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

Thursday, June 30, 2005   Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N7 July 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N7 July 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N7.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The July 2005 V3N7 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 35 page .pdf document (678KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features a comprehensive listing of online resources, sources and sites covering areas of Artificial Intelligence . 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 book review covers Introduction To Social Network Methods by Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle. posted by Marcus | 10:24 AM   ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog ChatterBots http://www.ChatterBots.info/ ChatterBots (ChatterBots.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for all forms of ChatterBots. posted by Marcus | 6:17 AM   Social-Informatics Social-Informatics - University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences http://www.social-informatics.org/index.php The notion of social informatics relates to the interaction between society and ICT (information-communication technologies). In its broadest sense it covers: 1) the social consequences of ICT at micro (e.g. social aspects of ICT applications at personal and organisational level) as well as at macro level (e.g. information society studies), 2) the application of ICT in the area of social sciences, and 3) the use of ICT as a tool for studying social phenomena (within social science methodology). This university sites has the following social informatics categories: a) Journals, b) Study Programs, c) Associations, d) Research Centres, e) Blogs, and f) Forum. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Life Organizers http://lifeorganizers.com/ LifeOrganizers.com is a rich resource of office and home organizing articles, tips, and fresh, easy ideas on how to get rid of clutter from every part of your life... from the garage to your filing cabinet to your spiritual matters! They show you how to organize anything and everything! Get organized completely with them – read one article a day, put one suggestion into action a day. With their help, you will enjoy how harmony and a delicious sense of control can emerge from the clutter of your surroundings. Yes, it can be done. And you can do it with their help! posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Insider Pages http://www.insiderpages.com/ At Insider Pages, they believe the best way to find a local business is to ask a friend. So they have created a free service that lets friends connect online and share recommendations on local businesses. As a member of Insider Pages, you'll be able to find the perfect hair stylist, restaurant, plumber, doctor, or any other business imaginable with just a few clicks of your mouse. And you'll know that you can trust the recommendations that you find because they're written by your friends (or sometimes, your friends' friends). Simply put, it's like having the Yellow Pages filled with your friends' recommendations. Insider Pages was founded in 2004 and is located in Pasadena, California. The company is wholly owned and funded by Idealab, whose mission is to turn innovative ideas into successful technology businesses. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, June 29, 2005   Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Business Intelligence Resources http://www.BIResources.info/ Business Intelligence Resources (BIResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for business intelligence. posted by Marcus | 11:18 AM   The Best Brands of the World http://web.brandsoftheworld.com/ Brandsoftheworld.com is World's one of the most visited web sites intended for browsing and exchange of the World's famous brand-logos. The primary use of site is to enable designers to access vector-forms of the well-known brand-logos that they can use in their presentations, given the permission of the copyright owner. The web site also enables designers to upload their own works and professional details. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List http://snipurl.com/fpu4 This is the Updated for 2005 Version of Scott Hanselman's Original Tools List and subsumes all his other lists. New Entries to the Ultimate Tools are in Red and many entries have been updated. The utils have also been organized into Categories. This has been added to the tools section of my Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Guidelines for Business Etiquette http://www.executiveplanet.com/ Executive Planet™ provides valuable tips on business etiquette, customs and protocol for doing business worldwide. Their guides are co-authored by experts in international business etiquette, who are available to answer your questions on the discussion board. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, June 28, 2005   Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Bot Research http://www.BotResearch.info/ Bot Research (BotResearch.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for bot and intelligent agent research posted by Marcus | 11:49 AM   The SocialPhysics Initiative http://www.socialphysics.org/ SocialPhysics is a new program affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School. The SocialPhysics initiative has two primary goals: 1. Create a robust, multi-disciplinary, multi-constituency community for addressing, vetting and conducting experiments in such issues as privacy, authentication, reputation, transparency, trust building and information exchange. 2. Develop a reusable, open source software framework based on the Eclipse platform that provides identity and social network related services; and leverage this framework to provide a platform for trusted exchange. Framework capabilities include: * Ability to manage and protects an individual's profile and social network data within their multiple social and professional contexts * Ability to capture and organizes profile and relationship data from existing communications and transaction systems via plug-ins, integrates with directory and identity systems via plug-ins * Ability to discover other groups and individuals based on shared affinities Currently we are in our start-up phase and are in sponsorship discussions with a number of academic, industry and government communities. Code for the open source software platform and an initial identity management / social networking application are under development. The code is not yet ready for public release. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   HousingMaps HousingMaps http://www.housingmaps.com/ HousingMaps powered by craigslist and Google Maps! Drag the map with your mouse, or double-click to center. Click on an icon to select a city. In each city, click on the and icons to see listings. You can also click the and icons next to each listing. Yellow icons have pictures. Set the price range using the drop-down menu. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Five Steps To Multimedia Reporting Five Steps To Multimedia Reporting http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/ This site is for reporters to learn how to do multimedia stories. Novices, start with "Choosing a Story" icon. To brush up on skills, choose a tutorial from the menu. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, June 27, 2005   Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Biological Informatics http://www.BiologicalInformatics.info/ Biological Informatics (BiologicalInformatics.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for biological informatics (health informatics, neuroinformatics, biodiversity informatics and biomolecular informatics). posted by Marcus | 4:25 PM   Random.org - True Random Number Service http://random.org/ Random.org offers true random numbers to anyone on the internet. If you want to know how the numbers are made and what it is that makes them true, read the introduction to randomness and random numbers. All numbers are tested statistically and the results available in real-time. The easiest way is to use a web form to generate random integers (with duplicates, like dice rolls), randomized sequences (without duplicates, like lottery tickets) or raw random bytes. You can also flip virtual coins and generate random bitmaps. People are using the numbers for all sorts of things. Random.org has also been in Science News, the New York Times, Focus, Wired Magazine and on Danish National Radio. Thid has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 PM   The OSSwin Project: Open Source for Windows The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ Within this document, you should be able to find free open source software which is able to replace much of the proprietary software most Windows-users use nowadays. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Rico - JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications http://openrico.org/ An open-source JavaScript library for creating rich internet applications. Rico provides full Ajax supprt, drag and drop management and a cinematic effects library. Rico is a Spanish word meaning rich. The goal of Rico is to provide a rich experience for web sites using Ajax technology. Rico is just one small part of a larger effort at Sabre Airline Solutions to create a suite of rich internet components, behaviors and effects for the web application space. The library is a fully object-oriented JavaScript library. Recently we refactored the library to extend the excellent prototype.js effort from the Ruby on Rails folks. Rico is provide free and open-source (Apache 2.0 License) for either your personal or commercial use. Sabre Airline Solutions retains the copyright on the Rico code produced at Sabre. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, June 26, 2005   July 2005 Zillman Column - Military Resources July 2005 Zillman Column - Military Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Military Resources July05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The July 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Military Resources. This July column is a comprehensive listing of military resources and sources on the World Wide Web. Download this excellent 12 page free .pdf (314KB) column today. © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 11:19 AM   Permaculture 1) The Permaculture Research Institute http://www.permaculture.org.au/ 2) National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Introduction to Permaculture http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/perma.html 3) Permaculture.Net http://www.permaculture.net/ 4) Permaculture Magazine: Articles http://www.permaculture.co.uk/mag/Articles/Articles_Menu.html 5) La'akea Permaculture Gardens: Permaculture Forum http://www.permaculture-hawaii.com/forum.html 6) Organic Volunteers: Permaculture Hosts http://www.organicvolunteers.com/farm_finder.asp?Mode=2&host_type=6 7) Permaculture International Limited: Internship Opportunities http://www.permacultureinternational.org/globaldirectory/internship/aboutinternships.htm Since the concept of permaculture was introduced by biogeographer Bill Mollison in the 1970s, it has attracted increasing interest from agriculturalists, designers, ecologists, and others. The Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) describes permaculture as "the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. It is also the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability and resilience of natural ecosystems." In addition to this definition of permaculture, the PRI website (1) contains a collection of related articles, a Discussion Forum, an annotated Photo Gallery, and brief descriptions of several recommended books. For those looking for more basic information about permaculture, the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (ATTRA) offers an online (2) Introduction to Permaculture. As implied by its title, this ATTRA website provides brief, introductory information about Permaculture, as well as a great selection of links to related resources. The Permaculture.Net website (3) offers several services to those interested in learning more about permaculture including a Courses & Internships Database, a Resource List of related websites, information about the American Permaculture Directory, and an assortment of permaculture definitions "from experts in the field." The next website (4), from _Permaculture Magazine_ offers a selection of gratis online articles. For those looking to engage in some online permaculture-related conversations, the La'akea Permaculture Gardens website (5) hosts a Permaculture Forum. The final two websites, from Organic Volunteers (6) and Permaculture International Limited (PRI) (7), provide information about permaculture-practicing farms and other organizations that offer a variety of hands-on opportunities to learn about permaculture. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Web Tools 2005 Web Tools 2005 http://www.virtualchase.com/trainers/web_tools.html Genie Tyburski presented this with Gary Price at the June 2005 SLA conference. Web Tools 2005 presents software utilities and Web-based resources useful in conducting or managing research. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Open Source Web Information Retrieval (OSWIR05) http://www.emse.fr/OSWIR05/ The World Wide Web has grown to be a primary source of information for millions of people. Due to the size of the Web, search engines have become the major access point for this information. However, "commercial" search engines use hidden algorithms that put the integrity of their results in doubt, so there is a need for some open source Web search engines. On the other hand, the Information Retrieval (IR) research community has a long history of developing ideas, models and techniques for finding results in data sources, but finding one's way through all of them is not an easy task. Moreover their applicability to the Web search domain is uncertain. The goal of the workshop is to survey the fundamentals of the IR domain and to determine the techniques, tools, or models that are applicable to Web search. Presentations should include either strong arguments or report results supported by large-scale experiments that demonstrate the applicability of the technique to the Web domain as well as its advantage over similar techniques. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to: . Information Retrieval Models and Matching Function Models - vector space, probabilistic, Boolean models and their extensions - passage retrieval - normalization . Utilities for IR - relevance feedback - clustering - indexing entities (N-grams, words, stemming, stop word removal, compound nouns, named entities, concepts, etc.) - statistical regression - query expansion (e.g. with thesaurus) - natural language processing (syntactical analysis, etc.) - disambiguation . Web (and hypertext) particulars - links - anchors - HTML and/or XML structure - document identification (URL) - duplicates - hidden documents - dynamic documents - site . Evaluation of models . User Interface - Query language - Results presentation This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, June 25, 2005   SubEthaEdit - Collaborative Text Editing http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ SubEthaEdit is a powerful and lean text editor. And it's the only collaborative one you can actually use. By combining the ease of Bonjour with the world's best text collaboration engine, it makes working together not only possible but even fun. Looking for a text editor that is designed by people actually caring about Human Interface Guidelines? A nice way to edit your HTML files? Or a way to work together on code, texts or notes? Be sure to check out SubEthaEdit. While originally designed for coding together, its collaboration features have also proven to be quite useful for teaching, note-taking (e.g. at conferences) and co-writing text. Imagine meetings with collaborative minute taking or writing your TV/film script or book together with your co-authors. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Academic Commons http://www.academiccommons.org/ With Academic Commons, they seek to form a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education. Academic Commons aims to share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology. If successful, this site will advance opportunities for collaborative design, open development, and rigorous peer critique of such resources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject T5racer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Auction Resources http://www.AuctionResources.info/ Auction Resources (AuctionResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for auction resources posted by Marcus | 4:02 AM   AMSER - Applied Math and Science Education Repository http://amser.org/ The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program aims to build and sustain a national digital library that supports science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. NSDL funded projects form an integrated network of STEM learning environments and resources for a wide variety of learners, all the way from children in grade school up through graduate students and life long learners. One set of links of particular importance in this educational chain are community and technical colleges, which train a significant percentage of our workforce and often act as a bridge between public schooling and baccalaureate education. To help bring NSDL to these students, as well as educators and others from community and technical colleges, the Internet Scout Project, located in the Computer Sciences department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, along with MERLOT, the American Association of Community Colleges, and other project partners, is being funded by the National Science Foundation to create the Applied Mathematics and Science Education Repository (AMSER), a collaborative NSDL Pathways project designed to help meet the resource and service needs of community and technical colleges and forge a link between these communities and the NSDL. AMSER will consist of a focused metadata repository and a variety of integrated services designed specifically to enhance the learning experience of the community college students and the teaching capabilities of instructors at those institutions. AMSER will create an ideal environment for success: a network of collaborating community college partners, an advisory board with members from all key sectors, a strong existing relationship with the NSDL CI and NSDL community, along with the Internet Scout Project's own expertise in resource discovery and online service development. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, June 24, 2005   World Book Online Reference Center http://www.aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/ World Book Online Reference Center: The premier online reference source--containing every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more. With state-of-the art multimedia, editor-reviewed Web sites, and more! World Book Research Libraries: Primary and core source collections--books, documents, selections--in major subject areas. Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos: Basic Spanish-language encyclopedia for elementary and middle grades. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   AllStarJobs http://www.allstarjobs.com/ AllStarjobs.com was introduced in July 2000 as a directory of career resources for jobs seekers. Since then, we have grown to over 53,000 links including employment agencies, job banks, classifieds, resume writing, career fairs, employers who post jobs to there web site and much more! Our free service has been appreciated by millions, and is the career resource of choice for employment services, college career counselors & other agencies that serve job seekers. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Astronomy Resources http://www.AstronomyResources.info/ Astronomy Resources (AstronomyResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for astronomical resources. posted by Marcus | 4:02 AM   10M RDF Triples http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/126/ A colleague has been testing the scalablilty of a triple store using synthetic triples. He asked if we could package up a large collection of real tiples caught in the wild by Swoogle. After talking a bit, it was decided that having them as a simple SQL database dump would be the most convenient form. This SQL database dump contains a table that of about 10.4M RDF triples extracted from the Swoogle cache on June 15, 2005. The size of the compressed file is 162M and when uncompressed its size is 1.7G. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, June 23, 2005   Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (CCCSIR) http://www.cccsir.org/ Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non profit organization established to promote Carl Couch's scholarship in sociological and communication inquiries--the Iowa school qualitative laboratory research and Couch's work on information technologies. The center provides networking opportunities and corroboration information for students and scholars who conduct social and Internet research, inspired by Couch's work. By promoting interdisciplinary exchanges, the center seeks to engage the scholars, citizens, and industry partners in social and Internet research. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Minds and Machines http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=100314 Minds and Machines affords an international forum for the discussion and debate of important and controversial issues concerning significant developments within its areas of editorial focus. Well-reasoned contributions from diverse theoretical perspectives are welcome and every effort will be made to ensure their prompt publication. Among the features that make this journal distinctive within the field are these: * Strong stands on controversial issues are especially encouraged * Important articles exceeding normal journal length may appear * Special issues devoted to specific topics are a regular feature * Critical responses to previously published pieces are invited * Review essays discussing current problem situations will appear. This journal fosters a tradition of criticism within the AI and philosophical communities on problems and issues of common concern. Its scope explicitly encompasses philosophical aspects of computer science. All submissions will be subject to review. Editorial Focus includes: Machines and Mentality - Knowledge and Its Representation - Epistemic Aspects of Computer Programming - Connectionist Conceptions - Artificial Intelligence and Epistemology - Computer Methodology - Computational Approaches to Philosophical Issues - Philosophy of Computer Science - Simulation and Modelling - Ethical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Artificial Intelligence Resources http://www.AIResources.info/ Artificial Intelligence Resources (AIResources.info)is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for artificial intelligence resources. posted by Marcus | 4:02 AM   Journal of Management Education http://jme.sagepub.com/ Comprehensive Coverage Created over two decades ago to meet the growing demand for research, analysis and discussions on teaching management and organizational behaviour, the Journal of Management Education serves as a forum for the improvement of management education in both classroom and corporate settings, comprehensively covering such diverse areas as: human resources · organizational behaviour · public administration · management consultation · entrepreneurship · organizational communication · production and operations · industrial and labour relations. The Journal of Management Education explores the methods and theories behind management and organizational behaviour education. The journal''s reflective and informative nature makes it an ideal source for teaching exercises, ideas and strategies. Its experienced editorial board ensure readers receive a variety of relevant topics and key issues, including: Field Projects and Internships ·Classroom Participation · Student-Generated Examinations · Humour and Teaching · Role-Playing and Simulations · Gender Issues · Research Versus Practice · Business Ethics · Sex, Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes · Active Listening · Co-Teaching · Student Evaluation · Curriculum Development · Organizational Culture · International Perspectives · Writing-to-Learn · Case Methods. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, June 22, 2005   The Social Fabric http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/s.blyth/thesis/ Your social network explored through a visual language. The Social Fabric is a representation of your social world, displayed as a single visual array on your mobile phone. It does not replace your address book or calendar but keeps you subtly informed about which relationships are prospering, which you have neglected, and the overall state of your social fabric. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Agriculture Resources http://www.AgricultureResources.info/ Agriculture Resources (AgricultureResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for agriculture resources which are listed below. posted by Marcus | 4:02 AM   Yotophoto - Find Free Photos http://yotophoto.com/ Yotophoto is a search engine for images whose copyright owners allow their works to be used by others. The images are available for personal or commercial use, often with minor conditions. Designers, bloggers, graphic artists and other creative types will get the most use out of this site, but the general public may also find it useful. They can help you find everything from desktop wallpapers to source images for your next website. This has been added to the search engines section of the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. This has been added to the resiuyrce section of my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM   International Journal of Medical Microbiology http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14384221 Pathogen genome sequencing projects have provided a wealth of data that need to be set in context to pathogenicity and the outcome of infections. In addition, the interplay between a pathogen and its host cell has become increasingly important to understand and interfere with diseases caused by microbial pathogens. IJMM meets these needs by focussing on genome and proteome analyses, studies dealing with the molecular mechanisms of pathogenicity and the evolution of pathogenic agents, the interactions between pathogens and host cells ("cellular microbiology"), and molecular epidemiology. To help the reader keeping up with the rapidly evolving new findings in the field of medical microbiology, IJMM publishes original articles, case studies and topical, state-of-the-art mini-reviews in a well balanced fashion. All articles are strictly peer-reviewed. Important topics are reinforced by 2 special issues per year dedicated to a particular theme. Finally, at irregular intervals, current opinions on recent or future developments in medical microbiology are presented in an editorial section. Audience: Bacteriologists, mycologists, microbiologists, parasitologists, infectiologists, molecular biologists, cell biologists. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, June 21, 2005   Journal of Research in International Education http://jri.sagepub.com/ The Journal of Research in International Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal in international education published in collaboration with the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) and its partner schools, examiners and higher education institutions throughout the world. The Journal of Research in International Education seeks to advance the understanding and significance of international education. It sets out to undertake a rigorous consideration of the educational implications of the fundamental relationship between human unity and human diversity that 'education for international understanding' requires. The JRIE encourages an approach to research in international education that will close the gap between the well established emergent theory and diverse practice throughout the world. In this context, international education is concerned with the promotion of education for international understanding and human rights, and may include peace education, global education and intercultural education. Authors may address, for example, the curriculum, institutional concerns, the history of education, policy and pedagogy at all levels. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=112056 Early Science and Medicine is an international quarterly dedicated to the history of science, medicine and technology from the earliest times through to the eighteenth century. The need to treat in a single journal all aspects of scientific activity and thought to the eighteenth century is due to two factors: to the continued importance of ancient sources throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and to the comparably low degree of specialization and the high degree of disciplinary interdependence characterizing the period before the rofessionalization of science. The journal, which limits itself to the Western, Byzantine and Arabic traditions, is particularly interested in emphasizing these elements of continuity and interconnectedness, and it encourages their diachronic study from a variety of viewpoints, including commented text editions and monographic studies of historical figures and scientific questions or practices. Early Science and Medicine, which contains an extended book review section, has recently also begun to dedicate special feature sections to emerging historiographic fields and methods of research. The main language of the journal is English, though contributions in French and German are also accepted. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Science Research Science Research Internet Web Portal http://www.ScienceResearch.com/ Deep Web Technologies, a provider of search technology software and solutions, has announced the launch of the Beta version of ScienceResearch.com. ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available Internet Web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. ScienceResearch.com is designed to allow students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access information from both public and private research journals and databases via a single portal. Powered by DWT's proprietary Explorit deep Web search engine, a single query will search thousands of journals and databases, and millions of documents in real-time. Additionally, powered by DWT's proprietary QuickRank technology, the results are ranked by relevance on a single results page. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources annotated white paper. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, June 20, 2005   YourDictionary.com http://www.yourdictionary.com/ YourDictionary.com is a language products and services company that maintains the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, games that build language skills, and a forum (The Agora) for discussing language issues with the logophile community. More than 1,000,000 people a month visit their website. As Editor & Publisher recently put it, yourDictionary.com "defines the state of the art and . . . is making a powerful bid to anchor the reference shelf in the new millennium." This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   AbiWord Free Word Processing Program http://www.abisource.com/ AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth. AbiWord has been created by a worldwide group of volunteers and currently supports many languages and operating systems. AbiWord is GNU Free Software software, which means that you will always have the freedom to use it, make copies of it, and improve it. You are encouraged to make use of these freedoms and share the program with your family and friends! Like most Open Source projects, AbiWord started as a cathedral, but has become more like a bazaar. AbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the project's word processor. AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Web-Wise 2005: Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_6/index.html Web-Wise 2005: Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources. Web-Wise 2005 brought together library and museum professionals, educators, and other experts to discuss the best ways to integrate digital resources in the classroom. This special issue brings together papers presented in February in Washington, D.C. on many recent developments in the integration of digital content into educational practices. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Bahrain Tenders http://www.bahrainenquiries.com/ Bahrain Tenders provides you with the latest business information on Projects, Tenders, Enquiries and Business Deals in the Bahrain. The people at Bahrain Tenders have indepth knowledge and experience about the local market and can assist you to develop your business in Bahrain. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Report on W3C Rule Languages Workshop Published http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/report/ http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/ http://www.w3.org/2005/04/swrules-pressrelease The report on the W3C Rule Languages Workshop is now available. Over eighty representatives from various vendors, user communities, and research groups attended and reported on their views, experience, and ideas on options for establishing a standard web-based language for expressing rules. More information is available from the Workshop Web site and the press release. