Posts from — February 2004

this is actually from metafilter, but i killed my queue this morning, so i didn't just repost it….

so kerry is married to heinz's widow, heinz was on track for a republican presidential nomination as i remember it…

“You actually got infected by the virus?” he wrote in an e-mail message to the former student, Robin Woltman, a university grant administrator. “You, Robin? For shame!”

oh my, is this the way we treat people who have technology issues?

Where Are They Now: Superbowl 2000 Edition. Everybody's been talking about last weekend's Superbowl ads, but what about the famous ads of 2000, the year the dot-coms dominated the game with their insane go-for-broke ad purchases? We know they rapidly flamed out in a series of business… [101-280]

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handy little historical reference of the dot.bomb era for superbowl ad fetishists

Bibliomining Information Center. Bibliomining Information Center
http://www.bibliomining.com/

For years, bibliometrics has been used to track patterns in authorship, citation, etc. Today, there are many more tools available for discovering similar patterns in complex datasets from data mining and statistics. In addition, tools from management science such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) can be used to explore the data for patterns. Therefore, a more complex definition is: Bibliomining is the combination of data mining, bibliometrics, statistics, and reporting tools used to extract patterns of behavior-based artifacts from library systems. I have added this source to my Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs on Knowledge Discovery and Research Resources. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant]

The 'New Working Class'. I'm reading an ancient *cough* 1960 *cough* article, titled The 'New Working Class' (Lockwood, David (1960) “The 'New Working Class',” European Journal of Sociology, Vol…. [Fragments]

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frank gives some good advice for new article writers… I think it is somewhat important… tell people what you are talking about before you start talking about it.

sugar and snails. Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks At Them – in the latest iteration of crude preteen fashion, some girls are sporting anti-boy slogans as part of that “faux girl power” look. Further corrosion of civility…or are boys in fact smelly? [MetaFilter]

“'Action Will Be Taken': Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents” [Interactivist Info Exchange]

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someone said that untheorized action is fascism, i think that's right.

Something New to Worry About: Loss-of-Identity Theft. The ever-wonderful RISKS Digest brings warnings of Loss of Identity Theft I was recently the executor of a relative’s estate and was shocked to discover that I was able to cancel his private health insurance, his veteran’s health benefits, one dozen credit cards, and all of his retirement direct deposit payments with simple phone calls. At no time did anyone ask me to prove that I was who I said I was or whether I had executor power over his estate. I simply presented a plausible sounding story, knew his social security number and his account numbers and was able to close his accounts over the phone. To make it even more interesting our last names are not even the same!… [Discourse.net]

Valparaiso Declaration for Improved Scientific Communication. The presentations from the recent meeting in Chile, Strengthening Editors and Scientists Capabilities in Electronic Publishing (Valparaiso, January 14-15, 2004) are now online.

During the conference, the 120 participants from 15 countries drafted the Valparaiso Declaration for Improved Scientific Communication in the Electronic Medium, which was released today. Excerpt: “Journals must improve their production processes by using online technologies in order to reduce their publication times….Assessments of reading habits and analyses of the market for electronic journals clearly confirm the fact that the Internet is already a place of convergence and the preferred medium for the transmission of scientific knowledge….Managers of scientific journals are responsible for achieving their maximal dissemination, bringing with it greater visibility and accessibility. They should not only ensure that their contents and format are standardized but also that they are indexed in the greatest possible number of data bases and indexes, and that the complete texts are immediately available in multiple repositories….The gradual reduction in publishing costs as a result of electronic publication (given the fact that the costs of the production process are more and more being borne by the authors and readers) must inexorably lead to systems of communicating science that are open and managed by the scientific community itself.” (PS: I've linked to an email copy of the declaration in our forum archive. If the conference posts an official version online, I'll blog the URL.) [Open Access News]

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this sounds like it could be the start of something good, but where did the berlin declaration go? why are there 100 different movements? i'm not sure, but i'd like to work on it a bit…..