Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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Sunday, October 31, 2004 Lightning 1) Lightning http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weather/weather.html 2) Key to Lightning Deaths: Location, Location, Location http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0522_030522_lightning.html 3) Colorado Lightning Resource Center http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/ltg.shtml 4) Research at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center http://thunder.nsstc.nasa.gov/ 5) Lightning: The Shocking Story http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lightning/ 6) Electrified Ben http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/electric.html 7) Lightning Photography http://www.stormguy.com/ 8) Lightning Safety http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/ First, Ron Hipschman at the Exploratorium introduces the formation of lightning and its power (1). Visitors can find a nice history of people's changing beliefs about occurrences of lightning. Next, the National Geographic provides an article about storm anatomy, the dangers of lightning, and the places most likely to be struck by lightning (2). Users can find continental maps presenting the relative numbers of lightning strikes. At the third web site, the Colorado Lightning Resource Center offers lightning fact sheets, safety guides, and statistics (3 ). Visitors can lean about lightning research and projects. This website is a great source of lightning images as well. Next, the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) discusses the GHCC Lightning Team's investigations of the causes and effects of lightning and analyses "of a wide variety of atmospheric measurements related to thunderstorms" (4). This expansive website offers access to data, documents, reports, and press releases as well as information on field programs and instrumentation. The fifth website, provided by the National Geographic, supplies educational information about lightning in a fun, kid-friendly learning environment (5). Users can play games, take quizzes, view images, and much more. Next, The Franklin Institute Online features a creative article about Benjamin Franklin's curiosities about lightning (6). Educators can find electricity activities and teaching tips. At the seventh website, severe weather photographer Dave Crowley provides countless lightning photographs (7). The images offer great examples of the power and wonder of lightning. Lastly, NOAA provides handouts, safety tips, photos, classroom presentations and more (8). Anyone searching for well-prepared general lightning materials should visit this website. [ From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Latin America Shows Rapid Rise in Published Science and Engineering Articles Press Release: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=15100000000129 Report: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/infbrief/nsf04336/start.htm The number of science and engineering (S&E) articles credited to Latin American authors almost tripled in the 13-year period from 1988-2001, significantly outpacing authors of other developing regions in the world. The output of Latin American authors grew by about 200 percent, by far the highest rate of increase during the period. A new National Science Foundation (NSF) report, Latin America Shows Rapid Rise in S&E Articles, reveals that the Latin American increase in scientific articles was concentrated in four countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico – which generated close to 90 percent of the region’s published articles in 2001 alone. The new NSF report, which provides data and analysis on science and engineering (S&E) articles produced by authors in developing countries, said that Latin American authors have been published in the world’s most influential journals, such as Science and Nature. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Full-Text State Statutes and Legislation On the Internet http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm This page seeks to link to sites containing full-text state constitutions, statutes (called codes or compiled laws in some states), legislation (bills, amendments, etc.), session laws (bills that have become laws), and administrative rules. Updated 9/12/04. The Internet is a good reference tool, but don't assume any information is accurate, complete or current; double-check it elsewhere before relying on it. This has been added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Open Season: News Sites Add Outside Links, Free Content by Mark Glaser http://ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1098225187.php News online has never been about just one site, but rather an array of options zig-zagged with links. Now sites such as the BBC and News.com are linking more outside their domains, and WSJ.com and NYTimes.com are opening up more free content in a nod to the "news conversation" online. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Custom eBay Searches Delivered by RSS http://www.rssauction.com/ Custom eBay searches delivered by RSS brought to you by Lockergnome and BidRobot. Simple as 1/2/3 .... (1) Complete the form to your satisfaction, (2) Press the 'Search' button or tap your Enter key, and (3) Subscribe to or syndicate the resulting RSS URL! Also a nice list of feeds already created for the most popular categories of eBay. This has been added to Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Xinhua News Agency http://www.chinaview.cn/ Sponsored by the Xinhua News Agency, the state and worldwide news agency in China, Xinhuanet.com is a backbone with global influence among key national websites. On the strength of Xinhua's 150 subsidiaries all over China and the world, Xinhuanet.com has formed a global news and information gathering network to provide authoritative, substantial and timely news and information, as well as a large amount of on-the-spot reports, exclusive reports and brilliant multi-media reports. Xinhuanet.com consists of the Beijing head network, 32 local channels throughout China and 10 subsidiary websites of the Xinhua News Agency. With sophisticated technology and equipment, and a safe and reliable system, Xinhuanet.com ranks first in China in the network platform and is known as an "aircraft carrier" for Chinese websites. Collecting news and information around the world and covering major events at home and abroad, Xinhuanet.com releases news around the clock in seven languages, namely, Chinese (GB, Big5), English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Japanese and updates more than 4,500 news items every day. It is thus known as the "collector of on-line news and information in China." This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, October 30, 2004 eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report http://www.eCurrentAwareness.com/ http://www.CurrentAwareness.net/ eCurrent Awareness Resources™ 2005 Business Intelligence Report is a forty three page report listing all the very latest current awareness resources and sites(URLs) on the World Wide Web that have been compiled over the last ten years by Internet Expert and Guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. . eCurrent Awareness Resources™ 2005 Business Intelligence Report is considered to be one of the most comprehensive reports on current awareness sources and sites on the Internet available today. It was updated October 13, 2004. Purchase eCurrent Awareness Resources™ 2005 Business Intelligence Report for $69.95 by clicking below: 
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Reader's Circle http://readerscircle.org/ If you've been looking for a way to connect with book-related groups, this is it. Reader's Circle is a free public directory that specializes in listings for book clubs and reader's circles. Anyone may post a listing or search for a group by zip code — all for free. But now to introduce the concept of a reader's circle. A reader's circle is a social gathering with a format much like a large, multi-stranded book club. Participants discuss what books to read and maintain a list of those currently being read by anyone in the group. The list is then used to announce the group's activities to itself and newcomers, and all books listed are considered optional. The intent is to loosen the usual format so participants can read more of what they want and attend meetings even if they're still in the middle of a book. In fact, with many reader's circles meetings are held twice a month because the focus is upon open-ended conversation, not a particular book that is up for discussion. Another feature of reader's circles is that there are three basic types: academic (being organized around a subject), civic (serving as a public forum), and social (being organized around an age range). Along with suggesting various possibilities for the groups, the different types are meant to provide additional structure in the absence of a specific book participants are reading together. The organization's purpose in introducing reader's circles and providing the directory is to help bring together a new, more inclusive community, one based on a shared interest in books and conversation. Reader's Circle is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:15 AM Double-Tongued Word Wrester http://www.doubletongued.org/ Double-Tongued Word Wrester records words as they enter and leave the English language. It focuses upon slang, jargon, and other niche categories which include new, foreign, hybrid, archaic, obsolete, and rare words. Special attention is paid to the lending and borrowing of words between the various Englishes and other languages, even where a word is not a fully naturalized citizen in its new language. