Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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Friday, December 31, 2004 
CasePlace.org CasePlace - Business Case Studies and Social Impact Management Teaching Materials http://www.caseplace.org/ CasePlace.org is an online database of business case studies and supplementary materials for faculty seeking to integrate discussion of social and environmental issues into the MBA curriculum. CasePlace.org is also a free online service for business school faculty, students and businesses. They can help you find some of the best cases, references, and commentary published by and for business educators and business executives. For business materials that incorporate social impact management, corporate social responsibility, and business ethics, you've come to the right place. CasePlace.org is a service of the The Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program (BSP). Aspen BSP staff’s extensive and ongoing searches of teaching materials, with guidance from discipline experts produce the material. They also rely on you to provide new content, to react to ideas, and to send ideas. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM The Classical Music Pages http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html This web site provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. It is designed to be of use for everyone from "beginners" to the music professional - decide for yourself how deeply you follow the links. If it's your first visit, please take a moment to read the User's Guide. This project was created by Matthew Boynick, a young orchestra conductor. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Internet Archive - Text Archive http://www.archive.org/texts/ This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Their goal in digitizing these texts and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival texts. By providing near-unrestricted access to these texts, they hope to encourage widespread use of texts in new contexts by people who might not have used them before. Currently included: 1) Canadian Libraries, 2) Million Book Project, 3) Children's Library, 4) Project Gutenberg, 5) Arpanet, 6) Dance Manuals, 7) Internet Bookmobile, and 8) Open Source Books. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM National Coalition of Independent Scholars http://www.ncis.org/ The National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS) was formed in January 1989 to facilitate the work of independent scholars. NCIS objectives are to: 1) Bring independent scholars together to share scholarly interests and expertise, 2) Improve access to research libraries for independent scholars, 3) Offer independent scholars information and advice about grants and fellowships and about publishing, 4) Encourage foundations and institutes to open competitions to independent scholars and to include them on review committees, 5) Hold conferences and workshops of interest to independent scholars and to the public, 6) Offer grants-in-aid to NCIS members and small grants to affiliates, 7) Serve as administrator for members applying for grants, 8) Encourage information exchange through publications and electronic communication, 9) Aid organizations of independent scholars by collecting and sharing organization experience and by publicizing their work, and 10) Provide information for the creation of local organizations of independent scholars. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM DepNet - Depression Communities With Articles, Chat, Discussion and Letterbox DepNet is an information website that provides a large amount of knowledge and insight into the illness, depression. DepNet will endevour to improve the everyday life of people affected by depression. DepNet was initiated in Denmark by the Lundbeck Institute, a world-renowned centre focusing on psychiatric and neurological diseases. The Lundbeck Institute is committed to improving public acceptance and treatment of mental illnesses. The Institute is recognized by, amongst others, the World Health Organisation and the World Psychiatric Association. The popularity and success of DepNet in Europe has lead to the translation and localisation of information for other countries. The site offers an intimate yet thorough look at depression. It provides information not only for sufferers of depression but for their families and friends. It also adresses the issue of the 'stigma' of depression and ways of dealing with this. Depnet directs sufferers and their families to available community resources where they can seek help and offers a secure chat room, debate area and letterbox enabling browsers to talk of their experiences and to direct questions to trained medical professionals. DepNet is for: People who suffer from depression, family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances; General Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Psychologists and other health care providers; and anyone who is interested in learning about depression. Depnet is intended to supplement, not replace, the information gained from your health care professional. DepNet is available in the following countries: Australia (English) Site Address: http://www.depnet.com.au/ Denmark (Danish) Site Address: http://www.depnet.dk/ Greece (Greek) Site Address: http://www.depnet.gr/ India (English) Site Address: http://www.depnet.co.in/ South Africa (English) Site Address: http://www.depnet.co.za/ Turkey (Turkish) Site Address: http://www.depnet.com.tr/ United Arab Emirates(English) Site Address: http://www.depnet.ae/ This has been added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Working Draft: WSDL 2.0 Primer http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-primer-20041221/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ The Web Services Description Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 0: Primer." A companion to the WSDL 2.0 Core Language, Predefined Extensions and Bindings specifications, the Primer develops a simple example WSDL 2.0 document using a hotel reservation service use case. Readers will also find information on defining message types and services, and on interfaces, bindings and advanced topics. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, December 30, 2004 
O*NET Online O*NET Online - Occupational Information Network http://online.onetcenter.org/ O*NET, the Occupational Information Network, is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. As the replacement for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), O*NET will be the nation's primary source of occupational information. O*NET is being developed as a timely, easy-to-use resource that supports public and private sector efforts to identify and develop the skills of the American workforce. It provides a common language for defining and describing occupations. Its flexible design also captures rapidly changing job requirements. In addition, O*NET moves occupational information into the technological age. As the basis for enhanced product development, the O*NET database can serve as the engine that drives value-added applications designed around core information. It provides the essential foundation for facilitating career counseling, education, employment, and training activities. The database contains information about knowledges, skills, abilities (KSA), interests, general work activities (GWA), and work context. O*NET data and structure will also link related occupational, educational, and labor market information databases to the system. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM This is a very abbreviated listing of resources for international newspapers. It is extrememly important to maintain current awareness with all the happenings both local and global and these international newspapers resources will definitely aid you in the proper direction for awareness. A complete listing of all the international newspapers is located under the reference section of all my Internet MiniGuides 2005. Internet Public Library - Online Newspapers From Arounf the World http://www.ipl.org/div/news/ NewsDirectory - Over 20300 Categorized Information Links http://www.NewsDirectory.com/ NewsLink http://www.NewsLink.org/ Newspapers.com - Links To Over 10,000 Newspapers Online http://www.Newspapers.com/ Online Newspapers - Thousands of Newspapers on the Net http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ The Paper Boy - Newspapers http://www.thepaperboy.com/ World-Newspapers.com - World Newspapers, Magazines, and News Sites in English http://www.world-newspapers.com/ These represent a fairly good cross section of resources to find most international newspapers that are online. If you have a recommendation of an excellent resource please feel free to email me ..... This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM World News Connection® http://wnc.fedworld.gov/ World News Connection® (WNC) is an online news service, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources, WNC provides you with the power to identify what really is happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. The material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency. For over 60 years, analysts from FBIS' domestic and overseas bureaus have monitored timely and pertinent open-source materials, including gray literature. Uniquely, WNC allows you to take advantage of the intelligence gathering experience of FBIS. The information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. New information is entered into WNC every government business day. Generally, this information is available within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast. WNC is a valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM IRIN - United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks http://www.irinnews.org/ When crisis or disaster hits a country, communications are often one of the first casualties. Reliable sources dry up, government agencies collapse, media images do not give the full picture. Without constantly updated and accurate information on washed-out roads, bombed airfields, landmines, disease-infested water, epidemics, or civil unrest and outbreaks of violence, it is impossible to respond effectively. People die and money and supplies are wasted. Today, in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia the need for an accurate picture of events on the ground is being met by the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). IRIN, which was born out of the 1994 crisis in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, pioneered the use of e-mail and web technology to deliver and receive information to and from some of the most remote and underdeveloped places in Africa, cheaply and efficiently. Its reporting focuses on strengthening universal access to timely, strategic and non-partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of the humanitarian community to understand, respond to and avert emergencies. IRIN further supports efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation by countering misinformation and propaganda. Governments, aid workers, civil societies, disaster specialists, members of the public all receive and contribute to regular reports on a wide array of political, economic and social issues affecting humanitarian efforts. IRIN takes an increasingly broad view of what comprises 'humanitarianism' and seeks to cover the full range of humanitarian issues from the abuse of human rights to the environment. Moreover, local communities are a key component in the information exchange process, enriching IRIN reports with grassroots material and creating a platform for debate between humanitarian decision-makers and affected communities. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Speegle http://www.speegle.co.uk/ Listen to the results of your search. You can hear the following results: 1) Title, 2) Title and Description, 3) URL and Description, or 4) URL, Title and Description. The results can be delivered in the choice of a female voice or two males voices. This is an interesting concept and offers some very interesting possibilities especially for accessability issues and availability through mobile devices. There is also a link to listening to the results of a Usenet Newsgroup search. This has been added to the search engines section of the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Traditional Journalists Could Learn From Bloggers http://www.timporter.com/firstdraft/archives/000394.html A very interesting post from Tim Porter with inspiration from Steve Outing giving his list of 10 things traditional journalists, particularly those who work for newspapers, could learn from bloggers including: 1) Get Personal, 2) Explain Why You Do Things, 3) Focus, 4) Print the Truth, Not Just the Facts, 5) Don't Just Report, Teach, 6) Get Local, Very Local, 7) Give Readers Access To Source Materails, 8) Add Multiple RSS Feeds To Your Site, 9) Add eMail Addresses To Your Stories, and 10) Finally, Adapt. A very insightful read ..... posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, December 29, 2004 
Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. December 29, 2004 V2N52 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Social Informatics. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing online social networking resources and sites available on the world wide web. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.SocialInformatics.net/  
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Loads of Linux Links http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/index.html The purpose of the Loads of Linux Links project is to collect, organise, classify and maintain important URLs about Linux and the Open Source movement for all levels of Linux users. The LoLL project now has 4000+ links which are updated regularly. This project originally began as a service for the Victoria Linux Users' Group (VLUG) but in the true spirit of Linux, they decided to share this valuable resource with the wider Linux community by putting the Loads of Linux Links project on SourceForge. Like Linux, this is a work in progress, so stay tuned here for further update announcements concerning additional links and revised subject categories. Also, like Linux, no one owns this project -- it's GPLed so the project can never be hijacked by proprietary interests! posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Time Magazine Archives http://www.time.com/time/archive/ Not only can you now read almost every issue of TIME since it began publication on March 3, 1923, but you can do a full-text search through more than a quarter million articles. Understanding how our search tool works will help you find what you are looking for, so take a look at their Search Tips. But if you still have a problem getting the best search results, ask their Archivist! The search function worked fine as I typed in my name and found the article mentioning me on electrocnic commerce and shoppingbots. It does requires a subscription to Time Magazine to fetch the entire archived article as the search just brings back the initial paragraph. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Xara Online - Online Service Web Applications http://www.xaraonline.com/ Xara Online offers a unique set of tools for webmasters. Invaluable to the professional or the home page builder alike, these web page add-ons range from the simple hit counter to powerful database web applications to enhance any website. Compatible with just about all web authoring tools, they require no programming, no downloads and can be added to any web page in seconds. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/ Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) is a full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong. Titles included in this database cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education. The University of Hong Kong Libraries, with a rich collection of Hong Kong journals, developed this database with the objectives of facilitating efficient information retrieval and preserving archival materials. Issues included in this database vary from journal to journal with the earliest going back to 1872. At its first release, more than 170,000 images from over 40 titles will be accessible on the database. More titles with permission granted for digitising their full text will be included to the database. New issues of the titles will also be added as soon as being received. Scholars doing research on Hong Kong will find this an invaluable resource. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM indeed - One Search All Jobs http://www.indeed.com/ indeed is a search engine for jobs; a window to search all jobs on the web. Indeed enables you to search millions of jobs across all career fields ... jobs that are listed on job boards, newspaper sites, and niche sites. In one simple search, you can find the very latest job listings throughout the web. You may save your searches and have jobs delivered to you by email alert, MyYahoo, or other RSS feed readers. If you have a MyYahoo account, for example, your saved Indeed job search may be added at the click of a button. Indeeds unique job search technology combines a simple interface, precision search and comprehensive coverage. Launched in November, 2004, Indeed.com is currently in Beta. Searching 1,756,746 jobs from the last 30 days. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, December 28, 2004 
Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N1 January 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N1 January 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N1.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The January 2005 V3N1 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 31 page .pdf document (558KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online Grant 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 paper review covers Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web by Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Clay Fink, Anupam Joshi, and R. Scott Cost; and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subject: Social Informatics. posted by Marcus Zillman | 11:06 AM 
Online Business Networks Online Business Networks - Building Quality Business Relationships on the Internet http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/ Reach More of the Right People Faster with Less Effort. Business is under pressure now more than ever to do more with less — bigger, better, cheaper, faster. But at what cost? At the cost of human relationships? It doesn't have to be. The internet offers powerful tools to help you find the right people, connect with them, build trust and rapport, and collaborate with them quickly and cost-effectively. This is a good guide with some fine resources. This has been added to my white paper Online Social Networking. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool For the Semantic Web http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html Magpie uses ontology infrastructure to semantically markup web documents on-the-fly. The existing technologies in this problem domain tend to be rather heavyweight, and often modify the appearance of the actual webpage. Whilst these modifications may sometimes be acceptable, sometimes they may be a cause of a serious annoyance on user's behalf. Often, the existing technologies rely on one very specific ontology... To alleviate some of these issues, they started work on the Magpie technology that would be lightweight and provide sufficiently robust and flexible features for semantically enriched browsing. Magpie tool aims to identify and filter out the concepts-of-interest from any webpage it is given. The current set of concepts can be influenced by a selection of a particular ontology of concepts and relations. In addition to identifying the concepts-of-interest that are relevant from the perspective of a particular ontology, each such concept may provide an applicable set of relations or commands that can be executed. Such relationships are both, determined and evaluated dynamically by querying the ontology server. Another feature they believe improves the user's experience is the ability to turn the semantic menus ON or OFF, to highlight all instances belonging to a particular ontological class, to follow and semantically process the links embedded in the document. 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 SwarmStream™ SDK http://onionnetworks.com/products/swarmstream/ The SwarmStream SDK is a comprehensive suite of acceleration technologies that greatly enhance the raw speed and reliability, of enterprise, consumer, and military applications over Wide-Area Networks. Onion Networks redefines state-of-the-art by being the first company to provide WAN Acceleration, Caching, Random Access Acceleration, Self-Healing Data Transfer, and Grid Acceleration all in a single, easy to integrate package. From downloadable movies to enormous CAD files to XML messages, only SwarmStream provides the reliable and dependable performance needed for today's networked applications. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Feed Me Legal - Blog http://www.feedmelegal.com/ This has been taken from the "about" section of this blog with the addition of the word "anonymous". FeedMeLegal is a blog creation of an anonymous lawyer in private practice who is interested in the potential benefits to lawyers, their clients and the public of weblog applications, weblogs, webfeeds and related technology; and supportive of the profession’s uptake of this technology which to date, given the number of lawyers and firms out there (and with some notable and pioneering exceptions), appears to have been comparatively modest. The main purpose of this site is two-fold: to add another voice to those lauding the potential benefits of such technology, but purely in the context of the practice of law and the sharing of legal knowledge with clients, potential clients and, to some extent, the public generally; and to suggest how such technology can be put to advantageous, competitive and ethical use by, among others, lawyers and their clients. This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM GovExec http://www.govexec.com/ GovExec.com is government's business news daily and the premier Web site for federal managers and executives. Government Executive in its print incarnation is a monthly business magazine serving senior executives and managers in the federal government's departments and agencies. Their subscribers are high-ranking civilian and military officials who are responsible for defending the nation and carrying out the many laws that define the government's role in our economy and society. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM QuickTopic: Free Bulletin Boards (Message Boards) and Collaborative Document Review Groupware http://www.quicktopic.com/ There's a major gap in collaboration tools between plain old email and more complex, long-term solutions like multi-threaded web bulletin boards or mailing lists, and QuickTopic fills that gap. For any substantial group discussion, email is cumbersome. A conversation thread is scattered among email in-boxes, and there's no central respository to capture it. Heavyweight collaboration systems require complex setup and registration and/or learning by participants. QuickTopic fills the gap by providing a super-easy single-topic web forum that's also fully email-enabled. You can start a topic in ten seconds, and participants can use just email to participate, or they can use the web board, or both as the need arises. It's like an instant mailing list with a web-based archive, or it's like an easy web forum that works seamlessly with email. Each topic also has its own RSS feed, accessible by simply appending ".rss" to the topic's URL! This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, December 27, 2004 
January 2005 Zillman Column January 2005 Zillman Column - World Wide Web Reference http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/WWWReference Jan05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The January 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled World Wide Web Reference. This January 2005 Zillman Column is a comprehensive list of world wide web references resources and sites available over the Internet. Download this excellent 16 page free .pdf (345KB) column today and begin using the many reference resources about the World Wide Web! 
© 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:30 AM December 26, 2004 Asian Tsunami Information and Stories Note: This site is constantly updated with the most competent and relevant resources and sources starting December 26, 2004 and continuing ..... Tsunamis http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/01/tsunamis.html Asian Tsunami Web Archive http://tsunami.archive.org/ Tsunamis and Technology http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/01/tsunamis-and-technology.html 2004 Tsunami Disaster: Scholarly and Factual Analyses http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/Tsunami-Analyses.html Reuters AlertNet - FIND A CHARITY: NGOs Respond To Asia Tsunamis http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/110409431212.htm Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster December 2004 http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/indian-ocean-disaster.html Development Gateway - South Asian Tsunami: Massive Aid Coordination Effort Works to Bring Relief to Disaster Regions http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/tsunami World Health Organization (WHO): South Asia Earthquake and Tsunamis http://www.who.int/hac/crises/international/asia_tsunami/en/ IRIS Seismic Monitor http://www.iris.edu/seismon/ USA Freedom Corps http://www.usafreedomcorp.gov/ Fact Sheet: How to Help Tsunami Disaster Victims http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/content/about_usafc/newsroom/announcements_dynamic.asp?ID=833 FirstGov.gov for Citizens: Asia Earthquakes and Tsunamis http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/Asia_Tsunamis.shtml SAJA: South Asian Journalists Association http://www.saja.org/ The Tsunami Disaster in Asia, 2004: An Annotated Directory of Resources