Category — General

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines. Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html

An excellent publication on current research-based guidelines on web design and usability issues. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker]

a test. One of my classmates sent me the funniest little test this evening. Try it out. Read this question, come up… [zephoria]

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but now with it out and about, can't the psychopaths just lie…..

Very few things make me really happy, but my research center is one of them. Today I found the materials that the center for digital discourse and culture hosts is cited the world book encyclopedia online, previously i had known it was used in the britannica online, but another encyclopedia is always good. It is also found in Introduction to International Relations by Oxford University Press. It has also been used in reports to the U.N. and many other places. too many to list, but still it amazes me how many people use these materials worldwide. so you ask what are we talking about we are talking about around 270gb plus or minus of materials on any given day, but covering such a broad range of material, from theory, to governance, to art, to history, to literature and more, just alot of archived material that seems to be important to people. Have to thank Tim and Len for being the directors, and Deans that have supported it also.

Apple releases Backup 2.0 utility for .Mac: “Apple posted a final version of Backup 2.0, its backup utility for .Mac users. Version 2 lets you select any folder on a hard drive as a backup destination, including FireWire hard drives, network servers, iPods, and other mounted volumes. It also offers support for support for third-party CD and DVD Drives and lets you schedule backups to iDisk and hard drives–with support for incremental backups (i.e., copying changed files only). It requires Mac OS X 10.2.6 or later and requires a full .Mac account.” [The Macintosh News Network] [Universal Rule]

Weblog to cover WSIS.

The British Council is planning a weblog, DailySummit.org, covering the operation of the World Summit on the Information Society.

[funferal]

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this could be fun to watch.

WIPO has crazy toilets [bOing bOing]

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i wouldn't call them crazy, cory, just perhaps 'abnormal' heh.

ok, i admit it, i use dreamweasle to maintain some sites….. i also use bbedit and pico to maintain other sites, and when you get me in a bad mood i just might run a site through a shell script or two just to mess with ya, but nonetheless, after my 10.3 upgrade i found today that nothing macroshmedia worked. i clicked, it bounced, then closed, so i checked the console, found the 'authentication service' error and googled finding the site below which told me what i needed to do and voila, it worked. so if you are having problems with macrovision from macromedia, a clearly malengineered product, then go to /Library/Preferences and get rid of the macrovision directory. then the authentification service will require a new one and everything works.

all this cause i told Charles that I would update the internet ethics site with Elizabeth's and his work.

Virginia Tech's $5.2 million G5 cluster has grabbed 3rd on the top 500 supercomputer list, and is now the world's fastest, and cheapest, academic supercomputer. More than 10 teraflops R_max and 17 teraflops R_peak… [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley]

Coding the Classroom: Technology and The Practice of Language. “The technology of the Information Age depends on programming languages for functionality. Because programming languages ultimately affect the production of language digitally, programming languages will inevitably demonstrate a lasting effect on the process of writing. Hence it is important to recognize the impact of programming languages on the production of language. It may well be the necessary first step in understanding technologyâs reverberating presence in the classroom.” (Claudia Herbst – First Monday 8.11)… [InfoDesign: To Surf The Community]

Effect of ejournals on libraries. Victoria Robertson, The impact of electronic journals on academic libraries: the changing relationship between journals, acquisitions and inter-library loans department roles and functions, Interlending & Document Supply, 31, 3 (2003), pp. 174-179. Excerpt: “Academic libraries are in a transition period owing to the economic climate and the rise in the price of electronic and print journals. Libraries are tending to move from the system of acquiring journals to more co-operation and sharing of resources due to budgetary cuts and lack of space.” (Thanks to ResourceShelf.) [Open Access News]

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every day i run into some new or different journal that is worth investigating. this seems to be an interesting article….