Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004 
DigiCULT Resources - Resource Discovery & Information Retrieval DigiCULT Resources - Resource Discovery & Information Retrieval http://www.digicult.info/pages/resources.php?t=21 An excellent listing of resource discovery and information retrieval resources and sites compiled and annotated by DigiCULT. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Global Sources: Creating and Facilitating Global Trade http://www.globalsources.com/ Global Sources offers product and trade information for volume buyers including product search, supplier search and country search. Also available are product alerts, my catalog, sourcing magazines and market intelligence reports. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM The Electoral College, Political Parties, and Elections: Sites To Help You Through the Voting Process by Beth Jane Toren C&RL News, July/August 2004 Vol. 65, No. 7 http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/july04/elections.htm This article contains annotations to selected free sites and Internet resources that provide information about the electoral college, political parties, U.S. presidential elections, procedures and statistics, and international election monitoring. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Journal of Webology: An International Electronic Journal http://www.webology.itgo.com/ Webology is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular. Concerns include the production, gathering, recording, processing, storing, representing, sharing, transmitting, retrieving, distribution, and dissemination of information, as well as its social and cultural impacts. There is a strong emphasis on new information technologies and methodologies. The orientation is toward quantitative experimental work, but significant qualitative and historical research is also welcome. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM ez2Find - Global Meta Search Engine http://www.ez2find.com/ An interesting and comprehensive meta search engine with over 3.8 million sites listed in 460,000 categories and 1,000 specific search engines. Their translation capability as well as many country choices and guides make this warranted for your bookmarks. This will be added to the search engine section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Internet Guide To Chinese Studies http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ As China is the second fastest growing country on the Internet it is always good to have the resources appropriate to the country available. The China WWW Virtual Library Internet Guide to Chinese Studies has over 1,500 links to many excellent resources and is created by the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands with support from the Institute of Chinese Studies (Heidelberg University), the Berlin State Library, and the German Research Foundation. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, August 30, 2004 
White Papers by Internet Expert Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. August 30, 2004 V2N35 discusses the latest Internet resource White Papers. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest resource for white papers. View this resource at: White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/  
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jux2 Search Tool jux2 Search Tool http://www.jux2.com/index.php As search aficionados, we have watched recent changes in the search industry with great interest. Yahoo! launched its own search algorithm in February 2004. MSN previewed its proprietary search algorithm in July 2004, and is expected to roll it out soon. That will give Internet searchers a choice of four different major search algorithms (Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, and Yahoo). It also made us wonder: how different are the search engines, and is one any better than the others? They created jux2 as a comparative research tool to answer these questions. Using jux2, theylearned that search engines are more different than people think, typically sharing fewer than 3.5 of their top 10 results (see the other statistical data). They also found that a comparative tool like jux2 gives users far more control over their searches and, in many cases, better search results than from any single search engine. Their hope is that the community of advanced search users finds jux2 an interesting and useful tool. This has been added to the search engine section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Openly Informatics http://www.openly.com/ Openly Informatics, Inc., has a mission: to help researchers, scholars, libraries, merchants and publishers link their information together. They build software, systems and services that link people to information more efficiently. The goal of 1cate (that's one-cate) is 1-Click Access To Everything. 1Cate is an OpenURL compatible link-server for libraries that integrates a user's information environment. Openly's Hosted 1Cate service delivers e-journal lists, links, and locations- and we do all the work! Knowledgebases help linking systems to know when and how to make links. The focus of the JournalSeek Database, which is bindled with our Link.Openly Software, knowing HOW to make links. The focus of their UHF Holdings Data Service is knowing WHEN to make links. Together, these products contain linking information for over 60,000 serial publications from over 900 publishers. LinkBaton is their link server for books. LinkBatons are user-customizable links for books that can be placed on any web site to enable user preference and to enhance website revenue. Openly developed eFirst XML to build one of the most innovative e-Journals in existence. Their expertise in XML and automated document conversion are available to assist on your projects. This has been added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Lycos Discussion Search http://discussion.lycos.com/ Lycos Discussion Search provides you the tools to search and retrieve information from millions of discussion threads and conversations taking place on the World Wide Web. These interactive conversations may include listings from some of the more popular community listings. If you have an interest or need some information about a person, place or thing - find out what other folks are saying and search for a discussion on your interested topic. Lycos is working to provide you ONE place to find information about all your interests and your friends, family and colleagues, both current and future. This has been added to Finding People Subject™ Tracer Information Blog. This also has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM URLinfo http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/ URLinfo beta by Fagan Finder is a tool for handling web pages: finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc. To use it, type a URL (web page address) into the box in the top frame. Then choose a tab (such as General or Cache), and click on the name of the specific tool you wish to use. The Translate and Search tabs require a bit more, but should be self-explanatory. Click on the [info] link at the end of any tab for details about it. URLinfo includes 87 tools. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM IP Law Papers and Links http://techlawadvisor.com/papers/ A comprehensive list of white papers on IP Law and related links from the Tech Law Advisor. This will be added to Legal Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Webliographies from ISTL http://www.istl.org/webliographies.html Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship list their excellent webliographies coverings a number of scholarly academic areas. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, August 29, 2004 Information Technology and Healthcare 1) National Health Information Infrastructure http://aspe.hhs.gov/sp/nhii/ 2) PC World: Medical Records May Go Online http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117479,00.asp 3) CNET News: Human Chips More Than Skin Deep http://news.com.com/Human+chips+more+than+skin-deep/2009-7337_3-5318076.html 4) Medical Records Institute Survey http://www.medrecinst.com/pages/latestNews.asp?id=115 5) Ariadne Magazine: Interoperability http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/ 6) Connecting for Health Roadmap http://www.connectingforhealth.org/ 7) Electronic Record Development and Implementation Programme (ERDIP) http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/erdip/pages/default.asp In July 2004, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)launched its initiative to develop a National Health Information Infrastructure. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to create an electronic health record (EHR) for every American so that health records can be securely shared among health care providers. This Topic in Depth explores developments in electronic health records and technology. This first website (1) is the official site for the National Health Information Infrastructure 2004: Cornerstones for Electronic Healthcare. Some current ideas for how to share medical records, such as secured online postings or saving data on flash disks are discussed in this article from PCWorld (2). This next article (3) discusses another development in information technology, implantable electronic identification chips. The fourth website (4) presents findings from a recent Medical Records Institute survey of health providers on their current uses, future hopes and perceived barriers to electronic health record systems. One challenge for the initiative is interoperability, which is explained generally on this website (5). The issue of interoperability, as well as privacy and fragmentation in the health industry are addressed in the Preliminary Roadmap for Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare released by Connecting for Health (6). For more on current research on technology supporting the use of electronic records see this website from The Electronic Record Development and Implementation Programme (ERDIP) (7).[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Peer-to-Peer Topologies http://www-db.stanford.edu/~schloss/hypercup/ HyperCuP – Shaping Up Peer-to-Peer Networks. They present HyperCuP, a protocol implementing a distributed algorithm for organizing peers in a P2P network into a deterministic network topology. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM JournalSeek - A Searchable Database of Online Scholarly Journals http://journalseek.net/ Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 67008 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN. Searching this information allows the rapid identification of potential journals to publish your research in, as well as allow you to find new journals of interest to your field. The database does not contain articles or abstracts. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM The Chord Project http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/ The Chord project aims to build scalable, robust distributed systems using peer-to-peer ideas. The basis for much of our work is the Chord distributed hash lookup primitive. Chord is completely decentralized and symmetric, and can find data using only log(N) messages, where N is the number of nodes in the system. Chord's lookup mechanism is provably robust in the face of frequent node failures and re-joins. One way that we use Chord is as the basis for the CFS (Cooperative File System) storage system. CFS allows anyone to publish and update their own file system, and provides read-only access to others. CFS distributes the load of serving data very widely to achieve high performance despite flash crowds. It also replicates all data, and maintains that replication as nodes fail and re-join the system. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Designing Webliographies In an Effective and Simple Manner: A Step by Step Process http://www.webology.itgo.com/2004/v1n1/a2.html Abstract: This paper explains web-based information retrieval as one of the main research interests of information professionals during the last decade, and introduces machine-oriented and human-oriented approaches in the designing process of Internet search tools and concerns with the second approach as a basis for the discussion. Then it defines the concept of webliography as a special type human-edited search tools. It is in fact an enumerative list of hypertext links and a gateway to the scientific sources of information on the Net, whether annotated or not. The existence and development of webliographies on the Net are justified based on a brief literature review. 14 phases of webliography production process are also enumerated step by step and a conclusion is provided finally. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to the toold section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Web Finding Tools http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/netsearch.htm An excellent set of web finding tools links from the Dudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School. Tools include Glossary, Searching Techniques & Hints, Search Engines & Search Tools, Meta Search Engines, Specialized Search Sites, The Invisible Web, and Subject Directories & Webliographies. This will be added to my Searching the Internet resources list white paper. This will also be added to the search engines section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 28, 2004 FindArticles http://www.findarticles.com/ LookSmart's FindArticles — search and read 5.5 million articles from over 900 publications. This had been added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. This has also been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Infortmation Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM WideSource - Peer to Peer Search Engine http://www.widesource.com/ Widesource peer to peer sharing program features a powerful search engine to find web pages on the Internet. The search engine includes multiple criteria to enhance search quality, such as page size, opinion, date, language, keywords, connection speed, and other specifications. Other features of Widesource include bookmarks management, fast search on internet or in your own bookmarks, usefull macros, browsing other users bookmarks,password-protection and access restriction (on IP mask or name), a friends list, new version notification, wordwide chat, connected people list, user-friendly graphical interface, future availability of skins, and more. The program runs as a convenient icon in the System Tray area of the Windows taskbar. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM PeerMetrics http://www.peermetrics.org/ PeerMetrics is a cabal of open source developers and users interested in p2p and a furtive center for Peer System development. The vision is to build a container to run a lot of p2p plugins in, like The GIMP, push the work into the container like EJB, and hit a sweet spot of simplicity and power, like Unix. The biggest goal that is developers enjoy using and working with the Peer System. Making a peer service should be enjoyable coding that's satisfying. Where it is isn't, the peer should be fixed. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM TopoZone http://www.topozone.com/ TopoZone is the Web's center for professional and recreational map users. We've worked with the USGS to create the Web's first interactive topo map of the entire United States. And we've spent four years making our maps the best on the Web as well. In addition to serving maps on the TopoZone, we're also the Web's best source for custom digital topographic data for Web, GIS, and CAD applications, and our Web Services system can add our maps directly to your desktop or server through our ArcIMS and OGC WMS interfaces. [Net-Gold] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Science Search http://www.science-search.org/ Science Search focus is primarily on scientific issues. Science Search wants to make it possible to find accurate and helpful information in scientific areas. So, their goal is to find the best of educational and research information for you and deliver it to you in a skilful way. The Science Search Directory is based on DMOZ. Science Search has modified and enhanced this data. This will be added to the search engine section of Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Private Grid http://www.private-grid.nl/ Use a 10-node, 24Ghz machine for your own projects for free! With the advent of broadband, GPRS, UMTS, the world is becoming a more and more connected place. Ubiquitous computing is slowly permeating into normal day-to-day life. People are getting used to 'always being connected', and share the resources they have, sometimes with friends or acquintances, but mostly with total strangers, often living great distances away. Most of the time, the resources being shared are limited to audio- and/or video streams, webcams and filesharing with P2P software. What with home- and office systems becoming more and more powerful, high-performance computing for the masses is becoming a reality. The SETI@Home statistics prove that the Internet can be used as a large supercomputer. The idea of the private grid initiative is that people start using the very respectable, often unused, computing resources they have at their disposal for new and different projects they have not thought of before. This site is provided as a service, so academics and technical people can meet people who have ideas about what they could or would do if they could unlock the resources they have. On the other hand, it might help the sciences if they get feedback from people that are not yet locked into a certain way of thinking.This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, August 27, 2004 
Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N9 September 2004 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N9 September 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N9.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The September 2004 V2N9 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is available as a 28 page .pdf document (470KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of Information Alerts on the Internet and Anti-Virus, AntiHoax, AntiMyth, AntiFraud, AntiChain Letter and Anti-Spam sites on the Internet. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources. The book review highlights The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subjects: Grant Resources and Grid Resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:35 AM 
September 2004 Zillman Column September 2004 Zillman Column - Grid and Distributed Computing Resources on the Internet http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Grid Resources.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The September 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Grid and Distributed Computing Resources on the Internet. This September 2004 Zillman Column is a comprehensive listing of online grid resources, distributed computing resources, clusters, and parallel computing sites on the Internet. Download this excellent 14 page free .pdf column today and stay current in the ever changing exciting world of grid and distributing computing! Using freely available distributing computing you could discover the next prime number, discover the cure for AIDs, discover intelligent life from the universe and more ... posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:30 AM 
Distributed Search Engines Distributed Search Engines http://www.openp2p.com/pub/t/74 A comprehensive annodated listing of 31 distributed search engines compiled by the OpenP2P organization. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Searchy - A Distributed Metainformation Search Engine http://jsearchy.sourceforge.net/ Searchy is a distributed metainformation search engine used to integrate the location of resources (resources may be understood in its widest meaning). It is useful to access different search systems like data base managers, directory services or information sources like local files with an uniform interface. Actually, Searchy may be seen from several points of view. It may be... * A distributed metainformation search engine. A key point is that Searchy performs the search in semantic terms, and returns the results also in semantic terms using RDF and Dublin Core. It makes Searchy ideal to be integrated in the future semantic web.It is written in Java with the goal to be neutral from a platform point of view and highly scalable. At the moment, its aim is to describe resources, but in a future we want to integrate it better with the semantic web by providing RDF full support, with the huge number of potential applications that it might have. Searchy is highly scalable, it can be used in small environments as long as in big ones. The key of its scalability is that Searchy is in fact a network of independent cooperant agents. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM TeraGrid http://www.teragrid.org/ TeraGrid is a multi-year effort to build and deploy the world's largest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. By 2004, the TeraGrid will include 20 teraflops of computing power distributed at nine sites, facilities capable of managing and storing nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution visualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing. Four new TeraGrid sites, announced in September 2003, will add more scientific instruments, large datasets, and additional computing power and storage capacity to the system. All the components will be tightly integrated and connected through a network that operates at 40 gigabits per second. Researchers may obtain a user's guide about access to the TeraGrid by clicking here. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM UNICORE (Uniform Interface to Computing Resources) http://unicore.sourceforge.net/ UNICORE (Uniform Interface to Computing Resources) offers a ready-to-run Grid system including client and server software. UNICORE makes distributed computing and data resources available in a seamless and secure way in intranets and the internet. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Word Count http://www.wordcount.org/ Words are used as invectives, toasts, and tirades, among other forms of human expression. As a type of artistic experiment, Jonathan Harris of Flaming Toast Productions decided to create this engaging website that documents the 86,000 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. Nay-sayers beware: This is no simple listing of the words, contained within a mundane series of connected web pages. As visitors quickly realize, this articulated end-to-end listing of these 86,000 words features scaled versions of each word, giving a "visual barometer of relevance." As the site notes, "The goal is for the user to feel embedded in the language, sifting through words like an archaeologist through sand, awaiting the unexpected find." Interestingly enough, the word "God" is one word from "began" (which is at number 375), and six words from "war." Budding urbanologists will find it interesting that the word "Chicago" is at number 6,692 and that "Shanghai" makes into the list at 18,242. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, August 26, 2004 
OCEAN - Open Computation Exchange & Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network OCEAN - Open Computation Exchange & Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network Project http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/ocean/ OCEAN (Open Computation Exchange & Auctioning (or Arbitration) Network) is a major ongoing project at the University of Florida's CISE department to develop a fully functional infrastructure supporting the automated, commercial buying and selling of dynamic distributed computing resources over the internet. The idea is that anyone with spare cycles should be able to deploy an OCEAN server which can run other people's computing tasks for profit, and any developer should be able to easily write a distributed application which any user with a credit card number (or other means of automatic payment) should be able to deploy in distributed fashion using as many suitable OCEAN servers as they can afford to rent for their particular purpose. OCEAN will likely use a distributed, peer-to-peer double-auction mechanism to ensure that jobs are automatically contracted out to the cheapest suitable available bidders, and that OCEAN servers automatically contract themselves out to run the highest-paying available jobs. The OCEAN project had its roots at M.I.T. with a group of MIT and former Stanford students, led by Mike Frank. This has been added to Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:35 AM I have just completed my latest Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation titled "Online Social Networking" and this 13 page research paper lists many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to do information and knowledge research about online social networks currently available the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (675KB) at the below link from the Virtual Private Library™: [Updated 09-22-04] Online Social Networking an Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Online Social Networks.pdf