http://bulldog2.redlands.edu/dept/AsianStudiesDept/tsunami.html Asia Insights: Tsunami Disaster http://www.niaslinc.dk/gateway_to_asia/Asia_insights/Tsunami_disaster.asp The Asian Tsunami Disaster Informational Resource Website - WWW Virtual Library on Asian Studies http://malaysia.forplanetearth.com/ International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) FamilyLinks http://www.icrc.org/ http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/ Tsunami-Info.org - News Feeds & Blogs From Around the World, Collected by Andy Carvin http://www.andycarvin.com/tsunami.html Tsunami Help - ARC ( Alert Retrieval Cache) http://www.socialtext.net/tsunamihelp/index.cgi?arc&login=user4183 Updated Information On Earthquakes http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/ How To Find Tsunami Video Footage http://channels.lockergnome.com/search/archives/20050102_how_to_find_tsunami_video_footage.phtml World Changing http://www.WorldChanging.com/ This page contains a list of the latest major documents added to ReliefWeb pertaining to South Asia: Earthquake and Tsunami - Dec 2004 http://snipurl.com/bmv5 The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog (a.k.a. the SEA-EAT Blog) http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/ Tsunami-info's Digest http://kinja.com/user/tsunami-info Quake, Tsunami Blogger Roundup (via CyberJournalist.net) http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/001804.php Reuters AlertNet - Humanitarian News Network http://www.alertnet.org/ 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake Google -- Information and Donation Links http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html FirstGov -- Information About US Government Response, Ways Citizens Can Help, and General Information About Earthquakes and Tsunamis http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/Asia_Tsunamis.shtml Wikipedia -- Page About Where You Can Donate To Help At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donations_for_victims_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake Sea Surges Reach E African Coast http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/africa/4126513.stm Asia Wakes To Tidal Catastrophe http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/4126971.stm Indonesia Hunts Disaster Victims http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4127145.stm Thailand Resorts Hit By Floods http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4125847.stm Sri Lanka Searches For Survivors http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4126055.stm South India Struck By Quake Waves http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/4125845.stm UN Warns of Possible Epidemics in Quake-Hit Asia http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7181635&src=rss/worldNews Thousands Swept To Their Death http://www.guardian.co.uk/naturaldisasters/story/0,7369,1380040,00.html?gusrc=rss There are excellent web sites to help guide those who are interested in identifying what organizations are working in this region that would be happy to accept donations to help the people affected by these tsunamis, and provide extensive updates on relief efforts: Digital Divide Network - Online Community Workspace On Disaster Relief and Emergency Preparedness http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/disaster-relief InterAction.org - Disaster Response http://www.interaction.org/sasia/index.html One World http://www.oneworld.net Relief Organizations Working in the Disaster Area http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/tsunami/ngolist.html Relief Web http://www.reliefweb.int Tsunami Devastates Southeast Asia http://snipurl.com/bmmq United States Agency for International Development - USAID http://www.usaid.gov/ posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:28 AM 
10x10 10x10™ http://www.tenbyten.org/ 10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life. 10x10 is ever-changing, ever-growing, quietly observing the ways in which we live. It records our wars and crises, our triumphs and tragedies, our mistakes and milestones. When we make history, or at least the headlines, 10x10 takes note and remembers. Each hour is presented as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames, each of which holds the image of a single moment in time. Clicking on a single frame allows us to peer a bit deeper into the story that lies behind the image. In this way, we can dart in and out of the news, understanding both the individual stories and the ways in which they relate to each other. 10x10 runs with no human intervention, autonomously observing what a handful of leading international news sources are saying and showing. 10x10 makes no comment on news media bias, or lack thereof. It has no politics, nor any secret agenda; it simply shows what it finds. With no human editors and no regulation, 10x10 is open and free, raw and fresh, and consequently a unique way of following world events. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Historical Statistics of the United States http://www.csep.ucr.edu/HSUS/HSUS.html The goal of the project is to produce an updated, expanded, and thoroughly revised edition in print and electronic formats of various historical statistics of the United States, to be collected from the Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Colonial Times to The Present (Cambridge University Press). The Historical Statistics of the United States was first published in 1949 by the Bureau of the Census with the advice and assistance of the Social Science Research Council. A second and much larger edition appeared in 1960 under the same auspices. The third edition, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition, was published by the Bureau in 1975 and was expanded to two volumes. In the year 2005 Cambridge University Press will publish the fourth, millennial, edition of this classic reference work. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Library Zone Newsletter http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,0,4-117-0-0-0,0.html Read the inaugral issue of Library Zone, Springer's new library focused newsletter, with librarian interviews, product information, industry updates, and more. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM PGP Global Directory https://keyserver-beta.pgp.com/vkd/Help.event The PGP Global Directory is a free, publicly available keyserver that gives you access to the universe of PGP keys. The PGP Global Directory uses advanced keyserver technology to prevent it from being clogged with unusable and/or untrustworthy keys. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Collections and Internet Resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/ Use these categories to find local and remote collections and resources in specific scholarly areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, including interdisciplinary Area Studies and Ethnic Studies. The resources are from the UCLA Young Research Library Collection. Online resources in all of these and additional subject areas are also accessible via UCLA Library Online Materials. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM RSS: The Latest Feed by Judith Wusteman http://www.ucd.ie/wusteman/lht/wusteman-rss.html Abstract The number of library-related RSS and Atom applications is increasing daily. But, as yet, the formats and technology involved are far from stable. This article looks at the current state of the field, discusses future developments and considers implications for the library. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, December 26, 2004 
