text-ures: Public Domain Books On-Line http://www.kellscraft.com/textcontents.html Kellscraft Studio's Web Text-ures: Public Domain Books On-Line. All of the books listed here are out-of-print, public domain books. Their focus is primarily Arts and Crafts influenced publications from the turn-of-the-20th-century, although special works/authors not directly linked to the A&C period will be shown here, at the Studio Publisher's discretion, of course. Many of these illustrators are not popularly known, but still deserve recognition and credit for the works presented in many of the books listed here. Some of these artists were never given credit in the books for their work, and are only listed here by the signatures on the illustrations. Some illustrations are unsigned and the illustrators may never be known. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i5_simoneli.html The bodies responsible for the Internet's protocols and parameters can be said to steer the Internet in a significant sense. This document, by Alex Simonelis of Dawson College in Montreal, is a summary of those bodies and their most important characteristics. Included bodies: 1) ISOC, 2) IETF, 3) IESG, 4) IRTF, 5) IRSG, 6) IAB, 7) RFC Editor, 8) ICANN, 9) IANA, 10) W3C . This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide To Basic Sources http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/98-461.pdf An 18 page .pdf document from the Congressional Research Service available through the offices of Federation of American Scientists. This is a very good basic resource guide offering a number of free web sites and sources, subscription services, associated telephone numbers as well as various How To resources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Hottest Journals of the Millennium (so far) http://www.sciencewatch.com/jan-feb2005/sw_jan-feb2005_page1.htm Science Watch now presents an updated collection of journal rankings, based on a special subset of Essential Science Indicators (ESI) data covering the last six years, reflecting papers published and cited in Thomson-indexed journals between January 1999 and August 2004. Below, are tables listing the top 10 journals in 11 main fields, ranked by impact (the order is determined by each journal’s cites-per-paper score prior to rounding). This survey, like its predecessor, adheres to the ESI definition of "papers" as regular scientific articles, review articles, proceedings papers, and research notes. Letters to the editor are excluded, as are correction notices and abstracts. The fields covered in ESI (22 in all, half of which are represented here) are defined by groupings of Thomson-indexed journals, with no journal assigned to more than one field. As was the case last time, Science Watch elected to scrutinize the ESI journal rankings and leave out those journals that exclusively publish review articles. Reviews, of course, as convenient summaries of past research, tend to be highly cited—as is the case, subsequently, with review journals. The present rankings reflect journals that primarily publish discovery accounts and other original research. The rankings are also confined to journals that published continuously during the six-year period, from January 1999 to August 2004. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Science.gov ALERTS http://www.science.gov/alerts/alertmain.shtml The Science.gov ALERTS feature is a service that will notify you weekly of new Science.gov information in your specific areas of interest. Simply register for the service and then sign up for topic(s) which will be matched automatically against each new weekly update. Patrons will receive an ALERT email each monday. If you are a NEW PATRON, learn how to set up Science.gov ALERTS to meet your needs. If you are an EXISTING PATRON, review or modify your topic(s) or add a new ALERT. You can also review your search results. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, March 06, 2005   Magnetars 1) "Magnetar" Discovery Solves 19 Year Old Mystery http://spacescience.spaceref.com/newhome/headlines/ast20may98_1.htm 2) Origin of the Universe's Most Powerful Magnet http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/magnetar_formation_050201.html 3) Magnetar http://f64.nsstc.nasa.gov/~mallozzi/graphics/magnetar/magnetar.html 4) Brightest Galactic Flash Ever Detected Hits Earth http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/bright_flash_050218.html 5) Mysterious Magnetar Yielding Secrets to VLA (Very Large Array) http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2005/sgrburst/ 6) RHESSI Satellite Captures Giant Gamma-Ray Flare http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/02/18_magnetar.shtml 7) Chandra X-ray Observatory: Stellar Evolution - Cycles of Formation and Destruction http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/stellar_ev/story/index12.html 8) Known Magnetar Candidates http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041126.html First, SpaceRef.com presents the discovery of the magnetar, "a neutron star with a super-strong magnetic field a thousand trillion times stronger than Earth's" (1). While this science article is rather old, from May 20, 1998, it was included in this Topic in Depth because it offers a great summary of the inquiries and advances in the understanding of magnetars since gamma ray detectors across our solar system recorded an intense radiation spike in 1979. Next, Space.com presents the findings by Bryan Gaensler and his team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics of the sources of magnetars, which has remained a mystery since they were first discovered in 