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Bio-GRID http://biogrid.icm.edu.pl/ Bio-GRID will develop interfaces to enable chemists and biologists to be able to submit work to HPC facilities. This task will focus on development of various interfaces to biomolecular applications and databases. The main task of Bio-GRID is to integrate selected applications with UNICORE infrastructure and provide easy tools for non experts in high performance computing. The toolsets and user interfaces for both simulations and visualization of biomolecules will be developed. As final step the computation portal will be established and tested with various biomolecular applications at ICM and a number of biomolecular projects and users. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM The Flamenco Search Interface Project http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html The Flamenco search interface framework has the primary design goal of allowing users to move through large information spaces in a flexible manner without feeling lost. A key property of the interface is the explicit exposure of category metadata, guide the user toward possible choices, and to organize the results of keyword searches. The interface uses metadata in a manner that allows users to both refine and expand the current query, while maintaining a consistent representation of the collection's structure. This use of metadata is integrated with free-text search, allowing the user to follow links, then add search terms, then follow more links, without interrupting the interaction flow. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center: Arecibo Observatory http://www.naic.edu/aomenu.htm The 305m radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory "is the largest single-dish radio telescope on our planet and is available to the global scientific community for astronomical observation at wavelengths between 6 m and 3 m." Researchers can search WAPP data and information about past, present, and future projects at the Observatory. The extensive website provides numerous data reduction packages and file formats. Users can find extensive materials on the planetary studies, space and atmospheric science, and astronomy occurring at the observatory. Students and educators can learn about Arecibo's summer program. The News link is filled with fascinating new accomplishments, employment opportunities, and upcoming astronomy talks and seminars. This has been added to the radio astronomy section of Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM QADPZ - Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem http://qadpz.sourceforge.net/ Q²ADPZ ['kwod "pi-'si] is an open source implementation of a system for distributed computing. The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. The users of the system can send computing tasks to these computers to be executed, which can be in the form of a dynamic library, an executable program or any program which can be interpreted (Java, Perl, etc.). Platforms supported are Linux, Unix, Win32 and MacOS X. The system is a client-master-slave architecture, using message based communication. Messages between the components of the system are in XML format, and can optionaly be crypted for security reasons. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 25, 2004 
The Digital Learning Center The Digital Learning Center http://webs.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/index.jhtml The KODAK Digital Learning Center (DLC) is your digital reference solution. The DLC was developed to educate people about the digital world and to help them succeed with digital imaging. The site was built on the basics of educational instruction and has been utilized by thousands of people to Take Pictures. This site includes a glossary of digital imaging terms as well as chapters on such subjects as images for the web, video conferencing, color and storage issues. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Pronom - The File Format Registry http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/ PRONOM is an on-line information system about data file formats and their supporting software products. Originally developed to support the accession and long-term preservation of electronic records held by the National Archives, PRONOM is now being made available as a resource for anyone requiring access to this type of information. PRONOM holds information about software products, and the file formats which each product can read and write. A full description of the individual fields used by PRONOM is available in the system documentation. PRONOM is being made available as an information resource for anyone who needs authoritative information about software products, their support lifecycles and technical requirements, and about the file formats which they support. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM What Lies Beyond PDF? http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=6869 The PDF (Portable Document Format), Adobe's near-universal electronic distribution format, has undoubtedly come a good distance in the 11 years since its debut. But despite its inarguable position as the de facto standard for distributing documents on the Web, it has its share of critics who complain that it's not a particularly effective digital distribution method. Some complain that it's fine for printing out documents, but lousy for online reading. Others complain about its load time, particularly on Web sites. Although the PDF format will likely be with us for the foreseeable future, digital publishing continues to evolve, and there are a number of competing and complimentary technologies already on the market. The debate over whether online publishing should approximate print continues as well, with some competitors focused on creating a new paradigm for Web publishing, while others stress the need to maintain the integrity of the print layout. Spencer Ewald, NXTbook's CEO, explains, "There is a reason the way the book is laid out. We are conditioned to rest at the page flip. People get frustrated when scrolling because it's not laid out in the same way they are used to seeing and reading. Print is a type of interface, and we wanted to translate that onto the Web and marry the power of print with the assets of the Internet -- the depth, the quickness, the ease, and the distribution method." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Alchemi - Plug & Play Grid Computing http://www.alchemi.net/ Alchemi is an open source software framework that allows you to painlessly aggregate the computing power of networked machines into a virtual supercomputer computational grid and to develop applications to run on the grid. It has been designed with the primary goal of being easy to use without sacrificing power and flexibility. Alchemi includes: * The runtime machinery (Windows executables) to construct computational grids. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM EuroNews http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?page=home EuroNews is Europe's [television] news channel covering world news from a European perspective in a choice of seven languages. EuroNews broadcasts simultaneously in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish." The site provides video clips of recent stories in the areas of general news, business, sports, entertainment, technology, and more. Also provides weather information. Not searchable. [LII] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Information Wants To Be Shared http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0809/mgt-commune-08-09-04.asp Here's just a small sample of the many online "communities of practice" in government: CompanyCommand (an Army site to connect company commanders working to build combat-ready units); Emerging Leaders (sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services University); Highway Community Exchange (a Federal Highway Administration on transportation issues); IT Community of Practice (sponsored by the Defense Acquisition University's Acquisition Community Connection); and PlatoonLeader (an Army site to connect platoon leaders). CompanyCommand started out as a grass-roots effort yet now has more than 7,000 members and more than 50 topic areas. Maj. Peter Kilner, one of the four strategic leaders of the site, says: "People have tons of information, and people help their buddies. But really sharing their knowledge people need to be inspired and encouraged and then you need to enable it." Bob Turner, a workforce leadership strategist at the Federal Aviation Administration, adds: "One of the things that has stood out for me was that there are a lot of people in government willing to share their expertise, but it's hard for them to find each other." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 24, 2004 
