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Two from Online magazine
The
Sept/Oct issue of Online features some OA-related articles which are not available on the magazine's website. Peter Jasco reviews three search utilities in his Picks and Pans column (p.57), and calls
Citebase Search "the crown jewel of the Open Citation Project," noting its facility in searching open access sources such as arXiv, cogprints, and BioMed Central. He has high regard for the Institute of Physics (IoP) archive search interface, but dismisses Google's interface fo From
Open Access News on September 1, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Paula Hane and Robin Peek on OA
Paula Hane,
Developments in Open Access, Search, and More, Information Today, September 2004. On the US and UK open-access proposals, BMC's consultation on OA business models, and an upcoming
Open Access Forum for Internet Librarians at
Internet Librarian International 2004 (London, October 10-12, 2004). The
same issue of Information Tod From
Open Access News on September 1, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Brilliant
This is hardly news but can I just add to the heap of praise for
Stephen's Educational Blogging article. Succinct, powerful, persuasive and, I reckon, a moment that might just be one we look back on as a significant point in time. In many ways a great piece of collaboration with
Will too. Love it! From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on September 1, 2004 at 5:56 p.m..
Other things
Things might get a bit quiet round here over the next few weeks as the final hearing for the custody of
my daughter at the
Federal Magistrates Court of Victoria begins on the 13th September. It's been a year long (well over two really), arduous and horrible journey through the worst of what can possibly happen between two people. Apparently less that 1% of cases filed at the court get to this stage... never thought I'd be one of them... but I guess I never thought I' From
James Farmer's Radio Weblog on September 1, 2004 at 5:55 p.m..
Test IE Compatibility Inside Firefox!
This is something we have been longing for quite a while, and, in my humble opinion, something that can have a profound disrupting role in how IT departmens and Web developers will select their Web coding and testing standards. As... From
Robin Good's Latest News on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
The Corporate Weblog CounterManifesto
Here is my counterpoint to the corporate blogger manifesto Robert Scoble has just published through the ChangeThis initiative. He has gotten some really good points. But the view of the emerging grassroots, semantic Web should reflect some universal laws that... From
Robin Good's Latest News on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
How To Measure Link Desirability? Link Appeal
If you are looking for yet another indicator to assess the credibility, authority or popularity of a Web site you may like to add Link Appeal among your list of valuable resources. Link Appeal computes a reference score (1-10) which... From
Robin Good's Latest News on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Halley interviews me
I seem to be on the other end of the phone in conversation with Halley over at IT Conversations Memory Lane. It all seems like an out-of-body experience now. Anyway, Halley and I talked mainly about techno-politics, as well as technology and politics, as I recall. By the way, allow me to answer one of the burning questions we left hanging in the interview: A balustrade is a railing along the front of a gallery.... From
Joho the Blog on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
A bad idea
Here's a site that's trying to "use up" the Republican's virtual space by reloading "several Republican websites" automatically every 60 seconds. See, if we all leave the protest page up in our browser, we'll show them Republican bastards ... well, I'm really not sure what we'll show them. I'm confused enough about this that I am only reluctantly posting the protest page's url: http://users.drew.edu/clotito/protest_rnc.htm. Maybe you can explain to me if this page is: 1. A sincere but misguided attempt to make a point no one understands through a protest From
Joho the Blog on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Scott R on Fairness
Scott Rosenberg writes about the Miami Herald's absurd code of ethics. Here's a snip: For clarity here, let's distinguish between the unattainable standard of objectivity — a scientific absolute poised as subjectivity's opposite — and the entirely attainable, and laudable, standards of fairness and accuracy and honesty and transparency that any journalist of good mind and heart will subscribe to. Fairness: If you're presenting one side of a story, you owe it to your readers, your subjects and yourself to weigh the other side's case. Accuracy: Observati From
Joho the Blog on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Hole in blackbox voting caused by smoking gun
David Isenberg circulated by email this morning a snip from Bev Harris at Black Box Voting: The Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security hole Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator — 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time. By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes... From
