Dear colleague, this is the Call for Papers for the 3rd IEEE* Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT2003)to be held October 22-24, 2003 at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. (Please check www.SIIT2003.org for a PDF or HTML version of this CfP.) CONFERENCE THEME Information Technology (IT) plays a pervasive role […]

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/cw2003/cw2003.htm 2003 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS 3-5 December 2003, Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore organized by: School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in cooperation with: IEEE Computer Society SIGGRAPH Call for Submissions Cyberworlds are information worlds being formed on the web either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without design. As information worlds, they are either […]

Dear Colleagues, I invite you to visit the new website of global public goods Network (gpgNet) at http://www.gpgNet.net gpgNet intends to serve researchers, policymakers, business and civil society as a platform for information exchange and discussion on issues concerning the theory, policy design and practice of providing global public goods. On gpgNet you will find […]

Total Poindexter Awareness tech spooks – a Who's Who [The Register] now which one of you are on the list under pseudonyms?

Citation Maps. HighWire Press has nice visualisations of citation data for its journals. Here's an example Citation Map. Most of the cited articles are free to access as well…. [HubLog] this is interesting and good i suppose for all the right reasons, well until the press goes under…

Science Citation Index. Following a few earlier papers on the same subject, in 1964 Eugene Garfield set out his vision of a unified Science Citation Index as an integral part of the World Brain, a descendent of Vanevar Bush's Memex. Almost 40 years later, how far have we come? [HubLog] well given the disintegration of […]

The House Appropriations Committee documents Bush's lies and proken promises.. The House Appropriations Committee documents Bush's lies and broken promises. Are we starting to see an opposition party here? [MetaFilter] oh i hope this is true, i really do. governmental monoculture is more deadly than any other….

again from the raven profquotes.com is a site with all those jewels of wisdom no one ever wanted to find.

from the raven: “Slow down,” say Simon and that other guy, and so did a bunch of other artists this weekend at Pomona College in a colloquium on the effects of the Information Age on human concentration. This is light artist James Turrell, who likes to make light “inhabit a space so fully that it […]

Usability and Open Source Software. This article was recently published on the subject of involving human-computer interaction (HCI) experts in Free/Open Source development. Juicy quote from the conclusion: Raymond (1998) proposed that 'given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow.' For seeing usability bugs, the traditional open source community may comprise the wrong kind of eyeballs. […]