Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005  EEVL Xtra Cross Database Search EEVL Xtra - Cross Database Search http://www.eevlxtra.ac.uk/ EEVL Xtra cross-searches 20 databases featuring content from 50 publishers, and facilitates access to articles, books, websites, eprints, industry news, job announcements, the latest research, technical reports and data, and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing. Essentially, its a deep-mining, subject-based meta search service of quality resources. Its a free service, and is an initiative of Heriot Watt University. Its produced by EEVL, the Internet guide to engineering, mathematics and computing. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. and the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM  Folksonomies Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata by Adam Mathes http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html This paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata - data about data - allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users find relevant information. The creation of metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation. In libraries and other organizations, creating metadata, primarily in the form of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies. The primary problem with this approach is scalability and its impracticality for the vast amounts of content being produced and used, especially on the World Wide Web. The apparatus and tools built around professional cataloging systems are generally too complicated for anyone without specialized training and knowledge. A second approach is for metadata to be created by authors. The movement towards creator described documents was heralded by SGML, the WWW, and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. There are problems with this approach as well - often due to inadequate or inaccurate description, or outright deception. This paper examines a third approach: user-created metadata, where users of the documents and media create metadata for their own individual use that is also shared throughout a community. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  MarketingProfs http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Founded in June 2000, MarketingProfs.com is an online publishing company based in Los Angeles, California. We specialize in providing both strategic and tactical post-MBA marketing know-how to Internet and offline marketing professionals in medium and large corporations, through a combination of provocative articles and commentary. Drawing on both the cutting edge marketing know-how of a broad array of analysts, marketing professionals, and professors who create marketing know-how and can bridge the gap between cutting-edge theory and business practice, we cut through the marketing hype and puffery that has become so prevalent in the Internet age. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  CodeGuru http://www.codeguru.com/ There are millions, if not billions, of lines of code in the world. Every day, more lines of code are being created. CodeGuru is a site where tips, tricks, and other pieces of useful code can be found. CodeGuru contains thousands of articles and thousands of pieces of code that you can download, look at, modify, play with, and use. You can simply plug-and-play or you can look at the code and learn. CodeGuru is about the sharing of code. Almost all of the code that you can find is presented as part of an article submitted by someone like you. These articles often explain the code and its use. Most of the people who contribute code articles to CodeGuru are the same people who found and used something from here. Sharing works. CodeGuru is dedicated to helping developers and programmers by providing the most robust and up-to-date technical information and code snippets on the Internet! This information comes from Gurus who are in the industry as well as Guru-"wanna-be's." If you are a Guru, then CodeGuru is a great community for sharing what you know. If you are a Guru-"wanna-be," then CodeGuru is the place to find the resources that will help. Unlike many other sites, CodeGuru also actively searches for additional articles on key industry topics from key industry leaders. Not only do they have standard categories of articles, but they also go beyond and offer a number of columns—columns written by industry leaders. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  CommonBits http://www.commonbits.org/index.php Search their directory for progressive political media: audio, video, photos, reports, transcripts and other files. Submit content links and files that benefit political work or just makes them laugh. CommonBits relies on community members like you to populate its directory. Please submit relevant content on a regular basis. Share content you find and contribute with our tell a friend feature. Subscribe to their content feed in your blog reader to keep up with the latest content submissions. CommonBits believes in the power of BitTorrent to enable activists and political groups to share and exchange large media files. Upload your files, and they will create and host them as BitTorrents for you. Visit their Tools page to download a BitTorrent client for your operating system. They have also written a how to guide to using BitTorrent to download files. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  ClearEngine - Web Presentation Creation http://www.clearengine.com/ Logon day or night to their fully hosted, managed and secure web-based platform. Upload your PowerPoint™ slides and Clearengine automatically converts PowerPoint to Flash™. Rearrange your slides, rename them and add optional slide notes. Link to webpages, surveys and pre-produced animations. Pick up the phone, and dial their 24 hour automated recording system and add narration slide by slide (or to other supported files like Word™, Excel™, PDF™ or photos). Upload attachments to your presentation like brochures, spreadsheets and training material. You choose to add password protection or a registration page to capture viewer data. Merge existing presentations, create new ones without starting over and personalize them for your audience. Brand the presentation with your logo, message and photo. Your audience doesn't have to worry about firewall restrictions, downloads, software installs or hardware additions. Create in minutes - make available to your audience for months. This has ben added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, May 30, 2005  White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. May 30, 2005 V3N22 discusses my blog for White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this resource for his many white papers on searching and information retrieval. View the site at: White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/   
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 NeuroGrid - P2P Search NeuroGrid - P2P Search http://www.neurogrid.net/ The idea behind NeuroGrid is to provide a framework for finding information within a distributed environment. NeuroGrid is based on the idea of automating the process we use in human society to find out things that we want to know, or the locations of things that we need. Imagine that you are trying to find out some information about rock-climbing. You ask your friends if they know of a rock-climbing club. Ideally you ask the ones who you think might have done rock-climbing in the past. One or two of your friends might put you in touch with people who might know, and eventually you will find a club. Of course you can search the phone directory, but the point is, in the absence of a centralized index you do a search using your wits, and the wits of your friends. You don't (as one might imagine from routing in some P2P systems) ask all your friends and rely on them to ask each of their friends propagating your question all around the world. NeuroGrid has wits. It uses them to try and help you find things. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM  SmallBusiness.com http://www.smallbusiness.com/ SmallBusiness.com is a collection of resources for those seeking information and assistance in starting and running a small business in the U.S. (although, they believe a lot of the information is universal and hope those in other countries will use this as a model.) Today, smallbusiness.com consists of three simple services: 1) smallbusiness.com, a focused search engine that seeks out answers from small business bloggers, and (coming soon) small-business news and information websites, and (coming soon) information found on the Small Business Wiki and (coming soon) from books published for small business owners, managers and employees; 2) The Small Business Wiki, a wiki-model encyclopedia of community-generated knowledge regarding all aspects of starting and running a business. This is knowledge from the grassroots and they invite you to participate; and 3) news.smallbusiness.com, a news resource (or, aggregator) tracking stories of interest to those who manage and work at small businesses. news.smallbusiness.com also provides RSS feeds of all news story links we post to the page, or RSS feeds by category. Currently there are six news categories, but we'll be adding more. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  Quanta Plus http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/ Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment. The vision with Quanta has always been to start with the best architectural foundations, design for efficient and natural use and enable maximal user extensibility. They recognize that they don't have the resources to do everything they would like to do so their target is to make it easy for you to help make this the best community based desktop application anywhere. Pretty much everything in Quanta is designed so you can extend it. Even the way it handles XML DTDs is based on XML files you can edit. You can even import DTDs, write scripts to manage editor contents, visually create dialogs for your scripts and assign script actions to nearly any file operation in a project. You can even look at and communicate with a wide range of what happens inside Quanta using DCOP. Quanta is based on KDE so this means it is network transparent from any dialog or project. It can use not only FTP but other KDE KIO slaves from file dialogs or in project settings. For instance if you want secure access try the fish KIO slave that uses SSH. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Real-time Forecast of Earthquake Hazard in the Next 24 Hours http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/step/ It is a time-dependent map giving the probability of strong shaking at any location in California within the next 24-hours. Scientists with the Swiss Seismological Service and the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) have collaborated to develop techniques that quantify the increased likelihood of future earthquake shaking from earthquake clusters in California. In this system, the probability of strong earthquake shaking (with a Modified Mercalli Intensity of VI or greater) in the next 24 hours is calculated and updated every hour. The system considers all the earthquakes, large and small, that are recorded by the California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN), the California element of the Advanced National Seismic System. For each event, the probability that it will be followed by an earthquake large enough to cause strong shaking is calculated from the known behavior of aftershocks and the possible shaking pattern predicted from historic patterns. These probabilities apply both to aftershocks smaller than the first event and to the possibility that the "aftershock" will be larger than the first event which will then become a foreshock. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  IBM Blogging Policy and Guidelines http://snipurl.com/f4x9 An interesting blog posting by James Snell of IBM's Software Standards Strategy Group focusing on the prototype development of pre-emerging software technologies and standards. This gives their policies and guidelines for IBM blogging. Well worth the read and time for those interested in corporate blogging and the policies and procedures related. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Make: Technology On Your Time http://www.makezine.com/ MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, May 29, 2005 History and Evolution of Physics 1) The Physics Evolution http://www.physics.org/evolution/evolution.asp 2) High Energy and Nuclear Physics http://www.er.doe.gov/Sub/About/History/Program_Offices/HEP_hs.htm 3) A Concise History of Thermodynamics http://www.thermohistory.com/ 4) A Timeline of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics http://www.superstringtheory.com/history/index.html 5) History of X-rays and Synchrotron Radiation http://xdb.lbl.gov/Section2/Sec_2-2.html 6) Solar Neutrinos: History http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Papers/Popular/snhistory.html 7) Enrico Fermi and the Evolution of Nuclear Physics http://www.ambitalia.hu/fermi/pdf/ricci.pdf 8) Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/index.htm This Topic in Depth explores the history and evolution of the field of physics. The first website, created by the Institute of Physics, offers an interactive timetable of the development of physics from the ancient philosophers during the Bronze Age to the present research in quantum mechanics and relativity (1). The website illustrates the links between scientists and eras. Second, the US Department of Energy provides a synopsis of the work of the nuclear physics research program and the high-energy physics program since the 1950s (2). Users can also discover current research highlights and papers. The third website features an excerpt from a biography of Josiah Willard Gibbs by a student of his, Lynde Phelps Wheeler (3). Along with a download of a paper discussing the history of thermodynamics, the website supplies a download of a paper Carnot wrote about power in 1824. Fourth, physicist Patricia Schwartz presents a brief timeline of the evolution of mathematics and theoretical physics since the Babylonians established the metric of flat, two-dimensional space (4 ). Students can find an additional timeline of string theory dating back to the Kaluza-Klein Theory in 1921. The fifth website, developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is a section of an X-ray data book exploring the history of synchrotron radiation (5). The website discusses numerous historical aspects include the development of storage rings and the optimization of these with lower emittance and long straight sections for undulators. Sixth, John Bahcall, at the Institute for Advanced Study, offers popular papers on the history of solar neutrinos (6). Anyone interested in learning about the research of solar neutrinos should visit this website. The seventh website is a pdf file of a paper written by the President of the Italian Physical Society, Renato Angelo Ricci, detailing the work of Enrico Fermi and his contributions to the field of nuclear physics (7). This paper can help users who have some prior knowledge of nuclear physics understand the greatness of Fermi's work. Lastly, the University of Oxford provides images of scientific instruments from the medieval and renaissance periods of Europe held at four museums in Europe (8). Students can learn about the uses of the instruments and their origin. [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  The Chord Project http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/ The Chord Project aims to build scalable, robust distributed systems using peer-to-peer ideas. The basis for much of their work is the Chord distributed hash lookup primitive. Chord is completely decentralized and symmetric, and can find data using only log(N) messages, where N is the number of nodes in the system. Chord's lookup mechanism is provably robust in the face of frequent node failures and re-joins. One way that we use Chord is as the basis for the CFS (Cooperative File System) storage system. CFS allows anyone to publish and update their own file system, and provides read-only access to others. CFS distributes the load of serving data very widely to achieve high performance despite flash crowds. It also replicates all data, and maintains that replication as nodes fail and re-join the system. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  Media Ecology Association (MEA) http://www.media-ecology.org/ The Media Ecology Association (MEA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research among the Association’s members and the larger community. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Know Your Enemy: Phishing - Behind the Scenes of Phishing Attacks by The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance http://www.honeynet.org/papers/phishing/ Phishing is the practice of sending out fake emails, or spam, written to appear as if they have been sent by banks or other reputable organisations, with the intent of luring the recipient into revealing sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, account IDs, ATM PINs or credit card details. Typically, phishing attacks will direct the recipient to a web page designed to mimic a target organisation's own visual identity and to harvest the user's personal information, often leaving the victim unaware of the attack. Obtaining this type of personal data is attractive to blackhats because it allows an attacker to impersonate their victims and make fraudulent financial transactions. Victims often suffer significant financial losses or have their entire identity stolen, usually for criminal purposes. This KYE white paper aims to provide practical information on the practice of phishing and draws on data collected by the German Honeynet Project and UK Honeynet Project. This paper focuses on real world incidents that the Honeynet Project has observed in the wild, but does not cover all possible phishing methods or techniques. Attackers are constantly innovating and advancing, and there are likely to be new phishing techniques already under development or in use today. After a brief introduction and background, we will review the actual techniques and tools used by phishers, providing three examples of empirical research where real-world phishing attacks were captured using honeynets. These incidents will be described in detail and include system intrusion, phishing web site preparation, message propagation and data collection. Common techniques and trends are then analysed, including the growing integration of phishing, spamming, and botnets. Examples of the malware used by phishers to automate harvesting of email addresses and sending of spam email are reviewed, and we also present our observations on network scanning techniques and how compromised machines are used to spread phishing emails and other spam. Finally, we conclude this paper with an overview of the lessons learned in the last six months and suggest further research topics. This white paper includes extensive amounts of supporting information, with many hyperlinks to more detailed data on specific attacks available inline. Lastly, no confidential personal data was collected in the process of this research. In some cases, organizations involved in phishing attacks were contacted directly, or the incident data was forward to the local CERT. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  The Socialized.net http://www.socialized.net/ The Socialized.Net is a peer-to-peer network based with socialized peers. Routing in the network is thus based on knowledge about other node's interests, making it work much in the same way as humans cooperate. When you want to get information about used cars, you are more likely to ask a car-interested buddy than starting on the first page in the phone-book... The Socialized.Net is designed to work in both disconnected, weakly-connected (ad-hoc) and fully connected modes. The idea is that many of the future networking capable devices will be both very mobile. If we carry computers around, they should at least be able to help navigate the environment they are in. For example, travellers on a train should be able to find out about the train's schedule and progress. This can easily be done locally on the train, thus using local communication as opposed to global communication (through the Internet). So, a traveller might ask "does anyone in this train know our schedule?", and the train (or another traveller) can give a reply. The Socialized.Net is a PhD project, and is as such a work in progress and merely an experiment. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Sort Price ShoppingBot http://www.SortPrice.com/ Shopping search engine provides easy search and price comparison of millions of products from your favorite online stores. Sortprice.com allows shoppers to browse items sorted by category and search for the lowest prices. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, May 28, 2005  Kudzu May Help Curb Excessive Drinking Study: Herb Helps Curb Binge Drinking http://snipurl.com/f45u Chinese Herb Significantly Reduces Alcohol Intake, Study Finds http://www.mclean.harvard.edu/news/press/current.php?id=76 College Alcohol Study http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/ Invasive Species: Kudzu http://www.invasivespecies.gov/profiles/kudzu.shtml Kudzu: The Vine http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/ Kudzu: A Digital Quarterly http://www.etext.org/Zines/Kudzu/ For more than 100 years, kudzu has been seen by many as a curse on the landscape of the American South, growing up to a foot in a single day, and extending over thousands of acres of land. This pervasive plant may be getting a better name soon, as recent research has indicated that the plant may be able to help curb binge-drinking. In a recent study conducted by researcher Scott Lukas at the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital indicates that those participants who took kudzu pills drank an average of 1.8 beers per session, compared with the 3.5 beers consumed by those who took a placebo. This research draws on many hundreds of years of anecdotal evidence from China, where various parts of the kudzu plant have been used in a variety of treatments. The initial reports seem to suggest that while kudzu won’t in fact turn heavy drinkers into complete teetotalers, it will in fact help them cut back. The first link will lead users to a news article from this Wednesday’s online version of Newsday that talks about these intriguing findings. The second link will take visitors to the official press release on the findings from Harvard Medical School-affiliated McLean Hospital. The third link leads to the homepage of the College Alcohol Study at the Harvard School