Joho the Blog on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
Arnold: An immigrant's story
Don't you find it ludicrous that the Republicans put forth Arnold as a heartwarming example of how America welcomes immigrants? Ah, yes, Ahnuld who came from Austria as a poor, struggling Mr. Universe, and groped his way to the top.... From
Joho the Blog on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
The words of the prophets are written for $14.95
Remember Rael? No, not Rael Dornfest. The French "journalist" and lying clone meister who has been appointed ambassador by the extraterrestials who created life on this planet. In fact, the ET's dictated a book to Rael to set the planet straight. And yet Rael charges $14.95 to buy it. Why haven't the aliens cut Rael down with a laser death beam beam for not posting the whole book for free on the Web? Did Isaiah hold out for foreign rights? Did Ezekial hold on to the film rights? Did Jeremiah run blog ads?...... From
Joho the Blog on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
I'm out of Friendster
I've quit. I don't ever use it. I don't have a pressing need to be registered at a site for daters and people with "open" marriages. I wasn't impressed with the CEO throwing Friendster condoms into the audience after giving a talk. I have a problem with the site's disrespect for the implicit. And then Friendster fired an employee for blogging. Click here to go to the cancellation form, if you're so inclined. (Thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for the cancellation link. And here's a great post by Jon Udell.)... From
Joho the Blog on September 1, 2004 at 5:54 p.m..
The Sunday Triathalon
In preparation for a
mid September Grand Canyon trip, this past Sunday I completed the unofficial, unsanctioned CogDogBlog triathalon, which will not be covered on NBC or commented on by Bob Costas. The event included:
A two mile mountain bike ride to Camelback Mountain A grueling ascent and descent of Camelback on the Cholla Trail (1200 feet gain in 1.5 miles). Bike ride back home for 5 hours of back breaking yard work. From
cogdogblog on September 1, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
ASU Wiki Workshop
Last night, my friend and colleague
Tom Foster invited be as a "guest expert" (hah!) for a class he is teaching at Arizona State University, "Social and Ethical Issues in Educational Media". The students were all K-12 teachers, librarians, and media specialists, and they had amazing, heroic energy for a group who had worked all day with kids, then put up with technology stuff from 5-9 PM. The class had already reviewed issues in Copyright and Fair Use, and Tom asked be to take the turn from the messages of what they ca From
cogdogblog on September 1, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Abandon IE Now
In a world where human behavior is in accordance to PT Barnum's laws, we all would be using Internet Explorer. I am afraid we live in that world. I waste more time trying to fix CSS problems in IE than I care for. Why cannot those Microsoft engineers build a browser that follows Web Standards? Anyhow, 90 minutes today was shot chasing down the Peekaboo bug for our Ocotillo Wikis- this is the effect where only in IE browsers, the first view of a web page much of the content is blanked out for perhaps 1/3 to 2/3 of the screen, scrolloing down and up often reveal From
cogdogblog on September 1, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Skyped? Skyping?
I've not read much on
Skype until I noticed via
Joi Ito that a Mac version was out. Heck, I did not even know what it did! It appears to be a simple way to have audio conversations via the net, and even 3,4 way conversations. The trouble is I don't have anyone to Skype with! If you have Skyped, let me know your handle, or Skype me at cogdogblog. Aren't new verbs fun? From
cogdogblog on September 1, 2004 at 5:53 p.m..
Online Information 2004
I'm excited to report that I'll be travelling to London in December to speak at Online Information 2004. In addition to my talk on "ensuring intranets are successful", I'm running a one-day workshop on "Techniques for Building a Better Intranet".... From
Column Two on September 1, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
The future of computing
I am currently busy to finish a presentation about the future of computing. I am going to present at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt on Thursday, 7 p.m. If you have heard of a interesting technology, a future vision or application concept - please consider adding this to the
Wiki here. Update: Someone anonymously added some text to the Wiki page saying that the items listed are nothing more than advances in material science and that "true" future lies in applications. I think the impl From
owrede_log on September 1, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Frontier Open Source
Dave Winer on the upcoming open source release of Frontier: "Technically, the software is ready to go." I am curious if the old Frontier developers cam back to life. There have been so many threads dropped after Frontier went commercial in 1996. From
owrede_log on September 1, 2004 at 5:52 p.m..
