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Thursday, March 31, 2005  White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. White Papers By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/ I am extremely pleased to announce that I have completely updated all my white papers including white paper link compilations that are associated with selected Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. All are downloadable in .pdf format and continue to be freely available at the above URL. posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:19 AM NASA's Spitzer Marks Beginning of New Age of Planetary Science http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-09/release.shtml NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has for the first time captured the light from two known planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. The findings mark the beginning of a new age of planetary science, in which "extrasolar" planets can be directly measured and compared. "Spitzer has provided us with a powerful new tool for learning about the temperatures, atmospheres and orbits of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth," said Dr. Drake Deming of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., lead author of a new study on one of the planets. "It's fantastic," said Dr. David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass., lead author of a separate study on a different planet. "We've been hunting for this light for almost 10 years, ever since extrasolar planets were first discovered." The Deming paper appears today in Nature's online publication; the Charbonneau paper will be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal. So far, all confirmed extrasolar planets, including the two recently observed by Spitzer, have been discovered indirectly, mainly by the "wobble" technique and more recently, the "transit" technique. In the first method, a planet is detected by the gravitational tug it exerts on its parent star, which makes the star wobble. In the second, a planet's presence is inferred when it passes in front of its star, causing the star to dim, or blink. Both strategies use visible-light telescopes and indirectly reveal the mass and size of planets, respectively. In the new studies, Spitzer has directly observed the warm infrared glows of two previously detected "hot Jupiter" planets, designated HD 209458b and TrES-1. Hot Jupiters are extrasolar gas giants that zip closely around their parent stars. From their toasty orbits, they soak up ample starlight and shine brightly in infrared wavelengths. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Landmark Supreme Court Cases http://www.landmarkcases.org/ There is always a great demand for educational materials regarding the most important US Supreme Court Cases and this website is an outgrowth of that sustained interest. Developed by Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society, this website was developed in order to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities regarding such cases. The general teaching strategies offered here include political cartoon analysis, moot court, continuum exercises, and website evaluation. Some of the cases covered here include Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Miranda v. Arizona. The site also offers some detailed explanations of important related concepts, such as federalism, national supremacy, and judicial review. Additional, the site provides background summaries of each case and pertinent discussion questions for a variety of reading levels and abilities. This has been added to Legal 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 Deepnet Explorer - P2P/RSS-ATOM Web Browser http://www.deepnetexplorer.com/ Deepnet Explorer is the first browser with fully integrated P2P file sharing capabilities and a built-in RSS/ATOM news reader. It's free, so now it's easy to browse the web, share files and read news simultaneously. We are seeing more and more browsers adding P2P and News Aggregator capabilities for a true deep web experience ....... This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM OpenSecrets - Tracking Political Finances http://www.opensecrets.org/ This site is from The Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government. Resources to track industries, check up on candidates and research out your own back yard. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM ResumeVault - Tools fort Hiring Professionals http://www.resumevault.net/ ResumeValut helps identify, evaluate and hire the best talent while dramatically reducing the cost and time required. Their unqique products are developed for the needs of hiring professionals with emphasis on applicant screening and candidate management. Their web based tools help to supply you with fully qualified, technically quantifiedcandidates that meet the specifications of each position. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, March 30, 2005  reSearcher posted by Marcus Zillman | 11:38 AM reSearcher - Open Source Electronic IR/IM Tools http://www.theresearcher.ca/index.html reSearcher is an award-winning integrated suite of open source tools for locating and managing electronic information resources, designed for use by students and researchers in academic libraries. The four main modules of reSearcher are: 1) GODOT, a full-text link resolver and interlibrary holdings locator and requesting system. 2) CUFTS, a full-text link resolver, knowledgebase, and electronic collection management tool, 3) Citation Manager, a tool for capturing, managing and exporting bibliographic data in a wide range of formats, and 4) dbWiz, a cross-database search tool. reSearcher enables academic libraries to provide students and researchers with streamlined access to an integrated array of information resources. Together, reSearcher's components deliver rich portal-type functionality, presenting a unified interface to research databases, library and union catalogues, internet search engines, and other electronic information sources. reSearcher is developed by Simon Fraser University Library for the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL). reSearcher is used daily by students, faculty, and staff in universities, colleges, university-colleges and institutes throughout Western Canada. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Sciengy RPF!™ http://sciengy.com/products/ Recognize, Predict, Forecast!™ (RPF!™) is an application for solving various problems of data analysis (mining): class recognition, value prediction, and process forecast. RPF!™ has convenient user-friendly interface enabling the following features: 1) specify your problem details (input and predicted characteristics), 2) import your data from CSV text files, 3) educate self-organizing neuronets with just several clicks, 4) a neuronet's structure is generated automatically, and 5) finally predict output values using these neuronets. Available features also include measuring the accuracy (various characteristics) of the predictions; data visualization features allow analyzing visual representation of your data and the predictions made. This software is freely available. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ and Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Portable Firefox http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Papers Written By Googlers http://labs.google.com/papers.html This is a partial list of papers written by people now at Google, showing the range of backgrounds of people in Google Engineering. Areas that papers cover: 1) algorithms, 2) compiler optimization, 3) information retrieval, 4) artificial intelligence, 5) file system design, 6) machine learning, 7) profiling, 8) computer architecture, 9) user interface design, 10) data mining, 11) genetic algorithms, 12) web information retrieval, 13) search engine design, 14) data compression, 15) computer graphics, 16) robotics, 17) text processing, 18) natural language processing, 19) software engineering and design, 20) operating systems and distributed systems, and 20) various other topics. 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 | 4:10 AM M2K (Music-to-Knowledge)Toolkit http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k/ The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is proud to announce the official release of its M2K (Music-to-Knowledge) Alpha 1.0 toolkit. M2K is an open-sourced Java-based framework designed to allow Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) researchers to rapidly prototype, share and scientifically evaluate their sophisticated MIR and MDL techniques. M2K builds upon and extends the D2K/T2K datamining framework developed by the Automated Learning Group (ALG) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). M2K Alpha 1.0 downloads, installation requirements & instructions, and a wide range of documentation, can be found at the above URL. 2K Alpha 1.0 is currently the strongest in audio-based approaches to MIR/MDL tasks. They would like to encourage all MIR/MDL researchers with interests in symbol-based and metadata-based techniques to join in and help them extend the functionality of M2K. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM The Soundex Indexing System http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/census/soundex.html To use the census soundex to locate information about a person, you must know his or her full name and the state or territory in which he or she lived at the time of the census. It is also helpful to know the full name of the head of the household in which the person lived because census takers recorded information under that name. The soundex is a coded surname (last name) index based on the way a surname sounds rather than the way it is spelled. Surnames that sound the same, but are spelled differently, like SMITH and SMYTH, have the same code and are filed together. The soundex coding system was developed so that you can find a surname even though it may have been recorded under various spellings. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ and Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 29, 2005  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N4 April 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N4 April 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N4.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The April 2005 V3N4 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 32 page .pdf document (651KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online resources and sources covering all areas of grids and distributed computing. 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 review covers WebScales: Towards a Highly Scalable Metasearch Engine.   posted by Marcus Zillman | 3:32 PM  refBASE posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:21 AM refBASE - Web-based, Platform-independent, Multi-user Interface for Managing Scientific Literature & Citations http://refbase.sourceforge.net/ refBASE is a web reference database based on php and mysql that offers a web-based, platform-independent, multi-user interface for managing scientific literature, references and citations. As an example, the IPÖ Literature Database is an implementation of refbase that aims to provide a comprehensive and platform-independent literature resource for scientists working in the field of polar & marine sciences. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Yahoo! Buzz Index http://buzz.yahoo.com/ Watch the latest Internet Buzz and find out where all the happenings are taking place! This site updates its Buzz constantly in the following areas: 1) TV, 2) Music, 3) Sports, 4) Movies, 5) Actors, 6) Video Games, and 7) Weekly Buzz. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs? http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Brain Tumor Trials And Treatments http://virtualtrials.com/ The Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research is the owner and maintainer of this site and is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life and survival times for brain tumor patients. They attempt to achieve that goal by using computer technology to streamline the flow of information, organize the brain tumor community and raise money for brain tumor research. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Technology Grant News Technology Grants http://www.technologygrantnews.com/ With Technology Grant News, published 4 times a year, you will learn about the latest technology grants and funding available, with profiles of winning projects and directions in technology development. It is available In Print and In Print with CD. Areas included: Higher Education, Grants for Non Profit Organizations, University Grants, Non Profit Funding, K-12 Grants, School Grants, Education Grants, Science Education Grants, and Vocational Education Grants. This has been aded to Grant Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Government Information Online (GIO) http://govtinfo.org/ Government Information Online (GIO) is a national pilot project that will establish a viable model for online cooperative virtual reference and information service that specializes in answering questions about government information. Libraries contributing their time and expertise to the project (over thirty institutions across the United States) represent public libraries, academic institutions, as well as state library and archive departments. All the project's participants are official depository libraries who participate in the U.S. Government Printing Office's Federal Depository Library program, and many are also official depository libraries for their respective state governments. The project's participants share the belief that government information is a core source of reliable knowledge that enhances the lives of our patrons. Further, with a growing share of government information available in an electronic formats and on the web, the project will further enhance the search capabilities of professional librarians. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, March 28, 2005  April 2005 Zillman Column April 2005 Zillman Column - Prediction Markets and Information Futures http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Prediction April05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The April 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Prediction Markets and Information Futures. This April column is a comprehensive listing of prediction market and information futures resources and sources on the World Wide Web. The ability to predict the future of information is an exciting emerging field of study and this column highlights the many new and very interesting resources and sites available over the Internet to the researcher or interested individual! Download this excellent 13 page free .pdf (375KB) column today and begin using the many resources available on the World Wide Web to predict information futures! © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:08 PM This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. March 28, 2005 V3N13 discusses BlogWiki2005. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this upcoming workshop. View this site at: BlogWiki2005 http://www.BlogWiki2005.com/  
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 BlogBib posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:21 AM BlogBib - An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging http://blog-bib.blogspot.com/ An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs...This annotated bibliography created by Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian @ Eastern Connecticut State University includes definitions, articles about blogging and about library blogs, books, studies, links to samples of the myriad library blogs, tools for creating and using blogs, and links to presentations on blogging. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:26 AM Yahoo Search Developer Network http://developer.yahoo.net/ Create Applications Using Yahoo!Search. Yahoo! Search Web Services allow you to access Yahoo content and services in your favorite programming languages. This means you can now build Yahoo directly into your own applications. Build just about anything you can imagine. Here are a few ideas: 1) A flash-based tool for searching images and video simultaneously, 2) A plugin for your favorite web publishing tool, and 3) A utility that adds your favorite business into your smart phone's address book. To see what others in the community have developed, take a look at the Applications page in their Wiki. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM DIRLINE® (Directory of Information Resources Online) http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/ DIRLINE® (Directory of Information Resources Online) is an online directory of over 8,400 health-related organizations and other resources which are willing to respond to public inquiries in their specialty areas, including toxicology and environmental health organizations. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources (Library of Congress) http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html Global Gateway is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture. The site offers more than 80 thousand digital items. In addition, it is a portal to international research centers, collections, and other resources available at the Library of Congress and through its Web site. Sections include: 1) Centers for International Research, 2) Portals to the World, 3) About International Colections, 4) Research Guides and Databases, 5) Featured Presentations, 6) Research Opportunities, 7) International Exhibitions, and 8) International Cybercasts. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM A Bloggers' Code of Ethics http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php CyberJournalist.net has created a model Bloggers' Code of Ethics, by modifying the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics for the Weblog world. These are just guidelines -- in the end it is up to individual bloggers to choose their own best practices. CyberJournalist.net follows this code and urges other Weblogs to adopt this one or similar practices. Integrity is the cornerstone of credibility. Bloggers who adopt this code of principles and these standards of practice not only practice ethical publishing, but convey to their readers that they can be trusted. This will be added to my just updated Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators prsentation. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Calculate The Estimated Fuel Cost Of Your Trip - Fuel Cost Calculator http://www.fuelcostcalculator.com/ Using current gasoline prices from AAA's daily, online Fuel Gauge Report, as well as the latest highway fuel economy ratings from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the AAA Fuel Cost Calculator estimates the amount and cost of gasoline needed to complete a vacation trip. Although the total number of miles driven and prices paid for gasoline during your trip may vary from the estimates provided, the AAA Fuel Cost Calculator is intended to help you determine the cost of fuel needed to complete a vacation drive. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, March 27, 2005 Cyborg Technology 1) UC Santa Barbara Department of English: Cyborg Resources http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/research/topics/cyborg/ 2) Helsinki Institute of Technology: Brain-Computer Interface http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/bci/ 3) USC: Neural Engineering Lab http://neural-eng.no-ip.info/ 4) Discovery School: Future Body http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/futurebody/ 5) NPR: Thinking Is Doing With Cyborg Technology http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4533546 6) Kevin Warwick: Project Cyborg http://www.kevinwarwick.org/ Discussions of cyborg technology tend to be relegated to science fiction literature and TV programs like Star Trek. This Topic in Depth looks into current issues and developments in the area of cyborg technology. The first website, from the UC Santa Barbara Department of English, (1) lists a variety of resources on cyborgs, from philosophical articles and literary criticism to current scientific practices. A related area of research is brain-computer interfacing (BCI), which is described on this website from the Helsinki Institute of Technology (2). Research on neural engineering, which combines work in electrical and computer engineering, tissue engineering, materials science, and nanotechnology, is also described on this website from USC (3). The Discovery School (4) suggests this lesson on technology for grades six through eight, in which students explore how the human body uses electric signals to send messages to and from the brain, and then how the nervous system uses those signals, with the option for additional discussions regarding the potential for cyborg technology. The next website from National Public Radio (5) provides a current look at applications of cyber technology, most of which are in the area of healthcare. For example, this program reports on how "scientists make it possible for quadriplegics to control a television, play simple computer games and check e-mail... by just thinking about it." Another interesting experiment--Project Cyborg--involves the neuro-surgical implantation of a device into the median nerves of this researchers' left arm and is described this website (6).[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Statistical Education Through Problem Solving http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/ Statistical Education Through Problem Solving (STEPS) was a collaborative project between seven universities throughout the United Kingdom "to develop problem-based teaching and learning materials for statistics." The materials draw on specific problems arising in Biology, Business, Geography and Psychology to help students learn that statistical issues are "important natural parts of the process of reaching conclusions." The software developed as a result of this project, which utilizes the computer and graphical illustration to support learning, is available to educational institutions free of charge and can be downloaded from this website. (Note that other organizations are expected to purchase the software.) A glossary of statistical terms is provided in the software program as well as on this website. Although the funding for the project ended in 1995 and the website was last updated in January 2004, the material is still current and useful for teaching statistics. The authors note that the STEPS modules are intended to be used to support existing coursework, and "not intended to replace lecturing staff or to provide a self-study course in statistics. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM From Contact to Contract—Social Networking on the Internet by Lisa Daniel http://www.shrm.org/ema/EMT/articles/2005/winter05cover.asp Social networking sites offer some possibilities for finding candidates, but there are downsides as well. This article details experiences in using social networks to find employees and details the positive and negative attributes associated with online social networking for finding candidates for various job openings within your organization. Of course this is just one use of the many utilizations of online social networking for the business community including sales, marketing and customer support. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ The Visual Thesaurus offers stunning visual displays of the English language. Looking up a word creates an interactive visual map with your word in the center of the display, connected to related words and meanings. Click on these words or meanings to explore further. Discover and learn from this engaging dictionary and thesaurus with over 145,000 words and 115,000 meanings, audio pronunciations, spell checking, printing, and much more! Find a word and explore. To try it now, type a word into the search box above and "Look It Up!" This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Librarians' Resource Centre http://www.sla.org/chapter/ctor/resources/lrc/cover.htm The Librarians' Resource Centre is a selective and searchable collection of resources compiled to facilitate our informational research and retrieval. Founded by Margaret Gross, it has been maintained by Dave Hook since May of 2001. Since its inception, the LRC has always been run by volunteers. The Librarians' Resource Centre is organized into three major divisions. "Reference Resources" provides links to search engines, topical guides, ready reference and databases on the net. "Subject-Specific Resources" presents web resources specific to particular topics. The third section is devoted to professional development for library and information professionals. Wherever possible meta sites or pathfinder resources are presented. The Librarians' Resource Centre is intended to be a place to start searching. Consulting the LRC is analogous in many ways to consulting a bibliography of bibliographies. Resources in the database have been selected and evaluated by information professionals. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Cosmochemistry http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/ccp/ NASA's Cosmochemistry Program (CCP) assists cosmochemical investigations that involve laboratory studies of extraterrestrial materials, examine the geochemistry solar system bodies, and/or study the formation and development of the solar system. Visitors can read abstracts of the proposals that have been awarded funding. The website offers a detailed strategy for the implementation of the program, which includes discussions of the facilities and methods, demographics, management, and challenges. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, March 26, 2005  WebScales posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:24 AM WebScales: Towards a Highly Scalable Metasearch Engine http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~meng/pub.d/PIreport04.html The main objective of this collaborative project is to develop enabling techniques for a large-scale metasearch engine that aims at covering a much larger portion of the Web and at the same time retrieving more up-to-date and more useful documents than existing search engines and metasearch engines. A metasearch engine is a system that provides unified access to multiple existing search engines. Upon receiving a query, the metasearch engine determines the appropriate search engines to invoke, the documents to retrieve from each invoked search engine and finally the set of documents to be shown to the user. The main problems to be studied in this project include (1) how to automatically discover useful search engines on the Web; (2) how to automatically and accurately categorize search engines into a concept hierarchy and how to use user profiles to map user queries to appropriate concept(s) in the hierarchy; (3) how to automatically incorporate search engines into a metasearch engine; (4) how to perform accurate database selection for longer queries; and (5) how to merge results returned from multiple search engines. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Resources for School Librarians http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/reslibs.html An excellent resource of link compilations covering resources for school librarians in the following categories: 1) Learning and Teaching, 2) Information Access, 3) Program Administration, 4) Technology, 5) Education and employment, and 6) Continuing Education. This site is maintained by Linda Bertland, retired school librarian, Philadelphia, PA. . This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM University of California-Los Angeles: Online Archive of American Folk Medicine http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/ The Archive of American Folk Medicine is the result of more than 50 years of work by UCLA-associated folklorists who "documented beliefs and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative healthcare. In order to make the data more readily available to the worldwide community of researchers and medical practitioners, the Online Archive of American Folk Medicine was established in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Michael Owen Jones, a professor of folklore and history at UCLA." The Archive draws from over 3,200 published works, and is intended to serve folklorists, sociologists, and historians. The website provides basic and advanced search options; and records include brief entries for Citation, Condition, Belief, Method of Treatment, and more. Users should be aware that the Archive website has not been updated in several years but it remains a valuable resource for researchers and others interested in folk medicine. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Rersources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Registry of Standard Biological Parts http://parts.mit.edu/ The development of well-specified, standard, and interchangable biological parts is a critical step towards the design and construction of integrated biological systems. The MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts supports this goal by recording and indexing biological parts that are currently being built and offering synthesis and assembly services to construct new parts, devices, and systems. In the future, they hope to expand this support in the areas of standards for biological part families, parameter measurement and quality control, and development of an open community of biological engineers and scientists. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM The Medieval Science Page http://members.aol.com/mcnelis/medsci_index.html This page is intended to provide a convenient and comprehensive set of links to all Internet resources worldwide which deal with aspects of medieval science, both in Western and other cultures. The site is edited by James McNelis. Associate Professor; Ph.D., Medieval British Literature. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Protecting Teens Online http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/152/report_display.asp The Pew Internet Project announces the release of its latest report on youth, Protecting Teens Online. More than half of American families with teenagers use filters to limit access to potentially harmful online content – a 65% increase from the number of those who used filters in 2000. But big majorities of both teens and parents believe that teens do things on the internet that their parents would not approve of. A new survey of 1,100 youth – those ages 12 to 17 – and 1,100 of their parents shows that 54% of internet-connected families now use some sort of internet filter or monitoring software, up from 41% of internet-connected families who used filters in 2000, the most recent time the Pew Internet & American Life Project surveyed on the issue. In all, about 19 million youth live in homes with internet connections and the number of children living in homes with filters has grown from 7 million in 2000 to 12 million today. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, March 25, 2005  InfoLibrarian posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:44 AM InfoLibrarian http://www.infolibrarian.com/ They are a group of professionals working in the area of library and computer fields. Their objective behind this project is to give maximum information to working library and information science professionals, teachers and students at one place. Here, they have made an attempt to collect information from different sources and given brief description, wherever possible. An excellent resource and well worth the visit and bookmark! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM OpenSearch http://opensearch.a9.com/ OpenSearch is a collection of technologies, all built on top of popular open standards, to allow content providers to publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication. You can see how this works on A9.com. Many sites today return search results as a tightly integrated part of the website itself. Unfortunately, those search results can't be easily reused or made available elsewhere, as they are usually wrapped in HTML and don't follow any one convention. OpenSearch offers an alternative: an open format that will enable those search results to be displayed anywhere, anytime. Rather than introduce yet another proprietary or closed protocol, OpenSearch is a straightforward and backward-compatible extension of RSS 2.0, the widely adopted XML-based format for content syndication. Any site that has content—and a search box—can choose to return results in OpenSearch RSS. This includes travel sites, classifieds, encyclopedias. If you can provide search results for something, it probably can fit into the OpenSearch model. Returning OpenSearch results is easy—the format is the standard set of XML elements, plus three additional elements designed to support navigation between pages. This will be added to the search engine section of all 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications by Jesse James Garrett http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: 1) standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS; 2) dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model; 3) data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT; 4) asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest; and 5) JavaScript binding everything together. This essay by Jesse Garrett explains Ajax and what the future holds for this exciting application. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM TreePad - Organizer, PIM, Information Manager and Text Editor http://www.treepad.com/ TreePad™ is an award-winning Organizer, PIM / Database, Personal Information Manager and Word Processor. Portability and compactness are smoothly blended into TreePad™ with its other distinctive features: versatility and power, as well as simplicity and intuitiveness of use. Pioneer in Tree Structured data-management: one of the most imitated programs on the Web since 1995. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer&Trade; Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Google Code http://code.google.com/ Code.google.com is their site for external developers interested in Google-related development. It’s where they will publish free source code and lists of their API services. A lot of people worked together to both prepare source code for release and prepare code.google.com for launch and ongoing maintenance. They really care about free and open source software (F/OSS) at Google, and this site is one aspect of that affection. They have chosen 4 projects to start out. Perftools, sparsehashtable, coredumper and goopy/functional. Details can be found here. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Webbed Footnotes http://web.media.mit.edu/~golder/projects/webbedfootnotes/ If you like reading and discussing the news, this is the tool for you. Webbed Footnotes is a new, unique tool that enhances the web browsing experience. With Webbed Footnotes, you can annotate web pages with comments and can read and reply to the annotations left by others. Your comments will be placed on top of the page and will be visible to subsequent readers. When participating in this project, you will first be asked to install some software (see below). Next, you will be asked to visit our copy of the day's New York Times articles as much as you like for two weeks, read some articles and comment on them. You browse and read on the web like normal, except you get the added ability to comment directly on the webpage. You have the additional ability to "approve" of others' comments that you like. This promotes high-quality contributions. This feature is described in more detail after signing up. By participating in this project, you will be contributing to the development of new and interesting tools for online collaboration. It's entirely confidential -- you'll be asked during signup to choose a username to your liking. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, March 24, 2005 An audblog posting mp3 broadcast from Vision Miami Networking Meeting Thursday March 24, 2005 interviewing members of the Altius Group Advertising and Brand Communications Agency. Also interviewed Captain Asaad of the Sailing Vessel "RA" and his electronic ship's log blog available at racharters.net.  Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators - The Future of the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Tamiami Airport Business Association - Good Morning West Kendall! Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/ Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 7:45am Date: Thursday, March 24, 2005 Location: Calusa Country Club, 9400 SW 130 Avenue, Miami, Florida Listen to the Tamiami Airport Business Association members being interviwed by Marcus discussing their various businesses after this morning's presentation by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. by clicking on the below audblog link: Open Source Primer - NonProfit Open Source Initiative (NOSI) http://www.nosi.net/taxonomy/term/3?PHPSESSID=fd1e74988f8ad719c702419dbddc9fce NOSI’s acclaimed primer describes what open source software is and what impact this type of software may have on the nonprofit sector. The primer includes: 1) case-studies of nonprofits of various sizes that are using open source software, 2) a process for evaluating whether or not open source is right for an organization, and 3) useful resources and information. Written primarily in non-technical language, the Primer is accessible to a wide audience, including nonprofit managers with little hands-on technical expertise. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Lexonomy - A Taxonomy Primer http://www.lexonomy.com/publications/aTaxonomyPrimer.html What’s the difference between a taxonomy and a thesaurus? What are the various types of controlled vocabularies, and how do they fit into a Web site’s Information Architecture? How do you use the various schemes to greatest advantage? Learn how to “take control” of these dynamic and effective tools for creating navigation schemes and search systems. Read the above article by Amy J. Warner, Ph.D. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2005 http://www.jcdl2005.org/ The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. The theme of JCDL 2005 highlights the powerful role of digital libraries as cyberinfrastructure. This cyberinfrastructure has the potential to engender the creation of new tools, research methodologies, and processes that will enable scientists and learners to investigate the natural world, the social world, and the human-built environment in new and previously unimaginable ways. As global interests in computation, information management, networking, and intelligent sensing converge, the conduct of research and education will be transformed. They welcome researchers and practitioners with broad and diverse interests including: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative applications in the sciences, humanities, and education. Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of disciplines and professions involved in digital library research and practice, including computer science, information science, librarianship, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. All domains - academe, government, industry, and others - are encouraged to participate as presenters or attendees. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Tech Buzz Game http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/ Press Release: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050315005882&newsLang=en Yahoo! Research Labs, Yahoo!'s organization for advanced research in science and technology, has teamed with O'Reilly Media, the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies, to develop a joint research project called the Tech Buzz Game, an online prediction market that allows consumers to forecast the popularity of technology concepts, products and trends. The game was introduced today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference. The Tech Buzz Game leverages search query volume and frequency on Yahoo! Search to measure a term's popularity or "buzz." It mirrors the functionality of the stock market, enabling participants to "buy" and "sell" virtual shares in their favorite technology terms based on their estimates of future value. The game, which is powered by NewsFutures (http://www.newsfutures.com), the leading provider of prediction markets software, utilizes new patent pending market and auction mechanisms invented at Yahoo! Research Labs by Dr. Gary William Flake, Yahoo!'s principal scientist, and Senior Research Scientist Dr. David Pennock. The Tech Buzz Game is divided into separate markets that fall into topic areas such as hardware, software, mobile and web. Each market pits rival technologies against one another. For example, the "Browser" market includes Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox among others. Participants would buy stock in the technology they believe will increase in search popularity. "The Tech Buzz Game is a fundamentally new type of online auction that will allow us to determine how well emerging trends can be predicted by the collective wisdom of crowds as correlated with Internet search terms," said Yahoo!'s Dr. Flake. This has been added to Information Futures Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Open Source Community Building by Matthias Stürmer http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/sturmer.pdf Abstract Building an active and helpful community around an open source project is a complex task for its leaders. Therefore investigations in this work are intended to define the optimum starting position of an open source project and to identify recommendable promoting actions by project leaders to enlarge community size in a healthy way. For this paper eight interviews with committed representatives of successful open source projects have led to over 12 hours of conversation about community building. Analysing the statements of these experienced community members exposed helpful activities that led to the presently prospering communities of their projects. Summarizing the conclusions of this qualitative research a table with conditions for successful open source project initialisation and a subject-level promotion matrix of community building could be created. They include suggestions on how to start a new open source project and how to improve and increase the community of an already advanced open source project. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Social Network Analysis http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/knowledge_management/km2/social_network.asp "Social network analysis is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organisations, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities." (Valdis Krebs, 2002). In the context of knowledge management, social network analysis (SNA) enables relationships between people to be mapped in order to identity knowledge flows: who do people seek information and knowledge from? Who do they share their information and knowledge with? In contrast to an organisation chart which shows formal relationships - who works where and who reports to whom, a social network analysis chart shows informal relationships - who knows who and who shares information and knowledge with who. It therefore allows managers to visualise and understand the many relationships that can either facilitate or impede knowledge creation and sharing. Because these relationships are normally invisible, SNA is sometimes referred to as an 'organisational x-ray' - showing the real networks that operate underneath the surface organisational structure. This resource is from the National Electronic Library for Health's (NHS) Knowledge Management Toolbox. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, March 23, 2005  FreeScience: Peer-to-Peer Scientific Digital Library posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:07 AM FreeScience - Peer to Peer Scientific Digital Library http://www.bdaweb.net/freescience_learnmore_it.php Allows any researcher to share his scientific papers (as well as notes, data and designs draws, ecc...) into a P2P OAI-PMH compliant network, by mean of which your works will be instantly available to hundred of thousands researchers worldwide. You can also browse the huge OAI archive (about 1 million of documents from the best research institutes) and download the full text for free. Furthermore, the FREESCIENCE software is completely free, as is access to documents in the BdA network. FREESCIENCE offers three domains of action: 1) Search and download of full-text scientific one million plus documents, 2) Sharing of your own documents in the OAI network with over one hundred thousand researchers, and 3) Direct communication and science community with instant messaging or text conferencing. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources white paper annotated link compilation. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM The Launching of Mozilla Firefox- A Case Study in Community-Led Marketing by Sandeep Krishnamurthy http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/sandeep2.pdf Abstract: Mozilla Firefox is a Free/Libre/Open Source (FLOSS) browser supported by the Mozilla Foundation. This browser was recently released and has met with considerable success- it has been downloaded more than 20 million times and has already taken considerable market share from its prime competitor- Microsofts Internet Explorer. In this paper, I chronicle how the efforts of 63000 volunteers led to a community successfully competing with a powerful corporation. I identify four factors as the key facilitators to Firefoxs success- complacent competition, product superiority, presence of marketing leader and volunteer support. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Proteome BioKnowledge® Library http://www.proteome.com/ Six database volumes of biological information about proteins comprise BIOBASE's Proteome BioKnowledge Library. Each volume focuses on a different organism important in pharmaceutical research. Proteome scientists manually collect and curate the information in each BioKnowledge Library volume from current scientific literature. The information in each volume represents thousands of independent research results. The BioKnowledge Library currently contains information about more than 60,000 scientific references on more than 80,000 proteins, including data on protein classification and function. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM National Science Foundation Discoveries http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/ NSF's goal is to support the people, ideas and tools that together make discovery possible. That's why they say NSF is "where discoveries begin." Learn about many of the advances made possible with NSF support in "Discoveries." If you're looking for a specific discovery, please use their discovery search page. Other features of their Web site also provide information about research results. NSF's public investment in science, engineering, education and technology helps to create knowledge and sustain prosperity. Read about the Internet, microbursts, Web browsers, extrasolar planets, and more... a panoply of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF support. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Online Conversions http://www.onlineconversion.com/ Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Lawrence Lessig Codebook http://codebook.jot.com/WikiHome Lawrence Lessig first published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace in 1999. After five years in print and five years of changes in law, technology, and the context in which they reside, Code needs an update. But rather than do this alone, Professor Lessig is using a wiki to open the editing process to all, to draw upon the creativity and knowledge of the community. This is an online, collaborative book update; a first of its kind. Once the the project nears completion, Professor Lessig will take the contents of this wiki and ready it for publication. The resulting book, Code v.2, will be published in late 2005 by Basic Books. All royalties, including the book advance, will be donated to Creative Commons. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 22, 2005  Theory of Computing - Open Access Journal posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:07 AM Theory of Computing (ToC) http://theoryofcomputing.org/ Theory of Computing (ToC) is a new Open Access online journal dedicated to the widest dissemination, free of charge, of high quality research papers in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science. The journal will not differ from the best existing publications in its commitment to and method of peer review to ensure the highest quality. The scientific content of ToC is guaranteed by a world-class editorial board. Following the model of the highly successful Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, ToC is an all-volunteer operation. The key difference between ToC and existing publications (paper as well as electronic) in the areas covered by ToC is its commitment to free access. We believe that the Theory community can no longer turn a blind eye to the plight of CS libraries, around the country and around the world. Publisher: University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM The Nation's Report Card: An Introduction to The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005454 The Nation's Report Card: An Introduction to The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) explains the major features of NAEP in a non-technical manner. It highlights the history and development of NAEP, how the data are collected, scored, and analyzed, and how the results are reported. This introductory guide to NAEP is designed to meet the information needs of teachers, parents, and other members of the general public about the nation's premier assessment of what America's elementary and secondary students know and can do. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM LionShare Releases Personal Repository Milestone http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20050304144500 Born of the recognition that the vast majority of learning and teaching material lives on peoples' PCs, the LionShare project aims to provide a simple and trusted way to share those materials with others. The open source application isn't quite done yet, but a useable beta has just been released. There are, of course, reasons why people keep most of their interesting stuff on their own machines — convenience and control being pretty important ones. Compared to a curatorial repository or a plain webserver, material on your hard disk is easier to access and control, and can be in any state of completion. The LionShare team figured that, if these riches are to be exposed to others, as much of that convenience and control needs to be retained. Hence the choice for a peer-to-peer application. In terms of convenience, this kind of programme has the advantage that it sits on your own machine and talks to its peers on other PCs directly. The material that you manage is therefore always 'there'. In terms of control, a peer-to-peer also has the advantage that the user herself determines what is shared at any given point in time. Conventional peer-to-peer clients also have some flip-sides, though. Convenience doesn't extend to a guarantee that a peer with a particularly interesting resource will be available when you go look for it, for example. Likewise, control generally extends to what is shared, not with whom or under what conditions. Hence the ongoing kerfufle around peer-to-peer clients such as the eDonkey, KaZaa and Limewire that are widely used to illegally distribute copyrighted materials.That illicit use makes peer-to-peer file sharing applications rather unpopular with college or university administrators, who fear the mores and lawyers of the rights owners. LionShare technical aim, then, is to address these drawbacks in order to make a peer-to-peer file sharing application that can work in an educational environment. Chief amongst these is to build in trust by making it impossible to use the application anonymously. All LionShare users need to authenticate first, so that each available resource shows by whom it is shared. Likewise, there is built in support for a server to enable people to share things even if their machines are not running. What it does now .... The current, 0.6, release is already a good deal of the way there. It does the authentication thing, with single sign on, provided the institutional network has a Kerberos implementation. Because that's in place, you can easily see whom you're sharing what with. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Best Online Reference Sites http://ansernet.rcls.org/deskref/ Best Online Reference Sites compiled by librarians in the Ramapo Catskill Library System. There are 496 links for you to choose from! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Kid's Search Tools http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm Ramapo Catskill Internet Guides. This web page consists of categorized web search form dialog boxes for a number of internet based searchable information resources for kids. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Swiss Infodesk http://www.snl.admin.ch/swissinfodesk/index.html Swiss Infodesk is an annotated link directory of selected online information about Switzerland. If you would appreciate support in your research, the research service of Swiss National Library is at your disposal. As the French and German version of Swissinfodesk are not identical with the English version, please have also a look at these two versions. Specialising in Swiss publications and authors, the Swiss National Library (SNL) contains a vast, unique store of information all about Switzerland. And the people working there are qualified information specialists who know how to find the answer to just about any question concerning Switzerland. Topics include: 1) Geography, 2) Politics, 3) Education, Training, Research; 4) History, 5) Law, 6) Media, 7) Economy, 8) Culture, Language; 9) Sports, 10) Portals, 11) Pictures, Address listings, and 12) Calendars. Searchable by topic or by alphabet. In English, French or German. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, March 21, 2005  Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:17 AM This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. March 21, 2005 V3N12 discusses Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this Subject Tracer™. View this site at: Prediction Markets http://www.PredictionMarkets.com/