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Herbal Safety http://www.herbalsafety.utep.edu/ In the past decade, there has been an increased interest in herbal medicines and treatments, both from the mainstream medical community and the general public. One need look no further than the cold drink section of the local supermarket to see the various herbal supplements that are prominently displayed on many drink labels. In an effort to provide critical evaluations of these various herbs and related products, the University of Texas at El Paso has created this important website in order to disseminate information about research findings related to herbal use and to provide these findings in both English and Spanish. There are a number of very helpful fact sheets presented here, including those that the deal with such commonly used medicinal herbs and plants, such as ginseng, chamomile, pumpkin seeds, and St. John's Wort. The Herbal Safety site also contains information on recent medical studies that examine the effectiveness of such medicinal treatments. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.[From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Music Library Association (MLA) http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/ Founded in 1931, MLA is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and all aspects of music materials in libraries. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM LibWeb - Library Servers via WWW http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/ Libweb - Library Servers via WWW is updated daily at midnight, Pacific Time. Libweb currently lists over 7100 pages from libraries in over 115 countries. An excellent current resource for discovering libraries from through the world! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM The Evolution of the Web http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3419141 The Web is growing up, transforming from a collection of linked pages to a network of interactive applications launched from Web platforms. "The first phase of the Web was about populating small pieces in the form of individual pages," says Excite co-founder Joe Kraus. "Phase two is about joining these individual pieces together." One example of this evolutionary process is JotSpot, a wiki-like application that serves as a platform for collaborative business data and applications. The key to the platform evolution is Web services, which provide companies with a standard protocol for outside machines to interact with corporate systems. A company can restrict outside access to only those services it wishes to "expose" -- for instance, access to a database or to an application such as search. Third parties "consume" these services by embedding them in their own applications or Web sites. An example would be a restaurant review site that embedded a tag that called up a third-party database when a user wanted directions to a specific eatery. As Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media puts it: "Customers build your business for you." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, October 29, 2004 
New York Times Technology News New York Time Technology News http://www.nytimes.com/tech/ The New York Times Technology News section continues to bring the latest current happenings in the technology sector and also has expanded it's content and availability now allowing access to Circuits and other areas within the technology news section. A must daily scan either from their email update or by visiting their site. The technology news site can be aggregated as it has RSS feeds that are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Global Security http://www.globalsecurity.org/ GlobalSecurity.org provides information dealing with "emerging security challenges the new millennium." The site includes government reports and documents, news articles from international as well as U.S. sources, guides and directories to national military capabilities and resources, and analysis of events and trends. Main security subject areas covered are: The Military, Intelligence, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Homeland Security, and Space. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM OneLook Reverse Dictionary http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the "Find words" button. (Keep it short to get the best results.) In most cases you'll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems http://www.mitacs.math.ca/ The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) is a Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) for the Mathematical Sciences in Canada. The organization's work focuses on "the imperatives of research, education and technology transfer" applied to "the fastest growing sectors of the nation's economy." Currently, its work involves developing mathematical solutions in the areas of Biomedical & Health, Environment & Natural Resources, Information Processing, Risk & Finance, and Communication, Networks & Security. The website describes each of these Scientific Programmes and provides a link to the project website, where the publications resulting from its work are posted. The website is also available in French.[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Tracker: Yahoo! Most eMailed Picture http://www.flatfeetpete.com/ytrack/index.html If you are in to tracking the latest happenings and current awareness in the form of pictures emailed through Yahoo .... then this tracker will allow you to easily visualize the top pictures of the day in the form of a nice graphical/picture format. This has been added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Shopping Bargains - Online Coupon Code and Discounts for 500+ Online Stores http://www.shopping-bargains.com/ Shopping-Bargains provides free coupon codes, discount codes, printable local store and grocery coupons, online discount coupons, online shopping discounts and special savings links. What Shopping-Bargains usually refers to as coupon codes are sometimes called promotional codes, promotion codes, promo codes, store codes, discount codes, key codes, voucher codes or shopping codes by online stores. Currently over 500 partner stores participating. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, October 28, 2004 
Dublin Core Services Dublin Core Services http://www.describethis.com/ Dublin Core Services (DCS) turns the dissimilar content of Internet resources into Dublin Core metadata registers, making the web more manageable for information specialists and software applications. Giving to DCS the URLs of online documents, images, etc. or keywords, its engine parses the content and returns specific information about the resource, ex.: submitting dates, keywords, creators, extension and more. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Intranet Trends http://line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=5913 Internet consultant Shiv Singh of Avenue A/Razorfish sees the following trends for organizational intranets: 1) They will return to the domain of the departments, except when infrastructure issues are involved; 2) The records management and legal departments will develop organization-wide rules for managing and archiving the intranet and querying managers about content that they feel can be removed; 3) All employees will become intranet publishers using publishing tools that will let them directly communicate and efficiently distribute information via the intranet; 4) The corporate telephone directory will lose its importance as intranets finally become a lot more than a message board, a phone book and a fancy file server all rolled into one; 5) The new "killer app" will be knowledge management tools, and the corporate intranet will be the natural place to house them; 6) Real-time information delivery will become a top priority, with the hard question being how to determine what information is really needed in real time and for whom and how should it be delivered; 7) The emphasis of information retrieval will move away from searching for specific pieces of information occasionally to scanning information across a variety of sources (primarily weblogs) on a daily basis; and 8) Employees will increasingly demand a more aesthetic user experience, thereby forcing organizations to upgrade their intranet user experience to meet the emotional needs of their employees. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Exalead Beta Search Engine http://beta.exalead.com/search Exalead announces the availability of a new Internet search engine that makes the content of a billion Web pages immediately accessible. This is the beta site of this new search engine from their company in France with experience in both IR and IE. This will be added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2005. [ResearchBuzz] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM UKWizz http://www.ukwizz.com/ UKWizz is a UK based internet search engine. Our aim is to provide UK users with a search experience that is both Relevant and specific to the UK. There are many excellent search engines out there so what makes UKWizz different? UKWizz has been designed for and targeted at UK internet users. We try to keep our results as UK specific as possible. We believe this is a great benefit to the average UK searcher. When you use UKWizz you will see that almost all of the results returned are related to the UK. If you carry out a search on most search engines your results could be coming from anywhere in the world. Our index is not 100% UK specific, although our technology is designed to index as high a percentage of UK web content as possible. This has been added to the search engine section of Internet MiniGuides 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Science for the 21st Century http://www.ostp.gov/nstc/21stcentury/index.html This document was produced under the direction of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Science. The document details, from a Federal agency perspective, the science policies and accomplishments of the current Administration, and illustrates how today’s science sets the stage for benefits to the economy and national quality of life far into the future. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM GRID 2004 http://www.gridbus.org/grid2004/ In the last few years, the Grid community has been growing very rapidly and many new technologies and components have been proposed. This, along with the growing popularity Web-based technologies, and the availability of cheap commodity components is changing the way we do computing and business. There are now many ongoing grid projects with research and production-oriented goals. Grid 2004 is an international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with the Grid. The objective of Grid 2004 is to serve as a forum to present current and emerging work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. The previous events that are part of this series of events were Grid 2000, Bangalore, India; Grid 2001, Denver, CO; Grid 2002, Baltimore, MD; Grid 2003, Phoenix, USA. All of these events have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. Last years event attracted over 400 registered participants. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, October 27, 2004 
Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N11 November 2004 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N11 November 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N11.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The November 2004 V2N11 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 30 page .pdf document (520KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online Reference Resources. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources. The book review covers Tara Calishain's Web Search Garage and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subject: Entrepreneurial Resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:00 PM 
Experiments in Web Programming Experiments in Web Programming http://www.brainjar.com/ BrainJar.com features technical articles, tutorials and examples of programming for the web. It's not intended as a "cut and paste" site but rather a learning resource. Feel free to browse and experiment with the code samples found throughout. If you are tempted to just cut and paste, please see the terms of use first. All coding examples presented on the site are now available for use under the GNU General Public License. Notices will be added to the appropriate web pages as time permits. Some .Net code samples are now available. Most of the scripting examples found here are designed for modern, standards-compliant browsers such as Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape 6+ and IE 5.5+. All pages use a strict XHTML DOCTYPE with a few exceptions necessary for demonstration purposes. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Seize The Feed: Web Feeds for Enhanced Governmental Information Services http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SeizeTheFeed.ppt This is revised and corrected version of the PowerPoint presentation prepared and presented by Gerry McKiernan at the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC), Content Management Working Group, Brown Bag Series at the Library of Congress, Madison Building, this past Monday, October 18, 2004, Noon - 3 PM. The Menu includes: Why a Feed?, What's a Feed?, Where's the Feed?, How a Feed?, Who a Feed?, When a Feed?, RSS in Government, FLICC/Applications and Resources. This is an excellent presentation of 175+ powerpoint slides showing the current happenings with government information and atom/RSS feeds. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation sources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM SocSciBot3 http://socscibot.wlv.ac.uk/ SocSciBot is a Web site crawler designed for research purposes. Together with its supporting programs SocSciBot Tools and Cyclist, it can be used to conduct link analysis on a site or collection of sites, or to run a search engine on a collection of sites. These programs can also be used in teaching, to illustrate how link analysis and search engines work. This Link crawler for the social sciences (new version online 4 Oct '04)has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Topic Maps http://www.computerworld.com/news/2004/story/0,11280,96350,00.html Although they're still not quite ready for prime time. topic maps are something everyone should be aware of. A topic map is simply a kind of data structure (just as an outline or a set of categories is) -- a structure standardized by the International Standards Organization in 2000 (ISO/IEC 13250) as XML Topic Maps, or XTM. The topic map model attaches three "characteristics" to any given topic: its names, its associations with other topics, and its occurrences or "resources." Russell Kay explains names, associations, and occurrences this way in Computerworld: "Names are mainly useful to people in dealing with topics, and a topic doesn't actually need a name: A typical cross-reference (e.g., "see page 12") points to an unnamed topic. Also, we typically group topics according to some notion of type... Associations are the conceptual heart of topic maps, indicating how one topic relates to another. For example, Book A (a topic) is written by (association) Author B (another topic)... Occurrences are the actual references pointers to relevant information resources. Occurrences could include articles, books, images, audio and video segments, application code routines or even people." Kay says that the biggest job in building a topic map lies in defining the set of topics and relationships, finding the relevant occurrences and then examining the data for cross-references, aliases and other helpful tools: "While some pieces of this job, as with book indexing, can be automated (especially for structured data), the biggest part still requires a human imagination to sort out." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Subjex Platform http://www.subjex.com/ Subjex Corporation is an innovative provider of intelligent customer service solutions for both Internet and Intranet environments. Subjex Corporation, a publicly traded Minneapolis based software company, has developed the next generation artificial intelligence dialog communication platform, the Subjex Platform™. The artificial intelligence of the Subjex Platform uses natural dialog to communicate with users within a Frame of Knowledge. The Frame of Knowledge is a modular database of information pertaining to a narrow subject such as a company, its products, and its sales tools. The more information contained within the frame of knowledge, the more accurately the artificial intelligence can respond to users questions and further expand its knowledge base through self-learning. The Subjex Platform is licensable to business and freely available to developers. For web-connected organizations, Subjex offers tools and solutions that support customer contact with, fully automated, online virtual customer service representatives. This has been added to ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) http://www.pipa.org/ The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) carries out research on public opinion on foreign policy and international issues by conducting nationwide polls, focus groups and comprehensive reviews of polling conducted by other organizations. PIPA is a joint program of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, October 26, 2004 
TRN Technology Research News Biochip Spots Single Viruses http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/102004/Biochip_spots_single_viruses_102004.html A nanowire transistor coated with antibody proteins can briefly snag individual viruses. This simple electronic device sets the stage for sensors and handheld devices that can spot pathogens in the early stages of an infection or attack. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Use of Online Reputation and Rating Systems http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=140 Data memo on the use of online reputation and rating systems from Pew Internet. Twenty-six percent of adult internet users in the U.S. have rated a product, service, or person using an online rating system. That amounts to more than 33 million people. These systems, also referred to as “reputation systems,” are interactive word-of-mouth networks that assist people in making decisions about which users to trust, or to compare their opinions with the opinions expressed by others. Many Web sites utilize some form of this application, including eBay, Amazon, Moviefone and Amihot. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Govcom.org http://www.govcom.org/ Govcom.org has been conceived as a project to map debates on the Web on important social issues. In general they note that the major players in those debates come from government (.gov), industry (.com) and NGOs (.org), with science (.edu) often playing a lesser role than one would expect. Govcom.org is meant as the domain where one can follow some of these debates on societal issues by looking at maps that depict hyperlink and/or discursive relations between leading parties per issue. To map the relations between these parties, they found it necessary to chart country subdomains, so global relationships could be depicted between generic .gov's, .com's, .org's, as well as .edu's. For example, .gov.al (Albanian governmental sites) and .org.br (Brazilian NGOs) would be mapped as 'government' and 'NGO', respectively. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Digital Reference Services Bibliography http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html Bernie Sloan's excellent bibliography. The more than 700 items listed in this bibliography relate to the topic of online or virtual or digital reference services, i.e., the provision of reference services, involving collaboration between library user and librarian, in a computer-based medium. These services can utilize various media, including e-mail, Web forms, chat, video, Web customer call center software, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), etc. Approximately 40% of the items listed in this bibliography are available via the Web. Links have been provided to direct you to those resources. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM WebHosting.info http://www.WebHosting.info/ WebHosting.Info is the largest research and statistics portal primarily dedicated towards the web services industry. It's purpose is to continuously release data presenting micro and macro statistics about the Web Services industry -- Hosting Companies, Registries, Domain Registrars, Data centers etc across the world. It also provides statistical trends and patterns across Countries, IP Addresses, Domain Names, Web Servers, Operating Systems and other variables directly or indirectly related to the Web Services Industry. WebHosting.Info currently monitors over 35 million domain names, 1.3 million DNS servers, 35,000+ hosting companies, and approximately 2 billion IP Address on a regular basis; to arrive at statistics that exposes the entire web services industry for anyone to view, inspect and analyze. No other service or technology exists, worldwide; that offers comparable breadth and depth. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Internet Demographics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Mighty Goods http://mightygoods.com/ Mighty Goods is a shopping weblog. They look for things they really like, and then they put them there, right where you can find them. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, October 25, 2004 
Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. October 25, 2004 V2N43 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Entrepreneurial Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing entrepreneurial resources and sites on the Internet. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.EntrepreneurialResources.info/  
posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:30 AM Beef Up Your Browsers By Cade Metz http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1650380,00.asp Sixty-three million Americans use the Internet for academic research, and nearly as many use it for work-related research, says a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Among experienced computer users, according to the UCLA Center for Communication Policy, the Internet now ranks as more important than television, radio, magazines, newspapers, and even books as an information source. Too bad the browsers they use to gather their information are such weak research tools. This is a review by PC Magazine on 8 research tools. This has been added to my Online Research Tools White Paper Link Compilation and my Online Research Browsers Annotated White Paper Link Compilation. Both of these are available as well as other of my white papers on information retrieval and information extraction at WhitePapers.us. This has also been added to the research tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Ace OnLine http://faculty.gvsu.edu/patterna/aceonline This announces the launch of a new on-line journal--Ace OnLine, the peer reviewed journal of the Assembly on Computers in English, an assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English. Ace OnLine's focus is technology integration k-14. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Semantic Planet's RDF Library and Carp RDF Processor http://www.semanticplanet.com/ It has been announced that the first public release of Semantic Planet's RDF Library and Carp RDF Processor is now available. These are .NET/Mono libraries for fetching, parsing, munging and writing RDF and have been tested on win32, Linux and FreeBSD platforms. Both libraries are released under a liberal, attribution-only, open source license. SemPlan.RdfLib provides foundation RDF services for other applications such as parsing and writing RDF. Iyt can be downloaded here. SemPlan.Carp uses RdfLib and conceptually sits in a layer above it. Carp stands for Convenient API for RDF Programing and is designed to provide a simple API for programming with RDF without losing the power of the underlying model. Carp can be downloaded here. There is a longer introduction with some examples of usage here. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Blawg Republic http://www.blawgrepublic.com/ Blawg Republic is a real-time search engine that monitors the legal blogging community every hour. People can browse excerpts on discussions, from Appellate Law to Technology Law. They can keep up with their favorite legal bloggers and track evolving discussions moving through the blawgosphere - the world of legal oriented weblogs. All weblogs in the Blawg Republic Index have been categorized into one of over 30 law categories. Tracking a weblog or legal meme is easy via RSS feeds that are available for any search, and for each law category. Each weblog in the Blawg Republic Index is listed in the Directory along with its ATOM or RSS feed. Blawg Republic is committed to adding more sources and fine-tuning its algorithms. This has been added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Institute of Network Cultures (INC) http://www.networkcultures.org/ The Institute of Network Cultures (INC), which was set up in June 2004, caters to research, meetings and (online) initiatives in the area of internet and new media. Not only will the INC facilitate, but also initiate and produce a range of projects. Its goal is to create an open organizational form with a strong focus on content, within which ideas (emanating from both individuals and institutions) can be given an institutional context at an early stage. Based on the fusion of old and new media, the INC aims to organize both public and internal meetings and to formulate new research. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, October 24, 2004  Entrepreneurial Resources http://WhitePapers.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/Entrepreneurial Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 33 page .pdf document 1.01MB. [Updated June 12, 2009] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Bioinformatics Computational molecular biology, which now is commonly called bioinformatics, draws on mathematics and computer science to inform research in biology. This evolving area of research advances our knowledge of biological systems and contributes to medical research, but also raises ethical issues and demands increased collaboration among scientists. These issues are reviewed in this issue of Topic in Depth. 1) Biocomputing in a Nutshell http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/ForAll/Basics/welcome.html 2) NRC: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists http://books.