1998 (2). The website presents the characteristics of magnetars and compares them to pulsars, another type of neutron star. The third website offers images of idealizations of magnetars (3). The images, offering representations of the dipole magnetic field, are available in lower resolution for viewing on the computer screen and high resolution images for printing. At the fourth website, Space.com addresses the explosion of a magnetar that was 100 times more powerful than any blast ever witnessed (4). Users can view artistic impressions of the explosion and its affects on the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field. The fifth website, like the previous website, addresses the blast from an object named SGR 1806-20 on December 27, 2004 (5). Unlike the last website, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory offers a summary of scientists' findings of the blast using the VLA (Very Large Array) including that the fireball of radio-emitting material is expanding at about one-third the speed of light in an elongated shape, which may change quickly. Next, UC Berkeley describes the observations of the "brightest explosion ever of high-energy x-rays and gamma rays" made by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), a satellite used to study gamma-ray emissions from solar flares (6). The website offers an introduction to magnetars and their amplified magnetic fields. The seventh website, created by Chandra X-Ray Observatory, introduces magnetars along with other types of stars (7). Users can view images of supernova remnants and learn about the evolution of Cassiopeia A, which may contain a magnetar. Lastly, NASA offers an infrared image of the galactic center region with the positions of candidate magnetars (8). Clearly explaining these neutron stars, the website has numerous links to more information about the phenomena presented.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   jobs.feedster.com http://jobs.feedster.com/ jobs.feedster.com provides the largest index of job related feeds on the web. Type in the job you want and the location and let Feedster do the rest. You can also subscribe to any and all job feeds. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net/ Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). CI seeks to work with communities towards the effective use of ICTs to improve their processes, achieve their objectives, overcome the "digital divides" that exist both within and between communities, and empower communities and citizens in the range of areas of ICT application including for health, cultural production, civic management, e-governance among others. The Journal of Community Informatics brings together a global range of academics, CI practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers. Each issue of the Journal of Community Informatics will contain double blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Carnegie Foundation: KEEP Toolkit http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/KML/KEEP/index.htm KEEP stands for "Knowledge. Exchange. Exhibition. Presentation." The KEEP toolkit, developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, offers "a set of Web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web." Some specific features of the toolkit include: the ability to select and organize teaching and learning materials; templates that provide conceptual frameworks, categories, and guiding prompts/questions to assist in analysis; and tools to create "visually appealing and intellectually engaging representations of material" that can be easily shared online or in print. The toolkit is intended to make it easier to share ideas for peer review, assessment, collective knowledge building, and building a "community of practice and reflection." The features are described in the Tour section and case studies provide some examples of ways that partner institutions and faculty have used their tools. Access to the tools is free but requires registration. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   USDA Rural Development http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/ USDA Rural Development is committed to helping improve the economy and quality of life in all of rural America. Through their programs, they touch rural America in many ways. Their financial programs support such essential public facilities and services as water and sewer systems, housing, health clinics, emergency service facilities and electric and telephone service. They promote economic development by supporting loans to businesses through banks and community-managed lending pools. They offer technical assistance and information to help agricultural and other cooperatives get started and improve the effectiveness of their member services. And they provide technical assistance to help communities undertake community empowerment programs. They have an $86 billion dollar portfolio of loans and will administer nearly $16 billion in program loans, loan guarantees, and grants through their programs. Rural Development achieves its mission by helping rural individuals, communities and businesses obtain the financial and technical assistance needed to address their diverse and unique needs. Rural Development works to make sure that rural citizens can participate fully in the global economy. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Global Voices Online http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/ The Global Voices Manifesto states: We believe in free speech: in protecting the right to speak -- and the right to listen. We believe in universal access to the tools of speech. To that end, we seek to enable everyone who wants to speak to have the means to speak -- and everyone who wants to hear that speech, the means to listen to it. Thanks to new tools, speech need no longer be controlled by those who own the means of publishing and distribution, or by governments that would restrict thought and communication. Now, anyone can wield the power of the press. Everyone can tell their stories to the world. We seek to build bridges across the gulfs that divide people, so as to understand each other more fully. We seek to work together more effectively, and act more powerfully. We believe in the power of direct connection. The bond between individuals from different worlds is personal, political and powerful. We believe conversation across boundaries is essential to a future that is free, fair, prosperous and sustainable - for all citizens of this planet. While we continue to work and speak as individuals, we also seek to identify and promote our shared interests and goals. We pledge to respect, assist, teach, learn from, and listen to one other. We are Global Voices. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   BuzzWhack http://www.buzzwhack.com/ BuzzWhack tries not to take itself too seriously. It strives to be educational with a sense of humor. It doesn't side with the Buzzword Makers, whose creations regularly muddy the process of understanding. In BuzzWhack's view, their arrogance is misplaced. BuzzWhack also doesn't side with the language purists, who can be just as shrill in their defense of existing language. Their elitist stance is as annoying as the Buzzword Makers. BuzzWhack understands that within any given group buzzwords can be functional tools that communicate ideas and concepts quickly. But once those buzzword move outside that group, they can be baffling and bring all understanding to a halt. BuzzWhack has no patience for companies and individuals who use buzzwords to "impress" and befuddle the rest of us. BuzzWhack is the creation of John Walston with help from some of his friends. John is a veteran editor. He was an assistant managing editor at USA Today and also served as Executive Editor of the Wilmington (DE) News Journal, where he founded both the Wilmington Writers' Workshop and The National Writers' Workshop (sponsored by the Poynter Institute). He has been an Internet publishing consultant since 1995. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, March 05, 2005   WorkZoo - Job Search Engine http://www.WorkZoo.com/ WorkZoo.com launched a job search engine that combines over 40,000 new jobs daily from a wide range of employment web sites across the USA. The new search engine provides users with a personalized job map showing where the jobs are in the United States that match their skill set. Users can click on the patent-pending job map to get a list of jobs in the area clicked. WorkZoo crawls the web several times daily and stores jobs in its index as they appear on employment web sites. Sites indexed by WorkZoo's job search engine include the top 10 career sites in the USA and a wide variety of often-overlooked niche web sites. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   FindLaw Real Estate Center http://realestate.findlaw.com/ FindLaw's section contains information and resources to help you with legal issues pertaining to tenants, landlords, and homeowners. Select from one of the following topics: 1) Tenants' Rights, 2) Landlords, and 3) Home Ownership. Detailed information and resources are available including a listing of your local attorneys. [ReseachBuzz] posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Nooked Corporate RSS Directory http://dir.nooked.com/home.dir Nooked RSS Directory - You can search for corporate RSS feeds by keyword or browse the categories. If you publish corporate RSS feeds, you can submit them to this directory. This has been added to Bots Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resource links. [beSpacific February 25, 2005] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Socialtext - Enterptrise Social Software http://www.socialtext.com/ Socialtext, the leading enterprise social software provider, makes it easy for workgroups to communicate effectively, build group memory, social capital and trust. Winner of the PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award. Socialtext can be used for: 1) agile project management, 2) distributed documentation, 3) collaborative intranet team weblog communication, 4) design collaboration, 5) distributed market intelligence, 6) consultative team selling, 7) agile customer care, 8) private partner collaboration, 9) event facilitation, and 10) and much more... This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   LAIR - Research Projects of the Laboratory of Applied Informatics Research http://lair.indiana.edu/research/ LAIR conducts research on information retrieval, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. Currently the particular areas of research include, agent-based information management, agent-user interaction, concept discovery and analysis, and information customization for effective online information delivery. Current projects include: 1) MedSifter, 2) Lucas, 3) ViewFinder, 4) NewsSifter, 5) MACCI, 6) SiD, 7) CaPRIS, 8) Oncosifter, 9) ENABLE, and 10) TREC Genomics. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Project Honey Pot http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email they not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it. To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. They handle the rest automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, they anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website. They collate, process, and share the data generated by your site with you. They also work with law enforcement authorities to track down and prosecute spammers. Harvesting email addresses from websites is illegal under several anti-spam laws, and the data resulting from Project Honey Pot is critical for finding those breaking the law. Additionally, they will periodically collate the email messages they receive and share the resulting corpus with anti-spam developers and researchers. The data participants in Project Honey Pot will help to build the next generation of anti-spam software. This has been added to the anti-spam section of Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, March 04, 2005   Simply - Social Bookmarking and Personal Search Engine Simpy - Social Bookmarking and Personal Search Engine http://www.simpy.com/ With Simpy, you can save, index, search and share your bookmarks. You can also find like-minded people, discover new and interesting sites, publish your bookmarks, detect and eliminate link-rot, etc. Simpy indexes your bookmarks and allows you to search them. It eliminates the need to use bookmark folders (also known as categories) by using keywords to create virtual, dynamic folders on the fly. Your bookmarks are stored and backed-up on a remote server, allowing you to access and search them from anywhere (any computer, any browser, work, home, school, hotel). Using your bookmarks as a representation of your interests, you can use Simpy to find like-minded users. For instance, if you have bookmarked a lot of pages about gardening, you can find other Simpy users who like gardening. Web pages come and go (think "404 Not Found"). Bookmarks that you store inside your browser rot with time, and you have no way of finding that out. Simpy constantly crawls, checks, and re-indexes your bookmarks, allowing you to quickly see all your broken bookmarks and fix them. You can even use Simpy to dig out bookmarks that you saved a long time ago, and have since forgotten you even had. Simpy allows you to subscribe to other users. This allows you to create your own little ecosystem inside of Simpy, called Bookmark Circle. We hate vendor lock-in, so Simpy allows you to export your bookmarks at any time. You can also upload your browser's bookmarks at any time. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Google Scholar Plays Catch Up With PubMed http://www.workingfaster.com/sitelines/archives/2005_02.html#000282 Google Scholar is almost a full year behind in indexing PubMed records, writes Rita Vine, professional librarian, Web search trainer and Web site evaluator. "No serious researcher interested in current medical information or practice excellence should rely on Google Scholar for up to date information," says Vine. The problem is that many medical students and their faculty do, and academic librarians have been hard put to explain the deep limitations of these "quick, one-box tools like Google Scholar and other search engines." Vine says that while it's widely believed that Google Scholar searches current PubMed Medline records, its search capability tends to peter out after February-March 2004. In fact, in a test on the 2004-2005 period, Google delivered 29,500 records compared with PubMed's 658,000 over the same time period. "Google Scholar does not search Medline," says Vine. "It searches whatever Medline records NLM happened to give Google. We have no idea when NLM gave Google the records. We can't anticipate when the next batch will be delivered and the Google Scholar database updated. Remember, Google Scholar is just BETA. PubMed is… well, decidedly NOT beta, and full of the important checks and balances that make it so special." posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   AARP Research Center - Economic Security and Work http://research.aarp.org/econ/ Information, research results & policy insights about: 1) Income concerns of current & future retirees, 2) Employment issues facing older workers, 3) Pension issues & problems, 4) Savings & investment behavior, 5) Social Security solvency, and 6) Public benefits. This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Social Media http://snipurl.com/d1cv A trend called "social media" is working on ways to make the Web a more collaborative tool. One start-up called JotSpot is using Wikis, a type of Web page that can be edited by anyone, to give authorized users a common location in which to collaborate -- for example by building upon a spreadsheet, customizing it, integrating data from the Web or from e-mail, and having all the information reside on one place Wiki Web site. Other social media sites include Five Across and iUpload, which are focused on using blogs to help businesses or individuals collaborate. Five Across's software called Bubbler lets bloggers use drag-and-drop motions to update their blog pages with text, photos, audio or video clips, spreadsheets. Another startup, Pluck, has a Web browser companion designed to be a one-stop personal information manager for search, blogs and data feeds known as "Really Simple Syndication" (RSS), a system that grabs fresh information from designated sites and distributes summaries and links to the user. Pluck lets users share with friends and colleagues the feeds, Web site addresses and other information they find valuable. The Subject Tracer™ Information Blog that covers this area is Social Informatics. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) eCirc Application http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/index.html eCirc is a quick, concise online source for Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) top-line circulation (based on the latest released FAS-FAX report) information. eCirc lets you sort and search summarized circulation data by Publication Title, State/Province, U.S. SRDS or Canadian CARD classifications. To use eCirc, select from the following publication types: 1) Newspapers, 2) Consumer Magazines, 3) Business Publications, and 4) Farm Publications. This has been added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   ITsafe http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/index.html ITsafe is an UK government service, launched on 23 February 2005 by Home Office Minister Hazel Blears MP. ITsafe is designed to provide both home users and small businesses with proven, plain English advice to help protect computers, mobile phones and other devices from malicious attack. It consists of both the Advice on this website, and a low-volume Alerting Service. A good way to start protecting yourself is to follow the ITsafe Four Point Guide to better information security. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, March 03, 2005   Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Business Intelligence Resources http://www.BIResources.info/ I have just completely updated the Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. The associated downloadable 23 page white paper link compilation has been completely updated as well. These business intelligence resources are for both the academic community as well as the business community to properly monitor and evaluate all the happenings and sources related to business intelligence on the Internet. Use these resources to take the buzz out of business intelligence and to create a foundation to build your business information and intelligence resources upon. posted by Marcus | 1:22 PM   Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations! The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources and all of these resources are freely accessible. Over 600 Links (including 380 Calculating Pages) -- And Growing! This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Search Brains http://www.searchbrains.com/ Search Brains is one of the better sources for keeping you up to date with the Search Engine Industry. SearchBrains indexes many search industry blog posts as they happen. If you are in to what is happening in search and related fields this is an excellent resource and bookmark for you. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   International Journal of Education and Development http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/ The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) is an e-journal that provides free and open access to all of its content. IJEDICT aims to strengthen links between research and practice in ICT in education and development in hitherto less developed parts of the world, e.g., developing countries (especially small states), and rural and remote regions of developed countries. The emphasis is on providing a space for researchers, practitioners and theoreticians to jointly explore ideas using an eclectic mix of research methods and disciplines. It brings together research, action research and case studies in order to assist in the transfer of best practice, the development of policy and the creation of theory. Thus, IJEDICT is of interest to a wide-ranging audience of researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, government officers and other professionals involved in education or development in communities throughout the world. The first issue of IJEDICT is due to be published in February 2005. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   GDP Inflation Calculator http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflateGDP.html This is an inflation calculator for adjusting costs from one year to another using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Deflator inflation index. This inflation calculator is based on the inflation rate during the US Government Fiscal Year, which begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. This inflation calculator will compute inflation from 1940 to 2009. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   People Search Links http://www.peoplesearchlinks.com/ People Search Links is the comprehensive guide to finding people free online. There are many ways of finding someone, and they have you covered with plenty of free searches and info. They have also added "Quick Search" pages for those in a hurry, and free personal information searches for those interested in learning more about a person. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   patientINFORM Research Site http://www.patientinform.org/ Scheduled to launch as a pilot project in Spring 2005, patientINFORM is a free, online service dedicated to disseminating original medical research directly to consumers. A collaborative effort of leading voluntary health organizations, scholarly and medical publishers, medical socities, and information professionals, patientINFORM will provide patients and their caregivers with online access to up-to-date, relaiable research for specific diseases. Participating voluntary health organizations will integrate the information into materials created for patients and link to free full-text research articles and additional selected materials on journal websites. 