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Thursday, June 30, 2005  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N7 July 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N7 July 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N7.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The July 2005 V3N7 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 35 page .pdf document (678KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features a comprehensive listing of online resources, sources and sites covering areas of Artificial Intelligence . The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources. The book review covers Introduction To Social Network Methods by Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle.   posted by Marcus Zillman | 10:24 AM  ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog ChatterBots http://www.ChatterBots.info/ ChatterBots (ChatterBots.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for all forms of ChatterBots. posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:17 AM  Social-Informatics Social-Informatics - University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences http://www.social-informatics.org/index.php The notion of social informatics relates to the interaction between society and ICT (information-communication technologies). In its broadest sense it covers: 1) the social consequences of ICT at micro (e.g. social aspects of ICT applications at personal and organisational level) as well as at macro level (e.g. information society studies), 2) the application of ICT in the area of social sciences, and 3) the use of ICT as a tool for studying social phenomena (within social science methodology). This university sites has the following social informatics categories: a) Journals, b) Study Programs, c) Associations, d) Research Centres, e) Blogs, and f) Forum. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Life Organizers http://lifeorganizers.com/ LifeOrganizers.com is a rich resource of office and home organizing articles, tips, and fresh, easy ideas on how to get rid of clutter from every part of your life... from the garage to your filing cabinet to your spiritual matters! They show you how to organize anything and everything! Get organized completely with them – read one article a day, put one suggestion into action a day. With their help, you will enjoy how harmony and a delicious sense of control can emerge from the clutter of your surroundings. Yes, it can be done. And you can do it with their help! posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Insider Pages http://www.insiderpages.com/ At Insider Pages, they believe the best way to find a local business is to ask a friend. So they have created a free service that lets friends connect online and share recommendations on local businesses. As a member of Insider Pages, you'll be able to find the perfect hair stylist, restaurant, plumber, doctor, or any other business imaginable with just a few clicks of your mouse. And you'll know that you can trust the recommendations that you find because they're written by your friends (or sometimes, your friends' friends). Simply put, it's like having the Yellow Pages filled with your friends' recommendations. Insider Pages was founded in 2004 and is located in Pasadena, California. The company is wholly owned and funded by Idealab, whose mission is to turn innovative ideas into successful technology businesses. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, June 29, 2005  Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Business Intelligence Resources http://www.BIResources.info/ Business Intelligence Resources (BIResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for business intelligence. posted by Marcus Zillman | 11:18 AM  The Best Brands of the World http://web.brandsoftheworld.com/ Brandsoftheworld.com is World's one of the most visited web sites intended for browsing and exchange of the World's famous brand-logos. The primary use of site is to enable designers to access vector-forms of the well-known brand-logos that they can use in their presentations, given the permission of the copyright owner. The web site also enables designers to upload their own works and professional details. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List http://snipurl.com/fpu4 This is the Updated for 2005 Version of Scott Hanselman's Original Tools List and subsumes all his other lists. New Entries to the Ultimate Tools are in Red and many entries have been updated. The utils have also been organized into Categories. This has been added to the tools section of my Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Guidelines for Business Etiquette http://www.executiveplanet.com/ Executive Planet™ provides valuable tips on business etiquette, customs and protocol for doing business worldwide. Their guides are co-authored by experts in international business etiquette, who are available to answer your questions on the discussion board. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, June 28, 2005  Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Bot Research http://www.BotResearch.info/ Bot Research (BotResearch.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for bot and intelligent agent research posted by Marcus Zillman | 11:49 AM  The SocialPhysics Initiative http://www.socialphysics.org/ SocialPhysics is a new program affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School. The SocialPhysics initiative has two primary goals: 1. Create a robust, multi-disciplinary, multi-constituency community for addressing, vetting and conducting experiments in such issues as privacy, authentication, reputation, transparency, trust building and information exchange. 