Posts from — April 2004

Opting out of Plaxo.

Apologies to friends who use Plaxo, but I'm opting out of Plaxo since it has become a source of spam for me and I feel like I'm doing all the work. Anyone who wants to find my contact info can just Google me or find it on my wiki page.

via Dan Gillmor

[Joi Ito's Web]

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i've had these marked as junkmail for some time. it is just a form of spam to me.

Research Browsers. Research Browsers
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_zillman_archive.html#106241931557183353

I have updated my September 1, 2003 posting on Research Browsers with a number of new visualization browsers both in the search as well as in the business areas. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant]

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these are interesting, and it will let me update my one presentation on data collection and privacy.

Social Networking Tools Applied to Scientific Topics. In “Mapping the landscape of science,” the National Science Foundation discusses the contents of a collection of articles published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “Mapping Knowledge Domains.” Basically, all these scientists are using software social networking tools to build graphical representations of scientific knowledge or science communities. [Please note that the full version of all articles is available.] [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]

the importance of focus. I hope to design studies this summer applying notions from traditional arts to HCI (human computer interaction). Painters/draftsmen have been dealing with the representation of objects in the two-dimensional plane since cave paintings at Lasceaux. The following study was based… [Weez Blog]

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weeze's comments didn't work, maybe trackback will.

weez, there is a lit-hci group too working on bringing literary understanding to hci, and then there are my people working on software and culture/software studies. here's the lit-hci url http://www.smartgroups.com/group/group.cfm?GID=1647682 there is a cfp there that might fit your project.

How to Build a Raft. This is why I love MetafilterI don’t know how I managed to remain ignorant of this, but a group called… [Blog de Halavais]

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this is one of those posts that just captures the imagination.

Another Everyday Injustice from John Aschroft's Justice Dept.. The Miami Herald’s best columnist, Carl Hiassen, The An arbitrary deportation campaign writes about the Aschroft Justice Department’s assinine campaign to deport productive, legal, US residents: So this is the new America. Our government wants to deport an Oregon woman who was convicted 11 years ago of growing six marijuana plants. Kari Rein, a Norwegian citizen, had never been in trouble before, and hadn’t been in trouble since. That changed Dec. 30. She, her husband and two children were returning from a vacation to Norway when she was questioned at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport by officers of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They had run Rein’s name through a computer and found the old marijuana conviction. They asked her to step into a private room. ”And that,” says her husband, James Jungwirth, “was the last time we saw her for three weeks.” The sentencing judge didn’t even think six pot plants for home use merited a jail sentence. But the loonies in Main Justice don’t care. The husband and two kids are US citizens. But Main Justice doesn’t care. Remember folks, all this is being done in your name by your government. Be proud. Or throw the rascals out…. [Discourse.net]

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this is intolerable! our government should not be removing a mother from her children on the basis of ancient history, and it should not remove her without contact from her family, no one should be removed without contact for any more than an hour or two. it is wrong. they have a right to their body and their family, and a right to communicate. but this can happen to anyone now.

Wi-fi “infobahns” for England. Last Mile Communications says that on 6 April it will announce plans to cover England with up to 150,000 wi-fi transceivers hidden in the country's existing street lamps. According to the company's press release, this “will create a 'microcell mesh'… [InternetPolicy.net]

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sweet, i wish blacksburg would do something like this only smaller scale.

Digital Information in the Information Research Field. Digital Information in the Information Research Field
http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html

The journals and newsletters listed here all include at least a sample of papers or news items that are freely accessible. Sites that simply provide the contents lists of journals that are not freely accessible are not listed. Note that only journals that still appear to be 'live' at the time this list was compiled are included. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant]

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this is an excellent source for information research journals

Judge Orders Cheney Document Release. A federal judge has ordered several government agencies to release documents related to Cheney's energy task force. In an opinion… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

Truly Beautiful Photography [digitalwarfighter.com]

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interesting enought, some are rather striking…