BlogPulse 2004 - The Blogosphere in 2004 http://www.blogs2004.com What do George Bush, singing llamas, comedian Jon Stewart and a blog called Boing Boing have in common? They were some of the most discussed people, features and trends in the blogging world in 2004. And today, Intelliseek's BlogPulse.com web site features an entirely new section that reviews, with charts, links and graphs, the most commonly cited and linked-to items in the Blogosphere in 2004. BlogPulse 2004 contains something for everyone -- politics, news, social trends, international topics, silly stuff and intriguing finds. The Year in Review neatly captures the major themes, ideas, people and events that bloggers were discussing and writing about in 2004. Some highlights: Bush was the most-cited personality, a singing llamas video was among the most forwarded "you gotta see this!" links, the transcript of Stewart's pointed pre-election appearance on CNN's "Crossfire" was the most-cited news story, and Boing Boing was the most-cited blog. That's just a smattering of what you'll find at the BlogPulse 2004 Year in Review. Don't miss the chart that plots out how the seven deadly sins fared in 2004, or which actors/actresses, movies, Amazon.com products and web sites received the most "buzz," or which news sources bloggers turned to the most to find out what's going on in the world. This has be added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presenation links. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM AllPeers http://www.allpeers.com/ AllPeers is the first peer-to-peer platform designed to enable a diverse range of services that give you, the user, total control over your profile, your contacts and your digital media files. They are currently finalizing the first consumer service based on the AllPeers platform: an advanced digital photo sharing application. There are many more exciting services planned for release over the coming months. AllPeers is a privately held company with headquarters in Oxford , United Kingdom . Their software development center is located in Prague, Czech Republic. To learn more about their vision for peer-to-peer computing, read the Peer Pressure blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM RSScache.com http://www.rsscache.com/ RSScache.com is the solution to RSS bandwidth over usage! It acts as an intelligent caching system between the readers and the Web sites’ feeds. Instead of accessing the feed directly on the Web site, the reader passes through our RSScache.com system. If the feed is not currently in our cache, we query the feed on the Web site. Once we have cached the feed, we won’t fetch it again on the Web site until a certain period of time (30 minutes). Readers that connect to RSScache.com to get the feed will only receive the news that they haven’t seen yet (the user is authenticated by its IP address or by a GUID). So, for example, if the Web site hasn’t published news for 3 hours, readers won’t receive any news it has already received during that period. This optimises the reader’s and web site’s bandwidth. And since no installation is required by both parties, our solution can be used in less than 10 seconds! This will be added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Internet Reference Services Quarterly http://digital.library.miami.edu/irsq/index.html Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a journal of innovative information practice, technologies, and resources, highlights theoretically informed research and practical applications of Internet-related information services, sources, and resources. By exploring current topics, addressing controversial issues, and examining contemporary practices, IRSQ provides a basis for understanding the Internet’s power and impact on librarianship. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM celtx http://celtx.com/ celtx is simple, easy to use software designed for people who work in Film, TV, Theater and New Media. It enables you to work digitally on script based projects, either on your own or collaboratively with project team members. Internet Intelligence: celtx is specifically designed for the Internet. celtx runs "inside" a web browser using the Mozilla Application Framework to create a web intelligent, collaborative environment. celtx application components are based on modules that are Internet aware. This means celtx can easily integrate with existing Web technologies and is highly adaptable to new ones. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM del.icio.us - Social Bookmarks http://del.icio.us/ del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others. Once you've registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser. When you find a web page you'd like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you'll be prompted for a information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together, modify the title of the page, and add extended notes for yourself or for others. You can access your list of links from any web browser. By default, your links are shown to you in reverse chronological order, with those you've added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links in a specific category (you define your own categories as you add the links), or search your links for keywords. What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, December 25, 2004 
I would like to take this personal opportunity to wish all the readers, viewers and subscribers to this blog (www.zillman.us) a very Merry Christmas and to send this greetings to all their families, friends and associates worldwide!! The ratings of this blog continue to grow and grow and we are very humbled by the many praises that we continue to receive ..... my goals is to continue to post information that you can utilize in your profession, business, hobby or special interest. There will be no postings today December 25, 2004 ..... Marcus posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, December 24, 2004 
Time To Get Online Time To Get Online - Simple Steps to Success on the Internet http://www.timetogetonline.org/content/view/19/43/ The 150-page Time To Get Online materials are centered around the five essential "steps to success on the Internet". The first half of the materials is geared towards creating Internet-savvy activists. The second half will help them to become effective Internet champions, capable of leading their organizations through the challenging process of integrating the Internet into everything they do. The Appendices and accompanying CD-ROM (print version only) contain a wealth of additional resources for continued learning, freely distributable computer software and more. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM MoleSter - A Tiny File-Sharing Application http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/molester/ Dr. Edward Felten recently posted a piece of code called TinyP2P, which demonstrates how easy it is to create a peer-to-peer filesharing application by doing it in just 15 lines of Python. However, TinyP2P uses a ready-made XMLRPC server library, which seems to be taking the easy way out. Here's the response: MoleSter, a non-trivial filesharing application in 9 lines of Perl, using no protocol library more sophisticated than TCP. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM New Search Tool Targets Handwritten Documents http://www.umass.edu/umhome/news/articles/7683.php Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a "first-of-its-kind" document retrieval system that is able to "memorize" keywords in handwritten manuscripts. Computer scientist R. Manmatha says, "Right now, searching a scanned handwritten document is very hard to do. Scanned historical documents are basically images, or pictures, and currently can only be searched if someone manually transcribes the documents or creates an index of their contents. This is time consuming and expensive to do. Given the cost, most handwritten documents are never transcribed or indexed. But there is an enormous amount of handwritten, historical material." Manmatha and his associates have created a demonstration of their search tool using 1,000 pages of George Washington's papers, which can be searched by typing in a common keyword such as "Virginia." According to research assistant Toni Rath, "The basic idea is analogous to searching text documents in one language, say French, using queries in another language, say English. This is usually done by learning models from documents written in both languages. By analogy, our system learns from a parallel body of transcribed scanned images. That is, the word images form a 'visual language' and the transcriptions are in English." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Media RSS http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/mrss.html "Media RSS" is a new RSS module that supplements the enclosure capabilities of RSS 2.0 (FAQ). Enclosures in RSS are already being used to syndicate audio files (Podcasting) and images. Media RSS extends enclosures to handle other media types, such as short films or TV, in addition to providing additional metadata with the media. Media RSS enables content publishers and bloggers to broadly distribute descriptions of and links to multimedia content. I will be placing all my online tutorial streaming videos through Information Detective in Media RSS. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One' Is a W3C Recommendation http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/ http://www.w3.org/2004/12/webarch-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2004/12/webarch-testimonials http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ The World Wide Web Consortium released "Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One" as a W3C Recommendation. The Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures and media. This architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web in an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as its technologies evolve. Read the press release, Member testimonials, and visit the TAG home page. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM The Role of RSS in Science Publishing - Syndication and Annotation on the Web by Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, and Ben Lund http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december04/hammond/12hammond.html Introduction By Author: RSS is one of a new breed of technologies that is contributing to the ever-expanding dominance of the Web as the pre-eminent, global information medium. It is intimately connected with—though not bound to—social environments such as blogs and wikis, annotation tools such as del.icio.us [1], Flickr [2] and Furl [3], and more recent hybrid utilities such as JotSpot [4], which are reshaping and redefining our view of the Web that has been built up and sustained over the last 10 years and more [n1]. Indeed, Tim Berners-Lee's original conception of the Web [5] was much more of a shared collaboratory than the flat, read-only kaleidoscope that has subsequently emerged: a consumer wonderland, rather than a common cooperative workspace. Where did it all go wrong? These new 'disruptive' technologies [n2] are now beginning to challenge the orthodoxy of the traditional website and its primacy in users' minds. The bastion of online publishing is under threat as never before. RSS is the very antithesis of the website. It is not a 'home page' for visitors to call at, but rather it provides a synopsis, or snapshot, of the current state of a website with simple titles and links. While titles and links are the joints that articulate an RSS feed, they can be freely embellished with textual descriptions and richer metadata annotations. Thus said, RSS usually functions as a signal of change on a distant website, but it can more generally be interpreted as a kind of network connector—or glue technology—between disparate applications. Syndication and annotation are the order of the day and are beginning to herald a new immediacy in communications and information provision. This paper describes the growing uptake of RSS within science publishing as seen from Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) [6] perspective. This will be added to my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, December 23, 2004 
EIN News EIN News - World News Media Monitoring http://www.einnews.com/ EINnews provides you access to breaking news that is organized within 260+ country, regional, U.S. States and specialized topic sections. EINnews content is derived from monitoring over 4,000 different online sources and is designed to save you money by reducing time needed for your online research. More than one million people turn to EINnews for breaking news each year. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM 
NetMiner - Social Network Analyzer http://www.netminer.com/ Its unique feature lies in the integration of standard and the latest social network analysis(SNA) methodology with modern graph drawing techniques in the spirit of exploratory data analysis(EDA). NetMiner also allows you to analyze your network data professionally and easily. It helps you to fast-detect underlying patterns and structures of the network. Cyram NetMiner can be used for general research and teaching in social networks. Also, it can be effectively applied to various business fields, where network-structural factors have great deal of influences on the performance: e.g. intra- and inter-organizational, financial, Web, criminal/intelligence, informetric, telecommunication, distribution, transportation networks. This will be added to my white paper miniguide Online Social Networking. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Arts and Humanities Internet Resources http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/resources/subject_portal/fass_arts.shtml This collection of Web sites for the Humanities has been selected by University of Waikato Library staff. It is not a static collection and it will undergo changes as and when better and more relevant websites are identified. Areas included: 1) Electronic Journals--Electronic Databases, 2) General, 3) Art History, 4) Asian Studies, 5) English, 6) European and Hispanic Studies, 7)--History, 8) Language and Linguistics, 9) Music, 10) Religious Studies, 11) Screen and Media Studies, and 12) Theatre. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Ambient Intelligence: Changing Forms of Human-Computer Interaction and their Social Implications by Mahesh S. Raisinghani*, Ally Benoit, Jianchun Ding, Maria Gomez, Kanak Gupta, Victor Gusila, Daniel Power and Oliver Schmedding http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i04/Raisinghani/ Abstract: Ambient intelligence appears poised to cause remarkable changes in the way people live. With digital information, the ease of interaction between humans and computers can be greatly increased by broadening the interface media available and allowing for mobile and portable communication free of inhibiting wires and stationary units. Additionally, some forms of ambient intelligence allow computers to adapt to their user's preferences. The result of ambient intelligence is ultimately a more empowered computer with the benefits of added convenience, time and cost savings, and possibilities for increased safety, security, and entertainment. This technology has the potential to significantly impact business and government processes, as well as private life. The paper describes developments to date in ambient intelligence and its closely related counterpart, ubiquitous computing and communication. It discusses the driving forces behind this digital information technology, describes the equipment and devices involved, the obstacles to implementing ambient intelligence on a large scale in real-world scenarios, and considers the future outlook. The authors believe that the introduction of this digital information technology will have wide-ranging implications, which will for the most part be beneficial and valuable. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and also added as a link to the Journal of Digital Information A SPECIAL ISSUE on Social Aspects of Digital Information in Perspective (Volume 5, issue 4, December 2004) in my white paper titled Online Social Networking. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Lingway http://www.lingway.fr/en/ Lingway is an editor of document management software based on language engineering, located in Paris. Specifically, Lingway’s technology consists of a natural language search engine, categorization and coding tools, software for generating an XML structure from textual documents, as well as information extraction and document visualization functions. This has been added to Web Data Extractors White Paper. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM PuzzleDonkey http://www.puzzledonkey.com/ This is the fourth PuzzleDonkey competition in the fabulous world famous award winning phenomenon. Previous competitions can be found here. As before, your task is to work your way through the set of puzzles which get progressively more difficult. When you reach the end you will be treated to all sorts of goodies, as well as a nice warm feeling of satisfaction. Enjoy the puzzles, and try not to get too worked up over them. It's only a game after all .... This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, December 22, 2004 
wURLdBook Research wURLdBook Research - Personal Internet Intelligence http://www.wurldbook.com/ wURLdBook's mission is to help people stay connected to information on the Web. wURLdBook is a free web based information aggregator. wURLdBook offers you a new way to unobtrusively navigate, collect, categorize, annotate, clip, archive, find, publish RSS (including enclosures) and share information with others that is important to you on the web. Using wURLdBook's integrated RSS news aggregation technology you can keep up-to-date on your favorite blog, news feed or RSS search. You can also republish RSS content you find to redistribute to friends and colleagues. With wURLdBook you can capture, along with the web site location (URL), meta-information or "micro content" related to your favorite sites or archive whole news stories for later reference to search against. You can add attachments to your web references which is an auxillary URL pointing to a file such as music files, pdf (e.g. manuals, documents), text or movies to have quick reference to them or publish them as RSS enclosures to share with others. To get you started, you can even import your existing bookmarks to kick-start your web reference collection. This has been added to the following Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs: Research Resources, Student