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/ Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post. Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don't want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office. The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you're doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn't help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven't yet decided how it applies to bloggers. But here's the important part: None of this should stop you from blogging. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn't use the law to stifle legitimate free expression. That's why EFF created this guide, compiling a number of FAQs designed to help you understand your rights and, if necessary, defend your freedom. To be clear, this guide isn't a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice. Only an attorney who knows the details of your particular situation can provide the kind of advice you need if you're being threatened with a lawsuit. The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected. This has been added to the resources of my presentation Bots Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, June 19, 2005   Public School Finance 1) RAND Review: Who Is Accountable for Education If Everybody Fails? http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/spring2005/ulttest.html 2) Public Education Network: Gross Inequities, Confused Priorities http://www.publiceducation.org/connections/fall04/darling-hammond.asp 3) CPRE: School Funding Formulas http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/cpre/finance/related/general/ 4) NCES: Education Finance Statistics Center http://nces.ed.gov/edfin/ 5) ECS: State Links for School Finance http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/61/01/6101.htm 6) NCES: Students' Classroom http://www.nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp?flash=true 7) New American Schools: Resource Reallocations http://www.naschools.org/contentViewer.asp?highlightID=8&catID=171 8) Suppose There Was a World Bank for Education http://www.aefa.cc/conf2005/HeynemanSpeech.pdf This issue of Topic in Depth explores some of the resources available online regarding school finance. The first article from the RAND Review (1) discusses the challenges involved in meeting the ambitious goals established by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and the need to develop a school accountability system that can provide "the incentives and resources that the schools really need to help all students meet the state performance standards." In the second article (2), Linda Darling-Hammond, a Professor at Stanford University discusses the inequality of school funding across the US, again using California as an example. This website from CPRE (3) offers several articles that explain how school finance in the US works. The NCES Education Finance Statistics Center (4) is also a hub for information on public elementary/secondary education finance, including finance data on school districts nationwide. The Education Commission of the States (ECS) (5) offers this listing of state finance agencies for more state-specific information. Students can explore the topic further using this educational website from NCES (6). A collection of reports available through New American Schools (7) highlights one approach to the problem of school finance, namely resource reallocation. Taking yet another tactic, the author of this last article (8) proposes "a 'World Bank' for American education.[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   Biodiversity Informatics - Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal http://jbi.nhm.ku.edu/index.php Biodiversity Informatics is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that covers the emerging field of biodiversity informatics. BI welcomes papers regarding aspects of the creation, management, analysis, interpretation, and understanding of information regarding biodiversity. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   DataFerrett - Data Mining Tool http://dataferrett.census.gov/ DataFerrett is a data mining tool that accesses data stored in TheDataWeb through the internet. DataFerrett can be installed as an application on your desktop or use a java applet with an internet browser. DataFerrett is compatible with Windows operating systems: 95, 98, 2000, NT, ME and XP. DataFerrett is a unique data mining and extraction tool. DataFerrett allows you to select a databasket full of variables and then recode those variables as you need. You can then develop and customize tables. Selecting your results in your table you can create a chart or graph for a visual presentation into an html page. Save your data in the databasket and save your table for continued reuse. DataFerrett helps you locate and retrieve the data you need across the Internet to your desktop or system, regardless of where the data resides. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The National Agriculture Law Center http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/ In 1987, Congress recognized the University of Arkansas School of Law for its "unique expertise in the area of agricultural law" and called for the creation of the National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information at the Law School. Since then, the National AgLaw Center has been funded with federal appropriations through the National Agricultural Library, an entity within the USDA Agricultural Research Service. The National AgLaw Center is the only agricultural and food law research and information facility that is independent, national in scope, and directly connected to the national agricultural information network. The Center conducts objective legal research and provides timely, accurate, and non-partisan agricultural and food law information to those in the agricultural community. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   PPTools -- PowerTools for PowerPoint PowerUsers http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/index.html Try the FREE PPTools Starter Set, which includes lots of useful tools to speed your work with PowerPoint. Then expand your PowerPointPossibilities with these other useful and inexpensive PowerPoint Productivity boosting add-ins. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids http://kids.ithaki.net/ Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary & KidsClick!. Ithaki is a metasearch engine, it finds quickly the best web sites because it searches at once the top search engines and guides for kids, then ranks the results according to an internal ranking to make sure you get the exactly what you're looking for. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, June 18, 2005   E-learning Practice and Research http://elearnpracticeresearch.blogspot.com/ This weblog is part of a research effort on behalf of the author which is aimed at discovering current information regarding the 'state of the art' of e-learning in terms of actual practice and research in higher education at the institutional, college/school/department and individual classroom levels. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Digital Deliberations Journal http://dd.digitalprof.net/ A management sceince scholarly journal in digital form. The primary purpose of this journal is to spur new developments in publications by displaying complimentary combinations of scholarly content and digital technologies. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   wikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit http://wiki.ehow.com/ wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual. With your contributions, they can create a free resource that helps people by offering clear, concise solutions to the problems of everyday life. Please join them by writing a new page, or editing a page that someone else has started. This has been added to Internet Experts Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Literary Encyclopedia http://www.litencyc.com/ This publication is being written by more than a thousand scholars, nearly all currently teaching in universities in the English-speaking world. It is unusual in that it is collectively owned by its editors and writers; in this respect, as in many others, it incarnates the ideals of openness and modernity of the medium in which it is produced while also bringing to it the kind of disciplinary rigour associated with the established tradition of printed reference works. Because they are a scholarly collective, you will find gaps in their coverage which annoy may you, but you will also find the kinds of information and engagement which are found in no other reference work in the world. They have no boundaries and prejudices beyond a commitment to clear writing and scholarly understanding. They seek to embrace and understand all literatures published in English. The publication was is edited by a distinguished international team. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Infortmation Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   SchoolTool Project http://www.schooltool.org/ SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence. SchoolTool's vision is for a common information systems platform for school administration from California to Calcutta, via Cape Town! They hope to provide a single tool that will be readily adapted to the specific regulatory requirements and practices of different countries and regions, but that retains enough common functionality to make a shared development effort worthwhile. The SchoolTool will be freely available under an Open Source licence, and commercial editions with additional functionality might also be available if 3rd party developers wish to build commercial products on top of the universal platform. SchoolTool will draw members of the education community: staff, students, parents, alumni and administrators into a tight-knit community with instant access to relevant information. SchoolTool will not depend on a technology-intensive environment, but in those schools with broad and deep access to technology in the form of computers, laptops, PDA's, cellphones and wireless pagers, SchoolTool will leverage those forms of communication and devices to deliver the right information to the right person at the right time. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   SharpMail - Anonymous eMail and SMS http://sharpmail.co.uk/ Ever wanted to send a anonymous email to your friend that appears as if it came from the future? or maybe you just wanted to let a work colleague think he might be getting a promotion. Then you have come to the right place. Send a anonymous email and you specify the "From :" field. What address they think the anonymous email is from is up to you! Now with anonymous SMS Text Message facility! Text your mates mobile/cell phone from any name or number! This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, June 17, 2005   30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet by Dan Tynan from the July 2005 issue of PC World Magazine http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,120784,00.asp So you think you have the Web all figured out? Well, think again. Did you know that you could charter a private jet online, star in your own reality TV show, or download songs as you drive your car? That's just the beginning. You can tell your boss a few unpleasant truths without revealing your identity and sniff out trends before your oh-so-hip friends get wind of them. Using the right sites, you can give Google a face-lift, promote your products or bloviate about your blog, publish a novel, write a business plan, scan your PC for spies, and get free tech help. You can even use the Web to uncover government secrets and to predict your own demise. (Those last two activities will be unrelated, they hope.) Best of all, most of these sites won't charge you a dime. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   EVDB - The Events & Venues Database http://evdb.com/ EVDB helps people find relevant events and share their discoveries with others. They are building a worldwide repository of event and venue data that the whole world can use. Their goal is to help people discover all kinds of events they might have otherwise missed, and to profitably be the best at what we do. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   LOCKSS http://www.lockss.org/ Seven million pages of new information are added to the world-wide-web each day. Websites are becoming the version of record for many scientific journals. As a result, academic libraries are faced with the urgent problem of creating online collections with the staying power of traditional hardcopy books and journals. Information stored on paper can survive for millennia; information stored digitally today may not be recoverable next week. For librarians whose mission is to build collections and transmit today's intellectual, cultural, and historical output to the future, this is fast becoming a nightmare. The LOCKSS Program, initiated by Stanford University Libraries, is coming to their aid. LOCKSS (for "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") is open source software that provides librarians with an easy and inexpensive way to collect, store, preserve, and provide access to their own, local copy of authorized content they purchase. Running on standard desktop hardware and requiring almost no technical administration, LOCKSS converts a personal computer into a digital preservation appliance, creating low-cost, persistent, accessible copies of e-journal content as it is published. Since pages in these appliances are never flushed, the local community's access to that content is safeguarded. Accuracy and completeness of LOCKSS appliances is assured through a robust and secure, peer-to-peer polling and reputation system. LOCKSS provides benefits to libraries, publishers and researchers, while capitalizing on their traditional roles. Libraries: 1) Can easily and affordably create, preserve, and archive local electronic collections; 2) Own rather than lease electronic information; 3) Retain traditional custodial role of scholarly information; and 4) Provide continuing and perpetual access to their local community. Publishers: 1) Can easily and affordably provide content to the libraries for preservation and archiving with minimal risk to their business models or to their publishing platforms; 2) Ensure perpetual access to their materials; 3) Fulfill librarians' requirements that publishers guarantee both continuing (day to day) and perpetual (very long-term) access to purchased content. Researchers and Journal Readers: 1) Can access archived and newly published content transparently at its original URLs; 2) Can use existing search engines to transparently locate archived content; and 3) Need not be aware that LOCKSS exists in order to take advantage of it. Currently, more than 80 libraries and 50 publishers from around the world are using the software. In addition, the Stanford LOCKSS team is collaborating with institutions through the LOCKSS Alliance to further collection, technical, and community development. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   New York Daily News RSS Feeds http://www.nydailynews.com/services/rss/ RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, are feeds that allow users to view a site's content without visiting that site directly. The Daily News Web site is now offering RSS feeds for users who wish to take advantage of them. Once you have an RSS reader in place, it will alert you to new content in the Daily News RSS feeds that you have copy-and-pasted into your reader. This will be added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   NASA Hurricane Resource Site http://www.nasa.gov/hurricane NASA launched an Internet resource page highlighting the agency's diverse hurricane research. The site opens just in time for the 2005 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1 through November 30. The Web page is a compilation of data from various satellites and computer models, and it explains why and how NASA investigates hurricanes. It also covers the relationship of NASA's research focus as compared to other agencies' operational emphasis. The site provides access to data about active hurricanes and famous past storms. Users can search by hurricane topic, such as how storms are formed; how they are measured; and how they affect land or ocean life. The multimedia section of the site features animation, satellite, video, and still images of hurricanes. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Leo's Icon Archive http://www.iconarchive.com/ The Icon Archive is a collection of desktop icon sets of over 10,000 high quality icons in gif & ico format. View the icons or download the original packages of icon sets for PC (zip) or MAC (sit/hqx) provided by the authors with all original readme files. Pay attention to the readme files before using the icons! This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, June 16, 2005   The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/ The John W. Kluge Center occupies inspirational and capacious study and meeting spaces within the Library's magnificently restored Thomas Jefferson Building. The Center seeks to bring a group of the world's best senior thinkers - the Kluge Scholars - into residence, to stimulate, energize, and distill wisdom from the rich resources of the Library and to interact naturally over a period of time with political Washington. There is great flexibility in the interaction between the scholars and Members of Congress within the Jefferson Building, where lawmakers find a haven for serious discourse only a short walk from the Capitol. This has been added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Unofficial Web Applications List http://www.webapplist.com/index.html This site is dedicated to the growing volume of web applications out there. Categories include: 1) Business, 2) Communication, 3) Conversion, 4) Design, 5) Education, 6) Games, 7) Language, 8) Networking, 9) Productivity, 10) Programming, 11) RSS/Atom, 12) Security, 13) Webmaster, and 14) Others. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   OpenCyc - Open Source General KnowledgeBase and Commonsense Reasoning Engine http://www.cyc.com/cyc/opencyc OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. Cycorp set up an independent organization, OpenCyc.org, to disseminate and administer OpenCyc, and have committed to a pipeline through which all current and future Cyc technology will flow into ResearchCyc (available for R&D in academia and industry) and then OpenCyc. Release 1.0 of OpenCyc will include: 1) 6,000 concepts: an upper ontology for all of human consensus reality. 2) 60,000 assertions about the 6,000 concepts, interrelating them, constraining them, in effect (partially) defining them. 3) A compiled version of the Cyc Inference Engine and the Cyc Knowledge Base Browser. 4) A suite of tools for rapidly extracting knowledge from a domain expert, such as a physician or an oil drilling specialist. 5) Documentation and self-paced learning materials to help users achieve a basic- to intermediate-level understanding of the issues of knowledge representation and application development using Cyc. 6) A specification of CycL, the language in which Cyc (and hence OpenCyc) is written. There are CycL-to-Lisp, CycL-to-C, etc. translators. 7) A specification of the Cyc API, by calling which a programmer can build an OpenCyc application with very little familiarity with CycL or with the OpenCyc KB. 8) The ability to import and export CycML files. 9) A few sample programs that demonstrate use of the Cyc API for application development. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Journal of Competition Law and Economics http://jcle.oxfordjournals.org/ A prestigious new journal dedicated to competition law and policy, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics publishes articles of a substantial length providing in-depth analysis of developments in competition law, including developments in the US and EU but also covering other regional and national developments. The journal also publishes economic papers relevant to legal theory and practice. While incorporating rigorous economic analysis, these papers address economic issues in a manner readily understandable by lawyers and policy-makers. The Journal of Competition Law and Economics is intended for academics, practitioners (law firms, economic consultancies), graduate and post-graduate students, policy-makers, and competition authorities. This has been added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Rates of Computer and Internet Use by Children in Nursery School and Students in Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade: 2003 http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005111 This Issue Brief describes the percentage of students in grades 12 or below who used computers or the Internet in 2003. The Brief highlights the fact that computer and Internet use is commonplace and begins early. Even before kindergarten, a majority of children in nursery school use computers and, and 23 percent use the Internet. This has been added to Internet Demographics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev.html A comprehensive listing of U.S. Government abbreviations and acronyms and when possible the links go directly to the official website for the agency or program listed. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, June 15, 2005   Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: The Future of the Internet - Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. The Miami Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development 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/ Manage Information Overload http://www.ManageInformationOverload.info/ The latest research shows that when prospects search for your company on the Internet, the top 10 listings are likely to include the following: a) 3 listings from consumer posts to blogs, message boards, and opinion sites, b) 2 listings from experts, c) 2 listings from your own corporate site, d) 1 listing from an online publication, and e) 2 listings from other sources. This confirms the need for immediate business intelligence to constantly monitor and evaluate the prospects ongoing searching results for your company, brand, and product. 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 discussing these new resources about 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: 5:30pm - 8:30pm Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Location: Miami ASTD Chapter Monthly Meeting - Miami Airport Marriott, 1201 N.W. LeJeune Rd., Miami, FL posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   International Development Research Centre (IDRC) http://www.idrc.ca/ Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC, the Centre) is one of the world’s leading institutions in the generation and application of new knowledge to meet the challenges facing developing countries. IDRC funds applied research by researchers from developing countries on the problems they identify as crucial to their communities. It also provides technical support to those researchers. IDRC builds local capacity in developing countries to undertake research and create innovations, believing that people from developing countries must take the lead in producing and applying knowledge for the benefit of their own communities. IDRC also fosters alliances and knowledge sharing between scientific, academic, and development communities in Canada and developing countries. The mission of IDRC remains “Empowerment through Knowledge,” i.e. to promote interaction, and foster a spirit of cooperation and mutual learning within and among social groups, nations and societies through the creation, and adaptation of the knowledge that the people of developing countries judge to be of greatest relevance to their own prosperity, security and equity. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Jetable.org - Anti-Spam Solution http://www.jetable.org/en/index To avoid spam, jetable.org provides you with a temporary email address. As soon as it is created, all the emails sent to this address are forwarded to your actual email address. Your antispam address will be deactivated after the lifespan you selected comes to its end. jetable.org IS NOT an anonymous email service ... email headers are not modified and they keep the logs of this service. This has been added to the anti-spam section of Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   MediaPortal - Turns Your PC Into Advanced Multi-Media Center and OpenSource! http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/ MediaPortal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/nopes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs! This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Mathematical Atlas: A gateway to Mathematics http://www.math-atlas.org/ The Mathematical Atlas is a collection of articles about aspects of mathematics at and above the university level, but (usually) not at the level of current research. The goal of this collection is to introduce the subject areas of modern mathematics, to describe a few of the milestone results and topics, and to give pointers to some of the key resources where further information is to be found. Like any good atlas, they try to present several ways to look at each area and to show its relationship with neighboring areas and sub-areas. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Google Sitemaps https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly. Basically, the two steps to participating in Google Sitemaps are: 1) Generate a Sitemap in the correct format using Sitemap Generator, and 2) Update your Sitemap when you make changes to your site. Google Sitemaps is intended for all web site owners, from those with a single web page to companies with millions of ever-changing pages. If any of the following are true, then you may be especially interested in Google Sitemaps: a) You want Google to crawl more of your web pages, b) You want to be able to tell Google when content on your site changes. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, June 14, 2005   Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) http://www.ihmc.us/ The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) was established in 1990 as an interdisciplinary research unit of the University of West Florida. Since that time, IHMC has grown into one of the nation's premier research institutes with more than 115 researchers and staff investigating a broad range of topics related to understanding cognition in both humans and machines with a particular emphasis on building computational tools to leverage and amplify human cognitive and perceptual capacities. In a broader context, much of the research effort at IHMC is focused on what has become known as human-centered computing. This emerging concept represents a significant shift in thinking about intelligent machines and, indeed, about information technology in general. Human-centered computing embodies a “systems view,” in which human thought and action and technological systems are seen as inextricably linked and equally important aspects of analysis, design, and evaluation. This framework is focused less on stand-alone exemplars of mechanical cognitive talent, and is concerned more with computational aids designed to amplify human cognitive and perceptual abilities. Essentially these are cognitive prostheses, computational systems that leverage and extend human intellectual capacities, just as eyeglasses are a sort of ocular prosthesis. The prostheses metaphor implies the importance of designing systems that fit the human and machine components together in ways that synergistically exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Tomboy: Simple Note Taking http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/index.html Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or are you one of those desperate souls with home-made, buggy, or not-quite-perfect notes systems? They bet you'll be surprised at how well a little application can make life less cluttered and run more smoothly. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be mentioned in my speech Manage Your Information Overload. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   DoubleTrust - Two Top Search Engines are Better Than One http://www.doubletrust.net/ Want to browse lots of good results from two leading authorities, quickly? DoubleTrust is based on the simple premise that trusting two authorities might be better than one. It fetches results from two leading authorities on web search and shows you what BOTH of them think are good results (the STARS). These are the most relevant results from their mutual agreement. It also shows you were they conflict (the ORPHANS). As an added benefit, it also shows almost 80 results on just one page in a very compact form. This can take quite a while if done separately with each engine. DoubleTrust shortens the time significantly. Good for zooming in to interesting pages very quickly. Its surprising how these two can differ for most of the searches and DoubleTrust can yield interesting insights which may not be found by using one alone. 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 | 4:15 AM   Radio-Locator http://www.radio-locator.com/ Radio-Locator is one of the most comprehensive radio station search engines on the Internet. They have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world. 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 | 4:10 AM   FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds http://www.findsounds.com/ FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. It provides powerful features, yet is simple and easy to use, and suitable for all ages. Note to parents: audio files containing obscenities are filtered out so this site is safe for children. To learn how to search the Web using FindSounds.com, visit the Help page. FindSounds Palette is an audio player, recorder, editor, database, search engine, and Web browser, all in one software program. Using this program, you can search more than one million sounds on the Web, and organize and search your own collection of sounds. Click here for information. FindSounds.com and FindSounds Palette are owned and operated by Comparisonics Corporation and utilize the company's leading-edge technologies for audio search and display. For more information, see the article Searching for Sounds. 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 | 4:05 AM   Engineering Village 2 http://www.engineeringvillage2.org/ Engineering Village 2 is the premier web-based discovery platform meeting the information needs of the engineering community. By coupling powerful search tools, an intuitive user interface and essential content sources, Engineering Village 2 has become the globally accepted source of choice for engineers, engineering students, researchers and information professionals. Engineering Village 2 provides access to today's most important engineering content through one single interface including 1) Compendex®, 2) Engineering Index Backfile, 3) Inspec®, 4) Inspec Archive, 5) NTIS, 6) Referex Engineering, 7) ENGnetBASE, 8) Patents from USPTO and esp@cenet, 9) GlobalSpec, 10) Scirus, 11) EEVL, and 12) LexisNexis News. Engineering Village 2 provides: a) Combined database searching of Compendex, Inspec and NTIS, including deduplication of Compendex and Inspec records, b) Personalized e-mail alerts, c) The ability to save searches and create personalized folders, d) Quick & Expert Search options, both of which allow you to save and combine searches, e) The ability to choose preferred output formats (citation, abstracts or detailed) for Selected Record sets, which can then be viewed, printed, saved, downloaded or e-mailed, f) OpenURL linking to Endeavor LinkFinder Plus, Ex Libris SFX, Serials Solutions Article Linker, and Innovative Interfaces Web Bridge for local holdings checking and full text option presentation, g) Links to full-text using CrossRef, h) Links to document delivery services, i) Context sensitive help, and j) Reference Services: Ask a Librarian & Ask an Engineer. Also they have recently added RSS Feeds and Faceted searching which is really neat! This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to my Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, June 13, 2005   IF - Daily Inspiration for Brand Planners and Creative Marketers http://if.psfk.com/if/ IF is a daily digest of inspiration for brand planners and creative marketers. IF is an Idea Forge. Whether you work in a marketing department, a communications agency or are just involved in the success of your business - we hope IF provides its members with fresh, effective stimulus. IF is provided by PSFK, a web publisher who also publishes PSFK.COM - a trends blog. PSFK will remain same irreverent blog with the same mix of typos and strange British/American English spelling/grammar mis-use. We hope that by providing IF we will help sharpen the content of PSFK to remain Trend focused. IF on the other hand will become a dedicated service to provide members with suggestions that fuel the rest of their day. We won't be one of those sites pointing out all the great ads around the world, but we may just be the site that will inspire the next set of great ads. Free Preview until June 20, 2005. This has been added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   NicheBot - WordTracker Keywords http://www.nichebot.com/ Discover untapped keyword phrases in your niche market. Areas covered include: 1) WordTracker Ketwords, 2) Overture Keywords, 3) Thesaurus, 4) Lateralus, 5) Keyword Analysis, 6) Faster Results, 7) Google Ranking, 8) NicheBot FAQ, 9) NicheBots Resources and 10) NicheBot Contact. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship http://www.nowpublishers.com/now/product.aspx?product=ENT The growth in all aspects of research in the last decade has led to a multitude of new publications and an exponential increase in published research. Finding a way through the excellent existing literature and keeping up to date has become a major time-consuming problem. Electronic publishing has given researchers instant access to more articles than ever before. But which articles are the essentials one that should be read to understand and keep abreast with developments of any topic? To address this problem Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship will publish high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field using modern techniques to enable both instant linking to the primary research in its electronic form and affordable paper copies, finally delivering on the promise to authors of multiple channel publishing from a single source. Each issue of Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship will comprise a 50-100 page monograph written by research leaders in the field. Monographs that give tutorial coverage of subjects, research retrospectives as well as survey papers that offer state-of-the-art reviews fall within the scope of the journal. Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship will publish survey and tutorial articles in the following topics: * Nascent and start-up entrepreneurs * Opportunity recognition * New venture creation process * Business formation * Firm ownership * Market value and firm growth * Franchising * Managerial characteristics and behavior of entrepreneurs * Strategic alliances and networks * Government programs and public policy * Gender and ethnicity * New business financing: - Business angels - Bank financing, debt, and trade credit - Venture capital and private equity capital - Public equity and IPO’s * Family-owned firms * Management structure, governance and performance * Corporate entrepreneurship * High technology - Technology-based new firms - High-tech clusters * Small business and economic growth. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   PubSub Government http://www.pubsub.com/features/government/ PubSub Government is a place to read about what is being said about the US federal government. Use the links below to locate the government officials that you are interested in. Also you can view any PubSub Government subscription using the PubSub Sidebar. Links include: 1) State Elected Officials, 2) U.S. Supreme Court Judges, 3) Congressional Committees, 4) Cabinet Members, 5) George W. Bush, and 6) Richard B. Cheney. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Open WorldCat-enabled Web Tools http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/searchtools/default.htm Open WorldCat offers the convenience of locating library-owned materials on the Web—and these tools give you the added convenience of performing your search from handy locations on your PC desktop. Tools shown include: 1) Yahoo! Toolbar with WorldCat searching, 2) Google Toolbar Autolink feature, and 3) Firefox search extensions. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Bibshare Project http://bibshare.dsic.upv.es/ Despite the importance of bibliography in scientific/technical documents, a global solution to the bibliography management problem is still missing. Current solutions are limited in the sense that they are word-processor oriented, whereas users often must write documents with different tools; this obligates authors to use different bibliography managers, and even different collections (with the subsequent problems such as consistency enforcement, updating, etc.) depending on the word processor used at any moment. Bibshare is a new framework for bibliography management that allows writers to use the same bibliography collection(s) regardless of the word processing system they use at any moment. Moreover, both personal and external collections can be used to retrieve the bibliographic information to be inserted into the documents. Bibshare is open, so that new collections and word processors can be added in a straightforward way. Also, it is free. In this Website, you will find all the information about the system, as well as the different components for download. Some of the links are not active yet. They are working hard to have them ready very soon. Please stay tuned. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, June 12, 2005   Predicting the Weather 1) United States Search and Rescue Task Force: Predicting Weather http://www.ussartf.org/predicting_weather.htm 2) Predicting Weather http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/elemsci/gr4udesc.html 3) Weather http://edheads.org/activities/weather/ 4) Weather Forecasting http://www.learner.org/exhibits/weather/forecasting.html 5) Model Analyses and Forecasts http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/ 6) Numerical Modeling http://www.metoffice.com/research/nwp/numerical/ 7) Prediction and Forecasting http://www.ucar.edu/research/prediction/] This Topic in Depth explores the science behind predicting the weather. First, the United States Search and Rescue Task Force describe the basic tools and knowledge used to create weather forecasts (1). Students can find concise, clear explanations of weather, fronts and air masses, high and low pressure, precipitation, and water vapor and humidity as well. By performing the activities presented in the second website, fourth grade students can learn about weather instruments and data collection (2). This website, produced by the Government of Saskatchewan, also explores how the weather can impact local communities. Third, Edheads offers a Macromedia Flash Player enhanced interactive module allowing students to predict the weather by examining weather maps (3 ). Through this website, users can become familiar with the concepts of warm and cold fronts, wind direction and speed, air pressure, and humidity. The fourth website, supplied by Annenberg / CPB, discusses weather satellites, Doppler radar, and additional tools forecasters use to predict the weather (4). Students can find a wind chill calculator along with a brief discussion of the history of forecasting and weather lore. Next, NOAA provides graphics for five forecast models: the ETA, the Global Forecast System (GFS), the Wave Watch III (WW3), the Nested Grid model (NGM), and the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) (5). Outputs are available for North America, North Pacific, Western North Atlantic, and the Polar Ice Drift. Users can find links to detailed descriptions of the inputs and history of each model. Sixth, the British government's Met Office describes numerical modeling and its components (6). Students and educators can learn about the future in forecasting as well as educational opportunities with the Cooperative Program for Meteorology, Education, and Training (COMET). [Copyright 2005 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Directorio EXIT http://www.directorioexit.info/ Directorio EXIT (Directory of Experts in Information Handling), a tool that permits Spanish-speaking professionals working in the area of librarianship, documentation, and archives to be in touch with others experts working in the same fields. This has been added to Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   BlogMatrix http://www.blogmatrix.com/ Founded in 2003, BlogMatrix has established a tradition of providing the blogging community with innovative technology and easy to use software products that are accessible to all users at affordable prices. With the release of BlogMartix Sparks! 2.0 they continue that tradition. BlogMartix Sparks! is a one-stop solution that is the easiest way to record, share and listen to podcasts. Affordable, innovative and easy to use. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   ContentBank - Community-Based Online Resources http://www.contentbank.org/ ContentBank is for people who work in community-based organizations and are looking for online resources that meet their client's needs. The Children's Partnership is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. They undertake research, analysis, and advocacy to place the needs of America's nearly 70 million children and youth, particularly the underserved, at the forefront of emerging policy debates. The hallmark of The Children's Partnership is to forge agendas for youth in areas where none exist, to help assure that disadvantaged children have the resources they need to succeed, and to involve more Americans in the cause for children. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Online User Experience Study http://www.online-publishers.org/?pg=press&dt=060105 The Online Publishers Association (OPA) today unveiled the results of its latest research project, the "Online User Experience Study." Conducted in partnership with the Media Management Center at Northwestern University, the study identified 22 experiences that describe and define of how people interact with and relate to digital media, and determined how each of those specific experiences impact site usage. The study revealed that the experience "Entertains and absorbs me" is the top driver of site usage. The top 12 experiences that drive site usage listed by ranking are as follows: 1) Entertains, absorbs me, 2) Looks out for people like me, 3) Regular part of my day, 4) My personal timeout, 5) A credible, safe place, 6) Connects me with others, 7) Touches me and expands my views, 8) Makes me smarter, 9) Trned on by ads, 10) Easy to use, 11) Helps and improves me, and 12) Worth saving and sharing. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Dealazon - Find Amazon Deals http://www.dealazon.com/ A site displaying current deals from Amazon updated hourly and categorized with over 88,000 deals available. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, June 11, 2005   Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children http://www.contentbank.org/DOMS/ Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children is a new research report released by The Children's Partnership. It is the first-ever look across four key areas to see whether Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is helping children 1) improve educational achievement, 2) lead healthier lives, 3) increase economic opportunity, and 4) participate in their communities. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   W3C Celebrates Ten Years Leading the Web in Europe http://www.w3.org/2005/05/w3c10-Europe_media_advisory http://www.w3.org/2005/06/W3C10.html The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten year anniversary of its European presence with a celebration on 3 June at CERAM in the Sophia Antipolis Science Park, France. The program includes "How it All Started at CERN," "The Web as Unifying Force in Europe," "Policies Shaping the Web in Europe," discussion, a press briefing and reception. Read the media advisory and more about W3C10 Europe. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Introduction To Social Network Methods by Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/ About This Online Book: This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks. The text relies heavily on the work of Freeman, Borgatti, and Everett (the authors of the UCINET software package). The materials here, and their organization, were also very strongly influenced by the text of Wasserman and Faust, and by a graduate seminar conducted by Professor Phillip Bonacich at UCLA. Many other users have also made very helpful comments and suggestions based on the first version. Errors and omissions, of course, are the responsibility of the authors. You are invited to use and redistribute this text freely -- but please acknowledge the source. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   TiddlyWiki - A Reusable Non-Linear Personal Web Notebook http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ ThirdVersion of TiddlyWiki, an experimental MicroContent WikiWikiWeb built by JeremyRuston. It's written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to any web server, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive to make a WikiOnAStick. Putting TiddlyWiki on a USB thumb drive lets you carry around a SelfContained notebook that you can update wherever there's a reasonably modern computer, whether it's a Mac, Linux or a PC. (To be even more independent you can install FireFox on the drive as well).If you're still trying to get your head around what TiddlyWiki is all about, there is this tutorial. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   gMapTrack: Your Locations, Trips and Trackers with Google Maps http://www.gmaptrack.com/ gMapTrack allows you to create and place your own information onto Google Maps, and share with others. It is currently in beta, with the intention of showing the possibilities of Google Maps integration. It is not official or authorised by Google in any way, and relies on Google allowing third party access to their maps by others. For those who have read about the craigslist + Google Maps site, this site will allow you to create your own set of customised Goolgle Maps. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Rodi - Tiny P2P Client/Host http://larytet.sourceforge.net/btRat.shtml Rodi or Rodia means pomegranate in Greek. The Rodi program is a tiny P2P client/host (under 300K of binary code) implemented in pure Java. It's network use is similar to the bitTorrent concept. The program will serve the filesharing community with fast data delivery and serve the Open Source community by facilitating faster software deployment. Data distribution networks today provide only search in the file names (if any) and no content search. They were originally created for delivery of binary or not searchable content. Rodi network functional requirements include context sensitive content search. Because Rodi is distributed network keyword rating and consequently search results can differ from publisher to publisher. One can view Rodi network as a group of loosely related or completely unrelated search engines. Publishers belonging to the same Rodi House can use the same function when calculating keywords rate. Existing search engines do not provide search in the previous versions of the index files like HTML, but only in the cached and supposedly recent version of the file. We argue that content of the WEB is getting more and more dynamic and updated much more frequently than before. Rodi client functional requirements include file version manager. Rodi will support content search in the previous versions of the file as well as in the current one. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, June 10, 2005   OpenMED - Open Access Archive for Medical and Allied Sciences http://openmed.nic.in/ OpenMED is an open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences. Here authors / owners can self-archive their scientific and technical documents. For this they need to register once in order to obtain a user id in OpenMED system. However no registration is required for searching the archive or viewing the documents. OpenMED is a discipline based International Archive. It accepts both published and unpublished documents having relevance to research in Medical and Allied Sciences including Bio-Medical, Medical Informatics, Dental, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences. These could be preprints (pre-refereed journal paper), postprints (refereed journal paper), conference papers, conference posters, presentations, technical reports/departmental working papers and theses. In case of non-English documents, descriptive data [Author, Title, Source etc.], abstract and keywords must be in English. Submitted documents will be placed into the submission buffer and would become part of OpenMED archive on their acceptance. The aim of OpenMED is to provide free service to academics, researchers, and students working in the area of Medical and Allied Sciences. We expect it to promote self-archiving and open access to papers / scholarly publications in these fields. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to Healthcare Bots and Subject Directories White Paper Link Compilation. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Google Code - Summer of Code http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html The Summer of Code is Google's program designed to introduce students to the world of Open Source Software Development. This Summer, don't let your programming skills lie fallow...Use them for the greater good of Open Source Software and computer science! Google will provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes an open source project by the end of the Summer. (payment details can be found in FAQ). By pairing applicants up with the proven wisdom and experience of established prominent open source organizations (listed below), we hope to make great software happen. If you can't come up with a great idea to submit, a number of our organizations have made idea lists available. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   BigClique.com - Search Engine http://www.bigclique.com BigClique.com searches the internet at the source and their web search listings are made up solely from their own internal database of user submitted sites. They have built their database by a "Segments™" technology approach which means their database scalability is endless. They do not rely or serve one major database but instead many smaller databases and this increases their speed to return search results to the end user. They use this "Segments™" system along with their many other non disclosed technology secrets. One of the many advantages you will find using their search index are that the search results are fresh since their indexing algorithm is based on different parameters from the usual suspects and you will view fresh sites being returned in their search results. This has been added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Crazy Fads http://www.crazyfads.com/ From the 1920's to 2000's we list all of the craziest fads that have come and gone. Go back a few decades and read about the silly to serious fads that helped change our society and create a pop-culture. Want to know which fads your parents experienced? What about the ones you experienced yourself? Maybe you will start a new fad yourself after reading some of the following crazy fads. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   myTrashMail.com - Temporary and Anonymous eMail http://www.mytrashmail.com/ myTrashMail.com is a free email provider for temporary email. Also known as disposable email, anonymous email or fake email. You can use this free email service to reduce spam coming to your personal email address. Anytime we receive an email they create an account on the fly. This can be any name you choose. Only make sure that you send it to @myTrashMail.com. Whenever you subscribe at forums, newsgroups, software downloads and the like do not use your personal address. Instead of giving your personal email, you provide an valid address from myTrashMail.com! By using myTrashMail.com you won't receive any spam to your personal email account anymore. At least non additional spam. myTrashMail.com also provides free anonymous email with no IP logins and 100% anonymous. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Yahoo! Mindset - Intent Driven Search http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/ Find the results you like and Sort the way you need. A Yahoo! Research Labs demo that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources). This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, June 09, 2005   SwitchWiki - Directory of All Wikis http://www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/SwitchWiki SwitchWiki aims to catalogue all wikis on the web. The idea is to make this another way to traverse wikis (similar to TourBusStop, WikiNode and InterWiki), think of this as a switching station, allowing wiki users to switch between wikis, and find the most relavent site for the subject they want to contribute on. We want to encourage users to migrate between different wiki websites, and help different wiki communities to take off. We can play a role in coordinating this, for example we want to identify DustyWikis (a wiki which needs an injection of new community members to blow the dust of it). Basically SwitchWiki is a way to bring the internet-wide wiki community together. This has been added to my Bots Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   U.S. Government RSS Library http://firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/RSS_Library.shtml RSS has several meanings: Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, and RDF Site Summary, where RDF stands for Resource Data Framework. In any case, it's a method of summarizing the latest news and information from a website, that can be easily read by many news readers or news aggregators. RSS Feeds listed from the following areas: 1) Agriculture RSS Feeds, 2) Consumer RSS Feeds, 3) Cyber Security RSS Feeds, 4) Data and Statistics RSS Feeds, 5) Education RSS Feeds, 6) Federal Personnel RSS Feeds, 7) Forest RSS Feeds, 8) Health RSS Feeds, 9) International Relations RSS Feeds, 10) Military RSS Feeds, and 11) Science RSS Feeds. This has been added to my Bots Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Google Print http://print.google.com/ Google's mission is to organize the world's information, but much of that information isn't yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily – right in your Google search results. Just do a search on the Google Print homepage. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see the page of the book that has your search terms, along with other information about the book and "Buy this Book" links to online bookstores (you can view the entirety of public domain books or, for books under copyright, just a few pages or in some cases, only the title’s bibliographic data and brief snippets). You can also search for more information within that specific book and find nearby libraries that have it. The book content in Google Print comes from two sources: publishers and libraries. This has been addded to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to my Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Turbulence http://turbulence.org/ New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) was founded in 1981 to foster the development of new and experimental work for radio and sound arts. From 1987 to 1998, the organization commissioned and/or distributed over 300 original works for public radio and introduced American radio art to European audiences. It was considered the single most influential source of radio art in America.In 1996, NRPA extended its mandate to net.art and launched its pioneering Turbulence web site. Turbulence commissions artists exploring the Internet, and who both use existing applications and technologies and develop new ones to create innovative work. Turbulence has commissioned over 90 works and hosted more than twenty multilocation streaming performance events. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   DBin Project - Semantic Web P2P and/or Semantic Newsgroup Client. http://www.dbin.org/ Dbin, is a novel kind of web application: a "Napster like" Semantic Web P2P and/or a Semantic Newsgroup Client. Similar to a filesharing client, DBin connects directly to other peers. Instead of files, however, it will download "relevant information" about topics you specify. More tecnically sharing and receiving "Semantically structured information" using RDF and other components of the W3C Semantic Web Initialtive. Similar to a Newsgroup client, bits of information (called "annotations") are collected and inserted by entering Topic Rooms. e.g. the "Beers lovers" or "Butterflies collector" rooms. To maximally enjoy the room, it is suggested that you download a proper, personalized user interface and interaction environment prepared for you by domain experts (e.g. ). Such "specialized" domain applications that run on top of DBin are called "brainlets". Annotations often take the form of comments or binary files (pictures etc.. ), but given RDF is used, they can nicely structured pieces of "metadata" such as direct comparisons, votes, data sheets, sale offers, semantic links with other resources or concepts, reviews, etc .. The more "annotations" you collect, the "smartest" your DBin will become, enabling you to browse and query your data in cool and novel ways. For example you can customize a DBin view to show you "the most recent belgian beers entries which had a vote higher than 8 and are being sold in a pub located in your region". The more "annotations" you'll insert, the happier people around you will be :-). It's nice to build knowledge together. This has been added to Semantic Web Research of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? by Nick Bostrom http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html ABSTRACT by Author This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, June 08, 2005   Thinking Machine 4 http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/index.html Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving thought process visible on the board before you. The artwork is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer's thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move. Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Orange - Data Mining Software http://www.ailab.si/orange Orange is a component-based data mining software. It includes a range of preprocessing, modelling and data exploration techniques. It is based on C++ components, that are accessed either directly (not very common), through Python scripts (easier and better), or through GUI objects called Orange Widgets. Orange is a component-based framework, which means you can use existing components and build your own ones. You can even prototype your own components in Python, and use it in place of some standard C-based Orange component. For instance, you may craft your own function for attribute quality estimation, and use it within Orange's classification tree induction algorithm. Orange provides for some elementary components and more complex components build from elementary ones, and uses Python as a glue language. Thjis has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Civil War Rosters http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw.html Civil War Rosters - Arranged by State. The most complete list of Civil War roster Links on the web. This is a directory of Civil War Rosters/Muster Rolls that have been found on the internet. Since only 50-60% of all rosters are on the internet, some units will not be listed. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   RDF Context Tools http://www.dbin.org/RDFContextTools.php This API gives a way to attach "context" information to pieces of an RDF model by adding triples to the model itself. This is similar to reification but at a different, coarser, level. These tools use the concept of MSG (Minimal Self-contained Graph). Given a triple, the MSG that contains it is composed by that triple plus, recursively, for each blank node involved all the triples connected to it. An MSG therefore has a boundary consisting entirely of URIs or literals. An MSG is also the minimum "piece" of an RDF graph that can be can transferred to another peer that still allows the original graph to be incrementally reconstructed. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   PHP Security Guide http://phpsec.org/projects/guide/ The PHP Security Guide is a project of the PHP Security Consortiu. Founded in January 2005, the PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure programming practices within the PHP community. Members of the PHPSC seek to educate PHP developers about security through a variety of resources, including documentation, tools, and standards. In addition to their educational efforts, the PHPSC engages in exploratory and experimental research in order to develop and promote standards of best practice for PHP application development. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   InstantSOUP - Electronics Cookbook http://instantsoup.interaction-ivrea.it/index/index_instantsoup InstantSOUP is a path into electronics using an approach of "learning by making", introducing electronic prototyping in a playful, non-technical way. It was developed following the experience gained in teaching physical interaction design at Interaction-Ivrea. InstantSOUP is intended for an audience of design students – interaction design, product design, architecture – and for people who work with Macromedia Flash™ and Action Script. It makes the first steps into the world of physical prototyping almost as easy as preparing Instant Soup. InstantSOUP is a way to connect the virtual and physical worlds. It teaches how to make physical input devices for games, how to connect repurposed electronic gadgets to Flash, how to activate physical objects from remote locations and even how to create little robots. When you start mixing the different soup ingredients your possibilites are pretty vast. InstantSOUP uses the Wiring language and prototyping board developed by Hernando Barragan in Interaction-Ivrea. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, June 07, 2005   Feedication - Your Persona; Aggregation Service Feedication.com http://feedication.com/ Feedication.com is a web application that acts as your own aggregation service. It is able to fetch and display information about you. It supports syndication with some really popular web applications like 43things, audioscrobbler, del.icio.us and Flickr. We also intend to support more web services in the future. This has been added to my presentation resources for Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   YouServ - A P2P (peer-to-peer) Web Hosting/File Sharing System http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/bayardo/userv/ YouServ is software that forms a webserving "grid" by allowing its users to pool their desktop computing resources to create one large, virtual web-space. Unlike running standard webserving software, content hosted with YouServ can persist even when your machine is offline. It also allows publishing your content from your own machine when behind firewalls or NATs. YouServ leverages its community in other ways to increase the utility of personal webservers. First, each YouServ node can interact with an integrated single sign-on system. People who share content with YouServ and wish to access-control certain files can simply list the user ID's of those who have access. (No need to assign and maintain passwords.) Users who access content on YouServ need only obtain one and only one account for accessing secured content on any node. YouServ also provides its users with instant and automatic support of strong encryption (SSL) via an integrated certificate authority. Finally, YouServ provides fast, fresh and complete search over YouServ-hosted content, even in the presence of node transience (which renders standard web search results stale and incomplete). Unlike other p2p systems, YouServ does not require those who access YouServ-published content to install special purpose software or plugins, as it relies entirely on the ordinary web browser. Its high availability, wide accessibility, and low cost provide a superior alternative to paid hosting services and other content sharing networks for a wide class of users. YouServ is currently deployed internally within IBM as experimental tool. Its userbase has grown organically, primarily through word of mouth. Over 2000 people now use the system every week. This has been added to the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Computational Astrophysics: Digital Demo Room http://rainman.astro.uiuc.edu/ddr/ This University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign website features four computer simulations to increase the understanding of astrophysics: Disk Galaxy Dynamics, One Dimensional Hydrodynamics, Stellar Structure and Evolution, and Two Dimensional Hydrodynamics. Each simulation offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced modes. At the Stellar Structure and Evolution Simulator link, individuals can find a tutorial describing the basic physics concepts related to the topic along with the interactive models. Students and educators can also find detailed information about the subjects presented at the website through downloadable scientific papers. 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 | 4:15 AM   Ruby On Rails http://www.rubyonrails.com/ Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework in Ruby for writing real-world applications with joy and less code than most frameworks spend doing XML sit-ups. Being a full-stack framework means that all layers are built to work seamlessly together. That way you Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) and you can use a single language from top to bottom. Everything from templates to control flow to business logic is written in Ruby—the language of love for industry heavy-weights. In striving for DRY compliance, Rails shuns configuration files and annotations in favor of reflection and run-time extensions. This means the end of XML files telling a story that has already been told in code. It means no compilation phase: Make a change, see it work. Meta-data is an implementation detail left for the framework to handle. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Silver Surfers Say Net Is Vital http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4582831.stm Technology use across the age groups in the UK is on the rise, even though a recent report said older generations are still alienated by technology. Two polls marking Silver Surfers' day, suggest technologies like the net are considered essential by older people. More than half of over-55s online say the net gives them a new lease of life. Seven percent look for love online, and 22% play games. This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   DevonThink - The Real Paperless Office http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/overview.php It's a notepad, outliner, scrapbook manager, information manager, freeform database, archive, bookmark manager and image database -- all in one integrated application. DEVONthink intelligently stores your text files, PDFs, images, bookmarks, even QuickTime movies and MP3 files, and helps you organizing them. A hierachical filing structure and AI functions for sorting in and finding documents makes it ideal for both, keeping a simple notebook and organizing large information collections. An integrated text and RTF editor including a real-time paragraph/word/character count and many other comfortable editing and higlighting functions make it easy to not only enter short notes but to write letters, articles, even books. Finally, the integrated Safari-based web browser displays web pages directly within the DEVONthink workspace, e-mails can be comfortably imported using a provided AppleScript and all documents that DEVONthink does not natively recognize can be "printed" directly into the database from any other application or at being least linked to like with an alias.This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, June 06, 2005   Online Social Networking by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. June 6, 2005 V3N23 discusses Online Social Networking. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper. View the white paper at: Online Social Networking by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/09/online-social-networking-internet.html posted by Marcus | 6:28 PM   Lunar and Planetary Science at the NSSDC http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetary_home.html The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland is NASA's primary deep archive site for planetary and lunar data obtained from spacecraft missions (both NASA and non-NASA), as well as the primary center for distribution of planetary data and images to educators and the general public. NSSDC is also responsible for the dissemination of photographic products to NASA and non-NASA funded individuals. NSSDC complements the work of two other groups in validating, archiving, and disseminating planetary and lunar data: the Planetary Data System (PDS) and the Regional Planetary Image Facilities (RPIFs). NSSDC is the permanent archive for NASA lunar and planetary science data. NSSDC holds various relatively recent data on CD-ROM. Many older data sets are available on other offline media (e.g., magnetic tape, photographic products, etc.). This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   e-Thesis: Electronic Publications at University of Helsinki http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/ This site contains doctoral dissertations and other publications from the University of Helsinki. All of these full-text publications are freely accessible via the Internet. This service is provided by the Helsinki University Library together with the Helsinki University Press and the faculties of the university. The publications are protected by Copyright Law. You may download, display and print them for your own personal use, but all unauthorized commercial use of the material is prohibited. All publications are available as a PDF file, and many of them are also available in HTML format. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   VoodooPad - New Kind of Notepad http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/ VoodooPad is a new kind of notepad. It's like having your own digital junk drawer, where you can jot down notes, web addresses, to-do lists... Anything on your mind. VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web, on your desktop! Anybody familiar with the WikiWikiWeb will feel right at home with VoodooPad. Type in your notes, and highlight important words or phrases to create new pages; or drag and drop folders, images, applications, or URLs into VoodooPad - they're linked up whenever the word representing it is found. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   QuotationsBook.com - Quotations, Fortunes and Proverbs http://www.quotationsbook.com/ They aim to be the foremost quotations, fortunes and proverbs database on the web. They have crawled the web and spent many painstaking months assimilating 77 fortune collections from databases and many themed sources. Currently 43060 quotations by 7960 authors about 1328 subjects and 70000 fortunes in 77 sets plus 4000 proverbs. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Scribe - Cross Platform Note-Taking Program http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/scribe/index.php Scribe is a free cross-platform note-taking program designed especially with historians in mind. Think of it as the next step in the evolution of traditional 3x5 note cards. Scribe allows you to manage your research notes, quotes, thoughts, contacts, published and archival sources, digital images, outlines, timelines, and glossary entries. You can create, organize, index, search, link, and cross-reference your note and source cards. You can assemble, print, and export bibliographies, copy formatted references to clipboard, and import sources from online catalogs. You can store entire articles, add extended comments on each card in a separate field, and find and highlight a particular word within a note or article. Scribe's uses range from an undergraduate history research seminar to a major archival research project. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   newzBin - Usenet Indexing http://www.newzbin.com/ They offer listings of what is currently available on Usenet, in two forms — the Posts view, which has been hand-edited to show you precisely what is available, and the Files view, which shows you every file that has been posted, on all the newsgroups, for the last 45 days or so. They suggest that you read the FAQ, and if you are not familiar with Usenet, the tutorial links too. You should consider signing up for an account - signed in users have preferences that determine how many aspects of the site work, just for them. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, June 05, 2005   Graph Theory 1) Wikipedia: Graph Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory 2) Mega-Math: The Mathematics of Graphs and their Games http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/mega-math/workbk/graph/grbkgd.html 3) Graph Theory with Applications http://www.ecp6.jussieu.fr/pageperso/bondy/books/gtwa/gtwa.html 4) Georgia Tech: Four Color Theorem http://www.math.gatech.edu/~thomas/FC/fourcolor.html 5) Graph Theory Book http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/diestel/books/graph.theory/download.html 6) Graph Theory Lessons http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/Christopher-Mawata/petersen/ 7) Frank Harary 1921-2005 http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sanders/graphtheory/harary.html Graph theory is widely used in computer science, engineering and of course, mathematics. Wikipedia offers this definition and overview of Graph Theory (1). This next website from Mega-Math (2) reviews some of the Vocabulary of Graphs and highlights some applications for graph theory, such as the design of computer systems and games. Some additional applications for Graph Theory are discussed in this more technical book called Graph Theory with Applications (3). This website from Georgia Tech (4) discusses a proof that allows a user to create a map of the U.S. using just four colors. For a more involved explanation of Graph Theory, see this Graph Theory book by Reinhard Diestel (5). On this next website (6), Christopher P. Mawata of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga offers a collection of Graph Theory Lessons for educators. The final website provides a short biography of a key figure in Graph Theory who recently passed away, Frank Harary (7). [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   MozDev.org - Delicious mozdev.org - delicious http://delicious.mozdev.org/ del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others. This extension integrates del.icio.us with Firefox. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Rise of the Plagiosphere By Ed Tenner http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/megascope.asp The 1960s gave us, among other mind-altering ideas, a revolutionary new metaphor for our physical and chemical surroundings: the biosphere. But an even more momentous change is coming. Emerging technologies are causing a shift in our mental ecology, one that will turn our culture into the plagiosphere, a closing frontier of ideas. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   FAME (Facilitating Agents in Multiculture Exchange)Project http://isl.ira.uka.de/fame/ The FAME (Facilitating Agents in Multiculture Exchange) project pursues innovations in the areas of 1) Augmented Reality, 2) Perception of Human Activities, and 3) Multi-party Conversation Modeling and Understanding including a) Catalan and Spanish Language Technology, b) Information Retrieval, c) Conversational Speech Understanding, d) Robust Multi-lingual Spontaneous Speech Recognition, and e) Speech Recognition using Distant Microphones. All of the above in order to improve overall system performance in the adverse conditions usually found in natural environments. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   National Association of Agriculture Educators (NAAE) http://www.naae.org/ As a professional association for agricultural educators, NAAE provides benefits to assist members with professional growth - both tangible and intangible benefits to help members become more effective and efficient as agricultural educators. NAAE seeks to advance agricultural education and promote the professional interests and growth of agriculture teachers as well as recruit and prepare students who have a desire to teach agriculture. Membership benefits assist members in growing professionally and in becoming more effective agricultural educators. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Beyond Markets and Firms: The Emergence of Open Source Networks by Federico Iannacci and Eve Mitleton–Kelly http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_5/iannacci/ Abstract By Author: Although hierarchies and markets (i.e., autonomy) have been subject to extensive study, heterarchies represent different modalities of organizing that have been little researched. Drawing on complexity theory and the main features of complex evolving systems (CES), this paper sets out to remedy this imbalance by showing that heterarchies feature highly decentralized and relatively stable interactions which are coordinated through an emergent process of parametric adaptation. Implications in terms of learning are discussed casting a new light on the delicate issue of motivation in Open Source software development. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, June 04, 2005   43 Things http://www.43things.com/ 24,692 people in 2,710 cities are doing 96,858 things .... People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might). What do you want to do with your life? It is not an easy question to answer – and you shouldn’t have to answer alone. Browse 43 Things to find out what others want to do. You might find some goals you share. Click the I want to do this button to add a goal to your list. Got an idea for a new goal? Just type it in the text box on the homepage or at the bottom of any page on the site. Bam. Now, it’s your thing. We all have stories about what we care about. Writing down your progress on a goal can help someone else learn about something you both want to do. When you see a goal you’ve achieved, click on the I’ve done this button and share a story about how you did it. We all have stories about what we care about. Writing down your progress on a goal can help someone else learn about something you both want to do. When you see a goal you’ve achieved, click on the “I’ve done this” button and share a story about how you did it. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Processing - Programming Language and Environment for Images, Animation and Sound http://processing.org/ Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an open-source alternative to commercial software tools in the same domain. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) http://www.istm.org/ The International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) is committed to the promotion of healthy and safe travel. In cooperation with national and international health care providers, academic centers, the travel industry and the media, ISTM advocates and facilitates education, service, and research activities in the field of travel medicine. This includes: preventive and curative medicine within many specialties such as tropical medicine, infectious diseases, high altitude physiology, travel related obstetrics, psychiatry, occupational health, military and migration medicine, and environmental health. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Meteoritical Society http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/ "The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit scholarly organization founded in 1933 to promote the study of extraterrestrial materials and their history." The website provides the latest Society news and downloads to its annual newsletter and bulletins. Scientists can find out about upcoming meetings and workshops, Society publications, and membership opportunities. Students and educators can locate materials describing meteorites, tektites, dust, and lunar samples as well as links to outside educational resources. 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 | 4:10 AM   PEAR Manual - PHP Extension and Application Repository http://pear.php.net/manual/en/ PEAR is short for "PHP Extension and Application Repository" and is pronounced just like the fruit. The purpose of PEAR is to provide: 1) A structured library of open-sourced code for PHP users, 2) A system for code distribution and package maintenance, 3) A standard style for code written in PHP, specified here, 4) The PHP Foundation Classes (PFC), 5) The PHP Extension Community Library (PECL), and 6) A web site, mailing lists and download mirrors to support the PHP/PEAR community. PEAR is a community-driven project with the PEAR Group as the governing body. The project has been founded by Stig S. Bakken in 1999 and quite a lot of people have joined the project since then. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   NutritionData (ND) http://www.nutritiondata.com/index.html NutritionData (ND) provides nutrition facts, Calorie counts, and nutrient data for all foods and recipes. ND tells you, in simple terms, what's good and bad about the foods you eat, and helps you select foods that best meet your dietary needs. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, June 03, 2005   White Papers By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/ The Month of May 2005 was a record breaking month! I had a total of 16,745 white paper downloads including 11,086 downloads of my Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources. The second highest white paper download was for my Knowledge Discovery Resources 2005. The third place in downloads went to my May 2005 column titled Sematic Web Research Resources. The following are links to these resources: Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/12/academic-and-scholar-search-engines.html Knowledge Discovery Resources 2005 http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/03/knowledge-discovery-resources-2005.html May 2005 Zillman Column Semantic Web Research Resources http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/04/may-2005-zillman-column-sematic-web.html For all my white papers, columns and newsletters click here. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   boardnetUSA http://www.boardnetusa.org/public/home.asp boardnetUSA is a unique website dedicated to the express purpose of connecting nonprofit boards and new leaders. This site is designed to be a common technological platform for a national collaborative network of communities working locally to enhance nonprofit board governance. This growing network of Community Partners work together on common themes of populating board rooms as well as individually developing services tailored to their local market. The Volunteer Consulting Group, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization in New York City with over 30 years of experience aiding in the development and strengthening of nonprofit organizations, initially developed the concept of boardnetUSA. With assistance from philanthropic and corporate supporters the Volunteer Consulting Group serves as the primary management and coordinating entity of the growing national network that is boardnetUSA. boardnetUSA is the unique website revolutionizing the way nonprofit boards and new leaders find each other. If you're an individual interested in board service or a nonprofit looking for a new board member ... you've come to the right place. Choose the box that matches your needs and click the link! If you already have signed up, just enter your User ID and Password in the box and check the progress of your board matching efforts. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   MusicGrid - A Case Study in Broadband Video Collaboration by Hassan Masum, Martin Brooks, and John Spence http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_5/masum/ Abstract by Authors: The technical requirements for widespread deployment of broadband video over the Internet are rapidly being met. But a harder challenge remains: how can video–based technologies promote collaboration and learning? We present a case study: the MusicGrid Project. Running from 2002 to 2004 with partners in several Canadian and international locations, this modestly funded initiative ran over one hundred successful multi–site education and performance sessions. The rationale, development, and operation of the project are discussed, along with general lessons learned. We believe that our experience and the opportunities and issues identified will be useful to all those interested in large–scale, video–based collaboration projects. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Video Conferencing Cookbook http://www.videnet.gatech.edu/cookbook.en/ Welcome to Version 4.1 of the ViDe Video Conferencing Cookbook. They are happy to bring you another update and continue evolving this resource in response to the interest and demand for balanced reference material on the implementation of IP video conferencing. If you are new to this subject and the Cookbook, they hope you find it easy to use and that the Cookbook helps ease your entry into a growing and most promising use of the Internet. If you've already read a previous version of this cookbook or if you are a veteran of videoconferencing, we hope that you find the new content here interesting and useful. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   MusicStrands™ http://www.musicstrands.com/ MusicStrands™ is revolutionizing the way we explore and discover music. Powered by the MusicStrands RecommenderTM, the initial offering of MusicStrands™ website provides music lovers with recommendations which are independant of label, artist and genre. The group of engineers and scientists at MusicStrands™ are creating cutting-edge music recommendation and discovery technology in support of the music lover. Their technology is powered by a new generation of collaborative filtering algorithms. Users get recommendations based on the listening behavior of other users with similar tastes within the MusicStrands™ Community. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   2004-2005 Statistical Abstract of the United States http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ The National Data Book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations. View online versions of 2004-2005 edition or selected earlier editions. Also a listing of Supplemental Features. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   FCC - Consumer Information Registry http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/contacts/ The FCC's Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) is launching the "Consumer Information Registry," an expanded and improved e-mail service that will deliver to subscribers customized information about the FCC's actions and related developments in telecommunications and other communications services. The sign-up information is at the above URL. Subscribers will be asked to indicate the subjects on which they wish to receive information. The service is free and subscribers may unsubscribe at any time. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, June 02, 2005   Healthcare Bots and Subject Directories Article http://magazine.competia.com/ The May 2005 issue of Competia Online Magazine featured my article Healthcare Bots and Subject Directories in its Industry in Focus Section. The article was designed to give the latest resources available to find selected and niched information in the healthcare field for competitive and business intelligence. I also have a white paper link compilation released in May 2005 titled Healthcare Bots and Subject Directories available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 7:30 PM   Public Library Geographic Database (PLGDB) http://www.geolib.org/PLGDB.cfm This database includes the locations of America’s 16,000 public libraries, population characteristics from the US Census that best describe people that use libraries, and library use statistics from the National Center for Educational Statistics. This Florida State University's GeoLib Program is developing the first-ever National Public Library Geographic Database. The project partner is FSU’s Information Institute and is sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The mission of the PLGDB is to provide standardized library data for benchmarking and research. The goal of the database is to provide consolidated information on public libraries nationwide, easily accessible over the Internet. PLGDB objectives include: 1) updating the database with annual and available data as resources allow; 2) integrating new and relevant datasets which drive the mission; and 3) creating awareness amongst information professionals of the value of geographic data. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Axis News Axis Information and Analysis (AIA) - Asia and Eastern Europe http://www.axisglobe.com/default.aspx AIA is an information agency that unites professionals having years of experience in collecting and analyzing information about Asia and Eastern Europe. AIA's main attention is focused upon those states that represent a threat to regional and international security, as well as upon areas of ethnic and religious conflict. At the same time, AIA follows the events in those countries that are going through political and socio-economic cataclysms. The Worldwide Web is full of current information on Asia and Eastern Europe. Most of it is rather fragmentary and shallow. That is why it is rather difficult to understand the processes taking place in this region. Moreover, the systematization and processing of the separate items demands a enormous amount of time. AIA`s goal is to perform a complex analysis of information on the current issues of this region. That is the reason why their website contains such a considerable amount of reference material. AIA uses materials from electronic and printed mass media; books, specialized periodicals, academic editions, officially published governmental documents, and public archives from different countries. AIA collects information in the framework of various political, academic, and commercial events (press-conferences, symposia, seminars, exhibitions, fairs). Furthermore, AIA’s highly professional staff uses its personal sources in governmental bodies, and in commercial and academic circles of the countries in the specified region. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   USGS Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program http://gam.usgs.gov/ Located within the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program (GAM) conducts various geographic assessments around the United States with an eye towards fostering a greater understanding of the causes and consequences of natural and human-induced processes that shape the landscape over time. Currently, GAM is engaged in dozens of projects, and this website provides summary information about the focus of each specialized endeavor. Visitors can begin their search by looking at an interactive map of the US. By clicking on each state, visitors can learn about the ongoing work in each locale. Additionally, visitors can also browse the current studies by theme, such as fire science, human health, environmental hazards, and topographic science. For persons looking for studies with a broader directive, the site also lists national and international studies, such as those looking at Lyme disease and the status and trends of the nation's transportation network. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   cg-research.com - Business Research Reports http://www.cg-research.com/ Let their research professionals find, filter and compile the research information you need for better business decisions. You receive concise, yet thorough business research reports compiled from reliable Internet sources using the "Invisible Web" as well as fee-based services such as: a) Factivia, b) LexisNexis, c) Profound, d) Forrester, and e) Dialog. Pay for each request via credit card on their secure site. No long-term commitments, contracts or subscription fees are needed. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Center for Health Transformation http://www.healthtransformation.net/ The Center for Health Transformation is a collaboration of public and private sector leaders dedicated to the creation of a 21st Century Intelligent Health System in which knowledge saves lives and saves money for every American. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   ActionBioscience.org http://www.actionbioscience.org/index.html There are many websites dedicated to providing the public with information about the biological sciences, but ActionBioScience.org may be one of the best around. Started in 2000 by a group of concerned scientists and educators, the site provides articles by scientists, science educators and students on issues related to seven primary areas, including genomics, biotechnology, evolution, and biodiversity. All of the pieces on the site go through a peer-review process and are written with a keen eye towards providing information in a way that is largely jargon-free and highly accessible. From the homepage, visitors can look for articles in one of seven thematic areas, look for materials in Spanish, and peruse materials created just for educators. Visitors can also view lectures from the American Institute of Biological Sciences from 2000 to the present in the Virtual Library section of the site. The lectures deal with a host of interesting topics, such as invasive species, bioethics, and agricultural biosecurity. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Copyright 2005 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, June 01, 2005   Web Interface for Statistics Education (WISE) http://wise.cgu.edu/ The Claremont Colleges' "Web Interface for Statistics Education" seeks to expand teaching resources offered through Introductory Statistics courses, especially in the social sciences. This project aims to develop an on-line teaching tool to take advantage of the unique hypertextual and presentational benefits of the World Wide Web (WWW). This teaching tool's primary application is as a supplement to traditional teaching materials, addressing specific topics that instructors have difficulty in presenting using traditional classroom technologies. The tool serves to promote self-paced learning and to provide a means for advanced students to review concepts. Their goal is to provide easy entry to internet resources that can be used in support of statistics education and applications. The site includes the following: 1) interactive statistics tutorials, 2) answers to questions, and 3) a jump-off point for connecting to other resources in statistics on the Internet. Instructors will be able to utilize the WWW presentation in conjunction with their classes: a) to supplement their text assignments. and b) to provide common examples and practice problems, where students can receive immediate feedback. Instructors can ask students to use the pages as a supplement for the textbook and classroom, or they can assign particular topics and questions for the students as homework. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   SIMILE Project - Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments http://simile.mit.edu/ SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the W3C, HP, MIT Libraries, and MIT CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores. They seek to be able to provide end-user services by drawing upon the assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, and metadata held in such stores. SIMILE will leverage and extend DSpace, enhancing its support for arbitrary schemata and metadata, primarily though the application of RDF and semantic web techniques. The project also aims to implement a digital asset dissemination architecture based upon web standards. The dissemination architecture will provide a mechanism to add useful "views" to a particular digital artifact (i.e. asset, schema, or metadata instance), and bind those views to consuming services. To guide the SIMILE effort they will focus on well-defined, real-world use cases in the libraries domain. Since parallel work is underway to deploy DSpace at a number of leading research libraries, we hope that such an approach will lead to a powerful deployment channel through which the utility and readiness of semantic web tools and techniques can be compellingly demonstrated in a visible and global community. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Representing Specified Values in OWL http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-swbp-specified-values-20050517/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has released "Representing Specified Values in OWL: 'value partitions' and 'value sets'" as a Working Group Note. Produced by the Ontology Engineering and Patterns Task Force, the note describes two methods for representing descriptive features in the OWL Web Ontology Language: partitions of classes and enumerations of individuals. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   PRSearch - Page Rank Search http://www.prsearch.net/ Page Rank Search Engines includes 1) PageRank Search, 2) Link Popularity Checker, 3) Google Position, 4) Yahoo Position, 5) MSN Position, and 6) Keywords Research. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Visible Human Browsers http://vhp.med.umich.edu/tools_a.html Early efforts to integrate the Visible Human dataset into the UM teaching environment produced these Java based browsers. The browsers display three orthogonal views from the female dataset: transverse (the original data), coronal and sagittal. Select the plane of interest by using the colored bars or fine-tune buttons. Each view is downloadable as a high or low resolution image. Based on the NPAC Visible Human Viewer. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Berkeley Lab Technology Dramatically Speeds Up Searches of Large Databases http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/CRD-STAR.html The technology, known as the Word-Aligned Hybrid (WAH) compression method, was developed and recently patented by John Wu, Arie Shoshani and Ekow Otoo of Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Data Management (SDM) Research Group. The technique and its application are described in a paper recently selected as a “best paper” by the International Supercomputer Conference, and Wu will present the paper at the conference to be held June 21-24 in Heidelberg, Germany. WAH is currently used in a software package called FastBit to compress bitmap indexes. A bitmap index is a method of reducing the response time of queries involving common types of conditions in data objects, such as "state = CA" and "age >= 21." It achieves this by storing certain pre-computed answers as bitmaps. For example, a bitmap index for "state" might have one bitmap for each state in the U.S. Because computers can manipulate bitmaps efficiently, bitmap indices are efficient in searching for interesting records in large datasets. WAH compression makes the bitmap index optimal in terms of computational complexity. A small number of the most efficient indexing schemes have this optimality property. What makes the new technology unique is that WAH-compressed indexes significantly outperform other schemes in tests. “In tests conducted using actual data from high-energy physics experiments, we confirmed that our FastBit software is an order of magnitude faster than the best-known bitmap indexing schemes on average,” according to Wu, the lead developer of FastBit. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM		archives subject tracers™ Marcus P. Zillman Blog Home Internet Alerts Audio Welcome Marcus P. Zillman Internet Speaker Marcus P. Zillman Internet Consultant Marcus P. 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