of Public Health, which contains a number of helpful reports and news briefs about the state of drinking on college campuses and various alcohol abatement programs. The fourth link will take visitors to a website offered by the federal government that provides some insight into the world of the kudzu plant. The fifth link leads to a page which provides some dramatic photographic evidence of how kudzu envelops all types of structures throughout the South. The sixth and final link will take visitors to the online journal, “Kudzu”, which was founded in 1994 in Oxford, Miss. This will be added to the RestStress Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM  Consumerpedia http://www.consumerpedia.org/ Consumerpedia is the consumer information resource everyone can help build. Each topic has its own page where anyone and everyone can create a new topic or add comments and navigational suggestions to existing topics. Other users then rate how helpful those comments and suggestions are and the most helpful ones rise to the top. To start, simply enter your topic of interest in the search box at the top of the page. Consumerpedia has no built in category hierarchy, but rather uses a unique user-driven hierarchical tagging system. This lets users create and define the relationships between different topics, helping others easily discover and browse related information (this is similar to that mythical college campus that was initially built without sidewalks so that they could later be properly placed over the dirt paths created by actual foot traffic patterns). This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  Notemaking by Jim Burke http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html Academic success requires various competencies, among them the ability to know and use a variety of tools and techniques to generate and organize information and ideas. Jim Burke refers to the tools and techniques on this page as "notemaking" because "taking notes" is passive: just as we must make meaning, so we must make notes---in our head, on the page, and in our notebooks. None of the ideas here are new, though he hopes the way he has designed these "school tools" helps you use them more effectively. To see how long people have been using graphic notes and Cornell Notes, check out these excerpts from Leonardo da Vinci's journals. With few exceptions, the tools and techniques listed here are appropriate for all classes; many use them in grades as low as fourth and fifth with success, though he does not have exemplars. The tools here are intentionally free of directions because their intuitive design allows for multiple uses. Over time he will try to add more exemplars for the different techniques so you can see these different uses. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM   FindNot - Anonymous Surfing, Anonymous Email & Anonymous Internet http://www.findnot.com/ They are an offshore company who believes that privacy is your right. It seems every day there are more and more infringements on your privacy. They are determined to give you your privacy back. For this reason they don't keep logs. It used to be that you could go behind the barn and have a conversation with someone and it was private and stayed private. Modern technology has largely eroded our ability for privacy. It is their goal to provide you with the ability to operate in privacy once again. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Researching Medical Literature On the Internet - 2005 Update Researching Medical Literature on the Internet -- 2005 Update by By Gloria Miccioli http://www.llrx.com/features/medical2005.htm The proliferation of medical websites is good news for the researcher with a small to non-existent medical collection. Legal researchers often have to consult medical sources, so it is fortunate that the Internet provides free access to a great deal of the medical literature, either in full text or citation/abstract format, and that it offers search capabilities good enough to fulfill most information needs. In addition, public demand for medical information on the World Wide Web continues to grow. Many professionally-oriented health care sites have evolved to meet consumer needs, and consumer-oriented sites often include professional literature. Journals, dictionaries, textbooks, indexes - all can be found on the Net in growing numbers. The sources are varied; they include publishers, government agencies, professional organizations, and health libraries, to name a few.1 In addition, more and more of this information is being offered for free, which is not the trend in other subjects, particularly business and law. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  KM4D Journal KM4D Journal http://inasp.ilrt.org/journal_index.php?jid=3&ab=KM4DJ KM4D Journal focuses on knowledge management in development. It includes diverse knowledge management approaches in development organizations, large and small, in the South and in the North, and aims to facilitate cross-fertilization between knowledge management and related fields. KM4D Journal offers peer-reviewed practice-based cases, analysis and research concerning the role of knowledge in development processes, and provides a forum for debate and exchange of ideas among practitioners, policy makers academics and activists world-wide. By challenging current assumptions, it will seek to stimulate new thinking and to shape future ways of working. The journal is strongly related to the KM4Dev community of practice but aims to promote KM knowledge and approaches in the wider professional development community. Wherever possible, they will link up with existing kindred communities or networks. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, May 27, 2005  University of Minnesota Human Rights Center http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/ The University of Minnesota Human Rights Center trains and assists the work of human rights professionals and volunteers through five primary programs: (1) Applied Human Rights Research; (2) Educational Tools; (3) the Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program, the Humphrey Human Rights and Law Fellowships, and other Field/Training Opportunities; (4) the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library; and (5) Learning Communities and Partnerships. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM  FDA RSS Feeds FDA Sets Up RSS Feed http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2005/NEW01180.html The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added a new RSS feed to its Web site that provides links to agency news releases and other press announcements. RSS – or Really Simple Syndication – is a burgeoning Internet technology that enables easy distribution of news and other Web content. Users can access the material through a news reader or “aggregator,” which downloads and displays the feeds. Users are able to get automatic updates on news items on topics of choice. The feed is available at: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/rssPress.xml FDA also offers an RSS feed for information about recalls of products the agency regulates. It’s found at: http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  IrfanView http://www.irfanview.com/ IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support. The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Documents and Content: Creating, Indexing, and Browsing http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr/ Networking and digitalising processes deeply transform the relations between documents, individuals, communities and companies. These transformations applies to shared access to information, organizations’ knowledge management, services’ added value (e-business, transport, leisure business, health, education) and cultural industries merging. Many reserachers in many different places work in this field. They go with many different approaches and it is only on specific points that they reach together. The number of keywords enlight the wide spectrum of questions. The network focuses on the establishment of relations, in particular between Humanities and IT, without opposing works in progress. For this purpose, the activities are developped in two direction: 1) Workshops focusing on particular problems with a strong stress on disciplinary crossing, and 2) Cross-disciplinary seminars and syntheses around strong events. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  The Document Academy http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/ The Document Academy is a worldwide project with the aim to create an online space for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense. As a starting point everything produced by a human being using some instruments in certain ways, can be considered as a document. It includes writing, music, images, architecture. clothes, etc. That means that the Academy is open for scholars, artists, businessmen, students and many other kind of people attempting to do the very best at the same time as one is still making "work in progress". This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  TSW - Tanggard Software TSW WebCoder http://www.tsware.net/ WebCoder is a full-featured Web editor, aiming at satisfying all your needs when it comes to editing and publishing of websites. It contains a large amount of useful features, that makes sure that both beginners, as well as the more skilled developers, will feel like home. WebCoder aims directly at creating a good looking and productive environment for your work, by supplying you with the right set of functions, the right way! This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, May 26, 2005  Index of Drug Specific Information Drug Specific Information http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/DrugSafety/DrugIndex.htm FDA is in the process of updating its drug safety information and making it available to consumers in a new, user friendly format. Under the new format, clicking on a drug takes you to a "core page" with links to all information on that drug available on the FDA site. If you click on a drug whose information is not yet in the new format, you will reach a single information page on that product. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM  Enviropedia Enviropedia http://www.enviropedia.org.uk/ Three Hundred plus topics on the environment. Categories broken into: a) Air, b) Climate, c) Weather, d) Pollution, e) Ozone, and f) Sustainability. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  NASA Star Gazers http://stargazer.gsfc.nasa.gov/epo/index.jsp NASA created this educational website to "inspire and motivate students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." Students of all ages can learn about competitions, research opportunities and internships. The website presents pictorial explanations of the Sun's structure, solar winds, electromagnetism, electromagnetic spectrum, and other phenomena related to the Sun and Earth. Educators can find classroom activities, information on National Standards, and links to a host of educational websites and materials. 