Research, and Business Intelligence Resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Martus - The Global Social Justice Monitoring System http://www.martus.org/ Martus - Human Rights Bulletin System is a software tool that allows users to document incidents of abuse by creating bulletins, uploading them at the earliest opportunity, and storing them on redundant servers located around the world. Download your own Martus software to use for recording and storing information concerning the abuse of human rights. The Martus download includes everything you need to enter Martus bulletins on your computer. English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Thai language versions are available. Martus server software is also available, as well as source code files. It is compatible with Linux, Windows and Mac! This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Bibliomining Bibliography http://biblio.syr.edu/bibliomining/articles/ The purpose of this bibliography is to collect the work published about the bibliomining process in libraries. While there are many pieces on data mining, and bibliometrics, the focus on this bibliography are those projects which would be considered part of the bibliomining process. Sections include: 1) Introductions, 2) Specific Bibliomining Applications including a) Management and Decision-Making, b) Collection Development / Acquistions, c) Reference and Reader's Advisory (Recommendations), d) User Studies, e) Digital Libraries, f) Bibliometrics, g) Data Warehousing, and h) Specific Technologies; and 3) Privacy Issues Sampling. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Federal News Radio http://www.federalnewsradio.com/ Federal News Radio covers both the Federal Government and those who do business with the government concentrating on management, procurement, technology, security, policy and pay & benefits. Federal News Radio is also the only place to read and hear federal icon Mike Causey everyday. By hiring respected sources for federal information, like federal icon Mike Causey, and partnering with respected news organizations like the Associated Press, FederalNewsRadio.com evolved into an interactive, multimedia news and information source. FederalNewsRadio.com is the up-to-the-minute source for decision makers in and around the federal government. We cover the latest in federal legislation, human resources, procurement, benefits, technology, security, management, and of course, news. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Power Users of Technology By Joyce Malyn-Smith and Vivian Guilfoy https://secure.edc.org/publications/prodview.asp?1609 Power Users of information and communication technologies are individuals who break out of the confines of traditional learning, demographic or technological barriers by constantly using, sharing, creating, producing or changing information in creative, innovative and/or unintended ways so that they become force multipliers in their own environments. Published by Education Development Center, Inc. A freely available 23 page .pdf document. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM KIPnotes - Business History and Management Literacy http://www.kipnotes.com/ KIPnotes is dedicated to business history and management literacy. For more than a decade they have been collecting books, films and interviews on the histories of industries, companies, executives, products/services, economics, scandals and business fiction. And they have gathered essential books on management's investing, financing and operating decisions. The result: the largest multimedia collection of business histories and management titles available anywhere. Entries are organized by subject, company, year and author. You'll find tales of operating successes and failures, stories of entrepreneurial heroes and exploitive villains, legacies of empire builders, corporate raiders and asset strippers, lessons of seized opportunities and lost advantages. Thrill of victory, agony of defeat, photographs of the main characters - all in KIPnotes. This has been added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:01 AM Tuesday, December 21, 2004 
Research Buddy! Research Buddy - Saves References To WebPages in Bibliographical Reference Form http://researchbuddy.mozdev.org/ Research Buddy saves references to webpages in a bibliographical reference form. The extension is designed to be used in the following way: 1) The user finds a quote on a webpage and wants to reference the quote in his/her paper, 2) The user selects the text of this quote, and, in the right-click menu, selects "Research Buddy" (this step is optional: the page can be referenced without selected text), 3) The plugin opens the main Research Buddy dialog, which allows the user to select which research topic the page should be filed under, and 4) The user clicks on "Add to selected topic", and the reference is saved to the topic. Depending on the preferences, the page (and it's images) may be saved to the user's disk. Users can also add new topics, delete old topics, rename topics, and view the bibliography for a topic. The Research Buddy preferences allow the user to configure the behavior of the plugin. Preferences are stored in a file, so they persist between web sessions: a) Bibliography format string (defaults to a generic reference string, b) Root directory to store pages in (set to the mozilla profile directory by default), c) Save the html of the referenced page (this is useful for ensuring access to the content regardless of the availability of the website. on by default, d) Save the images on the referenced page (useful for pages where content is at least partially contained in images. off by default to save disk space), e) Many bibliography strings will require an "Author" field. Due to the difficulty of accurately finding the author of a given webpage, they decided that this task be left up to the user, and f) The citations are stored in xml format, and an html file is only generated when the user clicks on "View Topic". This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and added to Student Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM TEXT FILES Resource Site http://www.TextFiles.com/directory/ This site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day. he files on TEXTFILES.COM are maintained by somewhat arbitrary guidelines, so if a file you're looking for is not in one section, try a few others. Files are often in the "8+3" format, but since they're coming from all sorts of sources, this isn't guaranteed. Our focus is on the years 1980-1995, but files from before and after sometime sneak in. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM MelissaDATA http://www.melissadata.com/ Melissa Data Corp, founded in 1985 by Raymond F. Melissa, is the leading provider of data quality solutions to help you achieve the highest level of quality contact information. You'll find their versatile line of software, components, database, and services are easy-to-use and cost-effective. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Bibliomining for Automated Collection Development in a Digital Library Setting: Using Data Mining to Discover Web-Based Scholarly Research Works by Dr. Scott Nicholson http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/archive/00000625/ http://www.BiblioMining.com/ Abstract: This research creates an intelligent agent for automated collection development in a digital library setting. It uses a predictive model based on facets of each Web page to select scholarly works. The criteria came from the academic library selection literature, and a Delphi study was used to refine the list to 41 criteria. A Perl program was designed to analyze a Web page for each criterion and applied to a large collection of scholarly and non-scholarly Web pages. Bibliomining, or data mining for libraries, was then used to create different classification models. Four techniques were used: logistic regression, non-parametric discriminant analysis, classification trees, and neural networks. Accuracy and return were used to judge the effectiveness of each model on test datasets. In addition, a set of problematic pages that were difficult to classify because of their similarity to scholarly research was gathered and classified using the models. The resulting models could be used in the selection process to automatically create a digital library of Web-based scholarly research works. In addition, the technique can be extended to create a digital library of any type of structured electronic information. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Internet Living Swahili Dictionary http://www.yale.edu/swahili/ The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary is a collaborative work by people all over the world. Together they are working to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language - Kiswahili - both within Swahili and between Swahili and English. They are preparing print-based dictionaries and multi-media Swahili learning applications, all accessible to you through this home page. They invite you to become a contributing editor - help refine our lexicon by using our unique Edit Engine. Swahili is the most widely spoken African language, with more than 50 million speakers in East Africa and Central Africa, particularly in Tanzania (including Zanzibar) and Kenya. They suggest that first-time visitors to the Kamusi Project take a few minutes to read through their page of Frequently Asked Questions. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer&trade Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM QuestAgent http://freshmeat.net/projects/questagent/?branch_id=55013&release_id=181332 QuestAgent is a full text search toolkit for offline (CD/DVD) and online publications. It supports indexing of HTML, XML, PDF, MS Office, OpenOffice, and text documents. It has several customizable search interfaces and supports highlighting of query terms and phrases in found HTML documents. The provided GUI application makes indexing and deployment of search engines simple. This has been added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, December 20, 2004 
Online Social Networking Internet MiniGuide This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. December 20, 2004 V2N51 discusses his white paper Online Social Networking - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation . Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this very exciting white paper featuring many excellent resources and sites for online social and business networking ... the next wave of the Internet! View this white paper at: Online Social Networking - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/09/online-social-networking-internet.html
posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:35 AM  IMSA Internet Search Wizard IMSA Internet Search Wizard http://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/locate/ The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) 21St Century Information Fluency Team updates its Internet Search Wizard, featuring the nation's most popular search engine and new instructional enhancements. Their Internet search tool uses the Google Public Service Search to bring you results from today's most widely used search engine. But the real news are the instructional features that help you get the most out of advanced Internet searching. The new Wizard presents: 1) Common advanced search parameters with mouse-over explanations of what each parameter does and when you might use it, 2) Links to expanded explanations of search tips and recommended MicroModules for deep dives into concepts, and 3) A visual display of your custom search query. As you type in the advanced search boxes, the actual Google search formula is being created before your eyes! The new Search Wizard still delivers "one stop shopping" for searchers with tabs at the top of the page to help common search tasks such as Spell Check, Thesaurus Lookup, Evaluation Template, Citation Template, Internet Safety, FAQs and other Helpful Tips. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Help2Go - Free Computer Advice and Tutorials http://www.help2go.com/ Help2Go is a community committed to offering free computer help and tutorials, in a way that everyone can understand, not "geek-speak". Sections include: 1) Get Computer Help, 2) Spyware Help, 3) Article and Tutorials, 4) Our Best Tutorials, and 5) All Forums. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Supybot, A Superb Python IRC Bot http://freshmeat.net/projects/supybot/?branch_id=31808&release_id=181322 Supybot is a clearly-written Python IRC framework and bot, intended to be both easily extensible and very flexible. Several modules are included by default. Numerous plugins are already written, including Google, Factoids, RSS, Quotes, and Relay. Plugins and their commands achieve greater utility via command nesting, something that no other IRC bot does. The user database is based on "capabilities" rather than obscure flags or arbitrary numeric "userlevels", giving the bot flexibility and fine-grained control (think ACLs vs. standard *nix permissions). Developing your own additions to the bot is simple with the base classes provided; writing a new command for the bot is as simple as writing a function. Unlike many other IRC frameworks, this simplicity is achieved at no cost to generality, which lets new programmers and old programmers alike feel at home in the framework. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The database contains textual information and references. It also contains copious links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere. You can do a search by entering one or more terms in the text box above. Advanced search options are accessible via the Limits, Preview/Index, History, and Clipboard options in the grey bar beneath the text box. The OMIM help document provides additional information and examples of basic and advanced searches. The links to the left provide further technical information, searching options, frequently asked questions (FAQ), and information on allied resources. To return to the page, click on the OMIM link in the black header bar or on the graphic at the top of any OMIM page. NOTE: OMIM is intended for use primarily by physicians and other professionals concerned with genetic disorders, by genetics researchers, and by advanced students in science and medicine. While the OMIM database is open to the public, users seeking information about a personal medical or genetic condition are urged to consult with a qualified physician for diagnosis and for answers to personal questions. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM UMKC Libs: Guide to Evaluating Resources on the WWW http://www.umkc.edu/lib/Instruction/MNLsubjguides/webeval.htm A very nice and succinct guide that easily spells out the requirements for evaluating resources on the world wide web that includes: 1) Traditional Standards for Print Resources, 2) Pitfalls of Web Resources, 3) Evaluating Web Sources, and 4) Other Guides to Web Evaluation. This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM WebSite101 http://website101.com/ WebSite101 is a basic training for operating a small business online in the manner of a beginning college course. It is designed as a valuable tutorial for small business and entrepreneurial minds online. We offer resources to learn how to get established online with those great ideas, but without great funding. Thus has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, December 19, 2004 Wireless Downtowns 1) Wireless World: City WiFi Networks Growing http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041112-073705-3562r.htm 2) Wireless Philadelphia: Fact Sheet http://www.phila.gov/wireless/facts.html 3) NYCwireless: Network Map http://www.nodedb.com/unitedstates/ny/newyork/? 4) Case Study: chaska.net, Chaska, Minn.[.pdf] http://www.tropos.com/pdf/chaska_casestudy.pdf 5) Gainesville Digital Downtown [.pdf] http://www.digitaldowntown.net/PDF/Tri-Fold_Brochure.pdf 6) Sacramento Bee Editorial: Go Wireless Downtown http://snipurl.com/bh11 7) NodeDB.com http://www.nodedb.com/ Coming soon to an urban center near you: wireless connectivity for your laptop or PDA, brought to you by City Hall. At least that's the hot trend among U.S. municipalities, 48 of which now offer wireless access, according to a recent report. Most municipal systems are the result of public-private partnerships, and many offer some level of free access. The first website (1) is an overview of the wireless downtown phenomenon which notes the importance of such systems for local economic development. The second link (2) is to a fact sheet about Wireless Philadelphia, which, as one of the first and largest downtown wi-fi projects, helped spark the national trend. The third website is a node map of NYCwireless (3) and the 147 access points where that municipal network currently can be accessed. The fourth link leads to a case study of chaska.net (4) , which provides wireless access to the 7,500 homes and 18,000 residents of that Minneapolis suburb. The fifth website is a pdf (5) of a slick brochure produced by the city of Gainesville, Fla., to promote its Digital Downtown project. The sixth link is to a Sacramento Bee editorial (6) making the case for downtown wireless. The seventh website is a free database listing 10,840 wireless access points in 767 locations worldwide (7) , organized by geographic region. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM |
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