Newseum - The Interactive Museum of News
"The world's first interactive museum of news — the Newseum — opened in Arlington, Va., in 1997. Its mission was simple: to help the public and the news media understand one another better."
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Museum of Online Musuems
Coudal Partners: "Welcome to the coudal.com Museum of Online Museums. Here, you will find links from our archives to online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions: Start with a review of classic art and architecture, and graduate to the study of mundane (and sometimes bizarre) objects elevated to art by their numbers, juxtaposition, or passion of the collector."
Brainboost Answer Engine
New search engine:
"Brainboost is an answer engine whereas Google is a Search engine.
What that means is that Brainboost actually finds answers to your questions posed in plain English as opposed to directing you to pages that simply mention the questions.
Brainboost, Using the AnswerRank™ system, intelligently reads hundreds of web pages derived from search results and extracts just the short and concise answer to your question, saving you time."
Brainboost Answer Engine
"Brainboost is an answer engine whereas Google is a Search engine.
What that means is that Brainboost actually finds answers to your questions posed in plain English as opposed to directing you to pages that simply mention the questions.
Brainboost, Using the AnswerRank™ system, intelligently reads hundreds of web pages derived from search results and extracts just the short and concise answer to your question, saving you time."
Brainboost Answer Engine
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
43 Things
(sponsored by amazon.com)
Discover what's important, make it happen, share your progress. Find your 43 things. Learn more…
Write down your goals
People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).
Get Inspired
What do you want to do with your life? It is not an easy question to answer – and you shouldn’t have to answer alone. Browse 43 Things to find out what others want to do. You might find some goals you share. Click the “I want to do this” button to add a goal to your list. Got an idea for a new goal? Just type it in the text box on the homepage or at the bottom of any page on the site. Bam. Now, it’s your thing.
Share your progress
We all have stories about what we care about. Writing down your progress on a goal can help someone else learn about something you both want to do. When you see a goal you’ve achieved, click on the “I’ve done this” button and share a story about how you did it.
43 Things
Discover what's important, make it happen, share your progress. Find your 43 things. Learn more…
Write down your goals
People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).
Get Inspired
What do you want to do with your life? It is not an easy question to answer – and you shouldn’t have to answer alone. Browse 43 Things to find out what others want to do. You might find some goals you share. Click the “I want to do this” button to add a goal to your list. Got an idea for a new goal? Just type it in the text box on the homepage or at the bottom of any page on the site. Bam. Now, it’s your thing.
Share your progress
We all have stories about what we care about. Writing down your progress on a goal can help someone else learn about something you both want to do. When you see a goal you’ve achieved, click on the “I’ve done this” button and share a story about how you did it.
43 Things
Monday, March 28, 2005
Ourmedia Homepage | Ourmedia
"We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches.
Get recognized for your creativity. Make your voice heard. Register now and join the personal media revolution."
Ourmedia Homepage | Ourmedia
Get recognized for your creativity. Make your voice heard. Register now and join the personal media revolution."
Ourmedia Homepage | Ourmedia
Friday, March 25, 2005
C-SPAN: DIGITAL FUTURE
An excellent show coming up on this site
C-SPAN: DIGITAL FUTURE
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The Digital Future
Final show - Neil Gershenfeld, Dir. of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, discusses his new concept, Internet 0 (Zero), in which a new infrastructure for the Internet would give an IP address to all electronic devices & interconnect them directly.
C-SPAN: DIGITAL FUTURE
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The Digital Future
Final show - Neil Gershenfeld, Dir. of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, discusses his new concept, Internet 0 (Zero), in which a new infrastructure for the Internet would give an IP address to all electronic devices & interconnect them directly.
Monday, March 21, 2005
Sunday, March 20, 2005
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: X-celling Over Men
Research published last week in the journal Nature reveals that women are genetically more complex than scientists ever imagined, while men remain the simple creatures they appear.
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: X-celling Over Men
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: X-celling Over Men
Thursday, March 17, 2005
MercuryNews.com | 03/16/2005 | Professor's online publishing experiment
Further nudging outward the boundaries of online publishing, Stanford University Professor Larry Lessig will put his 1999 book ``Code'' online today and invite Internet users to help him write an updated version.
A noted copyright expert and proponent of free software, Lessig is putting the 297-page treatise about technology, culture and regulation on the Web in the form of a ``wiki,'' a site that can allow people to freely edit its contents. The law professor will take the contributions at http://codebook.jot .com and edit them into a printed version of the book.
MercuryNews.com | 03/16/2005 | Professor's online publishing experiment
A noted copyright expert and proponent of free software, Lessig is putting the 297-page treatise about technology, culture and regulation on the Web in the form of a ``wiki,'' a site that can allow people to freely edit its contents. The law professor will take the contributions at http://codebook.jot .com and edit them into a printed version of the book.
