Posts from — February 2004

Orkut OD: TOS hack, and craziest community yet [bOing bOing]

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yet another ….

You are Shetland Wool.
You are a traditional sort who can sometimes be a
little on the harsh side. Though you look
delicate you are tough as nails and prone to
intricacies. Despite your acerbic ways you are
widely respected and even revered.

What kind of yarn are you?
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New South Dakota State Motto: Just Shut Up and Have Your Damn Baby!. Dude, i'm never going there. Not that i was planning a vacation to South Dakota anytime soon, but obviously their politicians are a bunch of woman-hating jackasses. The South Dakota House of Representatives voted 54-14 Tuesday to ban almost all… [Eat Your Vegetables]

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well, i say boycott them. don't travel there, don't do business there, be socially responsible and boycot south dakota until they treat people as free, intelligent beings capable of deciding their own future.

New issue of Learned Publishing. The January issue of Learned Publishing is now online (only the TOC and abstracts are accessible to non-subscribers). Here are the OA-related articles.

• Jayne Marks and Timo Hannay, Evolving scholarly communication
• David C. Prosser, Between a rock and a hard place: the big squeeze for small publishers
• Cliff Morgan, Metadata for STM journal publishers: a review of the current scene
• Valerie Bence and Charles Oppenheim, The role of academic journal publications in the UK Research Assessment Exercise

[Open Access News]

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some important articles here….

God, no. Shelby: Moore bill will pass Senate If this ridiculous piece of legislation passes, it will probably be ruled unconstitutional anyway…. [War Liberal]

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dumbest bill ever! why would you remove anything from court review….

Book review: Campaigning Online. Peter Lurie has written a thoughtful review of a book by Bruce A. Bimber and Richard Davis: Campaigning Online: The Internet and US Elections.”Analyzing the evidence as to four components of successful campaigning — opinion reinforcement, activism, fundraising, and voter… [InternetPolicy.net]

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well, i'd consider using this book if i teach political communication on the internet again.

Webmonkey Is Dead. All Webmonkey staff have just been laid off, although the site lives on for now. See Paul Boutin's eulogy here. Webmonkey was the how-to-code area of HotWired. HotWired was one of the five or six websites you would show… [101-280]

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oh webmonkey was my friend for many years, but i don't use it much anymore, but i'll miss it.

                   Workshop on

       Emerging Technologies for Next generation GRID (ETNGRID-2004)
        13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:

        Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2004)
              http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto/etngrid04/
               University of Modena, Italy, June 14-16, 2004
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The Grid  was originally  designed as a  large network of  computer

systems able  to offer  an environment  where computing and storage

resources are shared on-demand.
To  date, the  development  of standards,  such  as the   Open Grid

Service  Architecture  (OGSA),  along with the  introduction of new

paradigms, such as the Semantic Grid, is leading the Grid toward an

environment  that is not only  suited  for  computational-intensive

applications,   but  also  for computing   scenarios   typical   of

distributed   systems,   like   service  and information providing,

multimedia environments, ubiquitous computing, etc.
For  these  and   other  reasons,  the   Grid    is   becoming   an

interesting and challenging environment supporting  both   old  and

new   services  for cooperative  applications. A relevant  research

effort  is thus  needed  not  only  to  investigate innovative Grid

infrastructures but also to  make the current Grid  model  suitable

for these emerging usage scenarios.
The  objective  of   this  workshop  is   to   gather   researchers

working  on different   emerging  Grid   computing aspects relevant

to  enterprise collaboration,  covering  issues  ranging  from  the

middleware  layer  to application development and user interaction.
The  goals  of  the workshop  include  (but  are  not  limited  to)

discovering new  application scenarios, proposing   new programming

abstractions and  tools,  identifying  the challenging problem that

still  need  to  be  solved,  and reporting results and experiences

gained   by   researchers   in   building   Grid-based  middleware,

applications and alike.
Submission Requirements
					

              First International Workshop on

Web Computing in Cyberworlds (WCCW2004)

http://cse.seu.edu.cn/people/bwxu/wccw2004

in conjunction with

 2004 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW2004)

Tokyo, November 18-20, 2004

http://cw2004.myvnc.com/

1. Aims

The open approach to developing Web computing in Cyberworlds has attracted an
increasing attention in both academia and industry. This workshop will not only focus on
architecture and models for Web computing, but also emphasize the emerging
technologies in various Web computing aspects, which will be held together with the
International Conference on Cyberworlds 2004 (http://cw2004.myvnc.com/).

The Web Computing is an ideal model to utilize the millions of personal computersâ idle
CPUs through the Web, thus providing high efficient and cheap computation. The
distributed and dynamic architecture and system models have become the foundation of
 Web Computing. The inherent cooperation in Web computing enables a large range of computations.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on
theory, techniques and applications, concerning analysis and/or manipulation of Web
computing. The complex and large-scale Web computing requires effective methodologies
and tools for the analysis, design, implementation and maintenance.

2. Topics

The workshop emphasizes on the analysis and manipulation techniques. Topics include,
but not limited to:

l  Architecture and Models

- Web Computing Model and Framework

- Web Computing Software Environment

- Heterogeneity and Portability in Web Computing

- Semantics and Ontology Engineering

l  Methods and Tools

- Web Computing and Distributed Technologies

- Security and Accessibility in Web Computing

- Proxy and Cache Techniques

- Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Rough Sets, and Evolutionary Computation

l  Applications

- Applications of Web Computing

- Web Information Filtering and Retrieval

- Clustering-Based Recommended Systems

- Web-Based Applications and Systems

l  Quality Assurance

- Cooperation and Integration

- Testing and evolution

- Maintenances of Web Computing Systems

3. Submission

Original papers on new results in the rapidly emerging area ö web computing in
Cyberworlds are welcome. Papers should indicate the innovative aspects of the results and
contribution to the field. Papers submitted for publication in a journal or another
conference will not be considered. The format of submitted papers must follow the IEEE
conference proceedings guidelines which are available at http://computer.org/author/
psguide.htm. All submitted papers will be evaluated according to its originality,
significance, correctness, presentation and relevance.

Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format via E-mail to professor
 Baowen Xu (bwxu@seu.edu.cn).

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the 2004 International
Conference on Cyberworlds (CW2004) published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

4th Annual Brick and Click Libraries - An Academic Library Symposium
Sponsored by Owens Library, Northwest Missouri State University
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/pr/symposium/

When is the deadline for submitting a proposal?
April 22, 2004

When is the symposium?
Friday, October 22, 2004

What is the "Brick and Click Libraries Symposium"?
It is a one-day regional symposium of relevance to academic libraries
supporting traditional and online resources/services. The symposium provides
a forum for considering the evolving needs of library users and staff.

Where is the symposium?
The symposium will be held on the campus of Northwest Missouri State
University, Maryville, Missouri.

What topics are you looking for?
We are looking for presentations that address the needs of brick and click
library users and encourage audience participation.  Presentations may
cover, but are not limited to, the topics listed at:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/pr/symposium/sampletopics.htm

What is the registration fee for presenters?
Presenters receive a reduced registration fee ($90) to the symposium.

Is there an opportunity to publish a paper along with giving a presentation?
Yes!  For more information, go to:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/pr/symposium/presenters.htm

How do I submit a proposal?
Submit your proposal online at:
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/pr/symposium/presenterform.htm

What if I have other questions?
Send questions to:  meldrem@mail.nwmissouri.edu