2. Develop a reusable, open source software framework based on the Eclipse platform that provides identity and social network related services; and leverage this framework to provide a platform for trusted exchange. Framework capabilities include: * Ability to manage and protects an individual's profile and social network data within their multiple social and professional contexts * Ability to capture and organizes profile and relationship data from existing communications and transaction systems via plug-ins, integrates with directory and identity systems via plug-ins * Ability to discover other groups and individuals based on shared affinities Currently we are in our start-up phase and are in sponsorship discussions with a number of academic, industry and government communities. Code for the open source software platform and an initial identity management / social networking application are under development. The code is not yet ready for public release. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  HousingMaps HousingMaps http://www.housingmaps.com/ HousingMaps powered by craigslist and Google Maps! Drag the map with your mouse, or double-click to center. Click on an icon to select a city. In each city, click on the and icons to see listings. You can also click the and icons next to each listing. Yellow icons have pictures. Set the price range using the drop-down menu. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Five Steps To Multimedia Reporting Five Steps To Multimedia Reporting http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/ This site is for reporters to learn how to do multimedia stories. Novices, start with "Choosing a Story" icon. To brush up on skills, choose a tutorial from the menu. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, June 27, 2005  Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Biological Informatics http://www.BiologicalInformatics.info/ Biological Informatics (BiologicalInformatics.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for biological informatics (health informatics, neuroinformatics, biodiversity informatics and biomolecular informatics). posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 PM  Random.org - True Random Number Service http://random.org/ Random.org offers true random numbers to anyone on the internet. If you want to know how the numbers are made and what it is that makes them true, read the introduction to randomness and random numbers. All numbers are tested statistically and the results available in real-time. The easiest way is to use a web form to generate random integers (with duplicates, like dice rolls), randomized sequences (without duplicates, like lottery tickets) or raw random bytes. You can also flip virtual coins and generate random bitmaps. People are using the numbers for all sorts of things. Random.org has also been in Science News, the New York Times, Focus, Wired Magazine and on Danish National Radio. Thid has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 PM  The OSSwin Project: Open Source for Windows The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows http://osswin.sourceforge.net/ Within this document, you should be able to find free open source software which is able to replace much of the proprietary software most Windows-users use nowadays. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Rico - JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications http://openrico.org/ An open-source JavaScript library for creating rich internet applications. Rico provides full Ajax supprt, drag and drop management and a cinematic effects library. Rico is a Spanish word meaning rich. The goal of Rico is to provide a rich experience for web sites using Ajax technology. Rico is just one small part of a larger effort at Sabre Airline Solutions to create a suite of rich internet components, behaviors and effects for the web application space. The library is a fully object-oriented JavaScript library. Recently we refactored the library to extend the excellent prototype.js effort from the Ruby on Rails folks. Rico is provide free and open-source (Apache 2.0 License) for either your personal or commercial use. Sabre Airline Solutions retains the copyright on the Rico code produced at Sabre. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, June 26, 2005  July 2005 Zillman Column - Military Resources July 2005 Zillman Column - Military Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Military Resources July05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The July 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Military Resources. This July column is a comprehensive listing of military resources and sources on the World Wide Web. Download this excellent 12 page free .pdf (314KB) column today. © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus Zillman | 11:19 AM Permaculture 1) The Permaculture Research Institute http://www.permaculture.org.au/ 2) National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Introduction to Permaculture http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/perma.html 3) Permaculture.Net http://www.permaculture.net/ 4) Permaculture Magazine: Articles http://www.permaculture.co.uk/mag/Articles/Articles_Menu.html 5) La'akea Permaculture Gardens: Permaculture Forum http://www.permaculture-hawaii.com/forum.html 6) Organic Volunteers: Permaculture Hosts http://www.organicvolunteers.com/farm_finder.asp?Mode=2&host_type=6 7) Permaculture International Limited: Internship Opportunities http://www.permacultureinternational.org/globaldirectory/internship/aboutinternships.htm Since the concept of permaculture was introduced by biogeographer Bill Mollison in the 1970s, it has attracted increasing interest from agriculturalists, designers, ecologists, and others. The Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) describes permaculture as "the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. It is also the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability and resilience of natural ecosystems." In addition to this definition of permaculture, the PRI website (1) contains a collection of related articles, a Discussion Forum, an annotated Photo Gallery, and brief descriptions of several recommended books. For those looking for more basic information about permaculture, the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (ATTRA) offers an online (2) Introduction to Permaculture. As implied by its title, this ATTRA website provides brief, introductory information about Permaculture, as well as a great selection of links to related resources. The Permaculture.Net website (3) offers several services to those interested in learning more about permaculture including a Courses & Internships Database, a Resource List of related websites, information about the American Permaculture Directory, and an assortment of permaculture definitions "from experts in the field." The next website (4), from _Permaculture Magazine_ offers a selection of gratis online articles. For those looking to engage in some online permaculture-related conversations, the La'akea Permaculture Gardens website (5) hosts a Permaculture Forum. The final two websites, from Organic Volunteers (6) and Permaculture International Limited (PRI) (7), provide information about permaculture-practicing farms and other organizations that offer a variety of hands-on opportunities to learn about permaculture. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Web Tools 2005 Web Tools 2005 http://www.virtualchase.com/trainers/web_tools.html Genie Tyburski presented this with Gary Price at the June 2005 SLA conference. Web Tools 2005 presents software utilities and Web-based resources useful in conducting or managing research. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Open Source Web Information Retrieval (OSWIR05) http://www.emse.fr/OSWIR05/ The World Wide Web has grown to be a primary source of information for millions of people. Due to the size of the Web, search engines have become the major access point for this information. However, "commercial" search engines use hidden algorithms that put the integrity of their results in doubt, so there is a need for some open source Web search engines. On the other hand, the Information Retrieval (IR) research community has a long history of developing ideas, models and techniques for finding results in data sources, but finding one's way through all of them is not an easy task. Moreover their applicability to the Web search domain is uncertain. The goal of the workshop is to survey the fundamentals of the IR domain and to determine the techniques, tools, or models that are applicable to Web search. Presentations should include either strong arguments or report results supported by large-scale experiments that demonstrate the applicability of the technique to the Web domain as well as its advantage over similar techniques. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to: . Information Retrieval Models and Matching Function Models - vector space, probabilistic, Boolean models and their extensions - passage retrieval - normalization . Utilities for IR - relevance feedback - clustering - indexing entities (N-grams, words, stemming, stop word removal, compound nouns, named entities, concepts, etc.) - statistical regression - query expansion (e.g. with thesaurus) - natural language processing (syntactical analysis, etc.) - disambiguation . Web (and hypertext) particulars - links - anchors - HTML and/or XML structure - document identification (URL) - duplicates - hidden documents - dynamic documents - site . Evaluation of models . User Interface - Query language - Results presentation This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, June 25, 2005  SubEthaEdit - Collaborative Text Editing http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ SubEthaEdit is a powerful and lean text editor. And it's the only collaborative one you can actually use. By combining the ease of Bonjour with the world's best text collaboration engine, it makes working together not only possible but even fun. Looking for a text editor that is designed by people actually caring about Human Interface Guidelines? A nice way to edit your HTML files? Or a way to work together on code, texts or notes? Be sure to check out SubEthaEdit. While originally designed for coding together, its collaboration features have also proven to be quite useful for teaching, note-taking (e.g. at conferences) and co-writing text. Imagine meetings with collaborative minute taking or writing your TV/film script or book together with your co-authors. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Academic Commons http://www.academiccommons.org/ With Academic Commons, they seek to form a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education. Academic Commons aims to share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology. If successful, this site will advance opportunities for collaborative design, open development, and rigorous peer critique of such resources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject T5racer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Auction Resources http://www.AuctionResources.info/ Auction Resources (AuctionResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for auction resources posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:02 AM  AMSER - Applied Math and Science Education Repository http://amser.org/ The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program aims to build and sustain a national digital library that supports science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. NSDL funded projects form an integrated network of STEM learning environments and resources for a wide variety of learners, all the way from children in grade school up through graduate students and life long learners. One set of links of particular importance in this educational chain are community and technical colleges, which train a significant percentage of our workforce and often act as a bridge between public schooling and baccalaureate education. To help bring NSDL to these students, as well as educators and others from community and technical colleges, the Internet Scout Project, located in the Computer Sciences department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, along with MERLOT, the American Association of Community Colleges, and other project partners, is being funded by the National Science Foundation to create the Applied Mathematics and Science Education Repository (AMSER), a collaborative NSDL Pathways project designed to help meet the resource and service needs of community and technical colleges and forge a link between these communities and the NSDL. AMSER will consist of a focused metadata repository and a variety of integrated services designed specifically to enhance the learning experience of the community college students and the teaching capabilities of instructors at those institutions. AMSER will create an ideal environment for success: a network of collaborating community college partners, an advisory board with members from all key sectors, a strong existing relationship with the NSDL CI and NSDL community, along with the Internet Scout Project's own expertise in resource discovery and online service development. 