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, March 02, 2005   Become: Be Smart, Be Thrifty, Just Be Become.com - BE Smart, BE Thrifty, Just BE (Buying Guides, Articles, Forums, Reviews, Specs and Related Information To Help You Buy From Across The Web) http://www.become.com/ Have you ever felt frustrated when researching products on the web? Have you ever been unable to determine the product or service that best met your needs? The Become.com research service is dedicated to solving these problems. Their mission is to help you make ideal buying decisions. Their research service enables you to locate valuable (and often hard to find) shopping-related research: buying guides, reviews, articles, specifications, forums, merchants, and a variety of other relevant information. Unlike general purpose search engines, they work to avoid providing you with search results composed of information unrelated to shopping or merchants trying to sell you something. Rather, they direct you to research-related information that helps you best determine what to buy. For topics where very little (if any) research information exists on the web, they provide you with the most relevant links available - including pages from merchants and various sites discussing the topic of interest. To help guide you to the highly relevant research information, they have included "search suggestions" at the bottom of their search results. If your search results don't match your expectations, these suggestions can help you modify your search to better identify results of interest. Refinement options are created by analyzing large numbers of web pages related to your query and identifying key concepts. This has been added to ShoppingBots 2005 Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   10 Things To Know About Evaluating Medical Resources on the Web http://nccam.nih.gov/health/webresources/ The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading. This short guide contains important questions you should consider as you look for health information online. Answering these questions when you visit a new site will help you evaluate the information you find. The questions include: 1) Who runs this site?, 2) Who pays for the site?, 3) What is the purpose of the site?, 4) Where does the information come from?, 5) What is the basis of the information?, 6) How is the information selected?, 7) How current is the information?, 8) How does the site choose links to other sites?, 9) What information about you does the site collect, and why?, and 10) How does the site manage interactions with visitors? This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Survey Reports Corporate Underutilization of Competitive Intelligence http://tinyurl.com/6nnc3 Press Release: U.S. Corporations Misuse or Underuse Competitive Intelligence, Outward Insights Survey Shows: "A majority of U.S. based companies that claim to use competitive intelligence (CI) to guide their decision-making processes either don't use intelligence enough or use it the wrong way. This excludes nearly 30% of companies that don't even have, or don't feel the need for, a CI system, despite today's ultra-competitive environment." [beSpacific February 22, 2005] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=101766 Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications provides a forum for presenting the latest research and technology that unify the fields of parallel processing, distributed computing systems and computer networks. The current advances in processing and networking technology and software have spurred a lot of research interest in network computing, as demonstrated in the federal High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) and the National Information Infrastructure (NII)initiatives. Cluster Computing will uniquely address the latest results in these three fields that support high performance distributed computing over a computer network. This journal will be an important source of information for the growing number of researchers, developers and users of High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) environments. In HPDC environments, parallel and/or distributed computing techniques are applied to the solution of computationally intensive applications across networks of computers. Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   VirtualSalt http://www.virtualsalt.com/ VirtualSalt is a site created and maintained by Robert Harris who is a writer and educator with more than 25 years of teaching experience at the college and university level. Sections include: 1) Internet Related Items, 2) Articles Related To Literature, 3) Article Related To Religion, 4) Integrating Faith and Learning, 5) Articles for Students, 6) Articles For Educators, 7) Tools For Writers, 8) Tools For the Age of Knowledge, 9) Fiction, 10) eTexts, and 11) Other. This is a nice site with some excellent resources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   mSpace - Interaction Model Exploring Relationships In Information http://mpace.fm/ mSpace is an interaction model to help explore relationships in information. mSpace helps people build knowledge from exploring those relationships. mSpace does this by offering several powerful tools for organizing an information space to suit a person's interest: slicing, sorting, swapping, infoViews and preview cues. An mSpace presents several associated categories from an information space, and then lets users manipulate how many of these categories are presented and how they're arranged. In this way, people can organize the information to suit their interests, while concurrently having available to them multiple other complementary paths through that information. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 01, 2005   HubbleSite: Wallpaper HubbleSite - Wallpaper http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/ These are some excellent pictures of various astronomical systems and phenomena from the HubbleSite. Well worth the review and possible image on your computer wallpaper file. To set one of these images as your background, click on the link for your desired image and resolution. Once it has loaded, right-click on the image (control-click on a Macintosh). From the menu, select the option 'Set as Background' or 'Set as Wallpaper.' Neat and easy ..... This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) http://www.iaail.org/ IAAIL is an organization devoted to promoting research and development in the field of AI and and Law with members throughout the world. IAAIL organizes a bi-annual conference (ICAIL), which provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research results and practical applications and stimulates interdisciplinary and international collaboration. \n IAAIL also offers its members an excellent subscription rate to Artificial Intelligence and Law, the premier scholarly journal in the field. which is published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. If you would like to support the continued organization of ICAIL conferences and/or subscribe to the journal, please contact their Secretary. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) http://www.glin.gov/ The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. This has been added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   P2P and the Future of Private Copying by Peter K. Yu, Michigan State University College of Law http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=578568 MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 02-08 University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 76, 2005 Abstract: Since the beginning of the P2P file sharing controversy, commentators have discussed extensively the radical expansion of copyright law, the industry's controversial enforcement tactics, the need for new legislative and business models, the changing social norms, and the evolving interplay of politics and market conditions. Although these discussions have examined in detail the many aspects of the P2P file sharing controversy, none of them focuses on the big picture and explains how these issues fit within the larger P2P file sharing debate. Using a holistic approach, this Article takes on the ambitious task of bringing together existing scholarship while offering some thoughts on the future of private copying. This Article does not seek to offer any new theory or model, which could become obsolete quickly, or even immediately, as digital and P2P technologies advance. Rather, the Article provides guidelines as to how policymakers can craft the "ultimate solution" to the unauthorized copying problem. This Article begins by examining the RIAA's enforcement tactics, developments in copyright law in 2003, and possible challenges the entertainment industry will face in ensuing years. The Article then evaluates critically proposals commentators have put forward to solve the unauthorized copying problem: (1) mass licensing, (2) compulsory licensing, (3) voluntary collective licensing, (4) voluntary contribution, (5) technological protection, (6) copyright law revision, (7) dispute resolution proceeding, and (8) alternative compensation. Acknowledging the short-term and interim nature of many of these proposals, this Article contends that policymakers need to adopt a range of solutions that meet consumer needs while taking into account the Internet's structural resistance and networked feature and the changing social norms in the digital copyright world. This Article concludes by challenging policymakers and commentators to step outside their mental boundaries to rethink the P2P file sharing debate. In the fashion of thought experiments, this Article compares the digital copyright wars to (1) a self-preservation battle between humans and machines, (2) an imaginary World War III, and (3) the conquest of Generation Y. By using these comparisons, this Article demonstrates that policymakers should not focus on legal solutions alone. Instead, they should pay more attention to the market, architecture, and social norms, which play equally important roles in crafting the "ultimate solution" to the unauthorized copying problem. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Legal Research In a Nutshell Links http://www.law.virginia.edu/nutshell This page provides links to websites discussed or mentioned in Morris L. Cohen & Kent C. Olson, Legal Research in a Nutshell, 8th ed. (Thomson West, 2003). It was last modified on February 10, 2005. URLs marked with asterisks have changed since publication of the book. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   PCs Do Thousands of Years of Work By Jo Twist http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4270241.stm World Community Grid http://www.WorldCommunityGrid.org/ "A global network of computer users has clocked up more than 4,000 years' worth of computer calculations in under three months as part of a huge grid project. Since November, thousands have joined the World Community Grid (WCG) which uses idle computer time to help solve serious health and social problems. Over 4,000 "teams" have been running a simple program which processes proteins for the Institute of Systems Biology. The Seattle-based institute is working out the role of proteins in bodies. The calculations completed so far by the thousands of ordinary desktop computers mean that the WCG has done 22% of the total analysis needed for the institute's Human Proteome Folding Project." 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