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 | 4:15 AM  Working Drafts: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-primer-20050510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-20050510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-adjuncts-20050510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20050510/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ The Web Services Description Working Group has published Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: the first complete draft of the "Primer," updates to "Part 1: Core Language" and "Part 2: Adjuncts" and a First Public Working Draft of the "SOAP 1.1 Binding." An XML language, WSDL describes network services and is used to document distributed systems and automate communication between applications. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Tigris.org http://www.tigris.org/ The Tigris.org mission is to promote open source software engineering. That means hosting projects to develop open source software engineering tools. It also means providing professional and methodological information. Their goal is to help open source developers do better by using traditional software engineering tools and methods, while at the same time highlighting the best practices of open source development. Tigris.org has about 10,000 registered members. These developers represent thousands of companies and universities in over fifty countries. Most users visit Tigris.org to download new development tools and provide feedback. The featured projects have developers from throughout the open source community. Everyone involved with Tigris.org has one mission in mind: promoting open source software engineering. Project leaders choose to start projects on Tigris.org because this site has a strong, focused community of developers and some very prominent, active projects. That means that new projects that are approved are likely to get good involvement from other developers. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  GovernmentSecurity.org - Network Security Resources http://www.governmentsecurity.org/ A comprehensive listing of network resources in the following categories: 1) Network Security Jobs, 2) Consultants Directory, 3) E-Mail Security, 4) Encryption Information, 5) General Security, 6) Internet Anonymity, 7) Exploit Articles, 8) HTTP Protocol Security, 9) Linux Security, 10) MS IIS Information, 11) Downloads, 12) Exploit Archive, and 13) Exploit Discussion. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, May 25, 2005  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N6 June 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N6 June 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N6.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The June 2005 V3N6 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 39 page .pdf document (747KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features a comprehensive listing of online resources, sources and sites covering areas of Peer to Peer, File Sharing, Grid and Matrix Search Engines . 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 Know Your Enemy: Phishing - Behind the Scenes of Phishing Attacks by The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance.  posted by Marcus Zillman | 1:28 PM  South African Journal of Economics http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0038-2280&site=1 Since its beginnings in 1925, the South African Journal of Economics has established a reputation as one of the leading international regional journals, publishing economics research affecting African countries for a worldwide audience. The journal publishes papers from internationally recognised authors on a wide range of subjects and accepts contributions on all the known fields of the discipline, including methodology and economic history and, in more recent times, econometrics. Its editorial organisation has recently been extended to allow for a more effective editing of papers on specialised topics. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM  A Growing Dictionary of Old and New Words From the Fringes of English http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/guide/ Double-Tongued Word Wrester records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English. It focuses upon slang, jargon, and other niche categories which include new, foreign, hybrid, archaic, obsolete, and rare words. Special attention is paid to the lending and borrowing of words between the various Englishes and other languages, even where a word is not a fully naturalized citizen in its new language. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  Velocity for Life Sciences (VLS) http://vivisimo.com/html/bio Vivisimo, the creator of innovative clustering software for better search and discovery, introduced the Velocity for Life Sciences (VLS) search and discovery platform that includes meta-alerts, collaboration, document delivery and advanced reporting capabilities for improved knowledge sharing among functional groups across an enterprise. Velocity for Life Sciences 4.2 is the industry's first rapid-deployment, highly customizable enterprise-search platform that combines dynamic clustering, search and meta search into one solution providing a single point of access for all information sources - internal and external. The VLS platform is built on the widely deployed Vivisimo software and includes the company's award-winning Clustering Engine. Velocity for Life Sciences features also include: -- Meta Alerts: Velocity allows users to create alerts from multiple information sources from a single point of access. Users no longer need to access each source individually; instead, they can initiate and receive alerts from several sources in one combined email. Alerts can be initiated simply by clicking on a result or by adding them through user profiles. -- Collaboration and Exporting: With a simple click, Velocity users can export results into Endnote, Procite, Reference Manager, Documentum eRooms, or email reports