Apple releases Backup 2.0 utility for .Mac: “Apple posted a final version of Backup 2.0, its backup utility for .Mac users. Version 2 lets you select any folder on a hard drive as a backup destination, including FireWire hard drives, network servers, iPods, and other mounted volumes. It also offers support for support for third-party […]

Weblog to cover WSIS. The British Council is planning a weblog, DailySummit.org, covering the operation of the World Summit on the Information Society. [funferal] —— this could be fun to watch.

WIPO has crazy toilets [bOing bOing] ——- i wouldn't call them crazy, cory, just perhaps 'abnormal' heh.

ok, i admit it, i use dreamweasle to maintain some sites….. i also use bbedit and pico to maintain other sites, and when you get me in a bad mood i just might run a site through a shell script or two just to mess with ya, but nonetheless, after my 10.3 upgrade i found […]

Virginia Tech's $5.2 million G5 cluster has grabbed 3rd on the top 500 supercomputer list, and is now the world's fastest, and cheapest, academic supercomputer. More than 10 teraflops R_max and 17 teraflops R_peak… [www.gulker.com – words and pictures from Silicon Valley]

Coding the Classroom: Technology and The Practice of Language. “The technology of the Information Age depends on programming languages for functionality. Because programming languages ultimately affect the production of language digitally, programming languages will inevitably demonstrate a lasting effect on the process of writing. Hence it is important to recognize the impact of programming languages […]

Effect of ejournals on libraries. Victoria Robertson, The impact of electronic journals on academic libraries: the changing relationship between journals, acquisitions and inter-library loans department roles and functions, Interlending & Document Supply, 31, 3 (2003), pp. 174-179. Excerpt: “Academic libraries are in a transition period owing to the economic climate and the rise in the […]

Economics of open access. Alastair Dryburgh has launched a new discussion forum, Economics of Open Access. Free registration is required for access. [Open Access News] —— who owns the stuff that i post on communityzero? it is entirely unclear to me where that copyright lies….. this should have been done in a more open access […]

The 2003 International Online Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education: Online Classes Go Mainstream, will be held completely online, mid-November. [A blog doesn't need a clever name] ——- I think that I did this in the past, it was pretty good and someone cited my exposition for another paper, which was also good, i […]

OAI for Beginners Online Tutorial. OAI for Beginners – the Open Archives Forum Online Tutorialhttp://www.oaforum.org/tutorial/ This tutorial is an introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Working through this tutorial you will: * gain an overview of the history behind the OAI-PMH and an overview of its key features; * achieve […]