The Night Sky in the World The Night Sky in the World http://www.lightpollution.it/dmsp/index.html The interest for the protection of the night sky from light pollution is growing every day. A global scale periodic monitoring of the situation is necessary. This site offers research on satellite monitoring of the artificial night sky brightness and the stellar visibility. They measure the upward light flux of sources on the Earth surface based on DMSP satellite data and then they compute the effects on the night sky modelling the light propagation in the atmosphere. Some excellent pictures and research. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Chatango http://www.Chatango.com/ Chatango is a new way to make contact with people online. It's the first tool for real-time, private, disposable, one-to-one communication. It works just like one of those IM products, but doesn't require a download, and is accessible from any computer! You may chat with me by clicking on the icon on the right side of this page. If the icon is green I am online and available for chat. If the icon is reddish brown I am not available for chat but a good chance of being online doing research or writing white paapers or updating my Subject Tracer Information Blogs and checking my eMails! posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Search Engines: Weblog Search Engines by Phil Bradley http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/search-engines/intro.html Another nice column by Phil listing some of the latest search engines for searching the rapidly expanding blogosphere. I posted an article a few days ago from the UK that stated there were over ten million blogs and growing at a rapid rate! Even if the number is less it still requires a good search engine to find out what you are looking for both on the web and on a blog! I also list a number of other searching entities for finding blogs in my latest white paper Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Commentary: Wikis http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1344426 NPR - All Things Considered (Audio) - It might sound a little crazy, letting just anyone write whatever they want on your Web site. But that's just what Wikis are designed for. Wikipedia.org, for example, lets the public collaborate to build a surprisingly accurate encyclopedia. Commentator David Weinberger says wikis are one example of "social software," intended to allow people to work together with ease. [Thanks for this audio recommendation from Gerry McKiernan, National Public Librarian, Iowa State University, Ames IA 50011] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Productscan Online http://www.productscan.com/ Productscan Online database of new products is the world's largest database of new consumer packaged goods with over a half million new skus spanning more than two decades, to the product retrieval service and new product publications that started it all, they literally eat, sleep and breathe new products. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Mainstream Media Project http://www.mainstream-media.net/ The Mainstream Media Project seeks to catalyze breakthrough conversations and connections between people of widely varying circumstances and beliefs by using the media to introduce new voices and innovative approaches to the most urgent challenges facing us as a nation and species. Founded in 1995, the Mainstream Media Project is a nonprofit public education organization that places top policy analysts and social innovators on radio stations across the country and around the world. To date, the project has booked and completed more than 12,978 interviews. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, August 23, 2004 
Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. August 23, 2004 V2N34 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Grid Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing grid resources, distributed computing resources, clusters, and parallel computing sites on the Internet. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.GridResources.info/
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Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Ponce de Leon Development Association Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 12:00pm Date: Monday, August 23, 2004 Location: Christy's in Coral Gables, Florida posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Last Call: IRI Internet-Drafts http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-duerst-iri-09.txt http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg00383.html http://www.w3.org/International/ The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has announced the Last Call Internet-Drafts important for Web addressing. "Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)" is written by Martin Dürst (W3C) and Michel Suignard (Microsoft) with involvement of the W3C Internationalization Working Group. Lifting the limitation to a subset of US-ASCII previously allowed in Web addresses, IRIs allow characters in the Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO 10646). Last Call ends 8 September. Visit the W3C Internationalization home page. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Last Call: URI Internet-Drafts http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-06.txt http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg00395.html http://www.w3.org/Addressing/ http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has announced the Last Call Internet-Drafts important for Web addressing. "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax" is written by Tim Berners-Lee (W3C), Roy Fielding (Day Software) and Larry Masinter (Adobe) with involvement of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Last Call ends 13 September. Simple text strings that refer to Internet resources, URIs may refer to documents, resources, to people, and indirectly to anything. URIs are a fundamental component of the Web. Read about the W3C URI Activity and visit the TAG home page. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Second Sight - PC Surveillance Software http://www.iquesoft-online.com/pdssight.htm Second Sight is a full-featured local and remote Windows surveillance application that keeps a complete record of all activities on your computer. Business managers can use Second Sight to monitor employees' activities, and parents can use it to keep track of their children's Internet travels, even from a different location. With Second Sight, you can determine which computer user is making inappropriate or costly use of local and Internet resources. As the amount of Internet content increases daily, so does the potential for abuse. The software works invisibly in the background, totally hidden from the computer's users. The program records the names of all open windows and web pages, and records all keys that were pressed. Second Sight can capture screen images, web cam and video camera stills, save them in its log files in full or compressed format. You can access these logs and images in real-time using any web browser. Optionally, have Second Sight notify you whenever the source PC is online and available for remote access. When reviewing Second Sight's log files, you can see everything that the user saw, and read everything that was typed, as well as perform keyword searches. The program can also be configured to silently e-mail the log files to another computer. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. New technologies create a constant struggle between our security and our privacy .... posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM A Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resource Management http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/elicensestudy/ A comprehensive resource covering reports, drafts, deliverables, projects and related initiatives for developing administrative metadata for electronic resource management. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Biological and Chemical Terrorism Information for Healthcare Professionals by Rachelle Ramsey http://www.istl.org/04-winter/internet.html Healthcare providers need up-to-date, reliable information on the types of agents and diseases they could be faced with during any type of chemical or biological event. This webliography provides links to information on biological and chemical agents as well as current news of importance to the medical community. Included are resources for treatment of diseases caused by these weapons and links to information on the make-up of these agents. While bioterrorism has been the topic of recent webliographies (Perkins 2002, and Hinegardner and May 2003), those articles have concentrated on general resources. This webliography provides access to information about specific biological and chemical agents, and a more comprehensive list of general resources than the other publications." This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, August 22, 2004 