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 | 4:00 AM Friday, June 24, 2005  World Book Online Reference Center http://www.aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/ World Book Online Reference Center: The premier online reference source--containing every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more. With state-of-the art multimedia, editor-reviewed Web sites, and more! World Book Research Libraries: Primary and core source collections--books, documents, selections--in major subject areas. Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos: Basic Spanish-language encyclopedia for elementary and middle grades. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  AllStarJobs http://www.allstarjobs.com/ AllStarjobs.com was introduced in July 2000 as a directory of career resources for jobs seekers. Since then, we have grown to over 53,000 links including employment agencies, job banks, classifieds, resume writing, career fairs, employers who post jobs to there web site and much more! Our free service has been appreciated by millions, and is the career resource of choice for employment services, college career counselors & other agencies that serve job seekers. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Astronomy Resources http://www.AstronomyResources.info/ Astronomy Resources (AstronomyResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for astronomical resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:02 AM  10M RDF Triples http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/126/ A colleague has been testing the scalablilty of a triple store using synthetic triples. He asked if we could package up a large collection of real tiples caught in the wild by Swoogle. After talking a bit, it was decided that having them as a simple SQL database dump would be the most convenient form. This SQL database dump contains a table that of about 10.4M RDF triples extracted from the Swoogle cache on June 15, 2005. The size of the compressed file is 162M and when uncompressed its size is 1.7G. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, June 23, 2005  Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (CCCSIR) http://www.cccsir.org/ Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non profit organization established to promote Carl Couch's scholarship in sociological and communication inquiries--the Iowa school qualitative laboratory research and Couch's work on information technologies. The center provides networking opportunities and corroboration information for students and scholars who conduct social and Internet research, inspired by Couch's work. By promoting interdisciplinary exchanges, the center seeks to engage the scholars, citizens, and industry partners in social and Internet research. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Minds and Machines http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=100314 Minds and Machines affords an international forum for the discussion and debate of important and controversial issues concerning significant developments within its areas of editorial focus. Well-reasoned contributions from diverse theoretical perspectives are welcome and every effort will be made to ensure their prompt publication. Among the features that make this journal distinctive within the field are these: * Strong stands on controversial issues are especially encouraged * Important articles exceeding normal journal length may appear * Special issues devoted to specific topics are a regular feature * Critical responses to previously published pieces are invited * Review essays discussing current problem situations will appear. This journal fosters a tradition of criticism within the AI and philosophical communities on problems and issues of common concern. Its scope explicitly encompasses philosophical aspects of computer science. All submissions will be subject to review. Editorial Focus includes: Machines and Mentality - Knowledge and Its Representation - Epistemic Aspects of Computer Programming - Connectionist Conceptions - Artificial Intelligence and Epistemology - Computer Methodology - Computational Approaches to Philosophical Issues - Philosophy of Computer Science - Simulation and Modelling - Ethical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Artificial Intelligence Resources http://www.AIResources.info/ Artificial Intelligence Resources (AIResources.info)is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for artificial intelligence resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:02 AM  Journal of Management Education http://jme.sagepub.com/ Comprehensive Coverage Created over two decades ago to meet the growing demand for research, analysis and discussions on teaching management and organizational behaviour, the Journal of Management Education serves as a forum for the improvement of management education in both classroom and corporate settings, comprehensively covering such diverse areas as: human resources · organizational behaviour · public administration · management consultation · entrepreneurship · organizational communication · production and operations · industrial and labour relations. The Journal of Management Education explores the methods and theories behind management and organizational behaviour education. The journal''s reflective and informative nature makes it an ideal source for teaching exercises, ideas and strategies. Its experienced editorial board ensure readers receive a variety of relevant topics and key issues, including: Field Projects and Internships ·Classroom Participation · Student-Generated Examinations · Humour and Teaching · Role-Playing and Simulations · Gender Issues · Research Versus Practice · Business Ethics · Sex, Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes · Active Listening · Co-Teaching · Student Evaluation · Curriculum Development · Organizational Culture · International Perspectives · Writing-to-Learn · Case Methods. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, June 22, 2005  The Social Fabric http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/s.blyth/thesis/ Your social network explored through a visual language. The Social Fabric is a representation of your social world, displayed as a single visual array on your mobile phone. It does not replace your address book or calendar but keeps you subtly informed about which relationships are prospering, which you have neglected, and the overall state of your social fabric. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Agriculture Resources http://www.AgricultureResources.info/ Agriculture Resources (AgricultureResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for agriculture resources which are listed below. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:02 AM  Yotophoto - Find Free Photos http://yotophoto.com/ Yotophoto is a search engine for images whose copyright owners allow their works to be used by others. The images are available for personal or commercial use, often with minor conditions. Designers, bloggers, graphic artists and other creative types will get the most use out of this site, but the general public may also find it useful. They can help you find everything from desktop wallpapers to source images for your next website. This has been added to the search engines section of the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. This has been added to the resiuyrce section of my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM  International Journal of Medical Microbiology http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14384221 Pathogen genome sequencing projects have provided a wealth of data that need to be set in context to pathogenicity and the outcome of infections. In addition, the interplay between a pathogen and its host cell has become increasingly important to understand and interfere with diseases caused by microbial pathogens. IJMM meets these needs by focussing on genome and proteome analyses, studies dealing with the molecular mechanisms of pathogenicity and the evolution of pathogenic agents, the interactions between pathogens and host cells ("cellular microbiology"), and molecular epidemiology. To help the reader keeping up with the rapidly evolving new findings in the field of medical microbiology, IJMM publishes original articles, case studies and topical, state-of-the-art mini-reviews in a well balanced fashion. All articles are strictly peer-reviewed. Important topics are reinforced by 2 special issues per year dedicated to a particular theme. Finally, at irregular intervals, current opinions on recent or future developments in medical microbiology are presented in an editorial section. Audience: Bacteriologists, mycologists, microbiologists, parasitologists, infectiologists, molecular biologists, cell biologists. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, June 21, 2005  Journal of Research in International Education http://jri.sagepub.com/ The Journal of Research in International Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal in international education published in collaboration with the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) and its partner schools, examiners and higher education institutions throughout the world. The Journal of Research in International Education seeks to advance the understanding and significance of international education. It sets out to undertake a rigorous consideration of the educational implications of the fundamental relationship between human unity and human diversity that 'education for international understanding' requires. The JRIE encourages an approach to research in international education that will close the gap between the well established emergent theory and diverse practice throughout the world. In this context, international education is concerned with the promotion of education for international understanding and human rights, and may include peace education, global education and intercultural education. Authors may address, for example, the curriculum, institutional concerns, the history of education, policy and pedagogy at all levels. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=112056 Early Science and Medicine is an international quarterly dedicated to the history of science, medicine and technology from the earliest times through to the eighteenth century. The need to treat in a single journal all aspects of scientific activity and thought to the eighteenth century is due to two factors: to the continued importance of ancient sources throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and to the comparably low degree of specialization and the high degree of disciplinary interdependence characterizing the period before the rofessionalization of science. The journal, which limits itself to the Western, Byzantine and Arabic traditions, is particularly interested in emphasizing these elements of continuity and interconnectedness, and it encourages their diachronic study from a variety of viewpoints, including commented text editions and monographic studies of historical figures and scientific questions or practices. Early Science and Medicine, which contains an extended book review section, has recently also begun to dedicate special feature sections to emerging historiographic fields and methods of research. The main language of the journal is English, though contributions in French and German are also accepted. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Science Research Science Research Internet Web Portal http://www.ScienceResearch.com/ Deep Web Technologies, a provider of search technology software and solutions, has announced the launch of the Beta version of ScienceResearch.com. ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available Internet Web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases. ScienceResearch.com is designed to allow students, teachers, professors, researchers, and the general public to access information from both public and private research journals and databases via a single portal. Powered by DWT's proprietary Explorit deep Web search engine, a single query will search thousands of journals and databases, and millions of documents in real-time. Additionally, powered by DWT's proprietary QuickRank technology, the results are ranked by relevance on a single results page. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources annotated white paper. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, June 20, 2005  YourDictionary.com http://www.yourdictionary.com/ YourDictionary.com is a language products and services company that maintains the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages, games that build language skills, and a forum (The Agora) for discussing language issues with the logophile community. More than 1,000,000 people a month visit their website. As Editor & Publisher recently put it, yourDictionary.com "defines the state of the art and . . . is making a powerful bid to anchor the reference shelf in the new millennium." This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM  AbiWord Free Word Processing Program http://www.abisource.com/ AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth. AbiWord has been created by a worldwide group of volunteers and currently supports many languages and operating systems. AbiWord is GNU Free Software software, which means that you will always have the freedom to use it, make copies of it, and improve it. You are encouraged to make use of these freedoms and share the program with your family and friends! Like most Open Source projects, AbiWord started as a cathedral, but has become more like a bazaar. AbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the project's word processor. AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  Web-Wise 2005: Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_6/index.html Web-Wise 2005: Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources. Web-Wise 2005 brought together library and museum professionals, educators, and other experts to discuss the best ways to integrate digital resources in the classroom. This special issue brings together papers presented in February in Washington, D.C. on many recent developments in the integration of digital content into educational practices. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Bahrain Tenders http://www.bahrainenquiries.com/ Bahrain Tenders provides you with the latest business information on Projects, Tenders, Enquiries and Business Deals in the Bahrain. The people at Bahrain Tenders have indepth knowledge and experience about the local market and can assist you to develop your business in Bahrain. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Report on W3C Rule Languages Workshop Published http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/report/ http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/ http://www.w3.org/2005/04/swrules-pressrelease The report on the W3C Rule Languages Workshop is now available. Over eighty representatives from various vendors, user communities, and research groups attended and reported on their views, experience, and ideas on options for establishing a standard web-based language for expressing rules. More information is available from the Workshop Web site and the press release. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/ Whether you're a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you've been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post. Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don't want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office. The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you're doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn't help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven't yet decided how it applies to bloggers. But here's the important part: None of this should stop you from blogging. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn't use the law to stifle legitimate free expression. That's why EFF created this guide, compiling a number of FAQs designed to help you understand your rights and, if necessary, defend your freedom. To be clear, this guide isn't a substitute for, nor does it constitute, legal advice. Only an attorney who knows the details of your particular situation can provide the kind of advice you need if you're being threatened with a lawsuit. The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected. This has been added to the resources of my presentation Bots Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, June 19, 2005 Public School Finance 1) RAND Review: Who Is Accountable for Education If Everybody Fails? http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/spring2005/ulttest.html 2) Public Education Network: Gross Inequities, Confused Priorities http://www.publiceducation.org/connections/fall04/darling-hammond.asp 3) CPRE: School Funding Formulas http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/cpre/finance/related/general/ 4) NCES: Education Finance Statistics Center http://nces.ed.gov/edfin/ 5) ECS: State Links for School Finance http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/61/01/6101.htm 6) NCES: Students' Classroom http://www.nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp?flash=true 7) New American Schools: Resource Reallocations