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/10497.pdf 3) What is Bioinformatics? http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ppgardne/bioinformatics/Bioinformatics_Definitions.htm 4) Open Bioinformatics Foundation http://www.open-bio.org/ 5) University of British Columbia: Bioinformatics Links Directory http://www.bioinformatics.ubc.ca/resources/links_directory/ 6) European BioInformatics Institute http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/ 7) The American Journal of Bioethics http://www.bioethics.net/ The first website (1) offers a broad introduction to bioinformatics. The second website (2) provides a summary of a report from the National Research Council outlining some of the contributions of bioinformatics research and suggests ways to promote collaboration among the diverse disciplines within graduate and undergraduate programs. The author of this next website (3) provides links to various definitions of bioinformatics and offers a brief review of the origins of the field. Another interesting facet of this work, which can probably be traced to the field's history, is the sharing of tools and resources over the Internet. For example, researchers can share their open source code software on websites such as this one from the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (4) or search this directory from the University of British Columbia (5) to find everything from the genome of the SARS virus to basic guidelines and tools. Some interesting research projects are described on this website from the European bioInformatics Institute (6). Finally, a review of some of the ethical issues raised by this work are posted on this website (7).[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Wealthy New Lab Aims to Capture Dreams, Literally By Maggie Fox http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=6490987§ion=news Gerald Rubin is looking for someone who can take a picture of a thought. To do it, he and colleagues are harnessing the powerful force of cold, hard cash -- Howard Hughes' cash, to be exact. They are building a new $400 million laboratory in the green countryside outside Washington, D.C. and hope to attract the brightest and most unconventional minds in science to find a way to look into a person's brain and see what it is doing. And they want to take their time doing it. "In a 100-year timeframe we want to understand human consciousness," said Rubin. Rubin and colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute -- one of the world's richest philanthropies with an endowment worth $11.3 billion -- are approaching this ticklish problem backwards. They have bought a 280-acre farm in Ashburn, Virginia, and are building a new kind of research campus. Only now, halfway through its construction, are they settling on what kind of research they want to do and looking for the people to do it. "We are (like) a biotechnology company whose product is new knowledge and which has infinitely patient investors," Rubin told reporters on a recent tour, comparing the foundation to a corporation. How did they settle on imaging thought? "We wanted to pick an important biomedical problem but we wanted to pick a problem that wasn't easily addressed at academic campuses." One area that might meet these criteria was the question of how brain cells store and process information. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Educational Cyber PlayGround: Applications and Tutorials http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/apps.html This is an excellent site featuring numerous applications and tutorials covering a plethorea of sources and subjects. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Keyword Research http://www.stargeek.com/keyword_research.php To get more traffic to your site through search engine optimization you must first find out the most popular keywords for searchers to use when they are looking for content or products such as yours. For each of these top keywords that is commonly used to search for products and information in a given topical niche, it is important to gauge 3 statistics: keyword popularity, convertibility and competition. This has been added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Google Envy Is Fomenting Search Wars By John Markoff http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/technology/18search.html Propelled by Google envy, new players and Internet industry giants are rushing into the online search market, setting off a burst of activity that contrasts sharply with the lull after the dot-com collapse. To fend off its challengers, Google has furiously intensified efforts to add new services to its brand. Last week, it introduced Google Desktop Search, a program that is a direct challenge to Microsoft's control of desktop computing because it searches for information on a user's personal computer as well as on the Web. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Surpriv: RFID Surveillance and Privacy http://www.stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/ The Surpriv blog is for discussions of RFID-related surveillance and privacy issues. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, October 23, 2004 
November 2004 Zillman Column November 2004 Zillman Column - Grant Resources http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Grant Resources Nov04 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The November 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Grant Resources. This November 2004 Zillman Column is a comprehensive listing of online resources and sites for grants. Download this excellent 10 page free .pdf column today and stay current in the ever changing world of grants for you personally or for your non for profit organization. posted by Marcus Zillman | 2:05 PM 
Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide Security Resources 2005 - Internet MiniGuide http://SecurityResources.BlogSpot.com/ By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1539-9885 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 51 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources Security Resources URLs Personal Computer Security and Analysis Personal Computer Hard Drive Cleaning Personal Computer Firewalls Secure Havens Secured Documents and eMail Transmission "I'm personally recommending this MiniGuide to representatives of several US government agencies that are concerned with Internet health. ...Great work, Marcus!" Steve Thaler - CEO Imagination-Engines.com posted by Marcus Zillman | 10:11 AM 
Google Desktop Beta http://desktop.google.com/ Find your email, files, web history and chats instantly. View web pages you've seen, even when you're not online. Search as easily as you do on Google. Google Desktop Search finds: Outlook/Outlook Express, Word, AOL Instant Messenger, Excel, Explorer Internet Explorer, PowerPoint and Text. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM TechWeb Network http://www.techweb.com/ The TechWeb Network is a uniquely valuable resource for IT professionals. TechWeb.com offers the best of both worlds: A distinctive combination of top-notch original content and one-stop, contextual access to the resources of CMP's network of industry-leading technology publications. TechWeb.com adds its own IT reporting to the best-of-breed news and information from InformationWeek, InternetWeek, Network Computing, Network Magazine, Optimize Magazine, The Open Enterprise, and the Financial Technology Network, thus creating the complete online resource for technology managers. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM IT Conversations http://www.itconversations.com/ IT Conversations is a network of high-end tech talk-radio interviews, discussions and presentations from major conferences delivered live and on-demand via the Internet. It's a one-person labor of love. Doug Kaye is ITC's host, producer, developer, writer, interviewer and engineer. He launched IT Conversations in June 2003 and produces three to five programs each week. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Artificial Intelligence May Aid Space Mission Technical Glitches By Ben Iannotta http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_041018.html NASA officials are reporting encouraging results from an experiment in which artificial intelligence software is being used to determine the root causes of simulated technical glitches aboard the agency’s Earth Observing-1 imaging satellite. The software, called Livingstone, was developed by computer scientists at Ames Research Center in California. The Ames team named the software after the 19th Century explorer and doctor, David Livingstone. The version being tested on Earth Observing-1, or EO-1, is a more powerful version of the Livingstone software that was first tested successfully on NASA’s Deep Space 1 spacecraft in 1999. Livingstone’s designers are convinced that artificial intelligence software will be the best way to prevent technical mishaps during future robotic or human missions into deep space. Continuous communications with Earth will be impossible on these missions due to signal-transit delays and planetary obstructions. Spacecraft therefore will have to self-diagnose technical failures, and if possible find a solution, said members of the Livingstone team. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM APME Survey: Newspaper Readers Use Blogs Cautiously By Ryan Pitts http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=72653 Newspaper readers who follow blogs say challenging traditional journalists is a vital new tool blogs posess. Newspaper readers who follow blogs remain cautious as they judge bloggers' credibility, but they say a willingness to challenge traditional journalists makes the network of personal sites a vital newcomer to the media scene. About 20 percent of readers told a national group of newspaper editors that they read blogs at least sometimes, if not regularly. The responses were gathered in an online survey by the Associated Press Managing Editors' National Credibility Roundtables Project. The survey targeted the most interactive of newspaper users. This compares with a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which measured blogging's readership at about 11 percent of overall U.S. Internet users. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Aging Internet Information Notes http://www.aoa.gov/prof/notes/notes.asp The Aging Internet Information Notes are intended to empower users to explore Internet resources and find information and sites beyond those identified. More than 60 aging topics are currently represented in this series. Notes begin with a brief description of the subject area, followed by two options for downloading: Portable Document Format (PDF) or a Microsoft WORD version. Both versions offer web pages with URLs and hyperlinks organized by public interest subtopic or intended audience. An effort is made to include sites with information useful to consumers, policy planners, program development staff, state service providers, professionals working with older adults, students, teachers and researchers, media and business. The development of Internet Information Notes is an on-going activity that benefits from the comments and suggestions of viewers. This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, October 22, 2004 
Teaching.com Teaching.com http://www.Teaching.com/ Free non-commercial educational Web services for educators and students. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM ASC: Active Sequence Collection http://bioinformatica.isa.cnr.it/ASC/ ASC (Active Sequences Collection) is a set of seven databases of short amino acid sequences with known biological activity. ASC contains more than 2,349 different short amino acid sequences with record-links to external genomics/literature databanks: PubMed, SwissProt, PDB, PDBSum, PDF-FINDER, CATH, MMDB, IMB, PQS, and ENZYME. The seven database subfiles are: AIRS : Auto Immune Related Sequences (60);This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM International Association of Astronomical Artists http://www.iaaa.org A gallery of members work, newsletters, listing of workshops and a reference section with pertinent astronomical links and a handbook are part of this site. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Art and Science Collaborations http://www.asci.org Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. assists people in the fields of art and science to collaborate. To accomplish this ASCI presents the ArtSci Index which is a database of individuals who are interested in collaborating. Exhibition and publication opportunities and a newletter are also found here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Implementing Digital Preservation Models http://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/2004-10-01.htm How are digital materials currently being preserved in the cultural heritage community? How should they be preserved in the future? PREMIS, a working group jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, recently issued a report on that subject. Based on survey responses from nearly 50 institutions in 13 countries, PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) discovered certain trends that may ultimately emerge as best practices. One is to store metadata redundantly in both an XML or relational database, as well as with the content data objects themselves. Database storage allows fast access, while storing them with the object makes the object self-defining outside the context of the preservation repository. Maintain multiple versions (originals and at least some normalized or migrated versions) in the repository, and store complete metadata for all versions. Retaining the original reduces risk in case better preservation treatments become available in the future. Another recurring trend noted in the report was using the OAIS model as a framework and starting point for designing the preservation repository, but retaining the flexibility to add functions and services that go beyond that model. The METS format was recommended for structural metadata and as a container for descriptive and administrative metadata, but Z39.87/MIX was preferred for technical metadata for still images. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM University of California-Davis Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center http://rics.ucdavis.edu/postharvest2/Pubs/index.shtml The Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center is housed in the Pomology Department at the University of California-Davis. Postharvest Center research focuses on improving the quality of horticultural crops, reducing post-harvest losses, improving marketing efficiency, and solving produce handling problems. This Publications website contains a wealth of downloadable articles organized by a wide range of crops and related issues. The numerous publication categories include: Apples, Nectarines, Lettuce, Postharvest IPM, Health Benefits, Storage, and many more. Visitors can locate articles by browsing the site index or by using a keyword search engine. Thia has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, October 21, 2004 
WebJunction WebJunction http://www.WebJunction.org/ WebJunction is an online community of libraries and other agencies sharing knowledge and experience to provide the broadest public access to information technology. In 2002, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) a three-year grant to build a portal for public libraries and other organizations that provide open access to information. Building on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's five-year-old U.S. Library Program, which has provided over 40,000 computers with Internet access to more than 10,000 libraries across the United States and Canada, WebJunction is the work of five organizations, led by OCLC. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Reconciling the Order of the Library with the Chaos of the Web http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2004/pearce2.html Noting that the library has long been "a metaphor for order and rationality," where the search for information is aided by knowledgeable librarians, Judith Pearce, director of business analysis at the National Library of Australia, contrasts such structure with the "anarchy" of the Web: "The Web is free-associating, unrestricted and disorderly. Searching is secondary to finding and the process by which things are found is unimportant. Collections are temporary and subjective where a blog entry may be as valuable to the individual as an unpublished paper as are six pages of a book made available by Amazon. The individual searches alone without expert help and, not knowing what is undiscovered, is satisfied." Services like Google and Amazon have raised the expectations of library users. For others, they have introduced a "world of information in which libraries and their collections have new audiences and new roles to play." Pearce describes recent changes at the National Library, aimed at reducing the separation between the Web site and the library catalog in order to draw users into the collection. Visitors to the new color-coded site do not even need to know what a catalog is in order to find information, she says. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Hoaxes and Other Bad Information in the News http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/hoaxes_in_the_news.html Genie Tyburski has added an annotated compilation of articles, entitled "Hoaxes and Other Bad Information in the News," to her Information Quality guide. This has been added to Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Rich or Famous http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/3/2/1 Scientists who crave the recognition that comes from publishing important papers need to embrace some harsh realities if they also want to make money by commercializing their research. Business adviser Neil Kane explains how to overcome this apparent dilemma. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM H-Bot: Automated Historical Fact Finder http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/h-bot/ H-Bot is a chatterbot that discusses information on history taken from the Center for History and New Media. The description of this ChatterBot is: Automated Historical Fact Finder. I have added this to ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [ResearchBuzz] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Risk Models - APT http://www.apt.com/ APT provides investors with statistical market risk models, performance & risk analytics, and portfolio optimization & construction tools. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, October 20, 2004 