Selective Webliography for Health Sciences Authors Selective Webliography for Health Sciences Authors by Mark A. Spasser http://www.istl.org/04-summer/internet.html This selective webliography for health sciences authors is intended to gather together useful web-based resources that will facilitate the publication of professional materials. Authoring resources and tools are no exception. In fact, "lists" have been used since the beginning of literacy itself to order, reorganize, and store knowledge in a more useful, more 'logical', way (Goody 1977). It is important to remember that the web is loosely regulated and extremely fluid. Even resources from reputable publishers invariably come and go, depending on changing organizational missions and on who is charged with maintaining them. Information must be checked regularly for timeliness; while rules and procedures -- information -- change, sometimes web pages do not. All that being said, exercising a little common sense and considerable diligence, the web provides an unparalleled universe of high-quality resources literally at the fingertips of any enterprising health sciences author. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:30 AM Floods 1) FEMA: Floods http://www.fema.gov/hazards/floods/ 2) FEMA for Kids: Floods http://www.fema.gov/kids/floods.htm 3) USGS: Large Floods in the United States: Where They Happen and Why http://www.usgs.gov/themes/flood.html 4) National Weather Service: Significant River Flood Outlook http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/nationalfloodoutlook/ 5) NOAA: Flood Events http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Floods/ 6) EarthSat: FloodThreat http://www.earthsat.com/wx/flooding/floodthreat.html 7) Dartmouth Flood Observatory http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/ 8) National Park Service: Johnstown Flood National Memorial http://www.nps.gov/jofl/home.htm First, FEMA discusses the devastating impacts floods can have on communities (1). Users can find great tips on the steps to take before, during, and after a flood. The second website, also created by FEMA, offers a more colorful, animated introduction to floods for children (2). Users can read a children's story about flooding, take a disaster math quiz, view astonishing flood photographs, and more. Next, the USGS supplies a pdf document of its nineteen-page report addressing the largest floods and flows within the United States (3). The website contains many colorful pictures, figures, and graphs to help people understand the affect climatology, topography, and basin size have on flow volumes. The fourth site, created by the National Weather Service, offers a general view of significant river flooding for the United States (4). By clicking on different locations on the map, users are connected to local forecast centers where they can find a variety of flood and weather related information. The next site, by NOAA, presents high-resolution, multi-channel color composite and single-channel grayscale imagery of flood events from all over the world (5). Users can search through the images by year and location. Next, EarthSat provides a color map of the continental United States indication by county how much rain is needed within a three hour period over the next twenty four hours to cause flooding (6). The website furnishes an additional map of the precipitation forecast for the maximum amounts expected in a three hour period. The seventh website features the Dartmouth Flood Observatory's role in detecting, mapping, measuring, and analyzing extreme flood events (7). This vast site offers archived data from 1985 to the present, a world atlas of flood hazards, and much more. Lastly, the National Park Service explains one of the worst disasters in the history of the United States, the Johnstown flood of 1889 (8). Users can learn the grave consequences dam failures can create by viewing images of the flood and reading the bibliographies and eye witness accounts.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM When Search Engines Become Answer Engines http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040816.html From Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, August 16, 2004: When Search Engines Become Answer Engines. The website is becoming a less prominent locus of experience as people use search engines to bring up answers to their current questions. How can sites cope with masses of freeloaders? Increasingly, the Internet user experience is becoming one of dipping a toe into websites rather than truly "visiting" them. Using search engines as their Web interface, people simply grab query-related nuggets from sites, but don't engage with the sites themselves. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Internet Publishing Attracting Academics By Julie Bell, Baltimore Sun http://snipurl.com/8hhw Manuel Llinas knew his career was at stake. The young scientist had just finished work on an eye-catching paper on the genome of a parasite that causes malaria. Now he and his lab director faced a critical decision: where to submit the article for publication. A prestigious journal such as Science would draw attention and help Llinas when he interviewed for faculty jobs at top research institutions. But Llinas and Joseph DeRisi, his mentor at the University of California at San Francisco, chose a once unthinkable journal. They submitted the paper to PLoS Biology, a free online journal that had yet to publish its first edition. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Science Learning Network (SLN) http://www.sln.org/ The Science Learning Network (SLN) is an online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education. The SLN has recently expanded to include international members, outside of the framework of the original SLN project. These new museums are collaborating with the six founding SLN museums to create new resources for the SLN website. SLN originated as a three-year, $6.5M project funded by the National Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation. The project incorporates inquiry-based teaching approaches, telecomputing, collaboration among geographically dispersed teachers and classrooms, and Internet/World Wide Web content resources. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM U.S. Congressional Bibliographies http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/senatebibs/ The U.S. Congressional Bibliographies enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted. Its sources are the Congressional Record's "Daily Digest" and bibliographic information supplied by the U.S. Senate Library. Its primary goal is to be an authoritative, exhaustive reference source of meetings held and documents released by House and Senate committees. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 21, 2004 