MercuryNews.com | 03/16/2005 | Professor's online publishing experiment
Book Aid International - Reverse Book Club
Book Aid International - Book Club:
"You know how with normal book clubs, you pay a monthly fee, and get offers for lots of books that you don't really want? Well, our Reverse Book Club is a little bit different! You pay 5 pounds a month, and we send you... nothing at all!"
"It costs us 5 pounds to send 4 carefully selected books to readers of all ages in Africa and beyond.
People in developing world countries need REGULAR, reliable help to break out of the cycle of poverty. A donation of just 5 pounds a month would mean we could provide 48 books a year to readers in countries such as Ethiopia, Nepal and Sierra Leone."
"You know how with normal book clubs, you pay a monthly fee, and get offers for lots of books that you don't really want? Well, our Reverse Book Club is a little bit different! You pay 5 pounds a month, and we send you... nothing at all!"
"It costs us 5 pounds to send 4 carefully selected books to readers of all ages in Africa and beyond.
People in developing world countries need REGULAR, reliable help to break out of the cycle of poverty. A donation of just 5 pounds a month would mean we could provide 48 books a year to readers in countries such as Ethiopia, Nepal and Sierra Leone."
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
BugMeNot.com
The Internet offers a booming trade to help with this type of annoyance-fighting behavior. For example, shared passwords to free Web sites are available at www.bugmenot.com to help people avoid dealing with long registration forms.
BugMeNot.com
BugMeNot.com
Monday, March 14, 2005
Judge Says Calif. Can't Ban Gay Marriage
A judge ruled Monday that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional - a legal milestone that, if upheld on appeal, would open the way for the most populous state to follow Massachusetts in allowing same-sex couples to wed.
DailyProgress.com | AP News
DailyProgress.com | AP News
Screw SETI !!!
The Google Compute Project:
Put your computer to work advancing scientific knowledge when it's not helping you.
Google Compute is a feature of the Google Toolbar that enables your computer to help solve challenging scientific problems when it would otherwise be idle. When you enable Google Compute, your computer will download a small piece of a large research project and perform calculations on it that will then be included with the calculations performed by thousands of other computers doing the same thing. This process is known as distributed computing.
The first beneficiary of this effort is Folding@home, a non-profit academic research project at Stanford University that is trying to understand the structure of proteins so they can develop better treatments for a number of illnesses. In the future Google Compute may allow you to also donate your computing time to other carefully selected worthwhile endeavors, including projects to improve Google and its services.
The Google Compute feature
Put your computer to work advancing scientific knowledge when it's not helping you.
Google Compute is a feature of the Google Toolbar that enables your computer to help solve challenging scientific problems when it would otherwise be idle. When you enable Google Compute, your computer will download a small piece of a large research project and perform calculations on it that will then be included with the calculations performed by thousands of other computers doing the same thing. This process is known as distributed computing.
The first beneficiary of this effort is Folding@home, a non-profit academic research project at Stanford University that is trying to understand the structure of proteins so they can develop better treatments for a number of illnesses. In the future Google Compute may allow you to also donate your computing time to other carefully selected worthwhile endeavors, including projects to improve Google and its services.
The Google Compute feature
Folding@Home Distributed Computing
You can help via Google deskbar too!
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.
How can you help? You can help our project by downloading and running our client software. Our algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, we get a commensurate increase in simulation speed. One can also help by donating funds to the project, via Stanford University.
Folding@Home Distributed Computing
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.
How can you help? You can help our project by downloading and running our client software. Our algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, we get a commensurate increase in simulation speed. One can also help by donating funds to the project, via Stanford University.
Folding@Home Distributed Computing
Sunday, March 13, 2005
AARP Social Security Blog
what better place to explore the issues as the Greatest Generation sees them?
AARP Social Security Blog
AARP Social Security Blog
BlogStreet : Blog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and Directory
From Search Engine Watch: "While these blog search engines all have useful features, they tend to focus on features like keyword search, popularity and other measures that determine the importance or prominence of a blog. They work well for finding individual blog postings on a particular topic, but have a harder time pinpointing a particular author that writes regularly on topics of interest to you. By contrast, Blogstreet's discovery tools take a different approach, tapping into the linkage patterns in the blogosphere to help you locate blogs that are similar to ones you currently read."