BuzzMetrics BuzzMetrics - Word of Mouth Research and Planning http://www.buzzmetrics.com/ BuzzMetrics transforms the incredible mass of consumer word of mouth into actionable research findings and strategic plans — giving you precision-guided tools to help meet your business and brand goals. For years it’s been clear that person-to-person opinion sharing impacts consumer behavior more dramatically than either editorial or advertising. But word of mouth has historically remained a fuzzy medium – difficult for businesses to reliably capture or deploy. With millions of people now flocking online to share their experiences, everything has changed. The conversations people have – on message boards, listservs, blogs and chat rooms – represent the largest collection of consumer insight that has ever existed. And because these conversations happen online, where they are recorded and archived, we can help you listen in and participate. BuzzMetrics’ proprietary Discussion Miner software collects and processes hundreds of millions of data points. Their team of analysts then reveals the critical intelligence you need about the state of market sentiment surrounding your business. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Three Basic "Families" or Types of Search Tools http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/ToolsTables.html An excellent resource from the UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops describing three basic families or types of search tools. This tutorial explains these types of search tools and gives additional resources that are available. This has been added to Searching the Internet white paper. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Froogle U.K. Beta http://froogle.google.co.uk/ Google announced it latest shoopingbot for the United Kingdom called Froogle U.K. . It is in beta but performs shopping on the internet like its U.S. counterpart Google Froogle and even gives a list of items recently found using the shoppingbot. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM OQO model 01 http://www.oqo.com/ In 2000, Jory Bell (CEO) and Jonathan Betts-LaCroix (CTO), together with Andrew Popell, Michael Prichard, Nick Merz, and Robert Ford, founded OQO and set out to shrink a Windows XP computer into a pocketable device. Their vision was to transform personal computing in the same way mobile phones revolutionized telecommunications. San Francisco-based OQO demonstrated its initial proof of concept at WinHEC 2002, signaling the next era in personal computing. OQO unveiled its first product, the OQO model 01, at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where it won awards including TechTV's "Best of Show" award in the mobile computing and wireless category. Fundamental to OQO's philosophy is an integrated product development process. Experts in electrical and mechanical engineering, industrial design, software, and operations work together from conception through production. This functional structure has allowed OQO to rapidly advance the state-of-the-art in PC architecture. Click here for the PC Magazine review. My wish would be to trade in my Toshiba Libretto for this one to use in all my national speeches, presentations and workshops ... ;-) posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Farewell, Web 1.0! We Hardly Knew Ye by Steven Levy http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6214349/site/newsweek/ Web 1.0 was making the Net for people. Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for computers. Are you ready for the new Web? It's getting ready for you. It turns out that bidding on eBay, gathering with Meetup and Googling on, um, Google are only the opening scenes in a play whose running time will top "Mahabharata." While we've been happily browsing, buying and blogging, the tech set has been forging clever new tools and implementing powerful standards that boost the value of information stored on and generated by the Net. Things may look the same as the old Web, but under the hood there's been some serious tinkering, and after years of hype among propeller-heads, some of the effects are finally arriving. That was the big takeaway last week at a conference in San Francisco called Web 2.0. This article has been added to the article section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM National Centre for eSocial Science (NCeSS) http://www.ncess.ac.uk/ The National Centre for eSocial Science (NCeSS) aims to promote and facilitate eScience within social science research. We aim to stimulate the uptake and use by social scientists of new and emerging Grid-enabled computing and data infrastructure, both in quantitative and qualitative research. The centre is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and was formally established in April 2004. NCeSS will consist of a co-ordinating Hub and a set of research-based Nodes distributed across the UK. The Hub will be based at the University of Manchester, with support from the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex. The role of the Hub is to act as the central resource base for e-social science issues and activities in the UK, integrating them with ESRC research methods initiatives and the existing e-science core programme. The Hub will provide a one-stop shop for awareness raising, expertise, training, technical infrastructure, data resources, computer facilities and user-support for e-social science research. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, October 19, 2004 
Information Hunters Information Hunters by by Juan C. Dürsteler http://www.infovis.net/E-zine/2004/num_153.htm The behaviour of human beings when searching for information intensively resembles that of the hunter-gatherers of our past and that of the foraging of animals. Information Visualisation tries to take advantage of this finding. This is the current newsletter from the Digital Magazine of InfoVis.net. This site will be included in my latest white paper titled Online Research Browsers. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM All of OCLC’s WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web by Barbara Quint http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041011-2.shtml Excited by the “resounding success” of the Open WorldCat pilot program, the management of OCLC, the world’s largest library vendor, has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items connected to 928.6 million library holdings for “harvesting” by Google and Yahoo! Search. A letter from Jay Jordan, president and CEO of OCLC, went out to members on Oct. 8. Currently, the Open WorldCat subset database contains about 2 million records, all items held by 100 or more academic, public, or school libraries—some 12,000 libraries all told. The new upgraded Open WorldCat program will automatically include all of the 15,000-plus OCLC libraries that contribute ownership information (holdings) to WorldCat, unless the library asks to have its holdings excluded. In January 2005, Open WorldCat will officially graduate from a pilot program to a permanent “ongoing program”; however, the database will be open for “harvesting” to Google and Yahoo! Search as early as late November 2004. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Find the Best RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators http://email.about.com/od/rssfeedreaders/ RSS feed readers and news aggregators let you follow news and blogs easily, comfortably and efficiently in a dedicated program, on a web site or in your email program. About.com has reviewed the top RSS feed readers to help you choose the best program for your needs. This has been added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Prescription Drugs Online - Pew Internet Project Report http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/139/report_display.asp Prescription Drugs Online: One in four Americans have looked online for drug information, but few have ventured into the online drug marketplace. The prescription drug market is enormous and now includes millions of Americans who go online to get information about the medicines they consume. According to the Pew Internet Project Report in their May-June 2004 telephone survey of 2,200 American adults, 64% of American households contain a regular user of prescription drugs. One in four Americans (26%) has used the internet to look for information about prescription drugs. Just 4% of Americans have ever purchased prescription drugs on the internet. Prescription drug spam plagues many internet users – especially men. This has been added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM List of Lists http://www.specialissues.com/lol/ Trip Wyckoff's SpecialIssues officially took over Gary Price's List of Lists (LOL) in Ocotber 2002. This is an excellent reference resource and offers a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet. Content comes from a number of sources including: Specialissues.com, Gary Price's "ResourceShelf" and individual users of the LOL. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM PSFK Collaborative Trend Spotting http://www.psfk.com/ PSFK is a community of trend spotters in Fashion, Design, Advertising, IT, Government, Art, You-Name-It around the world. Sightings of trends are fed to a group of 20 main site editors who then may or may not publish them on the site. They publish a digest weekly on the site and email a monthly newsletter to subscribers. PSFK is a collaborative trend spotting site run by Piers Fawkes and Simon King with a team of contributors in Europe, the US and Asia. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, October 18, 2004 This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. October 19, 2004 V2N42 discusses one of my latest annotated white paper link compilations titled Online Research Browsers. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest white paper. View this annotated white paper link compilation at: Online Research Browsers Annotated White Paper Link Compilation http://www.WhitePapers.us/