COLLATE COLLATE - Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material http://www.collate.de/ The R&D project COLLATE (IST-1999-20882) was funded by the EU within the "Digital Heritage and Cultural Content" activities. It ran from September 2000 until the end of 2003. Within COLLATE we designed, implemented and evaluated in real life a highly innovative Web-based collaboratory for archives, researchers and end-users working with digitized historic material. It is one of the first working collaboratories in the Humanities. COLLATE offers new ways of document-centered knowledge work to distributed user groups. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM StepUp - The Internet's Local Marketplace ShoppingBot http://www.stepup.com/ Our mission is to localize web shopping to help consumers instantly find products and book services near their current location, or if it is not available locally, to help the shopper purchase from a respectable business that will ship it promptly. We will make it easy for all businesses to leverage the web so they can prosper in localized commerce. StepUp.com is the Internet’s local marketplace for the 30 million web shoppers in the U.S. that want to purchase locally. StepUp.com will offer the best web commerce services to businesses with physical stores, so that they can sell online and also drive shoppers to their physical locations. This will enable StepUp.com to help shoppers find all their web store and physical store shopping options. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Stratfor - Predictive, Insightful Global Intelligence http://www.stratfor.com/ Stratfor provides strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs. Unlike news organizations that offer only reactive information, Stratfor delivers actionable intelligence on geopolitical, economic and security affairs. Stratfor provides in-depth analysis of what is happening in the world today and forecasts the results of tomorrow's events. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM What Our Web Searches Say about Us http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1002972 Over two-thirds of those polled by Harris Interactive and MSN feel Web searches are the fastest way to find information, though what they are searching for varies widely. Whether because of curiosity, boredom or perhaps the need to find someone from one's past, many people use search engines to find out about the activities and whereabouts of friends, family and ex-boyfriends or girlfriends (the practice is widespread enough that it has acquired a name — "googling" someone — though the sponsor of the survey, MSN, probably hopes to change that with its recently revamped search engine). The most popular person-search of all, however, is users looking up themselves. You know you just cannot get away from that EgoBot thing ;-)). This will be added to a number of my speeches available from Internet Speaker. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Shop Etc. http://www.shopetc.com Shop Etc. magazine has launched its website and among the features are: A daily blog, RSS feeds/syndication for key areas, e-commerce partnerships and the ability to link to and then buy items right from the (web) edit pages, etc. . This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:03 AM Collaboratory Raises the Curtain on Censored Movies http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/69245 Many of Europe's historic films -- censored in Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia during the 1920s and 1930s -- lie damaged, forgotten and largely unseen. Until recently, when a group of researchers mined three national archives and manually digitized 20,000 pages of documents about films, as well as related correspondence, press articles, photos and film clips. They then cataloged, indexed and annotated the pages and are using the results to demonstrate COLLATE, a new Web-based collaborative knowledge working system, dubbed a collaboratory (collaboration plus laboratory). The system allows researchers to work remotely using software tools such as databases, digital libraries and research results. The tool may for a limited time be freely downloaded or directly accessed at http://www.collate.de/. There, researchers may search historic and cultural sources by content, using existing tools and retrieval systems, some of which are open source. Visitors may, for example, download a version of the complete Austrian movie, "Café Electrik," prints of which no longer exist. Using the new system, researchers pieced together its story from related photos and subtitles. Its creators say COLLATE is the first collaboratory used in the humanities, but note it can be used in other domains, as well. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, August 20, 2004 I have just completed my latest research white paper link compilation titled "Web Data Extractors" and this 13 page research paper lists many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to do information and knowledge research about web data extraction currently available the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (569KB) at the below link from the Virtual Private Library™: [updated 04-11-08] Other white papers are available by clicking here. Web Data Extraction a White Paper Link Compilation by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Web Data Extractors.pdf
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SBC Knowledge Network Explorer - Blue Web'n SBC Knowledge Network Explorer: Blue Web'n Homepage http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800 + outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are added. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Recovering from a Trojan Horse or Virus by Michael D. Durkota http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/trojan-recovery.pdf A three page guide written by Michael D. Durkota, US-CERT, Carnegie Mellon spelling out the steps and resources needed in recovering from a Trojan Horse or Virus. This has been added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. [beSpacific August 12, 2004] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM CharityChannel http://charitychannel.com/ CharityChannel is a resource that connects you to your nonprofit colleagues across town, across the country, and around the world. The CharityChannel community is comprised of nonprofit sector professionals from around the world who volunteer their time, advice, information, tips and articles for the benefit of the community. CharityChannel directs (or "channels") this information through their vast network, approves, edits and/or packages it up, and directs it back out to you by way of: Forum discussion lists, enewsletters, updated news links, book reviews, interviews, job postings, consultants listings and product/service listings. This has been added to Grants Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Public Records Online Directory http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm The Public Records Online Directory is a Portal to official state web sites, and those Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices that have developed web sites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet. For example, some Recorders' offices have marriage and birth records available online. Although not every county and parish has data online, many have home pages, and where neither is available a phone number has been provided. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM The Blog Busters by Sean Hargrave http://snipurl.com/8g4k Mighty corporations ignore the whispers on web diaries at their peril. Sean Hargrave reports on how the big brands are logging on to save face. They were once seen as the preserve of the geek, but nowadays personal opinion and diary pages - weblogs or "blogs" - are so powerful that huge corporations are taking an interest. The sites that started as observational home pages for enthusiasts have become so powerful that they are starting a new industry of blog monitoring in which media companies scour the net to advise brands on how their name is being talked about online, away from the traditional newspaper and broadcast media sites. The thinking behind this emerging service industry is simple. While there were only 130,000 sites four years ago, today there are about 10m. These web pages can make or break a company's reputation because they provide links to one another and allow people to comment on postings posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, August 19, 2004 %208%2014%202004%209%2022%2030%20AM.jpg)
