Monday, June 21, 2004

According to RSS in Government, US Senator Joseph Biden is the first member of the Senate to use RSS to distribute news. It's a nice-lookin feed, clean non-funky 2.0. [Scripting News] 7:56:09 PM      Google It!.

U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right [Slashdot] 7:54:40 PM      Google It!.

Newly grown kidneys can sustain life in rats [Science Blog - Science News Stories] 3:38:33 PM      Google It!.

Skype VoIP Software Released For Linux [Slashdot] 1:52:57 PM      Google It!.

Filling institutional repositories. Andrea Foster, Papers Wanted: Online archives run by universities struggle to attract material, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "An ambitious effort by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build a free electronic archive of the scholarship the institute produces has hit a snag. Released in November 2002, the archive, DSpace, was seen by many in academe as a beacon for open-access scholarship. It would promote collaboration among researchers, spark ideas for new studies, and make MIT's intellectual output freely available to the world. If such archives arose at other colleges, proponents argued, they could eventually offer an alternative to high-priced scholarly journals. But the enterprise has failed to catch on with many of MIT's own professors, who have been asked to voluntarily place their research papers, data sets, and journal articles into the archive." Foster describes strategies in use at MIT and many other institutions to get faculty to deposit their eprints in OA repositories. [Open Access News] 12:48:08 PM      Google It!.

Study confirms 'chemobrain' effect from cancer treatment [Science Blog - Science News Stories] 12:42:15 PM      Google It!.

Fuel Cells for Laptop Computers [Slashdot] 12:41:23 PM      Google It!.

'Wireless pebbles' track glaciers. Scientists monitoring the behaviour of glaciers have been using wireless sensors for the first time. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 6:45:28 AM      Google It!.

Army Sets Up Video-Game Studio. The Pentagon creates a video-game studio to make simulations for all kinds of military and government jobs, like safeguarding the White House or training special ops forces. John Gaudiosi reports from Cary, North Carolina. [Wired News] 6:43:13 AM      Google It!.

Cultural competency program for physicians available by computer - Damon Adams, AMNews. A training and research organization hopes to expand a computer-based program that teaches doctors and other medical professionals about cultural competence. Manhattan Cross Cultural Group, formed by three internists, said it had trained more than 1,50 [Online Learning Update] 6:40:56 AM      Google It!.

7 Time-Saving Tools - Amy Poftak and Stephanie, techLearning. When instructional technology coordinator Bill Burrall gave us his "10 Time-Saving Tools" in March, it got us thinking about the relationship between time and money. Imagine if a technology could shave an hour off your day-or even 15 minutes. How much [Online Learning Update] 6:40:20 AM      Google It!.

School Foils Cheats by Blocking Phone Signals. ROME (Reuters) - Mobile phone-savvy teenagers tempted to cheat their way through exams by sending text messages or scanning pictures of tests could be thwarted by a device that jams signals inside the school walls. [Reuters: Technology] 6:36:58 AM      Google It!.

Andrew is including Atom elements in an RSS 2.0 feed. "This approach may prove valuable to feed producers with RSS 2.0 feeds who only need one or two capabilities that RSS doesn't provide, such as the ability to hide authors' email addresses. It has the advantages of compatibility, of not breaking subscription links, of not increasing the total number of feed files the producer has to manage, and it should only require minor edits to the existing feed-producing code." [Scripting News] 6:36:11 AM      Google It!.

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your TV [Slashdot] 6:34:06 AM      Google It!.