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NameVoyager http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/ Explore the sea of names, letter by letter...watch trends rise and fall, and dive in deeper to see your favorite name's place in the historical tides. The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager is an interactive portrait of America's name choices. Start with a "sea" of nearly 5000 names. Type a letter, and you'll zoom in to focus on how that initial has been used over the past century. Then type a few more letters, or a name. Each stripe is a timeline of one name, its width reflecting the name's changing popularity. If a name intrigues you, click on its stripe for a closer look. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Finding What You Need With the Best Search Engines http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm Finding what you need with the best search engines. This is a collection of search engines and similar resources that Phil Bradley uses on a regular basis when he is looking for different types of information. It's not an exhaustive list, nor is it comprehensive. It's a list of what he personally finds very useful. Phil states that other similar lists exist - he's not pretending that his is original in concept. You might also want to try the following resources as well: http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2156031 This will be added to Searching the Internet white paper and resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM SearchEngineDev - Search Engine Directory of SEO Resources http://www.searchenginedev.com/ SearchEngineDev is a Search Engine directory of SEO resources for web developers. The directory is a comprehensive, categorized, searchable collection of links with plenty of resources to help you with Search Engine optimization issues. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM International Economic Journal http://www.iejournal.com/ International Economic Journal is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to publishing high-quality papers and sharing original economics research worldwide. We invite theoretical and empirical papers in the broadly-defined development and international economics areas. Papers in other sub-disciplines of economics (e.g., labor, public, money, macro, industrial organizations, health, environment and history) are also welcome if they contain international or cross-national dimensions in their scope and/or implications. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Journal of Information Science http://jis.sagepub.com/ The Journal of Information Science is an international journal of high repute covering topics of interest to all those researching and working in the sciences of information and knowledge management. The Editors welcome material on any aspect of information science theory, policy, application or practice that will advance thinking in the field. Information Science is a broad based discipline which has a potential impact in almost every sphere of human activity in the emerging information age. There have been significant advances in information technology and information processing techniques over recent years and the pace of innovation shows no sign of slowing. However, the application of these technologies is often sub-optimal because theoretical understanding lags behind. The Journal seeks to achieve a better understanding of the principles that underpin the effective creation, organization, storage, communication and utilization of information and knowledge resources. It seeks to understand how policy and practice in the area can be built on sound theoretical or heuristic foundations to achieve a greater impact on the world economy. Articles written from a theoretical or applied perspective are welcomed. However, theoretical articles should consider the possible application of the proposed theory in other fields of research, commerce, education or government. Conversely, articles focusing on applied information science topics should seek to highlight the underlying theoretical principles and show how their application has been novel or lead to unusual or exemplary results. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, March 20, 2005 Clouds 1) Project Atmosphere Canada: Clouds http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/education/teachers_guides/module7_clouds_e.html#cbasic 2) Weather http://teacher.scholastic.com/ilp/index.asp?SubjectID=4&SubheadID=8&TopicID=106 3) Understanding Clouds and Fog http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wcloud0.htm 4) Dan's Wild Weather Cloud Gallery http://www.wildwildweather.com/clouds.htm 5) Fractal Clouds http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~cahalan/FractalClouds/FractalClouds.html 6) Web-Weather for Kids: Clouds http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/webweather/cloudhome.html 7) Clouds http://www.bom.gov.au/info/clouds/ 8) Clouds http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/clouds/ First, the Project Atmosphere Canada offers a module to educate primary and secondary students about cloud formation and characteristics (1). The website outlines key points and offers a more in-depth discussion of water vapor, cloud formation, convection, air motion, severe weather, and more. The second website, by Scholastic, supplies many pdf documents of activities and lesson plans for all types of weather phenomena including clouds (2). Students can learn about condensation, discover what makes up a cloud, and find a key identifying the cloud types. Next, USA Today offers an online tutorial of the differing characteristics of clouds (3). Users can learn about Mammatus clouds, contrails, cloud seeding, and other cloud-related topics. At the fourth website, visitors can view meteorologist Dan Satterfield's amazing cloud photographs (4). Educators may find useful materials to supplement their lectures. Next, NASA's Climate and Radiation Branch furnishes "information on the fantastic variety of cloud forms and structures, and their implications for climate" (5). While the website is still being constructed, users can find useful information about the Bounded Cascades Fractal Cloud model, animations, and definitions of inhomogeneous cloud terminology. The sixth website, created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, addresses how clouds impact our lives, how they cause chaos, and how they form (6). The enlightening descriptions are packed with colorful images and short quizzes. Next, The Australian Government's Bureau of Meteorology describes the useful of clouds as an indicator of weather conditions (7). After learning how moist air can form clouds, individuals can view images of the ten most common cloud types. Lastly, Enchanted Learning offers a table of the cloud types with their abbreviation, appearance, composition, and altitude along with explanations of cloud formation and the atmosphere (8). Educators can find simple activities dealing with cloud types and the water cycle. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Global Information Technology Report http://snipurl.com/dehw "The United States is no longer No. 1 in making the best use of information and communications technologies (ICT), a new study says. It dropped to fifth place this year and Singapore is now on top. Singapore's ranking in the so-called "Networked Readiness Index" was based on several factors, including quality of math and science education and low prices for telephone and Internet services, said the World Economic Forum report. 'Singapore's remarkable performance is a consequence of the government's consistent and continuous efforts' to foster the technology, the report said. Augusto Lopez-Claros, co-editor of the report, praised Singapore for its ability 'to make, in a relatively short period of time, enormous progress in putting (the technology) at the service of improved living standards.'" The complete article is available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Northern Light's Market Intelligence Centers http://www.centerformarketintelligence.com/ Market Intelligence Centers provide an overview of selected industries and business trends, with a detailed picture of market segments, issues, breaking news, companies, and government regulatory actions. Their editors scour the Web and their Business Research Engine for authoritative news, analysis and commentary, and useful resources to create a concise, easy-to-navigate market intelligence site for an industry. Daily updates and dynamic content keep the information up-to-date. They will be adding new industries weekly, so check back from time to time if your industry is not already listed below. Note that Northern Light's Market Intelligence Centers are available free of charge to enterprise and individual subscribers to their Business Research Engine. Visitors who are not subscribers are invited to browse the Market Intelligence Centers but are not able to view the full-text of the selected articles or execute the Live Queries unless you choose to subscribe to the Business Research Engine. Free trials are available, just follow the links at the bottom of their page. This has been addded to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Corante - Technology and Science News and Business Intelligence http://www.corante.com/ Corante is a leading news and business intelligence service on technology and science that's read by many of the sector's top entrepreneurs, executives, funders, followers and thinkers. An information service that delivers targeted news coverage of multiple verticals via its website and email newsletters, Corante is also helping to pioneer the emergence of blogging as an influential and important form of reportage, analysis and commentary. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This also has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Russia Profile http://www.russiaprofile.org/index.wbp The availability of high-quality news reporting on the Internet continues to improve, though at times finding reputable sources can still be difficult for certain parts of the world. Russia Profile is one such source, as it is produced by the Independent Media group, which is responsible for publishing The Moscow Times along with a number of other magazines across Russia. The goal of this website is to both broaden the scope of news coming out of Russia and "to provide a platform for an informed discussion of issues related to or concerning Russia". From the site's homepage, visitors can read about the latest from Russia Profile, view a calendar of events, and subscribe for free to the print edition of Russia Profile. Visitors can also participate in a number of online forum discussions. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) OpenCourseWare (OCW) http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ Freely available OpenCourseWare at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The philosophy behind JHSPH OCW is to make JHSPH course materials now used in the teaching of almost all undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. JHSPH OCW will not only advance technology-enhanced education at JHSPH, but it will also serve as a model for universities to disseminate knowledge in the Internet age. This venture builds on the tradition at JHSPH, and in American higher education, of open dissemination of educational materials, philosophy and modes of thought, and will help lead to fundamental changes in the way colleges and universities use the Web as a vehicle for education. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide and Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, March 19, 2005  eGlossary posted by Marcus Zillman | 7:08 AM eGlossary http://eglossary.com/ eGlossary is a comprehensive directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries. What's the Word? With search and indexing capabilities that empower you to find the exact word you need exactly when you need it, eGlossary is the ultimate word source on the internet. Add your favorite glossary. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM U.S. Copyright Office - Orphan Works http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/ The Copyright Office seeks to examine the issues raised by “orphan works,” i.e., copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate. Concerns have been raised that the uncertainty surrounding ownership of such works might needlessly discourage subsequent creators and users from incorporating such works in new creative efforts or making such works available to the public. The Office is now seeking written comments from all interested parties. Specifically, the Office is interested in whether there are compelling concerns raised by orphan works that merit a legislative, regulatory or other solution, and what type of solution could effectively address these concerns without conflicting with the legitimate interests of authors and right holders. Comments are due March 25, 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM The Directory of Open Access Repositories - DOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ University of Nottingham, UK and University of Lund, Sweden are developing a new service for Open Access to research information. A new service is starting development to support the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. The new service, called DOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world. Such repositories have mushroomed over the last 2 years in response to calls by scholars and researchers worldwide to provide open access to research information. DOAR will provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories, as well as archives set up by funding agencies - like the National Institutes for Health in the USA or the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Europe. Users of the service will be able to analyse repositories by location, type, the material they hold and other measures. This will be of use both to users wishing to find original research papers and for third-party "service providers", like search engines or alert services, which need easy to use tools for developing tailored search services to suit specific user communities. The project is a joint collaboration between the University of Nottingham in the UK and the University of Lund in Sweden. Both institutions are active in supporting Open Access development. Lund operates the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which is known throughout the world. Nottingham leads SHERPA, an institutional repository project that has helped establish Open Access archives in 20 of the leading UK research universities. Nottingham also runs the SHERPA/RoMEO database, which is used worldwide as a reference for publisher's copyright policies. This has been added to Rsearch Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM VisioBrand - Brand Directory and Search Engine http://www.visiobrand.com/ VisioBrand is a Swiss company leading the search engine visual market for e-branding. As a virtual catalogue of Brands with an integrated powerful match making system, it represents a great benefit for individuals, marketing and communication professionals and Brands by significantly simplifying the search process and raising its efficiency and by improving their communication and interaction. With the abundance of information available in the Internet today, it may take you long hours of your precious time to find the information you need. VisioBrand facilitate your search by providing you only pertinent and carefully selected links to high-quality branded goods and services. VisioBrand is an e-catalogue of categorized lists of Brands that is fast, precise and easy to use. This is a unique place in the web, where you can have visibility of and access to the Brands of your choice and branded products within one site. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Moreover RSS News Feeds http://w.moreover.com/new/other/categories_rss.html This page contains a complete list of the free, advertising supported RSS news feeds available from Moreover. There are more than 330 news categories to choose from. Please be patient while the page loads. Please Note: Moreover free feeds are for individual, non-commercial use only. Please see their terms and conditions for complete usage guidelines. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Next big step for the Web--or a detour? By Paul Festa http://news.com.com/Next+big+step+for+the+Web--or+a+detour/2100-1032_3-5605922.html Is the "Semantic Web" the new Internet, or a complex technology in search of a problem to solve? That's a question that advocates attending the Semantic Technology Conference hope to put to rest. Standards specialists, venture capitalists, computer scientists and technology executives are meeting at the four-day conference to discuss enterprise applications for the Semantic Web--the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) growing collection of protocols designed to make a wealth of new information accessible and reusable through the Web. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM |
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