Ask a Librarian - Library of Congress Online Reference Service Ask a Librarian - An Online Reference Service from the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ The primary mission of the Library of Congress is to serve Members of the Congress and thereafter, the needs of the government, other libraries, and members of the public. The Library's staff will respond to reference and information requests in accordance with this mission. Correspondents are encouraged to use local and online resources. For those seeking further assistance from the Library of Congress, the staff will respond to their reference and information needs to the extent possible. Because the Library participates in a global network of librarians working electronically to answer questions, your online reference question may be submitted to this global network for reply. Please note that the scope of the services does not include: compilation of extensive bibliographies, requests for information connected with contests, completion of school or work assignments, translations or research in heraldry or family history. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the reference section of all the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM A World Connected http://www.aworldconnected.org Site addresses issues relating to world trade and globalization. State of the debate reports give overviews on topics such as sweatshops, labor standards, outsourcing, and the impacts of globalization on culture, religion, and the environment. Also provides a book listing, links to web resources, anecdotes, and news articles. This has been added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Library of Economics and Liberty : The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html Contains articles on many aspects of economics, from basic concepts, to taxes, to money and banking. There are articles in more than one dozen categories, as well as biographies and a full index. Articles are also cross-linked. This will be added to the Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a provisional series based on the compilation of data on specific diseases reported by United States government agencies and on reports about infectious and chronic diseases disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and other injuries. Users can download current and archived MMWR reports as well as reports on topics of international interest and events of interest to the public health community. Students and educators can learn about MMWR's Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program. Individuals searching for statistics can appreciate a series of morbidity and mortality tables. The website offers links to local public health departments where they can obtain additional public health materials. Users can subscribe to receive the reports electronically. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: Highlights http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html Data on the monthly changes in import and export activity, covering goods and services in general, goods by category, and goods by geographic area. Includes related links and a chart showing the trade balance over a two-year period. From the U.S. Census Bureau. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM EconWPA http://econwpa.wustl.edu/wpawelcome.html This award winning service (provided by the Economics Department of Washington University), is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in economics. There are 22 subject areas, along with a test posting area, a meetings area, an area for programs and an area for data. Other areas are added when demand dictates. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 18, 2004 
BigChampagne BigChampagne http://www.bigchampagne.com/ BigChampagne is the leading provider of information about popular entertainment online. Their focus is on the world’s most popular "download" communities, file sharing networks. These are the download "sites" (actually networks) first made famous by Napster and now including clients like Limewire, Bearshare, KaZaA, Morpheus, and hundreds of others. BigChampagne was founded in 2000 as a technology-driven market research and marketing consulting firm, specializing in peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. The "TopSwaps" chart services were introduced early in 2002. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM MindSwap http://www.mindswap.org/ MindSwap is the website for a research group within the University of Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory (MIND LAB). They claim to be "the first site on the Semantic web." They explain that they are first because: a) their website builds on an older website that used a toolkit based on a web ontology language called SHOE, developed at the University of Maryland; b) they hope you will start here for all your semantic web needs, since this site "harnesses many Web technologies (HTML, XHTML, XML, PHP, CSS, etc.) and couples them with Semantic Web languages (RDF, RDFS, DAML+OIL, OWL)" as well as other tools; and, c) it is the first "Owl-compliant" website to date. From this website, visitors can learn more about the Semantic Web and projects of MindSwap. Various papers, photos, demos and downloads are available. Links from many of the pages will let you either let you see the Semantic Web markup or take you to pages describing how the pages are created and the tools that were used. It's a great way to learn about "many of the ways Semantic Web technology can be used to provide new capabilities on the Web. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM H-Net's Discussion Network http://www.h-net.org/lists/ H-Net's Discussion Network over 100 email lists spanning various fields of study. H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas and materials. Every aspect of academic life--research, teaching, controversies new and old--is open for discussion; decorum is maintained by H-Net's dedicated editors. Subscribers and editors communicate through electronic mail messages sent to the group. These messages can be saved, discarded, downloaded to a local computer, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. Otherwise, the lists are all public, and can be quoted and cited with proper attribution. The lists are connected to their own sites on the World Wide Web, that store discussion threads, important documents, and links to related sites on the web. H-Net lists reach over 100,000 subscribers in more than 90 countries. Subscriptions are screened by the list's editors to promote a diverse readership dedicated to friendly, productive, scholarly communications. Each list publishes between 15 and 60 messages a week. Subscription applications are solicited from scholars, teachers, professors, researchers, graduate students, journalists, librarians and archivists. Each network has its own "personality," is edited by a team of scholars, and has a board of editors; most are cosponsored by a professional society. The editors control the flow of messages, commission reviews, and reject flames and items unsuitable for a scholarly discussion group. The goals of H-Net lists are to enable scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comments on the literature in their fields. This will be added to Academic Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Useful Websites for AV Catalogers http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/websites.html A set of links for librarians, catalogers, and those who work with metadata and electronic resources. Includes internet resources on cataloging standards organizations, manuals, and tutorials. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Searching Using eMail I can easily remember a number of years ago when using eMail to retun your searches was one way around the slow modem speed. With the advent of DSL and cable we do not hear to much abut searches being returned via eMail. The other day I was reading ResearchBuzz and noticed a posting by Tara on a search engine offering the results via eMail and I decided to check on other search engines that I had bookmarked in the years past. Here are the search engines that you can use that will return results via eMail and some will even allow you to email your search query and then respond with the search answer via eMail: GoogleMail http://www.capescience.com/google/index.shtml IceRocket Search http://www.icerocket.com/ ILIAD - An Offline Search Engine http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/iliad/index.html Interesting how technology seems to return ...... If anyone knows of other email based search engines please email me and I will add to this posting. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM The Bioinformatics Organization http://bioinformatics.org/ The Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org) was founded to facilitate world-wide communications and collaborations between practicing and neophyte bioinformatic scientists and technicians. The Organization provides these individuals, as well as the public at large, free and open access to methods and materials for and from scientific research, software development, and education. We advocate and promote freedom and openness in the field as well as provide a forum for activities which facilitate the development of such resources. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Executives' Association of Greater Miami http://www.eagmiami.com/ Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 7:30am Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Location: Miami Airport Marriott Hotel, 1201 N.W. LeJune Road, Miami, Florida posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:30 AM |
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