BlogStreet : Blog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and Directory
BlogStreet : Blog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and Directory
Sunshine Week - Freedom of Government Information
This Sunday, March 13, 2005, American news organizations will participate in “Sunshine Sunday” by running stories and editorials in support of public access to government information. "Sunshine Sunday" kicks off Sunshine Week, a project designed to focus attention on the public's right of access to government information.“This is not just an issue for the press. It’s an issue for the public,” said Andy Alexander, ASNE Freedom of Information chair, who is chief of the Cox Newspapers’ Washington bureau. “An alarming amount of public information is being kept secret from citizens and the problem is increasing by the month. Not only do citizens have a right to know, they have a need to know." “Our goal is the raise public awareness of this horrible trend that is hurting democracy,” he said of the Sunshine Week project. “We hope that it sparks a public dialogue about the value of open government and the damage to citizens from excessive government secrecy."FreeCulture.org has organized "Blogshine Sunday" for March 13.Blogshine Sunday, at http://blogshine.org, is about preserving the right of all citizens, not just credentialed journalists, to observe the workings of their government.
SUNSHINE Week - Sunshine Week Showcase
SUNSHINE Week - Sunshine Week Showcase
Thursday, March 10, 2005
BOOKS2EAT the International Edible Book Festival
BOOKS2EAT the International Edible Book Festival
Celebrated this year by the Rare Books Room of the Willis Library of University of North Texas, for those in the area. Come on by and get a "taste"
Celebrated this year by the Rare Books Room of the Willis Library of University of North Texas, for those in the area. Come on by and get a "taste"
A9.com
A9.com is a powerful search engine, using web search and image search results enhanced by Google, Search Inside the Book® results from Amazon.com, reference results from GuruNet, movies results from IMDb, and more.
A9.com remembers your information so you don’t have to. You can keep your own notes about any web page and search them; it is a new way to store and organize your bookmarks; it even recommends new sites and favorite old sites specifically for you to visit. With the A9 Toolbar installed your web browsing history will be saved so you can search through your whole history (and clear items you don’t want kept). A9.com uses your history to recommend new sites, to alert you to new search results, and to let you know the last time you visited a page.
check the top right corner, see if it knows your name! kinda spooky if it does. here's why:
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, A9.com uses your Amazon.com account to identify you and shares information with Amazon.com to improve the services we offer. If you don't want to be identified, you can sign out. See the A9.com privacy notice for details.
A9.com Home Page
A9.com remembers your information so you don’t have to. You can keep your own notes about any web page and search them; it is a new way to store and organize your bookmarks; it even recommends new sites and favorite old sites specifically for you to visit. With the A9 Toolbar installed your web browsing history will be saved so you can search through your whole history (and clear items you don’t want kept). A9.com uses your history to recommend new sites, to alert you to new search results, and to let you know the last time you visited a page.
check the top right corner, see if it knows your name! kinda spooky if it does. here's why:
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, A9.com uses your Amazon.com account to identify you and shares information with Amazon.com to improve the services we offer. If you don't want to be identified, you can sign out. See the A9.com privacy notice for details.
A9.com Home Page
DVD facing an early grave?
The DVD format will be nothing more than a flash in the pan, according to the chief executive of Alcatel.
Speaking at the opening of the Alcatel Forum in Paris, Serge Tchuruk told delegates that cheap and widely available broadband services will sound the death knell for the popular storage medium.
This could have serious implications for libraries, in several significant ways. One of these ways being the provision of internet access, and also the potential for "streaming" material to users in their homes, or in the library. Libraries must continue to consider the technologication adaptations required to provide patrons materials in a time and cost efficient ways. These may include: ipods, personal dvd-players, laptops and pda's for check-out, in-library use. RFID may provide more security for these equipment items, but that is another issue...
DVD facing an early grave: "The DVD format will be nothing more than a flash in the pan, according to the chief executive of Alcatel.
Speaking at the opening of the Alcatel Forum in Paris, Serge Tchuruk told delegates that cheap and widely available broadband services will sound the death knell for the popular storage medium.
This could have serious implications for libraries, in several significant ways. One of these ways being the provision of internet access, and also the potential for "streaming" material to users in their homes, or in the library. Libraries must continue to consider the technologication adaptations required to provide patrons materials in a time and cost efficient ways. These may include: ipods, personal dvd-players, laptops and pda's for check-out, in-library use. RFID may provide more security for these equipment items, but that is another issue...
DVD facing an early grave: "The DVD format will be nothing more than a flash in the pan, according to the chief executive of Alcatel.
The Philipps / Wurlitzer music roll database project
The Music Roll Database Project is an attempt to catalogue original, factory-cut music rolls for certain automatic musical instruments. Recut music rolls are not included, although title information from recut rolls may be used as a source of catalogued tune and composer information, and will be so noted as may be appropriate.
Site shows neat pictures of original materials and thorough descriptions of the manufacture and use of these "old-timey" jukeboxes.
SO glad to know someone is doing this!
The Philipps / Wurlitzer music roll database project: "Music Roll Database Research Project"
Site shows neat pictures of original materials and thorough descriptions of the manufacture and use of these "old-timey" jukeboxes.
SO glad to know someone is doing this!
The Philipps / Wurlitzer music roll database project: "Music Roll Database Research Project"
Monday, March 07, 2005
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