2005 March

Chief Blogging Officer - Chris Locke hopes you laughed at the name, or at least smiled knowingly. Chief Blogging Officer is a tongue-in-cheek hack on the proliferation of Chief Something-or-Other Officers in business these days. So hey, why not a Chief Blogging Officer? But please don’t take it too seriously. Chris doesn’t. Chris has written [...]

Internet Resources for Institutional Research - A listing of Internet institutional research resources from the Association of Institutional Research. This is a very good list of icons along with a map of links, new links, Internet reports, and search links. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Free/Open Source Research Community Research Directory - A directory of active researchers in the free/open source research community. Listing includes email affiliation, web address and research interest. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

The Environment News Service is the original daily international wire service of the environment. Established in 1990 by Editor-in-Chief Sunny Lewis and Managing Editor Jim Crabtree, it is independently owned and operated. The Environment News Service (ENS) exists to present late-breaking environmental news in a fair and balanced manner. ENS news reports are indexed by [...]

National Cancer Institute Research Resources - This centralized listing of scientific, tools, reagents and services developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is provided as part of our ongoing commitment to cancer investigators to enable and expedite their research. Products and services included here are: a) available to the research community, and b) accessible without [...]

NASA History Division - Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has been adapted for many nonaerospace uses by the private sector. NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as [...]

Efficient and Effective Metasearch Project - The objective of this project is to develop techniques for building highly scalable and effective metasearch engines and related techniques. A metasearch engine interacts with multiple local search engines so that a single query can be used to search multiple local search engines. They study two types of metasearch [...]

Cetus Links:18,193 Links on Objects and Components - Tens of thousands of interesting pages about object-orientation and component-orientation exist on the Internet. Searching for a particular aspect or a certain page is often very difficult. Search engines offer support, but they frequently show too many unsorted pages with regard to the content. This is where [...]

Student.gov - Academic Resources - Explore interesting subjects, or look for resources to help with school projects and coursework in this great collection of web sites — filled with useful information in many different topic areas. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 [...]

EDUCAUSE has launched the EDUCAUSE Community Blog Service, a pilot project to create a new, vibrant medium for professional information sharing in the higher education IT community. The blogs represent a growing number of voices in this community, and postings span a wide range of topics, including cybersecurity, teaching and learning, and open source software. [...]

The Search For Search Strategies - At Yahoo, Bradley Horowitz says, “We see an opportunity in helping users manage their personal information. So our desktop search product is not really about the desktop; it’s not about where the content is on your hard drive versus on a public-facing Web site. It’s really about the user’s [...]

Groowe Search Toolbar v2.0 - Search and browse Google, Yahoo, Teoma, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, MSN and other search engines directly from Internet Explorer toolbar with this FREE utility. Just like you have installed Google toolbar or Yahoo companion, Groowe Search Toolbar is customized for each search engine included in the list so with each engine [...]

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials - Tutorial Slides by Andrew Moore - The following links point to a set of tutorial slides by Andrew Moore on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms. These include [...]

Open Access Databases - Michael Galperin, an investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes for Health, says “the open database movement is here to stay, and more and more people in the community (as well as in the financing bodies) now appreciate the importance of open databases in spreading knowledge.” [...]

Virtual Reference Shelf: Selected Web resources compiled by the Library of Congress. These resources are maintained by the Library’s Electronic Reference Team and are a companion for the Ask a Librarian service. Areas included: 1) Abbreviations, 2) Almanacs and Fast Facts, 3) Arts and Music, 4) Associations, 5) Awards/Prizes, 6) Books, Periodicals, and [...]

On the Identity Trail: Understanding the Importance and Impact of Anonymity and Authentication in a Networked Society - When Warren and Brandeis published their landmark Harvard Law Review article in 1890, they talked about privacy as “the right to be let alone.” At that time, they were responding to the arrival of the camera in [...]

Majority of Online Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines, Pointing to a Fluid Competitive Landscape, According to Nielsen//NetRatings. Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search Service Releases Latest Online Search Engine Share: Google Secures 47 Percent of All Searches; Yahoo! Garners 21 Percent; MSN Captures 13 Percent. Nielsen//NetRatings, the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis, reported that a [...]

BrightPlanet’s Deep Federation Portal™ (DFP) is a turnkey content solution for existing Web portals that need to provide targeted, comprehensive information to site visitors. Typical DFP clients include non-profit organizations, governmental organizations, B2C and B2B portals, and any Web site that depends on relevant content to maintain a competitive advantage. With BrightPlanet’s DFP, you can [...]

Kellscraft Studio’s Web Text-ures: Public Domain Books On-Line. All of the books listed here are out-of-print, public domain books. Their focus is primarily Arts and Crafts influenced publications from the turn-of-the-20th-century, although special works/authors not directly linked to the A&C period will be shown here, at the Studio Publisher’s discretion, of course. [...]

A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies - The bodies responsible for the Internet’s protocols and parameters can be said to steer the Internet in a significant sense. This document, by Alex Simonelis of Dawson College in Montreal, is a summary of those bodies and their most important characteristics. Included bodies: 1) ISOC, 2) [...]