in HTML or plain text format. It can also save reports as text, HTML or XML, making it easy to share, collaborate and preserve searches. Velocity allows users to save their searches and return to the results at a later time in order to better meet the work habits of individual users. -- Customizable Reports: Velocity's comprehensive reporting feature is entirely customizable and enables administrators to ask and answer critical business questions. For example, administrators can learn what "resources" (journals, feeds, etc.) are actually used and which should continue to be licensed. Administrators can also learn what keywords or phrases are found through the search application, and how and with what frequency users reformulate their queries. -- Full-Text Document Delivery: Velocity has interfaces with leading document delivery organizations such as Infotrieve. Now through a single solution, Velocity users can access full-text documents with the advantages of third-party providers that maintain document ordering quotas for document cost control. -- LinkOut: Velocity incorporates the Entrez LinkOut feature providing full-text access to journals and databases that have been licensed by the organization. -- Document-Level Security: Velocity document-level security provides administrators complete control over access to individual documents or groups of documents. It allows only authorized users access to search results involving sensitive information. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware, including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up ads, unwanted changes to Internet settings, and unauthorized use of your private information. Continuous protection improves Internet browsing safety by guarding more than 50 ways spyware can enter your PC. Participants in the worldwide SpyNet™ community play a key role in determining which suspicious programs are classified as spyware. Microsoft researchers quickly develop methods to counteract these threats, and updates are automatically downloaded to your PC so you stay up to date. This has been added to the antihoax/antivirus section of Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Information360 http://www.information360.com/ As you work at your computer (PC or Mac), in any program, the Toolbar sits unobtrusively at the top of your screen. You may be working in word, building a presentation in Powerpoint or simply reading an imported document, whatever program you are working in, the software is continually searching for contextually related information. Each button represents a different information source. As information becomes available the Toolbar changes colour and a red asterisk indicates which button has the information. Simply pointing the cursor at the button delivers a dropdown box showing a precis of the information available. A click on any of the precis will deliver the complete information to your screen. The Toolbar has buttons delivering information in text, video and audio from a variety of sources. Buttons allowing the creation of Smart Folders, have the opportunity to communicate with other users that have similar interests, and recieve information from other users. The world's first, real-time information exchange, powered by the world's number one information intelligence software. Produced by Autonomy and delivered by a user friendly interface developed by GateWest New Media. Working in your desktop environment, eliminating the need to open a browser the user is automatically delivered precisely related and relevant contextualised information. The software combines advanced pattern matching techniques (non-linear adaptive digital processing), utilizing Bayesian Inference and Claude Shannon's principles of information theory, developed to support the world-wide intelligence community and the first technology to be announced for procurement by the US Department of Homeland Security following 9/11. As you work on your PC or Mac in the normal way, DORIS is working in the background. You simply see the Toolbar at the top of the screen. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Working Drafts: Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20050510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20050510/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-thesaurus-pubguide-20050510/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group released three First Public Working Drafts: "SKOS Core Guide," "SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification," and a "Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web." The drafts explain how to express classification schemes, thesauruses, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary in RDF. Previous SKOS work was supported by the European project SWAD-Europe. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, May 24, 2005  June 2005 Zillman Column - Knowledge Discovery Resources June 2005 Zillman Column - Knowledge Discovery Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/KD Resources June05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The June 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Knowledge Discovery Resources. This June column is a comprehensive listing of knowledge discovery resources and sources on the World Wide Web. These resources will allow you to discovery the latest knowledge about knowledge discovery as well as learn what is happening now that will affect the way that you utilize this phenomenal resource we call the Internet! Download this excellent 19 page free .pdf (402KB) column today and begin your path to knowledge discovery! © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:30 AM |
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