New issue of Learned Publishing. The January issue of Learned Publishing is now online (only the TOC and abstracts are accessible to non-subscribers). Here are the OA-related articles. Jayne Marks and Timo Hannay, Evolving scholarly communication David C. Prosser, Between a rock and a hard place: the big squeeze for small publishers Cliff Morgan, Metadata […]

God, no. Shelby: Moore bill will pass Senate If this ridiculous piece of legislation passes, it will probably be ruled unconstitutional anyway…. [War Liberal] ——- dumbest bill ever! why would you remove anything from court review….

Book review: Campaigning Online. Peter Lurie has written a thoughtful review of a book by Bruce A. Bimber and Richard Davis: Campaigning Online: The Internet and US Elections.”Analyzing the evidence as to four components of successful campaigning — opinion reinforcement, activism, fundraising, and voter… [InternetPolicy.net] —— well, i'd consider using this book if i teach […]

Webmonkey Is Dead. All Webmonkey staff have just been laid off, although the site lives on for now. See Paul Boutin's eulogy here. Webmonkey was the how-to-code area of HotWired. HotWired was one of the five or six websites you would show… [101-280] —- oh webmonkey was my friend for many years, but i don't […]

Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next generation GRID (ETNGRID-2004) 13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2004) http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto/etngrid04/ University of Modena, Italy, June 14-16, 2004 =========================================================================== The Grid was originally designed as a large network of computer systems able to offer an environment where computing and storage resources are shared on-demand. […]

First International Workshop on Web Computing in Cyberworlds (WCCW2004) http://cse.seu.edu.cn/people/bwxu/wccw2004 in conjunction with 2004 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW2004) Tokyo, November 18-20, 2004 http://cw2004.myvnc.com/ 1. Aims The open approach to developing Web computing in Cyberworlds has attracted an increasing attention in both academia and industry. This workshop will not only focus on architecture and models […]

4th Annual Brick and Click Libraries – An Academic Library Symposium Sponsored by Owens Library, Northwest Missouri State University http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/pr/symposium/ When is the deadline for submitting a proposal? April 22, 2004 When is the symposium? Friday, October 22, 2004 What is the “Brick and Click Libraries Symposium”? It is a one-day regional symposium of relevance […]

***************************************************************** * * Call For Papers – COSIGN 2004 * * The 4th International Conference on COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTICS * * University of Split (Croatia) * * 14th – 16th September 2004 * * http://www.cosignconference.org * ***************************************************************** CONFERENCE SCOPE ================ The creation and interpretation of meaning in interactive digital media requires the manipulation of signs and/or […]

CALL FOR PAPERS ICEC 2004 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing http://www.icec.id.tue.nl September 1 ö 3, 2004 Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands We invite you to participate at the prestigious 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Based on the very successful first international workshop […]

Private No More. The New York Times reports that “The Justice Department is demanding that at least six hospitals … turn over hundreds of patient medical records on certain abortions performed there.” This is necessary, they claim, in order to defend the new prohibition on “partial birth” abortions. This is bad enough, since as David […]