Turn Search Into Find
Forget call-centers, try
Web-based customer support: "A new breed of customer service and self-service solutions transcends the ubiquitous search box by emphasizing the process of discovery -- finding, not searching. Web-based customer self-service is gaining rapid adoption as one of the most promising opportunities for customer-facing firms in all industries to decrease customer transaction costs while maintaining or improving service quality." From
elearningpost on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
Some Apple News
Apple has released its new
iMac G5. All the hardware is at the back of the screen. Looks nice. Also for some cool news: Skype, the popular VOIP tool, is now available for
OSX. From
elearningpost on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
Why Is That Thing Beeping? A Sound Design Primer
Nice in-depth article on how to create
audible identities into your designs: "Art forms such as theater, film, and video games have grown to include carefully considered sounds and are clearly better off for it. By learning to include audio as an important design parameter in web or product design, we might achieve the same successful results." From
elearningpost on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
Working Drafts: Quality Assurance
2004-08-30: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has published three Working Drafts. Written for W3C Working Group Chairs and Team Contacts, The QA Handbook provides techniques, tools, and templates for test suites and specifications. QA Framework: Specification Guidelines are designed to help make technical reports easy to interpret without ambiguity, and explain how to define and specify conformance. Variability in Specifications is a First Public Working Draft. Formerly part of the Specification Guidelines, the document contains advanced design considerations and conformance-related tec From
World Wide Web Consortium on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
XForms 1.1 Requirements Updated
2004-08-31: The XForms Working Group has updated the XForms 1.1 Requirements Working Group Note. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. Version 1.1 has enhancements for the XForms 1.0 framework, embraces SOAP, makes XForms authoring easier, and facilitates XForms use in other host languages. Visit the XForms home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
EMMA Working Draft Updated
2004-09-01: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction management systems. EMMA represents user input. Speech and handwriting recognizers, natural language engines, media interpreters, and multimodal integration components generate EMMA markup. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL)
2004-09-01: Through joint efforts, the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group and the CSS Working Group have released the First Public Working Draft of SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL). The sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behavior of elements outside the SVG namepace. A future version may extend XBL to any markup. Visit the SVG and CSS home pages. (News archive) From
World Wide Web Consortium on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
'Winning' Against Terrorism
NY TImes: Bush Cites Doubt America Can Win War on Terror. "I don't think you can win it," Mr. Bush replied. "But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world." This is a welcome dose of reality, and it's about time Bush offered it. But his statement raises a couple of questions. Such as: If the war can't be won, will Americ From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
Skype Goes Mac
Skype just launched a public beta version of its
new OS X client software. This means the Voice over IP software that has almost 10 million registered users is now on every major desktop platform -- another major step forward for the product and the people behind it. I've been playing with a pre-beta version of the OS X software, and had some difficulty. The new version does seem to be an improvement. I already have VoIP at home, but this will be quite useful when I'm traveling and find a broadband c From
Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
Wikipedia, Reputation and Accuracy
There's been a fascinating uproar in cyberspace about the estimable
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia I
discussed here early this year and in the book. One of the topics was whether a site written entirely by its readers -- and where every page can be edited by anyone -- could meet any kind of "standards" of accuracy and reliablity. The latest tempest was stirred by
thi From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
Information routing, redux
In last week's column, I mentioned
del.icio.us, Joshua Schachter's "social bookmarking" service. Since then, I've explored the service more deeply in a series of
blog entries. Using del.icio.us, I'm now able to process information in dramatically more efficient ways. ... In a
March 2003 column, I wrote about the challenges of doing publish/subscribe at Internet scale. From
Jon's Radio on September 1, 2004 at 5:51 p.m..
