Database Dilemmas The third and final theme for this year's Impakt Online commissions will be 'Database Dilemmas'. The deadline for submitting proposals is September 15, 2003. From these proposals, two projects will be chosen for the commission, which will be publically launched on December 1, 2003. Thematic and practical details follow: The process of collecting, […]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released its new report, “Let the Games Begin: Gaming technology and entertainment among college students.” For the full text of the report, please see: http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=93. The press release is pasted in below. College Students and computer, video and Internet games CHICAGO–Computer, video and online games are […]

— Semantic Web Services — 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium Series Stanford University, CA http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/SSS-SWS04.html Services, i.e. network pervasive programs or devices, facilitate interoperation by exposing their interfaces to each other. Such service-oriented research includes: * Web Services – standardized enterprise components offered across the Web; * Grid Services – scientific/computing resources that facilitate large-scale e-science […]

Vote Rigging. Scoop: Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program unconfirmed. unverified. treat as suspect. that's about the article, but if the article is correct if will be about our election results. there seems to be growing noise in the system about computerized voting machines built by for profit corporations that do not leave proper […]

What's The Pitch?. A novel online resource proposal by David Wiley: “Pitch” is a free, online, peer-reviewed journal focusing on facilitating discourse related to free and open access to learning opportunities for all. The goal of the journal is to provide a forum… [Object Learning] interesting stuff.

Secrets of Dungeons and Dreamers. A new book due out in August offers a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of gamer culture through the eyes of one of its leaders: 'Lord British.' By Xeni Jardin. [Wired News] this looks like it will be a good read.

The Emerging Sixth Estate. In this essay, Dr. Elwyn Jenkins, the guy behind Microdoc News,[Smart Mobs] there are some interesting bits there, but what about the fifth estate, lets not forget!

The June issue of the INASP Newsletter is now onli …. The June issue of the INASP Newsletter is now online. Here are the articles relevant to open access. Sir Roger Elliott, E-publishing and the Scientific Information Chain David Prosser, Towards open access to scientific journals John Willinsky, Scholarly associations and the economic viability of […]

The new issue of Library Hi Tech is devoted to the …. The new issue of Library Hi Tech is devoted to the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting. The guest editor Timothy W. Cole. Only abstracts are free online. Here's the TOC. Timothy W. Cole, Using OAI: innovations in the sharing of information Carl Lagoze; […]

WordPerfect or MSWord?. I was going to write a rant against MSWord, but hasn't that been done to death? Anyway, I much prefer WordPerfect, but I've been gradually (and painfully) switching to Word. Not because I want to, but because it seems I… [Invisible Adjunct] bbedit, if a text editor and a markup can't do […]