Sunday, November 27, 2005

Intellectual property bird flu gets interesting. Forbes: "Taiwan has decided to go ahead with production of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu for use against bird flu despite its failure to obtain a license from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche." So, the only company that can save the world from the perilous avian pandemic, is Roche? And a license is required .... I thought the RIAA was scary. [Adam Curry's Weblog] 8:39:17 PM    comment

search-based RSS as a project research tool Monitor This. The Monitor This tool provides an easy way to track key search terms across multiple search engines with a news reader. It's necessary to use a news aggregator/reader that will import opml files (not all do, especially the simpler, more popular readers such as RSS Mad).[note: ok in Bloglines -- BL] "With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 22 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the 'make monitor.opml' button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format.... Select all, copy and paste it into a new file ( monitor.opml) and import it to your feed reader." The Monitor This script was created by Alp Uckans and is freely available, "Copyleft, no rights reserved." The Monitor This script includes all the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Technorati--of course searching 22 engines at once from within a news reader is imcomparably easier than making 22 different searches by visiting each search engine's web address. I use a similar service called GoogleAlert to track information related to "learning objects," "instructional repositories," and "higher education instructional resources" for this EduResources Weblog but Monitor This provides a cross-checking screen to try to better ensure that valuable resources aren't missed. ______JH [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online] 8:36:17 PM    comment