http://www.naschools.org/contentViewer.asp?highlightID=8&catID=171 8) Suppose There Was a World Bank for Education http://www.aefa.cc/conf2005/HeynemanSpeech.pdf This issue of Topic in Depth explores some of the resources available online regarding school finance. The first article from the RAND Review (1) discusses the challenges involved in meeting the ambitious goals established by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and the need to develop a school accountability system that can provide "the incentives and resources that the schools really need to help all students meet the state performance standards." In the second article (2), Linda Darling-Hammond, a Professor at Stanford University discusses the inequality of school funding across the US, again using California as an example. This website from CPRE (3) offers several articles that explain how school finance in the US works. The NCES Education Finance Statistics Center (4) is also a hub for information on public elementary/secondary education finance, including finance data on school districts nationwide. The Education Commission of the States (ECS) (5) offers this listing of state finance agencies for more state-specific information. Students can explore the topic further using this educational website from NCES (6). A collection of reports available through New American Schools (7) highlights one approach to the problem of school finance, namely resource reallocation. Taking yet another tactic, the author of this last article (8) proposes "a 'World Bank' for American education.[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 Biodiversity Informatics - Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal http://jbi.nhm.ku.edu/index.php Biodiversity Informatics is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that covers the emerging field of biodiversity informatics. BI welcomes papers regarding aspects of the creation, management, analysis, interpretation, and understanding of information regarding biodiversity. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  DataFerrett - Data Mining Tool http://dataferrett.census.gov/ DataFerrett is a data mining tool that accesses data stored in TheDataWeb through the internet. DataFerrett can be installed as an application on your desktop or use a java applet with an internet browser. DataFerrett is compatible with Windows operating systems: 95, 98, 2000, NT, ME and XP. DataFerrett is a unique data mining and extraction tool. DataFerrett allows you to select a databasket full of variables and then recode those variables as you need. You can then develop and customize tables. Selecting your results in your table you can create a chart or graph for a visual presentation into an html page. Save your data in the databasket and save your table for continued reuse. DataFerrett helps you locate and retrieve the data you need across the Internet to your desktop or system, regardless of where the data resides. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  The National Agriculture Law Center http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/ In 1987, Congress recognized the University of Arkansas School of Law for its "unique expertise in the area of agricultural law" and called for the creation of the National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information at the Law School. Since then, the National AgLaw Center has been funded with federal appropriations through the National Agricultural Library, an entity within the USDA Agricultural Research Service. The National AgLaw Center is the only agricultural and food law research and information facility that is independent, national in scope, and directly connected to the national agricultural information network. The Center conducts objective legal research and provides timely, accurate, and non-partisan agricultural and food law information to those in the agricultural community. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM PPTools -- PowerTools for PowerPoint PowerUsers http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/index.html Try the FREE PPTools Starter Set, which includes lots of useful tools to speed your work with PowerPoint. Then expand your PowerPointPossibilities with these other useful and inexpensive PowerPoint Productivity boosting add-ins. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids http://kids.ithaki.net/ Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary & KidsClick!. Ithaki is a metasearch engine, it finds quickly the best web sites because it searches at once the top search engines and guides for kids, then ranks the results according to an internal ranking to make sure you get the exactly what you're looking for. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, June 18, 2005 E-learning Practice and Research http://elearnpracticeresearch.blogspot.com/ This weblog is part of a research effort on behalf of the author which is aimed at discovering current information regarding the 'state of the art' of e-learning in terms of actual practice and research in higher education at the institutional, college/school/department and individual classroom levels. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Digital Deliberations Journal http://dd.digitalprof.net/ A management sceince scholarly journal in digital form. The primary purpose of this journal is to spur new developments in publications by displaying complimentary combinations of scholarly content and digital technologies. 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 | 4:20 AM  wikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit http://wiki.ehow.com/ wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual. With your contributions, they can create a free resource that helps people by offering clear, concise solutions to the problems of everyday life. Please join them by writing a new page, or editing a page that someone else has started. This has been added to Internet Experts Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM |
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