Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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Friday, September 30, 2005  Lingua MOO http://lingua.utdallas.edu/ Lingua MOO was created in 1995 by Cynthia Haynes (UT-Dallas) and Jan Rune Holmevik (University of Bergen, Norway) to serve primarily the University of Texas at Dallas Rhetoric and Writing program and their School of Arts & Humanities and the University of Bergen's Department of Humanistic Informatics. Lingua MOO functions as both a learning environment for their students and a broader community for research and collaboration on projects situated at the intersection of Arts & Humanities and electronic media. Since 1995 Lingua MOO has also become home to an international network of researchers in these areas. They have classes and professional academic organiztions meeting at Lingua MOO from such countries as Norway, Germany, Korea, Australia, South Africa, Denmark, and England, just to name a few. Lingua MOO is also the foundation for their broader educational MOO open source project called enCore. Educators may obtain the enCore educational MOO database and server software FREE from the enCore website enabling them to set up their own educational MOO customized to meet the specific purpose of their institution or department. They estimate there are several hundred enCore MOOs around the world serving the teaching of such subjects as writing, rhetoric, foreign languages, English as a second language, astronomy, library reference and instruction, children's therapy, among others. System requirements for users are minimal because the MOO uses a web browser as the client, so there's no need on their part to download software. Educational MOOs are excellent supplements to traditional classroom instruction, but may also serve as the sole means of delivery for distance learning courses. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  MediaMOO - Media Researchers http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/MediaMoo/ MediaMOO is a professional online community for media researchers. It is a place to come meet colleagues in media studies and related fields and brainstorm, to hold colloquia and conferences, and to explore the serious side of this new medium. MediaMOO is a research project of Amy Bruckman started at the Epistemology and Learning Group at The MIT Media Lab, and is now hosted at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Mud Magic http://www.mudmagic.com/ This is an Online Text Games - Muds site and is a very exhaustive resource site for MUDS and online text games. This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  International Journal of Computational Intelligence International Journal of Computational Intelligence (IJCI) http://www.enformatika.org/journals/1304-2386/ International Journal of Computational Intelligence (IJCI), is a scholarly peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, quarterly, international scientific journal focusing on theories, methods and applications in computational intelligence; artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation and hybrid systems. All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical, and will be peer-reviewed. Articles submitted to the journal should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should follow the style of the journal and are subject to both review and editing. IJCI covers all areas of artificial intelligence, publishing refereed research articles, survey articles, and technical notes. IJCI reviews papers within approximately one month of submission and publishes accepted articles on the internet immediately upon receiving the final versions. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, September 29, 2005  China Information - A Journal on Contemporary China Studies http://cin.sagepub.com/ China Information presents timely and in-depth analyses of major developments in contemporary China and overseas Chinese communities in the areas of politics, economics, law, ecology, culture, and society, including literature and the arts. China Information pays special attention to views and areas that do not receive sufficient attention in the mainstream discourse on contemporary China. It encourages discussion and debate between different academic traditions, offers a platform to express controversial and dissenting opinions, and promotes research that is historically sensitive and contemporarily relevant. The journal's mission to promote exchanges between different academic traditions is reflected in its awareness of the important contributions made by scholars outside the Anglo-Saxon world. It actively seeks to reflect the diversity of scholarships and research agendas in America, Europe, Japan, and China. The journal includes book reviews that cover publications from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, France, and the German-speaking areas. In addition, China Information transcends the conventional boundaries between social sciences and humanities and encourages cross-fertilization between disciplines. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  The Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute http://www.cjh.org/family/ The Genealogy Institute helps new and experienced family history researchers learn about the world of their ancestors. They help you learn about your ancestors by providing reference and educational services, and creating programming on family history and its connections to the broader sweep of Jewish history. The Institute also leads researchers to the primary sources at the Center: Yizkor books and landsmanshaft records at YIVO, family and community histories at the Leo Baeck Institute, and military records at the American Jewish Historical Society are just a few of the rich primary sources open to researchers. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Updated: XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and Supporting Documents The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released the following Working Drafts of XML Query 1.0, XSL 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. The goal of this release is to permit public review of changes made in response to Last Call comments.
* XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-20050915/ * XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath20-20050915/ * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-datamodel-20050915/ * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-functions-20050915/ * XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20050915/ * XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX) http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xqueryx-20050915/ * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-semantics-20050915/ * XML Query Use Cases http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-use-cases-20050915/ * Also published are the following updated Working Drafts which have not yet reached Last Call: + XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text Use Cases http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlquery-full-text-use-cases-20050915/ + XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-full-text-20050915/ Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/XML/  Wikipedia - Researching with Wikipedia Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researching_with_Wikipedia Wikipedia can be a great tool for learning and researching information. However, like all sources, not everything in Wikipedia is accurate, comprehensive, or unbiased. Many of the general rules of thumb for conducting research apply to Wikipedia, including: a) Always be wary of any one single source, or of multiple works that derive from a single source, and b) Where articles have references to external sources (whether online or not) read the references and check whether they really do support what the article says. However, there are also some rules for conducting research that are special to Wikipedia, and some general rules that do not apply to Wikipedia. THis has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, September 28, 2005  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N10 October 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N10 October 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N10.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The October 2005 V3N10 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 37 page .pdf document (717KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features a comprehensive listing of Astronomy Resources on the Internet including astronomy, astrophysics, bioastronomy, radio astronomy, roboscopes and related sources on the Internet. 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 article review covers Precision and Recall of Five Search Engines for Retrieval of Scholarly Information in the Field of Biotechnology by S. M. Shafi and Rafiq A. Rather.   posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) http://www.cdera.org/ The motto of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency encapsulates the nature and work of this disaster management organisation which serves the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). This regional inter-governmental agency established in September 1991 by an Agreement of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM to be responsible for disaster management. There are presently sixteen Participating States? within CDERA’s membership. CDERA's main function is to make an immediate and coordinated response to any disastrous event affecting any Participating State, once the state requests such assistance. Other functions include: a) Securing, collating and channeling to interested governmental and non-governmental organizations, comprehensive and reliable information on disasters? affecting the region; b) mitigating or eliminating as far as possible, the consequences of disasters affecting Participating States; c) Establishing and maintaining on a sustainable basis, adequate disaster response capabilities among Participating States; and, d) Mobilizing and coordinating disaster relief from governmental and non-governmental organizations for affected Participating States. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Applied Bionics and Biomechanics Applied Bionics and Biomechanics http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=882 Applied Bionics and Biomechanics is an international, peer reviewed journal of advanced technological developments based on the science of biological systems. While artificial body parts and related devices (both implantable and extracorporeal) will be a strong focus, other applications of synthetic bionic systems also fall within the scope of the journal, particularly those that are medically-oriented. Issues of public policy relating to developments in bionics, as well as basic research underlying this emerging science, are within the journal¹s scope, provided basic research is accompanied by well-reasoned extrapolation and discussion of potential practical implications for advancing bionics technologies. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics is targeted at readers with an interest in applied aspects of bionics science and technology. Thus, the intended readership includes researchers and practitioners in the fields of biomechanics, bioengineering and synthetic biological systems, developers, manufacturers and distributors of applied bionic technology products, and public policy planners and administrators in the areas of technology and health. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  IFPMA Clinical Trials Portal Search http://www.ifpma.org/clinicaltrials.html This service is provided by the IFPMA, on behalf of its Member Companies and Associations. The portal has been designed as a single entry allowing you to search for comprehensive information on on-going clinical trials (registry) or results of completed trials (database) conducted by the innovative pharmaceutical industry. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, September 27, 2005  Community Internet http://www.freepress.net/communityinternet/ High-speed Internet access is fast becoming a basic public necessity — just like water, gas or electricity. But far too many Americans are finding themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide, unable to get connected or afford expensive commercial service. Community Internet is the answer. Soon all media -- TV, telephone, radio and the Web -- will be delivered via the Internet over a broadband connection. New wireless and wired technologies allow local governments, public-private partnerships, schools and community groups to offer faster, cheaper and more reliable Internet service. Hundreds of Community Internet and municipal broadband projects have sprouted up across the country. Click on the map to find a network near you. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Personal World Clock http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html The Personal World Clock allow you to select up to 16 cities or places of special interest, so you could have them displayed on a separate page. Your selected cities will be remembered, so that they will hopefully reappear the next time you visit the site. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Wikis: Disruptive Technologies for Dynamic Possibilities http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt Gerry McKiernan is pleased to announce the availability of his PowerPoint presentation titled "Wikis: Disruptive Technologies for Dynamic Possibilities" that was delivered at Digital Libraries à la Carte: Choices for the Future, an international workshop held at Tilburg University, The Netherlands late last month. The presentation reviews the general nature and structure of select wikis, the features and functions of popular wiki software engines, and describes the content and use of wikis by select businesses, colleges and universities, and libraries. The presentation also speculates about the wiki as an environment, framework, and venue for Disruptive Scholarship, his proposed model for alternative scholarly authorship, review, and publishing is available at: [ http://www.disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com/ ]. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources page posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Voo2do - Web Based To Do Lists http://www.voo2do.com/ voo2do tracks priority, due date, and time estimates for each task. There is no notion of "lists" in voo2do— tasks can be grouped by project, but you can view and edit a bunch of projects together. Voo2do does not yet support sharing your tasks with other people. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, September 26, 2005  dontbuyjunk Don't Buy Junk http://www.DontButJunk.com/ Their mission is to continue to build a site that can offer you accurate product recommendations for all of your purchases, without allowing these recommendations to be influenced by anything other than real opinions from our users and from around the Web. This has been added to the ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  TypeTester - Compare Screen Type TypeTester - Compare Screen Type http://typetester.maratz.com/ The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. It's primary role is to make web designer's life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Austrian Journal of Statistics http://www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at/oezstat/ The journal is published approximately quarterly by the Austrian Statistical Society, Institut für Statistik, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Its general objective is to promote and extend the use of statistical methods in all kind of theoretical and applied disciplines. Special emphasis is on methods and results in official or governmental statistics. Original papers and review articles will be published in the Austrian Journal of Statistics if judged consistently with these general aims. All papers will be refereed. Special topics sections will appear from time to time. Each section will have as a theme a specialized area of statistical application, theory, or methodology. This has been added to Statistical Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  The American Distance Education Consortium http://www.adec.edu/ Interest in distance education within institutions of higher learning dates as far back as the correspondence programs first offered by the University of Chicago and Columbia University in the late 19th century. There are a host of organizations currently involved in disseminating and promoting the cause of distance education, the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), is one of the most notable. The ADEC is composed of approximately 65 state university and land grant colleges and as an organization is primarily concerned with creating a model of distance education that will provide instructional delivery and access anywhere and anytime. On their site, visitors can learn about a host of distance learning delivery technologies, read up on best practices developed by ADEC member institutions and individuals, and federal programs and grants designed to assist those with an interest in the subject. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, September 25, 2005  The Government Domain - RSS and Uncle Sam by Peggy Garvin http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain9.htm Peggy Garvin examines the cautious nature with which the federal government is embracing RSS feeds. She highlights RSS feeds currently available from a range of agencies, and also suggests useful tools and sources to locate feeds as they become available. This has been added to the presentation resources of my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  SemaPedia.org - Combining Semacode with Wikipedia http://www.semapedia.org/ Their goal is to combine the physical annotation technology of semacode with the availability of high quality information using the free encyclopedia Wikipedia. Imagine your cellphone as your smart travelguide. Their promise is to provide free relevant ad-hoc high quality information to mobile users in the real world. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Free Geography Web Games Free Geography Web Games http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm Free Geography Web Games - Click On a Region To Play. Have fun learning the countries, capitals, and geography around the world with these free web games. This has been added to Game Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  RTDinfo: Magazine on European Research http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/rtdinfo/index_en.html RTD info is a quarterly magazine published by the European Commission presenting a mix of research results and debate on scientific subjects of interest to a wide, non-specialised readership. The common theme is Europe. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, September 24, 2005  AtomEnabled http://atomenabled.org/ Atom is a simple way to read and write information on the web, allowing you to easily keep track of more sites in less time, and to seamlessly share your words and ideas by publishing to the web. If you're new to Atom, you can find out more about what Atom can do for you. Or if you just want to get started, tools and services which work with the Atom format are listed in the AtomEnabled directory. Created by leading service providers, tool vendors and independent developers, Atom is designed to be a universal publishing standard for personal content and weblogs. Technical information about working with the Atom format is available at the developer information page, and publications or weblogs that are interested in the benefits of being AtomEnabled can find out more about the benefits of Atom for publishers. This has been added to the resources section of my presentation titled Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  RRDtool RRDtool http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ Some call it the industry standard data logging and graphing application. Others use it to write their very own full custom monitoring scripts. Most people will probably get in touch with RRDtool through some third party monitoring applications. RRD is the Acronym for Round Robin Database. RRD is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average). It stores the data in a very compact way that will not expand over time, and it can create beautiful graphs. It can be used via simple shell scripts or as a perl module. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Agricultural Economics Review http://www.eng.auth.gr/mattas/eng.htm Agricultural Economics Review is the official publication of the Greek Association of Agricultural Economists. The purpose of the Agricultural Economics Review is to provide a new forum for the exchange and dissemination of ideas among scientists in order to encourage the development of theoretical and applied research in the field of Agricultural Economists. Specific topics covered include: a) economics of agricultural resources and the environment, b) agricultural policy, c) international trade, d) marketing of agricultural products, e) production economics, f) agricultural sociology, and g) agricultural extension and education. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Folksonomy Folksonomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. In contrast to formal classification methods, this phenomenon typically only arises in non-hierarchical communities, such as public websites, as opposed to multi-level teams and hierarchical organization. Since the organizers of the information are usually its primary users, advocates of folksonomy believe it produces results that reflect more accurately the population's conceptual model of the information. Folksonomy is not directly related to the concept of faceted classification from library science. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, September 23, 2005  October 2005 Zillman Column - Entrepreneurial Resources October 2005 Zillman Column - Entrepreneurial Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Entrepreneurial Resources Oct05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The October 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Entrepreneurial Resources. This October column is a comprehensive listing of entrepreneur and small business resources on the World Wide Web. Looking to become a budding entrepreneur? Looking for resources to keep your entrepreneurial organization at the leading edge? These resources and sites on the Internet will be an exciting starting point for you! Download this excellent 16 page free .pdf (384KB) column today. © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542 Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression. Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest. Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles. This has been added to my presentation resources at Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Virtual Sweden Virtual Sweden http://www.virtualsweden.se/ Panoramic photographs that immerse their audience in a landscape have been in vogue throughout the history of photographic enterprises. With this in mind, users should not be surprised to learn of the existence of the Virtual Sweden website. Established by Jonas Carlson in 2003, the site contains 360 degree panoramic images taken by Carlson from a wide variety of locales across the globe. Of course, visitors should start by looking at the panoramic photograph taken from the Gronskar lighthouse in the Stockholm archipelago, but then they would be remiss not to look at some of the other available images. Some of the other places Carlson has seen fit to document are Rome, Thailand, Egypt, and London. Visitors can peruse a thematic list of these locations, or they may simply go straight to his "Latest additions" list, which is also on the site's homepage. [ From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Bioinformation Journal for Beyond Bioinformatics Bioinformation http://www.bioinformation.net/ Beyond Bioinformatics: It is free, open access and online immediately upon acceptance. Bioinformation is an online journal publishing research articles in biological knowledge discovery after full peer review. Bioinformation is added in DOAJ and listed in HIWW. All articles are published, without barriers to access, immediately upon acceptance. The abstracts of published papers will be indexed in major indexing databases after the completion of one year from the launch date. Bioinformation publishes original research articles in all aspects of biological knowledge discovery through mathematical and computational analysis of biological data. The journal specifically invites articles describing new biological insights based on primary or derived data. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, September 22, 2005  DocTree - Large JavaDoc Index DocTree - Large JavaDoc Index http://getahead.ltd.uk/doctree/ Doctree is a comprehensive index to the JavaDoc from 110 Java projects. It links to 2593 packages and 32047 classes from a single page which saves you having hundreds of bookmarks for every Java project you use. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  International Journal of Accounting Information Systems http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14670895 The International Journal of Accounting Information Systems will publish thoughtful, well developed articles that examine the rapidly evolving relationship between accounting and information technology. Articles may range from empirical to analytical, from practice-based to the development of new techniques, but must be related to problems facing the integration of accounting and information technology. The journal will address (but will not limit itself to) the following specific issues: control and auditability of information systems; management of information technology; artificial intelligence research in accounting; development issues in accounting and information systems; human factors issues related to information technology; development of theories related to information technology; methodological issues in information technology research; information systems validation; humancomputer interaction research in accounting information systems. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Go-Geo! - Geo-Spatial Datasets and Related Resources http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/ Go-Geo! is the UK academic spatial data portal operated and maintained by EDINA National Data Centre, University of Edinburgh. The portal is a key component of the UK academic Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and is financially supported by the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC). Go-Geo! offers access to information about all things spatial for researchers, teaching staff and students in UK further and higher education institutions. It's principle function is as a data discovery tool, searching metadata catalogues across the UK. This is now augmented by a Metadata Editor tool, allowing individuals to create and edit their own metadata to describe spatial data they either have collected or curate. Go-Geo! also offers links to other GI-related quality controlled resources, such as books in print, photographs, online mapping and data services, software, training courses, events, discussion forums and useful organisations. Go-Geo! aims to support the full research project life cycle. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to my white paper Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Codase - Source Code Search Engine http://www.codase.com/ Codase is the leading source code search company with advanced source code understanding and xml index/search technologies. Rather than treating code as text, Codase understands programming languages, and treats code as code, the way it's supposed to be. This unique and syntax-aware approach provides the most accurate and detailed search results with fine granularity levels of controls. With Codase, one can search functions, classes, strings, constants, macros, comments and other programming language constructs. Codase hosts huge amount of open source codes providing a much better coverage, as it covers codes usually hidden inside compressed files and source control repositories, where general search engines fail to find and index. In addition, Codase only indexes and searches high quality codes with every line of code literally validated and compiled by intelligent and powerful source code analysis engine. Codase is a privately held company based in silicon valley, founded by Dr. Huihong Luo and other veterans. They are a group of innovative and passionate professionals with diverse technologies, business background and proven track of records. They are committed to make Codase the world's best search engine for source codes in terms of features, quality, performance and code coverage. If you are a developer, you may find Codase useful, since improving your coding productivity is their goal. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, September 21, 2005  Password Safe Password Safe - The Security of Blowfish In a Password Database http://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html With Password Safe, a free Windows utility designed by Bruce Schneier, users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination--just one thing to remember--unlocks them all. Password Safe protects passwords with the Blowfish encryption algorithm, a fast, free alternative to DES. The program's security has been thoroughly verified by Counterpane Labs under the supervision of Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography and creator of the Blowfish algorithm. Password Safe features a simple, intuitive interface that lets users set up their password database in minutes. You can copy a password just by double-clicking, and paste it directly into your application. Best of all, Password Safe is completely free: no license requirements, shareware fees, or other strings attached. Password Safe is now an open source project. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter http://www.isocdisab.org/ This is the first chapter in the Internet Society that is not a geographically based chapter. It is dedicated to addressing the needs of people with special needs that are related to the Internet and its attendant technologies. The pages on this site will explain more about the chapter. This chapter represents a journey for all of us who are members and who are dedicated to creating equal access to the Internet regardless of disability. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Center for Media Research http://www.mediapost.com/research/index.cfm?loc=1 Market and media intelligence is required for each step in the media planning and implementation process. The Center for Media Research helps to acquire, organize, analyze and present the necessary statistical and qualitative information to support or direct strategic decisions… and make those decisions fast and accurately. The Center For Media Research provides: a) Daily alertness to and briefings on breaking media research news that will impact planning and buying decisions, b) Research reports and studies to help develop and improve media plans, strategies, actics, performance and placement, and c) Selected resources and links to help media planners and buyers leverage the internet to identify and reach targeted audiences efficiently and effectively. The constant research digging, reporting and writing by the Center For Media Research will keep you informed about the marketplace, aware of the media serving it, abreast of the breaking opportunities, and in tune with the world. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Review of Social Economy: The Journal of the Association for Social Economics http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00346764.asp For over sixty years the Review of Social Economy has published high quality peer-reviewed papers on the many relationships between social values and economics. Among the subjects addressed are income distribution, justice and equity, poverty, cooperation, human dignity, labour, workplace organization, gender, need, the environment, economic institutions, economics methodology and class. Among the orientations of the Review's authors are social and socio-economics, institutionalist, solidarist, cooperativist, Post-Marxist and radical, feminist, Post Keynesian, behavioralist, and environmentalist. Papers published are both empirical and conceptual. The final issue of each volume is guest edited, and devoted to a special theme or individual in social economics. The journal also includes short papers and comments, book reviews and review essays, and announcements of future meetings. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, September 20, 2005  Open Access Webliography Open Access Webliography http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/oaw.htm This webliography by Adrian K. Ho and Charles W. Bailey, Jr., presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005. In basic terms, the goal of the open access movement is to make scholarly articles freely available in digital form worldwide with minimal restrictions on their use (e.g., proper attribution of authorship). In reality, it's more complex than this because of differences of opinion about what open access should or shouldn't try to achieve. Some advocates say free access to scholarly articles is enough, minimal restrictions are not needed. Others say that the basic goal is correct, but permanent archiving is also required. Still others say why stop at scholarly articles, make all types of scholarly literature freely available in digital form. Such doctrinal differences are normal and healthy in such an important and dynamic movement. This very brief discussion will focus strictly on digital versions of scholarly articles; however, the reader should understand that digital archives and repositories may contain other types of digital materials. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Joomla! Content Management System http://www.joomla.org/ Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS) created by the same award-winning team that brought the Mambo CMS to its current state of stardom. The name Joomla! is a phonetic spelling for the Swahili word "Jumla", which means "all together" or "as a whole". It was chosen as the entire teams behind Mambo were unanimous in their commitment to protecting the interests of the creators and community, which was the true cause for the success and acclaim earned by that project. This name was chosen from thousands of recommendations by the community, and even went through an arduous review session by branding and marketing professionals who also felt that Joomla! was the best choice of the lot. What sets Joomla! apart from the rest is their dedication to keeping things as simple as possible, while providing the most features possible. Finally, non-technical people can have complete control over their websites without paying exhorbitant amounts for closed, proprietary software. Joomla! is more than just software, it is people. The community behind Joomla! includes developers, designers, systems administrators, translators, content writers, and most importantly the end users. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  europrospectus.com http://www.europrospectus.com/ europrospectus.com - the world's largest text, clause and field searchable online library of debt, equity, derivative and M&A prospectuses. Serving the global capital markets, clients using our service can find in seconds what would otherwise have taken days, if not weeks, to track down. Once they have identified a document (or clause) as relevant, our service automatically suggests documents (or clauses) of deals that look similar. We provide documents in many formats including PDF, Microsoft Word (for copying and pasting) and HTML which has online Hit-to-Hit text navigation and Key Term discovery. Currently we offer more than 250,000 prospectuses and add about 1,500 new documents each week. This hyperlink is a good resource for professionals who wish to find the prospectus of a security issue. This has been added to Financial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  colLib - MetaData Records Harvester colLib - MetaData Records Harvester http://collib.info/index.php/Main_Page colLib is the collaborative platform for organizing Open Access materials in Library & Information Science (LIS). Harvests metadata-records from OAI-PMH-compliant repositories and enables manual 'tagging' of these records to cluster them by subject or other meaningful categories. Tags are represented by pages in a wiki, that can be annotated with links to related tags, external links and any other text deemed relevant. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, September 19, 2005  Plazes http://www.plazes.com/ Plazes is a grassroot approach to location-aware interaction, using the local network you are connected to as location reference. Plazes allows you to share your location with the people you know and to discover people and plazes around you. It's the navigation system for your social life and it's absolutely free. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Truveo Video Search Engine Truevo - Video Search Engine http://www.truveo.com/ Latest Press Release here. BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2005--Truveo(TM), a start-up company emerging from stealth mode today, launched a new video search engine that delivers higher quality and more up-to-the-minute results than traditional search engines. Based on a unique technology for indexing video using the visual characteristics of web pages, the Truveo search engine can find video on the Web that all other search engines miss. Truveo released a beta version of its search product today. While the development of Truveo's unique crawling technology has taken nearly two years, Truveo has only recently put this new technology into production and has already indexed an extensive collection of video that cannot be found with current search engines. On its site, Truveo invites users to compare its results against those of Google and Yahoo! In the next six months, the company expects to significantly improve the breadth and quality of its search listings. "Despite many years of development, video search engines today are scarcely better than the original video search engines introduced a decade ago," said Tim Tuttle, co-founder and CEO of Truveo. "For search to reach the next level and become truly ubiquitous, a fundamentally new approach is required to rapidly find and organize the vast amounts of television, movie and video content created every minute. At Truveo, our mission is to build an engine that indexes all of the video on the web, giving users the most relevant and up-to-date results for any video search, be it the latest on Hurricane Katrina or Britney Spears." Under the Hood: Visual Crawler(TM)- Truveo was started by Tim Tuttle and Adam Beguelin, veteran search and networking technologists. In early 2004, they began development of a technology, called the "Visual Crawler," which is the foundation of the Truveo search engine. Truveo's "Visual Crawler" is capable of identifying the visual characteristics of a web application, as a human would. Using this approach, the crawler is able to locate video that is normally invisible to standard crawlers. Additionally, once the "Visual Crawler" locates a video, it can also find an abundance of contextual information, or metadata that relates to each video. Due to the ability to mine this rich metadata, when a user types a query into Truveo, such as "Lance Armstrong," the search engine can return the most relevant and up-to-the-minute videos on Armstrong's latest developments. This has been added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  FoodieView Search Engine FoodieView - Recipe Search Engine http://www.foodieview.com/ With FoodieView, you can search the major recipe sites all from one place, then save any recipes that you like in one central place. Just use the FoodieView recipe search page to look for recipes you want. If you see one that you like, just click the "Add to Recipe Box" link. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Hurricane Katrina People Search Bot All-In-One Hurricane Katrina People Search Bot http://news.yahoo.com/katrinahelp All-in-one search for Katrina boards and lists from KatrinaSafe.com, Yahoo!, The Red Cross, Nola.com, Gulf Coast News, CNN, MSNBC, Earthlink, Operation Get-In Touch, katrina-survivor.com, Public People Locator, CastPost, Family Messages, Gulf Coast Hurricane, and America's Most Wanted: Katrina Victim's Network. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, September 17, 2005  USGS Astrogeology Research Program USGS Astrogeology Research Program http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/ The mission of the USGS Astrogeology Research Program is to establish and maintain geoscientific and technical expertise in planetary science and remote sensing to perform the following tasks: a) scientifically study and map extraterrestrial bodies, b) plan and conduct planetary exploration missions, and c) explore and develop new technologies in data processing and analysis, archiving, and distribution. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) http://www.cspinet.org/ Since 1971 The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has been a strong advocate for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science. Its award-winning newsletter, Nutrition Action Healthletter, is the largest-circulation health newsletter in North America, providing reliable information on nutrition and health. Because of CSPI’s leadership in the areas of nutrition, food safety, and other issues: a) A new federal law was enacted that sets standards for health claims on food labels and provides full and clear nutrition information on nearly all packaged foods, b) Millions of Americans changed their food choices at popular restaurants thanks to CSPI's widely publicized studies on the nutritional value of restaurant meals. Thousands of restaurants have added healthier options to their menus, c) Major fast-food chains have stopped frying with beef fat and many have introduced more healthful foods, and d) Scores of deceptive ads by companies such as McDonald's, Kraft, and Campbell Soup have been stopped. With support from 900,000 members, CSPI is vigorously pursuing its mission in the new century. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Delft University - Department of Earth Observation and Space systems DEOS http://www.deos.tudelft.nl/ DEOS, now the Department of Earth Observation and Space Systems of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, is the result of a major refocussing of research and educational programmes at Delft University. Geodesy and space technology have been added to the existing expertise of DEOS to form the centre for space systems, earth observation and geomathematics in The Netherlands. DEOS incorporates the field of spacecraft system integration and design that is essential for the development of earth observation systems. Earth observation sensors are present in satellites and aircrafts, as well as on ground-based and (sub-)marine platforms. DEOS combines space engineering, earth science, and geo-information technology in a unique way to serve society. The research potential and educational expertise of five internationally renowned groups together with one new group led by the first Dutch astronaut Professor Ockels have been synergetically bundled: 1) System Integration, Design and Analysis of Space Systems (SIS), 2) Astrodynamics and Satellite Systems (AS), 3) Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning (MGP), 4) Physixcal Geometrical and Space Geodesy (FMR), and 5) Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (FRS). This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal http://fcs.sagepub.com/ The Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal publishes original research and scholarly reviews in areas of family and consumer sciences and related disciplines concerned with the general well-being of families and individuals, including such areas as child and family studies; clothing and textiles; consumer sciences education; family economics and management; food and nutrition; and housing, equipment, and design. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, September 16, 2005  Botswana Journal of Technology https://www.ajol.info/journal_index.php?jid=84&ab=bjt Botswana Journal of Technology describes original developments or research in the field of Engineering and Technology. Papers for publication in the Botswana Journal of Technology should describe original developments or research in the field of Engineering and Technology. Review papers are also welcomed. Papers which deal with Education, Pure Sciences, or Mathematics will only be accepted if the subject matter relates directly to an Engineering application. Papers which have direct National or Regional interest are preferred. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  The Sciences of Complexity http://www.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/complexity/ Many systems in the natural sciences and humanities fall under the heading of "Complex Systems". Many are multi-agent systems, the agents being complex molecules, cells, living organisms, animal groups, human societies, industrial firms or competing technologies. To reach a better understanding of each field and to transfer techniques and insights from one discipline to the others requires the development of a common language and an open forum engaging a broad community to perform a strong cross-fertilization of research. This is why, in this project, mathematicians, physicists, biologists, medical doctors, economists, sociologists, linguists and engineers have attempted to share their experiences, models and the many questions on what role the notion of complexity may play in their fields. By joint collaborative research and the participation in the seminars and workshops, phenomena and paradigms of fields other than their own became familiar to the scientists that shared the experiences of this project. Simple is what becomes familiar and, by broadening their knowledge on how complexity unfolds in its many forms, they might be able, in the future, to approach the study of complexity through simplicity. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online (EBO) http://www.la-press.com/evolbio.htm Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online (EBO) is a peer-reviewed, open-access research journal focusing on evolutionary bioinformatics. There is growing awareness that to understand organismal form and function, through the use of molecular, genetic, genomic, and proteomic data, due consideration must be given to an organism's evolutionary context - history constrains the path an organism is obliged to take, and leaves an indelible mark on its component parts. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online publishes papers on all aspects of computational evolutionary biology, and evolutionary bioinformatics. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Web Collaborator - Free and Easy Way To Collaborate http://webcollaborator.com/ This website creates a new free and easy way to collaborate. Before Web Collaborator, to collaborate on a project meant passing papers back and forth, hours of painstaking corrections, hundreds of wasted pieces of paper, headaches, and plenty of coffee. Web Collaborator coordinates collaborations automatically, keeping backups of every revision ever made to the project, letting you see who made the changes, and allowing you to focus on the work instead of managing the work. Better yet, it is absolutely free for all uses. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, September 15, 2005  Mini-Keynote Presentation DVD by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. My latest keynote presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators is now available as a Mini-Keynote Presentation DVD. If you would like to see and hear an overview of my latest presentation to evaluate for a future presentation to your group, association or corporate meeting; feel free to call 800-858-1462 and request the free 12 minute DVD by leaving your name, address, phone number and email address. This is also an experiment for me as I am doing this the "ole fashion" way and not using the Internet as my primary response vehicle. Additional information on my speaking is available on the Internet at: Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. - Internet Speaker http://www.InternetSpeaker.net posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Education Podcast Network http://epnweb.org/ The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century. Most of the producers of these programs are educators, who have found an avenue through which they can share their knowledge, insights, and passions for teaching and learning and for the stories that they relish and teach. The directory will grow as more people come forward with their stories and ideas, and we hope that you will start to share your ideas with the larger education community by producing your own program. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Google Blog Search http://google.com/blogsearch Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and they hope Blog Search will help their users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice. Your results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; their blog index is continually updated, so you'll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results; and you can search not just for blogs written in English, but in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and other languages as well. This has been added to the my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation page. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/jsbed/jsbed.htm Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development is written for leaders of SMEs and academics in the field of entrepreneurship. Combining case studies, with quality research, to provide you with an authoritative discussion on the developments surrounding small businesses. They seek to explore best practice, investigate strategies for growth, and to assist and inform those responsible for the management of SMEs. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, September 14, 2005  Oodle - The Search Engine for Local Classifieds http://www.oodle.com/ Oodle makes it easy to use online classifieds. They bring together loads of listings from hundreds of local and national sources and help you find exactly what you're looking for — the right job or place to volunteer, the perfect home, or a great deal on a used ladder. Each day Oodle brings you thousands of new classified listings. Cars, jobs, pets, pianos and more. Looking for a female beagle? Simply search "dog" then click "beagle" and "female." Be the first to respond with Oodle Alerts. Tell them what you want and they will email you the minute listings are available. This will be added to the Search Engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  One Free Minute http://www.onefreeminute.net/ What would you say, given one free minute of anonymous public speech? One Free Minute is a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. When you call the cellphone inside One Free Minute, you get connected for exactly a minute to a 200 watt amplifier and speaker. The speech produced by the speaker can be heard clearly more than 150 feet away from the sculpture. Neat way that the Internet is used and the creative ideas that are generated! posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  AnswersThatWork http://www.answersthatwork.com/ AnswersThatWork.com - Included are categories of: a) Software answers, b) Hardware problems, c) Configuration solutions, d) Networking tips, e) General computer tips, f) Recommendations, g) Drivers, h) Boot disks, i) Software downloads, j) Our famous Task List, and k) ISP email settings. You can find all the above in their Libraries of Answers That Work. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Portable Software - Best Freeware http://nedwolf.com/Freeware-Portable.htm Portable software runs on your USB key drive or your iPod, or a memory stick, or any type of external drive you plug into a USB port. You don't have to install anything on the computer's hard drive. It's like carrying your office around with you. Or... carrying your home to the office. These kind of apps are becoming more and more popular as USB flash drives get cheaper and cheaper. If you ever do any work at more than one computer, go get one now, then install this freeware. Then you can do something else. If you want. Or, you can just hold your key drive and feel good about what you've just done. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, September 13, 2005  Penn State IST Researchers To Enhance Search Engine Penn State IST Researchers To Enhance Search Engine http://live.psu.edu/story/13209 The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2-million grant to researchers in the Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and the University of Kansas to enhance and improve the CiteSeer academic search engine which receives more than 1 million hits a day and is heavily indexed by Google and Yahoo!. Since its launch in 1997, CiteSeer has provided the public with access to more than 700,000 documents in computer and information sciences. The Next Generation CiteSeer will archive more documents, allow new types of searching, offer CiteSeer as a Web service, include personalized recommendations and searches, and permit synchronous live-object collaboration. Lee Giles, the David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, is the principal investigator for the NSF Computing Research Infrastructure Collaborative Grant. Jack Carroll, the Edward M. Frymoyer Professor of Information Sciences and Technology; Jim Jansen, assistant professor of information sciences and technology; and Susan Gauch, University of Kansas, are co-investigators. Funded for four years, the Next Generation CiteSeer project will expand CiteSeer's database and add and improve services. Among the new features will be a parsing service, which allows extraction of acknowledgments and header analysis, and an enhanced indexing service for documents and their citations. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Scrum - It's About Common Sense http://www.controlchaos.com/ Scrum is an agile, lightweight process that can be used to manage and control software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. Wrapping existing engineering practices, including Extreme Programming and RUP, Scrum generates the benefits of agile development with the advantages of a simple implementation. Scrum significantly increases productivity and reduces time to benefits while facilitating adaptive, empirical systems development. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law http://www.icnl.org/ The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) is primarily concerned with helping establish a legal framework for strengthening civil society across the globe. Their work includes providing technical assistance to over 90 countries and partnerships with civil society representatives and government officials. First-time visitors may want to begin by reading some of their news briefs and press releases, which examine recent legislation and policy developments that bear directly on the area of civil society. The "Tools and Publications" area will be quite helpful to practitioners in this area as it includes assessment tools (such as a bibliography on the nonprofit sector and civil society) and a number of guidelines for laws affecting civic organizations. Visitors will also want to peruse the archives and current edition of the ICNL's own journal, The International Journal for Not-For-Profit Law. This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  ColorBlender http://colorblender.com/ ColorBlender – your free online tool for color matching and palette design! To get started, choose a preferred color using the color picker below, and a 6-color matching palette (a "blend") will be automatically calculated. Using the radio buttons you may switch to Direct Edit mode to tweak or edit individual colors of your blend. Blends can be saved for future use, and will be available whenever you return to this site from the same workstation, given that your browser accepts cookies. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, September 12, 2005  Herbal Safety http://www.herbalsafety.utep.edu/default.htm The website has two primary purposes: To disseminate information about research findings related to herbal use in our region, as well as to provide information about the safety of herbal product use in both English and Spanish. This feature makes it one of the few bilingual websites specifically developed to disseminate non-commercial information about medicinal plants. In the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of herbal products in the United States. Based on research undertaken by our program, the use of diverse herbal products is even more common in the Texas-Mexico border region than in the rest of the country. Unfortunately, some of the information currently available about medicinal plants is either misleading, or simply lacking. This is especially true of the medicinal plants from China, India or Mexico, for example, which, aside from a few exceptions, have not been studied in depth for their potential therapeutic applications. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Social Networks Social Networks http://kmblogs.com/public/blog/85528 Social Networks are used to effectively map and measure networks, knowledge flows and relationships in organizations, communities and other complex human systems. These practical methods are highly instrumental in building and optimizing the dynamic knowledge ecosystems essential to productivity, innovation and the future of all knowledge-based organizations. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Seniors4Hire - Online Career Center for Employers and Job Seekers 50 and Over http://www.seniors4hire.org/ Seniors4Hire.org is a nationwide online Career Center and the #1 place on the Internet for U.S. job seekers 50 and over to find job openings from businesses that value a diverse workforce and actively recruit and hire older workers, retirees and/or senior citizens. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  SimplyHired Job Search Engine http://www.simplyhired.com/ Simply Hired is a vertical search engine company based in Silicon Valley, and they are building the largest online database of jobs on the planet. Their goal is to make finding your next job a simple yet effective, enjoyable journey. They can't always promise you'll discover your dream job, but they will give you the best chance possible to get a bigger paycheck, a more considerate boss, or a shorter commute. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, September 11, 2005  Openfiler — Friendly Enterprise Storage Management Platform: http://www.openfiler.org/ Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based network storage software distribution. Openfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework. Openfiler sits atop of CentOS Linux (which is derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor). It is distributed as a stand-alone Linux distribution. The entire software stack interfaces with third-party software that is all open source. File-based networking protocols supported by Openfiler include: NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/WebDAV and FTP. Network directories supported by Openfiler include NIS, LDAP (with support for SMB/CIFS encrypted passwords), Active Directory (in native and mixed modes) and Hesiod. Authentication protocols include Kerberos 5. Openfiler includes support for volume-based partitioning, iSCSI (initiator), scheduled snapshots, resource quota, and a single unified interface for share management which makes allocating shares for various network file-system protocols a breeze. posted by Marcus | 9:59 AM  Dotso.com - The News DotSo.com - The Latest News Feeds From Selected Internet Channels http://www.dotso.com/ An excellent news feed reader to keep you up to date with the latest happenings and events. This offers an easy to use and no nonsense approach to reading the various news feeds that are available through the Internet. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 9:29 AM  Stellarium http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/ Stellarium is free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 9:26 AM  Headline Analyzer http://www.aminstitute.com/headline/ This free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score. As you know, reaching your customers in an deep and emotional way is a key to successful copywriting, and your headline is unquestionably the most important piece of copy you use to reach prospects. Your headline will be analyzed and scored based on the total number of EMV words it has in relation to the total number of words it contains. This will determine the EMV score of your headline. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Publuc Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, September 10, 2005  Digg - Technology News Digg - Technology News http://digg.com/ Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Imagination Prompt Generator Imagination Prompt Generator http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/imagination.prompt.html Looking for some random writing prompts for your journal, blog, or other creativity-related project? Well then, you've come to the right place! Your first prompt appears at this site. To generate another, simply click the "Next Prompt" button. Creativity Portal's Imagination Prompt Generator will inspire you by outputting one of many randomly generated "Imagination Prompts" at the press of a button. They call them Imagination Prompts because they can be used for writing, blogging, art projects, music, discussion, or anything else you need some inspirational prompting for! This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Webometrics Webometrics - World Universities' Ranking On the Web http://www.webometrics.info/ This observatory of the academic and scientific research activities and publication on the Web will be improved with the publication of a completely updated ranking of universities and research centres according to the webometric indicators of their institutional web domains. This contribution to cybermetrics intend to provide not only an overview of the science and technology published on the Web but a tool for evaluation of the research. This approach takes into account the wide range of scientific activities represented in the academic websites, frequently overlooked by the bibliometric indicators. The ranking is based on a combined indicator that takes into consideration the volume of the published material on the web, and the visibility and impact of these webpages measured by the sitations (site citations) or links they received (inlinks). It is derived from the Web Impact Factor, build on the same idea as the bibliographic databases based Impact Factor of the Journal Citation Reports published by the Institute of Scientific Information, now Thomson Scientific. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Science NetLinks http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/ Science NetLinks is part of the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. MarcoPolo partners the AAAS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, the National Council on Economic Education, the National Geographic Society, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The MarcoPolo partnership provides free, Internet-based content across academic disciplines. Science NetLinks' role is to provide a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, including lesson plans and reviewed Internet resources. SNL is a dynamic site with new content being added on a regular basis, so check back often. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, September 09, 2005  MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ The MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) was announced by Nicholas Negroponte, Lab chairman and co-founder, at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Foundations and Trends® in Communications and Information Theory http://www.nowpublishers.com/ 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 Communications and Information Theory 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 Communications and Information Theory will comprise a 50-100 page monograph written by research leaders in the field. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology™ (CBO) https://www.clinbioinformatics.org/ Existing medical vocabularies lack rich terms to describe findings generated by molecular diagnostic and cytogenetic techniques. Likewise, bioinformatics resources were not designed to support the needs of the clinical community. The Clinical Bioinformatics Ontology™ (CBO) was initiated to address these gaps. Key attributes of the CBO include: a) Controlled vocabulary – uniquely identified concepts, b) Machine readable – multiple formats, c) Semantic network / ontology – provides biological context to clinical findings, d) Curated resource – Consistent application of content creation methodology, quality control process, and e) Focused on current clinical practice – controlled scope. This site provides guest users with access to a subset of the CBO that includes all of the high level navigational concepts and a subset of the concepts associated with the cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR). Registered users can download the full ontology in multiple formats. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Here's How To Plug In and Search For Old Friends With the Web By Tahree Lane http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050821/ART16/508200311 Tracking down a long-lost friend or relative on the Internet can be as simple as typing their name into Google, Yahoo, or ZabaSearch, or it can be much more complicated. "It's perceived as easy even though it isn't," says Marcus Zillman, long-time Internet consultant and author of Internet Sources, eCurrent Awareness Resources, and Internet Miniguides for professionals. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, September 08, 2005  PMD Java Source Code Validator http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like: 1) Empty try/catch/finally/switch blocks, 2) Unused local variables, parameters and private methods, 3) Empty if/while statements, 4) Overcomplicated expressions - unnecessary if statements, for loops that could be while loops, and 5) Classes with high Cyclomatic Complexity measurements. You can get an overview of all the rules at the Rulesets Index page. PMD has plugins for JDeveloper, Eclipse, JEdit, JBuilder, Omnicore's CodeGuide, NetBeans/Sun Java Studio Enterprise/Creator, IntelliJ IDEA, TextPad, Maven, Ant, Gel, JCreator, and Emacs. Thios has been added to the World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog./ posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Annals of Genealogical Research http://www.genlit.org/agr/index.php Annals of Genealogical Research is an open access journal for genealogy and family history. Their aim is to provide a simple and effective way to publish research results, and to make those results easy for others to find, use, and cite. This journal is not oriented towards articles of general interest to genealogists, but rather each of its articles tends to be narrowly-focused. For most readers, then, browsing the Annals will not be all that productive. Instead it is expected that most access will be through the search page or a general internet search engine, or directly to an article which they find via a link or citation. The articles published here remain under copyright by their respective authors. By publishing their work here, they have agreed that it can be copied, but only with proper attribution and only for noncommercial purposes. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  UserScripts Userscripts http://www.userscripts.org/ Userscripts.org is an excellent repository for userscripts and is constantly expanding with new scripts! This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Text Explosion - Freeware Abbreviation Xpander for Windows http://www.maxkat.org/txtexplode.htm Text Explosion is a freeware abbreviation expander for Windows. Introduced in 2005, Text Explosion rivals many commercial abbreviation expanders. Features include: 1) Works in any and all programs, 2) Speed your typing by automatically inserting your commonly used text, 3) Replace your abbreviation with any amount of text, from a few words to a page or more, 4) Use to fill out forms on the Internet, 5) You can use Text Explosion to correct your common spelling errors, and 6) Use Text Explosion to respond to common email questions. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, September 07, 2005  Acronym Search http://www.acronymsearch.com/ This database is updated every couple of days. There are over 50,000 acronyms and abbreviations in many categories. Including chat, computer, military, finance, accounting, airports, sports, classified, and more. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Journal of Civil Engineering Research and Practice https://www.ajol.info/journal_index.php?jid=186&ab=jcerp The Journal of Civil Engineering Research and Practice aims to publish original research papers of high standard, containing material of significant contribution to civil engineering, with emphasis being placed on material that is applicable to the solution of practical problems. JCERP is published twice a year (in April and October). ISSN: 1729-5769. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Scope for Mobile Web Best Practices Published http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-mobile-bp-scope-20050901/ http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/ The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices." This document outlines deliverables such as guidelines for content delivery and display on mobile and small-screen devices, sets out requirements for the "mobileOK" trustmark, and identifies the goal of one Web. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM) http://www.ejkm.com/ The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management is an online journal that aims to publish articles and papers that contribute to the development of both the theory and practice in the field of Knowledge Management. The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management provides perspectives on topics relevant to the study, implementation and management of knowledge management. The journal contributes to the development of both theory and practice in the field of knowledge management. The journal accepts academically robust papers, topical articles and case studies that contribute to the area of research in, and practice of knowledge management. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, September 06, 2005  Cheat Sheet Roundup Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets For Developers http://www.petefreitag.com/item/455.cfm Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why you should like cheat sheets. They are quick references that feature the most commonly forgotten things on a specific topic. You can print them out and hang them on your wall, or just keep them handy in your bookmarks for quick reference. They have rounded up over 30 cheatsheets that developers might find useful. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 PM  PocketMod - Free Disposable Personal Organizer http://www.pocketmod.com/ The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDA's are to expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now. With the PocketMod, you can carry around the days notes, keep them organized in any way you wish, then easily transfer the notes to your PDA, spreadsheet, or planer. The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card. It is hard to describe just how incredibility useful the PocketMod is. It's best that your just dive in and create one. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Test Your Firewall http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/ The HackerWatch Community site offers excellent resources for testing the security of your firewall. Their server is ready to send traffic to your computer. You may select either of two methods: 1) If you would like to simply generate some event traffic on your computer to test the event notification dialog and see some events in the log choose the simple probe, or 2) If you would like the server to check a list of common ports on your computer to determine if it is able to obtain a connection to them use the port scan. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/ Downloadable and very printable, you will find these PDFs extremely useful. So, you can make a 24x30 inch sheet with a green one-inch 10 point grid. Obviously they cannot anticipate all your needs, but the grids featured should cover most common ones. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, September 05, 2005  Health Care Professionals and Relief Personnel Worker Page https://volunteer.ccrf.hhs.gov/ The Office of The Surgeon General and the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness are in the process of mobilizing and identifying healthcare professionals and relief personnel to assist in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. As our nation and global community is now aware, the healthcare needs resulting from Katrina are critical. posted by Marcus | 7:34 AM Katrina Information Map http://www.scipionus.com/ Katrina Information Map - This map is intended for the use of people affected by Hurricane Katrina who have or are trying to find information about the status of specific locations affected by the storm and its aftermath. If you have information about the status of an area that is not yet on the map, please contribute by following the instructions so that others may get that much needed information. posted by Marcus | 7:31 AM Saturday, September 03, 2005  ShrinkTo5 - DVD Copying Engine http://www.shrinkto5.com/ ShrinkTo5 is the new, powerful and fast DVD copying engine. ShrinkTo5 has been developed as a cross-platform engine available for free for anyone. To ensure a fast spreading to other platforms ShrinkTo5 is distributed as open-source. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  overLIB http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/ overLIB is a JavaScript library created to enhance websites with small popup information boxes (like tooltips) to help visitors around your website. It can be used to provide the user with information about what will happen when they click on a link as well as navigational help (see the examples below). Not to mention that it looks cool, is stable, and has an active developer community to boot! This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, September 02, 2005  Journal of Applied Communication Research http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00909882.asp The Journal of Applied Communication Research publishes original scholarship that addresses or challenges the relationship between theory and practice in understanding communication in applied contexts. All theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome, as are all contextual areas. Original research studies should apply existing theory and research to practical situations, problems, and practices; should illuminate how embodied activities inform and reform existing theory; or should contribute to theory development. Research articles should offer critical summaries of theory and/or research and demonstrate ways in which the critiques can be used to explain, improve, or understand communication practices or processes in a specific context. Commentaries on applied communication issues may also be submitted. Although manuscripts from any perspective and addressing any communicative situation are invited, particularly welcome are studies of how communication defines, regulates, alters, and sheds light on contemporary social issues. All manuscripts must include a separate section detailing the intended or potential practical applications of findings, critique, or commentary. The editor is also interested in receiving conceptual articles that propose applied research agendas developed from critical analyses of relevant literature. In this type of manuscript, authors should develop and present a coherent framework of propositions that can be empirically tested to advance our understanding of applied communication practice. Such articles must be comprehensive and original in analysis, grounded in extant theory and literature, and innovative propositions and structure. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  PHProjekt http://www.phprojekt.com/ PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and document via intranet and internet. Components of PHProjekt: Group calendar, project management, time card system, file management, contact manager, mail client and 9 other modules ...(feature list). PHProjekt supports many protocols like ldap, soap and webdav and is available for 36 languages and 7 databases. "of course - open source" - PHProjekt is free software. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Idea Generation Methods http://www.ideagenerationmethods.com/ This website lists and explains every idea generation method that they have encountered during the past 15 years. It is the result of extensive research; his many sources include books, management journals, websites, academics, consultants and colleagues. The methods have been drawn not just from the worlds of creative problem solving and innovation, but also from other worlds such as organisational change, strategic planning, psychotherapy, the new sciences and the creative arts. . Each is linked to a description, and in some cases you will find full instructions for using the method to generate ideas. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Culture and Media Science http://www.aec.at/en/lbi/index.asp The new Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Culture and Media Science is being established in Linz, Austria to perform innovative research on the development of strategies for the documentation, description and preservation of digital artworks and media art. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, September 01, 2005  Privoxy Privoxy http://www.privoxy.org/ Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks. Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster™. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  The Speech Accent Archive The Speech Accent Archive http://accent.gmu.edu/ The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Web 2.0 - Data, Metadata amd Interface Web 2.0: Data, Metadata and Interface http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_08/web2-data-metadata-interface.html One key takeaway from the Web 2.0 panel was that data, interface and metadata no longer need to go hand in hand. When working on an application/website, one thinks of the overall picture including the data, the metadata, and the interface. With Web 2.0 apps, the data might be from one place, the metadata from another, and the interface from a third party or a remix. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Biological Knowledge Biological Knowledge http://www.biologicalknowledge.com/ Biological Knowledge is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal soon to be launched by BioMed Central. Biological Knowledge will encompass all aspects of knowledge-based biological and biomedical research. As the amount and complexity of biological and medical research grows, so does the awareness that the end product of research must be knowledge, not merely data. Biological Knowledge aims to provide a focal point for research relating to biological and biomedical knowledge. The fields covered by the journal include, but are not limited to: ontologies, knowledge representation, and knowledge bases; reasoning, discovery, and machine learning; natural language processing and linguistics; history, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology; cognitive science, including cognitive and social psychology; and education. Senior Editors will assess the suitability of manuscripts submitted to Biological Knowledge. Those manuscripts that are deemed suitable for peer review will be anonymously reviewed by at least two peers, under the direction of the Editorial Board. Authors may suggest or veto specific reviewers. Everything will be done to ensure reviews are useful, constructive and timely. Authors will be kept updated on the progress of their manuscripts. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM |
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