Tuesday, January 25, 2005

qRSS2Syndication 0.2.0 released. Quintagroup is pleased to announce the release version 0.2.0 of qRSS2Syndication product. qRSS2Syndication is developed to add RSS2 functionality to Plone. [Plone RSS] 11:37:50 PM      Google It!.

Making Memories Stick. Numerous things happen every day, but we remember only some of them. Why? "When an event is important enough or is repeated enough, synapses fire to make the neuron in turn fire neural impulses repeatedly and strongly, declaring 'this is an event that should be recorded.' The relevant genes turn on, and the synapses that are holding the short-term memory when the synapse-strengthening proteins find them, become, in effect, tattooed." By R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, January 24, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:33:52 PM      Google It!.

What Are JSON, JSON-RPC and JSON-RPC-Java?. Introducing JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), "a lightweight data-interchange format with language bindings for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, TCL and others." JSON is the scripting language that makes things like Google's GMail so much faster than other browser-based tools. "The XMLHttpRequest object (or MSXML ActiveX in the case of Internet Explorer) is used in the browser to call remote methods on the server without the need for reloading the page." By Hemos, Slashdot, January 24, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:32:57 PM      Google It!.

use online bookmarks for research. What: Furl is basically an online bookmarking tool. The value of an online bookmarking tool versus the bookmark or favorite tool in your browser is that no matter where in the world you are, if you can access the Internet, you can access your bookmarks. Furl has many more features than I could adequately cover in this post so I will focus a scenario which will highlight some of the features that could be used in the classroom. Assume a Furl account has already been created. Scenario: Write a report on Katherine "Kate" Sheppard, leader of New Zealand's suffrage movement. Always accessible bookmarks - Mike has a free period so he goes to the computer lab at school and finds three ... [edugadget] 11:30:01 PM      Google It!.

EarthLink in Phone Deal. EarthLink, one of the country's largest Internet service providers, plans to announce a joint venture with SK Telecom of South Korea to offer mobile phone service in the U.S. By By THE NEW YORK TIMES. [NYT > Technology] 11:28:48 PM      Google It!.

Petrified wood created in the lab. A US team creates petrified wood in just a few days, mimicking a process taking millions of years in nature. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 9:33:21 AM      .

Tagging LIS Course Resources. Subject Guides, the Folksonomic Way “Del.icio.us, the bookmarking website with tags that I discussed on January 6, seems like the perfect tool for creating course-specific subject guides. Just agree on a tag, like the course number, and the subject librarian, professor, and students can build a subject guide cooperatively, on the fly. I just tagged the two resources I identified for my Digital Libraries class with the course number. So they are now easily found by myself, and anyone else in the class, at del.icio.us/tag/sislt9409.” [Wanderings of a Student Librarian] Joy Weese Moll demonstrates another way in which librarians and librarians-to-be can take advantage of tagging and folksonomies! It will be interesting to see if her teacher or her fellow students begin contributing to the tag. Here’s hoping…. [The Shifted Librarian] 8:02:52 AM      Google It!.

You Can't Ignore My Wrath. Researchers in Switzerland discover that, despite our best efforts, humans cannot escape anger as long as it's within earshot. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] 8:01:38 AM      Google It!.