Virus Information

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009

McAfee: Virus Information
Updates on recent computer viruses and worms. Features lists of recent threats and of virus hoaxes, glossary, virus map showing "where the latest viruses are infecting computers worldwide," regional virus information, a virus calendar, and free virus removal tools that "perform virus detection and removal tasks for specific viruses." Other services are available for a fee. From McAfee, a company that provides computer security software and services.
URL: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27843

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Most Popular EDUCAUSE Review Articles of 2008

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009

The ten most widely read articles from last year’s online edition of EDUCAUSE Review focused on open education, Web 2.0, virtual worlds, e-books, digital libraries, analytics, and the top issues facing higher education IT:

  1. Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
    John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler
  2. Top-Ten IT Issues, 2008
    Debra H. Allison, Peter B. DeBlois, and the 2008 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee
  3. Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre
    Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine
  4. Virtual Worlds? "Outlook Good"
    AJ Kelton ("AJ Brooks")
  5. E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?
    Mark R. Nelson
  6. Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries
    Peter Brantley
  7. A Seismic Shift in Epistemology
    Chris Dede
  8. Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance That Matters in Higher Education Donald Norris, Linda Baer, Joan Leonard, Louis Pugliese, and Paul Lefrere
  9. Facebook 2.0
    Tracy Mitrano
  10. Higher Education as Virtual Conversation
    Sarah Robbins-Bell ("Intellagirl Tully")
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Generating New Reference Questions By Blogging Old Ones

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009

Presentation: I’ll Have What Shes Having: Generating New Reference Questions By Blogging Old Ones

January 29th, 2009

From the Abstract:

Increased off-site reference traffic has prompted the need for good tracking mechanisms, but why keep the subject of the reference question a secret? Why not use one researcher’s question to aid another? At Dickinson College, we developed a reference blog using Drupal that combines a public side, for sharing with a global audience the reference questions we’ve received and how we’ve responded, with a private side, for recording information about the transaction. We can now track off-site usage more effectively. Meanwhile, new patrons can discover our resources through blog entries of previous requestors.

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Source: EDUCAUSE

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From Information Retrieval to Information Synthesis

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009

The Shift from Information Retrieval to Information Synthesis

January 29th, 2009

From the Abstract:

Grand challenges such as public health, security, genomics, environmental protection, education, and economics, are characterized by complexity, interdependence, globalization, and unpredictability. Although the unprecedented quantity of information surrounding these challenges can provide users with a new perspective on solutions, the data surrounding complex systems vary with respect to levels of structure and authority, and include vastly different contexts and vocabularies. To be successful in this domain we must extend our models of information science such that they operate successfully in environments where the quantity of relevant information far exceeds our human processing capacity. For example, the well-accepted precision and recall metrics break down when hundreds of thousands of documents are relevant. Solutions to grand challenges require that information scientists shift their focus from information retrieval towards information synthesis.

Authors: Blake, Catherine and Anderson, Caryn

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Source: Proceedings i-Conference 2005, State College, Pennsylvania, USA. (via D-LIST)

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Reading By Zoe Wicomb

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009
Date: 12 February
Time: 14h00
Venue: Centre for Humanities Research Seminar Room, UWC
 
Co-hosted by the Women’s and Gender Studies Programme and the Centre for Humanities Research, UWC
 
Zoe Wicomb, currently a professor at the University of Strathclyde, and Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University, has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Emory University in Atlanta and a Visiting Professor at Ann Arbor University. She has written extensively on South African literature and culture. She is the author of:

You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (Virago, Umuzi)
David’s Story (Kwela)
Playing in the Light (Random House and the New Press)
The One that Got Away (Umuzi).
 
She will be reading from her most recent collection, The One that Got Away (2008).
 
Thanks to Fareeda Jadwat for this.

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ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009

Treatment and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in adults and children, The
A report from the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York carried out to conduct a systematic review and to produce a broad overview of the evidence relating to the diagnosis and treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) in adults and children. The review was divided into four parts: case definition, diagnosis, treatment/management and information/support needs.This 169 page systematic review is CRD number 35 and was published in February 2007 as an update to CRD number 22. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/projects/chronic_fatigue_children_adults.htm

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Dutch East India Company

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009
Dutch East India Company
This article on the Dutch East India Company is from the suite 101 website, which collects good articles on academic subjects. It is a useful source of information for students. The Dutch East India Company was an important joint stock company and a new kind of venture. It helped the Netherlands to expand commercially worldwide and was part of the Dutch Golden Age. From Intute.ac.uk
http://dutch-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/dutch_east_india_company

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Student use of ICTs: "How does economic and political surveillance frame social networking site usage?

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009
Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society
Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society is an ICT&S Center Research Report by Christian Fuchs who is Associate Professor at the ICT&S Centre at the University of Salzburg. In this report Professor Fuchs focuses on student use of ICTs and addresses the questions: "How does economic and political surveillance frame social networking site usage?"; "How critical are students about the potential surveillance by state and corporation?"; and "How does it influence students’ attitudes towards new media such as social networking platforms?". The report recommends that scholars, educators and concerned activists should demonstrate "how citizens are immediately affected by surveillance by engaging in activities such as using the Internet, using social networking sites, using mobile phones, leaving data traces in everyday life, etc" and document instances where privacy has been compromised. The report is in pdf format which requires Adobe Acrobat software to access. From Intute.ac.uk
http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/SNS_Surveillance_Fuchs.pdf

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Generations Online in 2009. Pew Internet & American Life Project

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009

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The  has published a new report titled Generations Online in 2009 which breaks down online activities by generation. After defining the scope of the generations, the study goes on to summarize that Teens and Generation Y are the most likely to utilize the Web for entertainment purposes while older generations use the Internet primarily for conducting information searches, email, and online shopping. However there are some universal activities that span the generation gaps such as downloading videos, online banking, travel reservations, and job searching. The report has an excellent chart which breaks down each activity type by generation.

From iLibrarian blog

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Encyclopaedia Britannica

Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jan, 2009

Editing Encyclopaedia Britannica

January 27th, 2009 iLibrarian blog

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Encyclopaedia Britannica now allows readers to suggest edits to encyclopedia entries which are then inspected by the resource’s editors for approval. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Britannica aims to turn around edits within 20 minutes. Many of these changes/additions will appear in the print edition of the encyclopedia.

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