Friday, February 17, 2006

IP Consumers vs. IP Owners: The Future of Copyright. [Slashdot] 11:25:31 PM    comment

sleep Sleep on it, decision-makers told. The unconscious mind delivers better results on complex decisions than focussed thought, a study says. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 1:40:42 PM    comment

helping Long-term care 'harms children'. Placing children in long-term care is itself ¿an act of abuse¿, according to a leading professor of paediatrics. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 1:00:42 PM    comment

open source - bigtime Here Comes a Google for Coders. A new search engine promises to index and organize the 100 million pages of open-source code available on the web. The hope is that programmers will actually use it. By Dylan Tweney. [Wired News: Top Stories] 12:58:28 PM    comment

pain Acupressure beats physical therapy for lower back pain. Acupressure (applying pressure with the thumbs or fingertips to the same points on the body stimulated in acupuncture) seems to be more effective in reducing low back pain than physical therapy, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. [Science Blog -] 12:50:27 PM    comment

blogs State of the professional blogosphere. If blogs keep doubling at the current rate, Tim Bray figures everyone on the planet will have one by 2009. What exactly will all those blogs be used for? As Tim notes, part two of Dave Sifry's recent tour through the Technorati data mine identifies an emerging phenomenon that Sifry aptly dubs "the magic middle": ...these are blogs that are interesting, topical, and influential, and in some cases are radically changing the economics of trade publishing. ... [Jon's Radio] 12:49:16 PM    comment

decision making Why Don't You Sleep On It?. [Slashdot] 12:48:26 PM    comment

eContent mapping Notes from DAS2006. Projects I should take a look at: GroupLens (recommendation system) Semantic Wikis (workshop) ---[this is an interesting idea that will have legs --- BL] PRImA Research document database OpenCV Digital Library of India IUPR camera-captured document archive Tohoku University's OCR web service IAM-OnDB pen-captured writing database [Second p0st] 12:46:20 PM    comment

loosly coupled A Truly Del.icio.us API. Social-bookmarking site del.icio.us has a lot more going for it than just Web 2.0 buzz. Paul Adams fires up the del.icio.us application program interface, stirs in some PHP and offers a taste of the results. In Webmonkey. [Wired News: Top Stories] 12:00:25 AM    comment