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 Theology Resources http://WhitePapers.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/Theology Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 19 page .pdf document 892KB. [Updated June 12, 2009] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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 Statistics Resources http://WhitePapers.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/Statistics Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 20 page .pdf document 918KB. [Updated June 12, 2009] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Academic Reference and Research Index Academic Reference and Research Index http://www.academicindex.net/ A free metasearch engine and virtual reference desk accessing tens of thousands of academic reference and research sites recommended by teachers and librarians! The Academic Index was created and is maintained by Dr. Michael Bell, former chair, Texas Association of School Librarians. The Academic Index is a true meta-search tool that includes results from mega-information databases that index only research-quality reference and information sources selected by professional librarians, educators, and educational and library consortia. At the present time the Academic Index provides access to approximately 137,000 quality information web pages. This has been added to Student Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Four NETS for Better Searching http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm The perfect page is out there somewhere. It's the page that has exactly the information you're looking for and to you it's beautiful and unattainable like a faraway star. If only you had a super-sized net for capturing it! Most people use a search engine by simply typing a few words into the query box and then scrolling through whatever comes up. Sometimes their choice of words ends up narrowing the search unduly and causing them not to find what they're looking for. More often the end result of the search is a haystack of off-target web pages that must be combed through. You can do better than that, and that's what this page is about. This has been added to the search engines section of all the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Mars Global Surveyor: Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ The Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Image Gallery! This site contains all of the pictures of Mars acquired by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter through March 2004. Contains more than 175,000 Images! MOC is operated daily at Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS). MOC consists of three cameras: A narrow angle system that provides grayscale high resolution views of the planet's surface (typically, 1.5 to 12 meters/pixel), and red and blue wide angle cameras that provide daily global weather monitoring, context images to determine where the narrow angle views were actually acquired, and regional coverage to monitor variable surface features such as polar frost and wind streaks. Most of the high resolution images are obtained by careful planning and inspection of predicted MGS orbits by Mars scientists working at and/or visiting MSSS. The company is also responsible for archiving the data once they are received on Earth. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Innovate http://www.innovateonline.info/ Innovate is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and government settings. Welcome to the inaugural issue of Innovate, a peer-reviewed e-journal that lives up to its name in both content and design (ISSN 1552-3233). These pages feature cutting-edge research and practice in the field of information technology, but Innovate invites you to do more than simply read. Use their one-button features to comment on articles, share material with colleagues and friends, and participate in open forums. Join them in exploring the best uses of technology to improve the ways we think, learn, and live. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM RandomURL http://randomurl.com/ RandomURL provides a somewhat topical view of any random bit of information that happens to appeal to its creator at any given moment. You never know what you might find and it has been called the anti-search engine! Enjoy! posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Internet Insights - Thoughts about Federated Searching by Peter Jasco http://hypatia.slis.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/infotoday/federated/federated.htm Peter Jacso of Peter's Polysearch Engines has some excellent thoughts about Federated Searching. His Review Extras is also well worth the read. They are annotated screen shots and figures to enhance and complement some of the print-only articles, to provide or illustrate his points that text alone may not do sufficiently. The title links refer to the original articles. The full text is not reproduced here but a simple bibliographic citation is provided on the first screen of the linked page. You need to get the articles themselves from the library, the publisher, the publisher's Web-site or one of the full-text databases that you have access to. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, October 17, 2004 Mount St. Helens 1) Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/ 2) Mount St. Helens http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/ 3) Mount.St.Helens, Washington http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/framework.html 4) Mount St. Helens Seismicity Information http://www.pnsn.org/HELENS/welcome.html 5) Narrative of Mount Saint Helens http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/vnarrative1.html 6) NASA Infrared Images May Provide Volcano Clues http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/oct/HQ_04331_sthelens_images.html 7) Mount St. Helens Blows Steam, Ash http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0930_040930_mountsthelens.html#main 8) Mount St. Helens streams and swells http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6092368/ Mount St. Helens, the most active volcano in the Cascade Range, caught the public's attention when massive eruptions began in 1980. With new eruptions and earthquakes taking place recently, people are being reminded of the grave dangers associated with this volcano. The first website, provided by the USDA Forest Service, presents the research, recreational, and educational activities at the 110,000-acre National Volcanic Monument, created in 1982 (1). Users can find live pictures and videos of Mount St. Helens and read about the latest volcanic activity. Second, the University of North Dakota supplies great retrospective of the 1980 explosion (2). Through a series of incredible pictures, students can discover how a huge eruption can drastically change the surrounding landscape. Users can take a virtual trip up the volcano from the trailhead to the summit. At the next website, the USGS provides links to current seismicity and real-time eruption and hydrologic monitoring data (3). Educators can find numerous pictures and figures illustrating the physical features of a volcano. Next, the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network supplies seismographic and volcanic data for Mount St. Helens (4). While Mount St. Helens is considered the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest at the moment, visitors can also discover the potential for earthquakes and significant volcanic activity at other locations in the Pacific Northwest. At the fifth website, the Wheeling Jesuit University offers a historical narrative of the serenity of the volcano and its periodic rages (5). While this site does not provide in-depth materials and data like the other sites, the straightforward writing style may be more beneficial to younger audiences. The sixth website is a news release from NASA describing the possibility that infrared digital images could "provide valuable clues as to how" Mount St. Helens erupted on October 1, 2004 (6). Through the many enlightening images of the lava dome, users can learn about how digital infrared imagery's master bands and associated wavelengths are used to characterize different features of the volcano. Next, in a press release, the National Geographic describes the Mount St. Helens eruption this month (7). Students and educators can discover how earthquakes are caused as rainwater encounters hot rock in the fall and how this process may impact the activity of volcanoes. The web site also introduces individuals to the Ring of Fire. Lastly, MSNBC offers a news article and video on the molten magma rising in Mount St. Helens, the current activity levels, and the advisories (8). The web site features a link describing the newest sensors that may assist scientists in predicting explosions. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM |
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