Paris Says Bonjour to New IMac
Apple introduces a new flat-screen iMac in Paris that looks more like an iPod than a Luxo-lamp. Starting at $1,300, the new model has Parisian Mac nuts saying 'oui.' From
Wired News on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Florida Says E-Vote Primary A-OK
The touch-screen voting machines used in 15 Florida counties appear to work smoothly during the state's primary election Tuesday. From
Wired News on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Astronomers: More Earths Likely
Two separate teams of astronomers find Neptune-size planets beyond our solar system. Earth-like planets are just around the corner, they say. By Amit Asaravala. From
Wired News on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Scientific Method Man
Gordon Rugg cracked the 400-year-old mystery of the Voynich manuscript. Next up: everything from Alzheimer's to the origins of the universe. By Joseph D'Agnese from Wired magazine. From
Wired News on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Segwaying Across the Country
Bidding his desk job goodbye, a web designer is taking his Segway scooter on a cross-country trek from Seattle to Boston. Friends are documenting the 10-mile-per-hour trip along the way. By Rachel Metz. From
Wired News on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Site Tracks Political Zeitgeist
With 24-hour-a-day talk on all things political, the web is the ultimate gauge of public thinking. A new site seeks to capture up-to-the-minute buzz with an index of the most authoritative political bloggers. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. From
Wired News on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Have 25 Years of Progress Helped?
At this year's Ars Electronica, the largest annual festival of technology and art, organizers are focusing on a simple question: Have the technological advancements of the last quarter century helped or hurt us? By Michelle Delio. From
Wired News on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Monster Mashes Attract Masses
Kaiju Big Battel -- a multimedia event in which costumed combatants spew toxic ooze on audience members -- is growing in popularity. There are already dedicated websites and a DVD series. Coming next: a book and TV pilot. By Xeni Jardin. From
Wired News on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Vote Swaps Revamped for 2004
If you'd like to vote for a third-party candidate, but don't want to cost the Democrats or Republicans the election, take heart. Sites are cropping up to allow voters in swing states to swap votes with people in non-swing states. By Joanna Glasner. From
Wired News on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
Filipina Women's Network Launches Nationwide Search for "Filipina Women Who Could Be President"
The Filipina Women's Network announces the nationwide search for "Filipina Women Who Could be President," a campaign to highlight the achievements of Filipina women in management and leadership roles. The search is part of a larger FWN campaign, "Shaping the Filipina Image" and officially kicks off the FWN Summit, "Leadership, Power and Influence for Filipina Women," on October 22 and 23, 2004, in San Francisco, CA. [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004] From
PR Web on September 1, 2004 at 5:50 p.m..
The Gift to be Remembered at LATIN RECORDING ACADEMY® PERSON OF THE YEAR TRIBUTE TO CARLOS SANTANA
ESSEX JCT. VT. HYPHEN Peacetoys.com made a contribution of SPANISH language Hugg-A-Planet, Earths to 2004 Latin Recording Academy's person of the Year Honoring Carlos Santana. Many Latin music stars will be receiving a special planet earth on this day and sure to be used for years after. The SPANISH Hugg-A-Planet, Earth. is now in their hands. Latin music trend setters have one of the 25 Best Toys of the Past 25 years to share with their friends and family. A useful reminder to make a difference with their musical talent and influence.-Promoting peace, and environmental goodwill for From
PR Web on September 1, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..
No Passport Required for 'Trip' to Vietnam
'Families of Vietnam' - Newest Title in the Award-Winning Families of the World Video Series - Available Nationwide September 7, 2004 from Master Communications [PRWEB Sep 1, 2004] From
PR Web on September 1, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..
September?!
Holy moly but I can't believe it's September already! I'm not sure where the entire summer went, but it seems to be nearly gone. The nice thing about that? So are the tourists! Different plants are blooming, traffic is returning to what it was back in June, and we're into an R month so I can go shellfishing for oysters! From
megnut on September 1, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..
Insecure elections marching ever closer
Friday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a controversial decision by Missouri's Secretary of State: the state of Missouri will be allowing soldiers stationed overseas to cast ballots via e-mail. Their absentee ballots will be scanned and converted to PDF files, which will be emailed to the Defense Department, printed out, and then faxed to Missouri. I'm in favor of helping soldiers vote; this is a democracy, everyone should be able to vote. Yet I'm deeply skeptical of this proposal, for two reasons: The plan depends on e-mailed ballots being printed out and faxed by th From
kuro5hin.org on September 1, 2004 at 5:49 p.m..