New York Times Archives 1851 – Present. New York Times Archives 1851 – Present
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A searchable archive of the New York Times all the way back to Setember 1851 is now available. Searching is free, but then articles must be purchased. The archive is hosted by Proquest, but you can get to it from the Times front page. This opens up a primary research source on just about everything that's happened in the last 150 years! [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker]

“Electronic science: a license to print money”. David Mort, Science makes money for Europe's information companies, Research Information, Winter 2003, pp. 13-14. (Not yet online but soon to be here.) A summary of the 2003 profits, margins, acquisitions, and shifts to electronic publication and bundling at the major journal publishers. In the TOC of this issue the editors plug the article with the line, “Electronic science: a license to print money”. Excerpt: “[R]estructuring, cost-cutting programmes, and improved operating efficiencies should boost industry margins compared to last year.” (PS: Despite the rosy forecast, this is pre-Paribas, pre-Citigroup, and pre-Investec. Unlike other recent financial analysts, Mort doesn't even mention open access, let alone try to take its progress into account.) [Open Access News]

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e-science is in europe. it is occuring in a very big way, alot of research dollars are flowing in the sixth framework and it will be interesting to see how it all works out in the end. however, publishing….. still isn't profitable.

What We Really Meant…. From: Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. Dick Cheney Speech to VFW National Convention August 26, 2002 To: For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as… [Eat Your Vegetables]

$131 MILLION. MSNBC – Bush re-election effort raised $131 million in 2003 As he seeks a second term in the White House, President Bush's re-election effort raised… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY]

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this should be google bombed, or so I think.
YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BUY AN ELECTION
HAVING MONEY DOES NOT MAKE YOU PRESIDENT
THERE IS MORE AT STAKE THAN MONEY
IS THIS WHAT OUR PRESIDENT DOES WHEN HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEFENDING THE COUNTRY?

this could be handy for people working in this area.

Because I make him Laugh. Because I make him laugh, he says, I have added too many topics, too little time to my list of Blogs I like…. [Flailing in the Surf]

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this could be trouble…..

this is scary, really really scary:

the household card debt of those who carry balances is closer to $12,000.

“In the long run, it's a ticking time bomb,” Sohn said. “At some point when you get a sharp setback in the economy or a spike in interest rates, the high debt causes instability.”

Open source under the microscope. CNET has an interesting but short interview with Walt Scacchi of UC Irvine whose research into “phenomena like “community building” and cultural institutions alongside drier subjects like code and project design.” Sacchi's plan is to “use the data to design new development tools for big, multiorganization projects.”

CNET notes that Sancchi's “research has shown [. . .] that that the open-source approach can yield better software more quickly and for less money than traditional methods” even if a number of open source projects fail to get started. [Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy]

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there are tons of interesting topics relating to open source software that are just waiting for someone to do research on, and scacchi's project is but one set of topics, but it is an interesting and worthwhile one to read and consider, and to some extent even critique… should that be appropriate.

Apparently, Virginia Tech, Virginia, and William and Mary are seeking to change to state chartered institutions instead of state supported institutions. Various reasons exist for this of course, the major one is that the state hardly gives them enough money to compete with their peer institutions. The article is in the richmond times-dispatch, and there is not much there in terms of info, but surely more will be forthcoming.

Arkansas Executes Mentally Ill Man. Charles Singleton was mentally ill. The courts declared him too unfit to be executed because he couldn't understand why he… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

What does it say about us that we forcibly drug a man so that we can then kill him. Was he sane when he committed the crimes? Was he only sane after we arrested him and forced medication on him? What a twisted story! We make a man sane just so we can kill him because we can not kill him if he is insane. Unbelieveable. If I were in a religious mood, I would say that these are the sorts of moral conundrums that God will judge us on. And, I believe, he will see we failed in this case. This is another reason why Arkansas is right up there with Texas as perfect demonstrations for why the death penalty is misused. [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog]