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International Earth Day- The Official
Site (www.earthsite.org) Spring/Vernal
Equinox - The Great Day of Earth

International Earth Day- The Official
Site (www.earthsite.org) Spring/Vernal
Equinox - The Great Day of Earth 04/23/2004 09:32 AM
International Earth Day Official Site .. HAPPY EARTH DAY Y'ALL! .. more... earthDay .. Earth

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Earth Day

Earth Day 04/17/2005 10:52 AM


Earth Day - April 22, 2005

1) Wisconsin Historical Society: Turning Points--An Overview of Earth Day, 1970
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1140
2) Wisconsin Historical Society: Turning Points-An Environmental Agenda for the 70's
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1139
3) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Earth Day '70
http://www.ep a.gov/history/topics/earthday/02.htm
4) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Earth Day Recollections
http://www.ep a.gov/history/topics/earthday/10.htm
5) Earth Day Network
http://www.earthday.net/
6) EarthDay.gov: Take Action In Your Classroom
http://www.earthday.gov/c lassroom.htm
7) Army Earth Day
http:// aec.army.mil/usaec/publicaffairs/earthday00.html
8) The Wilderness Society: Earth Day
http://earthday.wilderness.org/

On April 22, 2005, people around the world will celebrate the 35th anniversary of Earth Day. This Topic in Depth focuses on the past and present of this significant day. From the Wisconsin Historical Society, the first two sites contain historical documents pertaining to Earth Day. The first (1) document features a May 1970 issue of The Gaylord Nelson Newsletter reporting on the first Earth Day. The second (2) document is a speech by Nelson entitled "An Environmental Agenda for the 70's." Housed in the archives of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website, the next two sites also contain historical documents. The first (3) site contains an article written by Nelson for the EPA Journal in April of 1980, entitled "Earth Day '70: What It Meant." The second (4) site contains an article written by John C. Whitaker (former Interior undersecretary in the Nixon administration) for the EPA Journal in the summer of 1998. The article is entitled "Earth Day Recollections: What It Was Like When the Movement Took Off." The (5) Earth Day Network (first mentioned in the April 4, 2003, Scout Report for Life Sciences) works "to broaden the environmental movement worldwide and to educate and mobilize people, governments, and corporations to take responsibility for a clean and healthy environment." In addition to information sections about Ongoing Programs, Current Campaigns, and News, the Earth Day Network website contains Earth Day 2005 Materials for organizers. From EarthDay.gov, Take Action In Your Classroom (6) offers links to a variety of environmental education resources. The next website, from the U.S. Army Environmental Center, presents (7) Army Earth Day; and links to information about the Army's environmental activities. The final (8) site is an Earth Day-inspired educational website (first reported on in the April 14, 1999 Scout Report for Science & Engineering) from the Wilderness Society. The site offers a collection of environmental education resources for teachers and students. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Earth

Earth 11/19/2003 02:12 PM
Who Man?

Iowa phone company tries to block
incoming cell phone calls

Iowa phone company tries to block
incoming cell phone calls 08/16/2004 05:48 PM
Iowa phone company plans to block cell phone call in a dispute with wireless carriers. The Iowa Utilities Board has prevented the plan for now.

Coca-Cola Creates Custom Phone for Promo
(Phone Scoop)

Coca-Cola Creates Custom Phone for Promo
(Phone Scoop) 05/06/2004 07:18 AM
Coca-Cola Creates Custom Phone for Promo .. my cola tracks and talks to me .. Phonescoop

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Web Phone Adds Computer Telephony Phone
Features To Existing Web Applications

Web Phone Adds Computer Telephony Phone
Features To Existing Web Applications 03/30/2005 04:36 AM
Database Systems Corp. (DSC) has developed a Web Phone that connects browser applications with its phone systems. The Web Phone is a Windows application that bridges the gap between web applications that have no intrinsic phone functions and DSC's call center phone systems. [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

Broadband Internet Phone Company,
VoIP2Save.com Announces Full Phone
Number Portability

Broadband Internet Phone Company,
VoIP2Save.com Announces Full Phone
Number Portability 07/22/2004 02:48 AM
"VoIP2Save.com" becomes first broadband internet phone company to offer total internet phone number portability to customers. VoIP2Save accuses rivals of holding customer phone numbers hostage because they cannot switch their phone numbers to other carriers. [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Quick-'n-Dirty methods to determine
which competing label is better: "Cell
Phone" or "Mobile Phone"?

Quick-'n-Dirty methods to determine
which competing label is better: "Cell
Phone" or "Mobile Phone"? 04/28/2004 11:39 AM

On the SIGIA-L mailing list, Stephanie Berger recently asked: "My cohorts are not sure whether to use "cell phone" or "mobile phone". Any evidence that one is better than the other, or one is used more often than the other?"

This is a good example of the kind of labeling questions information architects face all the time. The answer to these labeling questions will depend on the target audience (a better label for whom?), on business requirements (maybe the business want to promote one term over the other) and on the context in which the label will be used.

I'll discuss the conversation that followed here and afterwards point to some useful tools for if you have a labeling question yourself.

Andres Sulleiro: "Without any empirical data I will go with my own opinion. [...] A quick survey of the phone carriers seems to suggest that "wireless" (as in "wireless phone", "wireless customer") is most common among US carriers, though you see some references to "mobile" as well. T-mobile, a European company, uses "mobile" which is more common in Europe as well as being the name of the carrier."

Method: check what other websites call it.

Jason Cho: "I think "cell" is more widespread in the US as Andrés noted. "Call my mobile" can sound pretentious to Yankee ears. But I would think everyone understands the term "mobile" on a business card."

Method: personal experience.

Peter Van Dijck (and others): "Google for "cell phone" (including quotes): 6,230,000, Google for "mobile phone": 6,360,000. Looks like a tie, assuming your audience is similar. Just pick one and make sure your search engine knows both terms."
Christina Wodtke: "Y ahoo for cell phone : 16,800,000, yahoo for mobile phone: 21,200,000. What does this really tell you? you'd have to know who each engine indexes, how much of the web, etc.. better to use a magic 8 ball. ;-)"

Method: check popularity of the terms on the web.

Peter Van Dijck: "My next step would be to find out what people search for on your site,
or if not available, on the web (assuming that's more or less your audience). Google adwords can help."

Method: Find out what people (preferably your target audience) search for.

Dave: "I like "mobile" for the reason that Christina stated (forward compatibility); USers and non-USers will equally understand it. Also, it is more interoperable w/ most of the vCard based addressbook programs out there. I don't know any that are using "cell" or "cellphone" ... I also like the clear and easy two word approach of "mobile phone" ... I'm always wanting to say "cellphone" where "cell phone" is really the more correct version. "cell" though just doesn't feel like a real word b/c the "cell" doesn't fit a meaning to me. I know what it means if I am forced to think about it, but it really doesn't mean anything to me at all."

Method: personal experience, check what software programs use.

Christina Wodtke: "> As can Ove rture's keyword tool (couldn't find URL straight away).

You also might consider some adaptation of the freelisting technique on a subset of your target. E.G., a write in survey: what portable electronics do you own, then analyze for use of "cell phone" and mobile phone".

Method: freelisting technique.

Eric Reiss: "Having worked closely with several telecommunications companies, including Tellabs (US), Nortel (Canada), ADVA (Germany), and NetTest (Denmark), this discussion is one I've heard before. Europeans generally don't recognize the term "cell phone." North Americans seem to accept both "cell" and "mobile." ATT insists on promoting the term "wireless." In most instances, we've agreed on the word "mobile" since it is understood by the widest audience. Nortel, for instance, used "cell" almost exclusively until the late 90s, but now leans toward "mobile." I think there is a trend here."

Method: ask the subject matter experts.

Pabini Gabriel-Petit: "There's also Wordtracker.
[...]
In this vein, you might try just walking up to people, holding up your cell/mobile phone, and asking them what they call it."

Method: Analyze what people search for.

Method: Find out what labels your users use.

Quick-'n-Dirty methods to determine which competing label is better.

So, as a review, here are some of the methods used to determine which label is better.

1. What do you think?
Method: personal experience/insights.

2. What do your users think?
Method: freelisting technique.
Method: Find out what labels your users use: show them the item you're trying to label and ask them what it is. (You could build an online tool for this).
Method: Find out what people (preferably your target audience) search for / check popularity of the terms on the web. Ove rture's keyword tool. Google adwords. Wordtracker. Google and Yahoo both list how often a term is used on the web (use quotes around your terms!).

3. What do the experts think?
Method: ask the subject matter experts.
Method: check what other websites/software call it.

Gotcha's: be careful when using these techniques. You are looking for a label that works for your audience and your business requirements. Most of these techniques use audiences that may be very different from yours, and most are indicative only (ie: they're not hard science). Use your judgement.

The Semantic Earth

The Semantic Earth 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
I spent all of December and half of January working on an article for Esther Dyson's Release 1.0. Man, did I learn a lot, including that Esther and Christina Koukkos are uniquely demanding yet patient editors. The article's just come out. Here's the abstract: The Semantic Earth Every business in the world is headquartered on earth. Every employee works somewhere. Every customer is at some location at every moment. Every product is delivered to some spot and every service is performed at some coordinates. Every transaction involves at least one place and usually more than one. And yet, until recently,...

The Day The Earth Froze

The Day The Earth Froze 09/12/2004 05:51 PM

I've been watching the 1980s TV serial adaptation of the Kalevala, Rauta-aika [Iron Age], being shown in 4 parts on Tuesdays on YLE2. I've never really liked adaptations which may be due to having been forced to sit through a torturous production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing that was set on a tennis court and featured something I could only describe as valley girls with big hair and bubble gum. The actors were lucky we didn't start throwing things and booing. Rauta-aika isn't all that bad even though the actors speak prose and some of the costumes are pretty over the top. A few days ago I mentioned the show to Chip Salzenberg, the human movie quote database, who immediately asked, "The Day the Earth Froze?" No, the Kalevala, not some bad sci-fi flick. As it happens, Chip and Jeff Goff are MST3K devotees who provided me with the MST3K episode featuring the absurdly bad The Day the Earth Froze which, in spite of the misleading title, is a 1959 movie of the Kalevala.

The movie was titled Sampo everywhere else but the US without explanation as to who thought the B-movie sci-fi title would be a brilliant replacement. The US version is also about 30 minutes shorter although, judging by what wasn't cut, it likely was an act of mercy. The Ministry of Culture in the then USSR apparently funded and commissioned this entertainment bomb for some deeply mysterious reason. The US version changes many the Russian and Finnish names to sound, presumably, less like commies and the opening credits manage to misspell Lönnrot's name. The MST3K guys often mock the Swedish in the episode but I think the Finns wouldn't bother to correct them and let the Swedes take all the credit for this total suckfest. The English dubbing over the original Russian is spectacularly bad, too, as I guess no one bothered to ask how the Finnish words and names were pronounced and, after a while, I think they just started making shit up. One of the more hilarious moments of heckling is when Crow makes fun of the actress who plays Louhi by saying, "Marty Feldman in a role that won't surprise you!" :)

It was good for a laugh but it was like watching a Paris Hilton version of Walden Pond set in a luxury tourist resort where you begin to wonder if you haven't slipped into a parallel and alternate reality. It's a pity that no one has actually done a full movie production of the Kalevala or a film of the people who kept the stories alive before they were finally collected by Lönnrot and written down. I think even a low-budget "Blair Witch" style Kalevala movie would suck less than this movie does. I have a new appreciation for Rauta-aika now. :)

New From Entertainment Earth

New From Entertainment Earth 10/29/2003 03:48 PM
Entertainment Earth writes: "Just a reminder that we are taking pre-orders for all of the new Ultra action figures."

Endangered Earth

Endangered Earth 04/21/2004 10:21 PM

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day! 04/22/2004 05:32 PM

Rip, Mix, and Burn anything on earth

Rip, Mix, and Burn anything on earth 07/16/2004 11:57 PM

Today while I was at a web conference, a speaker used an incredible MIT Media Lab project as a demo during a talk. Check out the I/O brush project. The project appears to be a camera that can take a photo still or video of anything you point it at, then the captured images can be "painted" on a virtual canvas. It's essentially one giant derivative work creator.

Watch this Real Video demo of the I/O Brush in action

After you see it, you can see how incredible this technology is. I can't imagine when something like this would be a cheap, easily available tool, but I can imagine that parts of the technology may eventually show up in something. It takes the concept of rip, mix, and burn to whole new levels, creating new art works from anything else (including copyrighted art, text, and trademarked logos) and I wonder what the legal landscape will be like when this technology is readily available. Can you imagine the scorn this product will get from publishing companies, movie studios, and the like?

Earth Day Network

Earth Day Network 04/23/2004 06:40 AM
EarthDay Network has lots of suggestions .. And more, of what is most important .. Earth Day Network Website .. Dia do Planeta Terra .. ‡ˆ§Š §ƒ .. Happy .. Earth

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"Happy Earth Day"

"Happy Earth Day" 04/23/2004 10:59 AM

Colonizing Down Under (the Earth)

Colonizing Down Under (the Earth) 03/14/2003 01:03 PM
There will never be more land. But there's plenty of undeveloped space underground. Tunneling technologies used in transportation projects like Boston's Big Dig will -- literally -- pave the way. By Fred Hapgood from Wired magazine.

More And More Deserts On Earth

More And More Deserts On Earth 06/16/2004 05:13 AM
CBS News Jun 16 2004 9:25AM GMT

The Most Powerful Man On Earth...

The Most Powerful Man On Earth... 01/01/2005 10:52 AM

... is of course Steve Jobs. Well, at least in the Mac industry. Find out who are the second to twenty-fifth most powerful people in the Mac industry.

Web Earth Gate

Web Earth Gate 01/10/2004 04:57 AM
some progress

Where on Earth is your Website?

Where on Earth is your Website? 05/24/2004 01:30 AM
WebDevInfo May 24 2004 5:50AM GMT

OK, Who's Overclocking The Earth?

OK, Who's Overclocking The Earth? 12/31/2003 01:14 PM
Remember back in 1999 when people started talking about "internet time", which was this crazy notion that, thanks to the internet, the usual course of business went much much much faster? Well, it sounds like the Earth tried to get in on some of that, as it's now been revealed that since 1999, our home planet has been making it's annual trek around the sun one second faster than it was for quite some time. Between 1972 and 1999, we had to add a special "leap second" each year, since the Earth was slowing down, and losing a step. However, since 1999, for reasons no one is quite sure, the Earth appears to have caught a second wind and is speeding up a bit.

RIP, Whole Earth Review

RIP, Whole Earth Review 01/24/2004 03:36 AM
Whole Earth magazine has gone bust (they owe me money!) (and they changed my life!) (and their editorial board insisted on utterly stupid edits to the story they owe me money for!) (and they really did change my life!) (boy, those were stupid edits!). This is bad news.

Whole Earth magazine -- spawn of the amazing Whole Earth Catalogs, source of the WELL, first to mention in print the Gaia Hypothesis, the Internet, Virtual Reality, the Singularity and Burning Man (or at least so the legend goes), the place where folks like Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and Howard Rheingold found their voices, and where a whole generation of young commune-kid geeks like myself learned to dream weird -- is no more.

Link (Thanks, Alex!)

SCOrched Earth

SCOrched Earth 12/05/2003 12:32 PM

Back here on Earth

Back here on Earth 05/31/2004 03:25 PM
Usatoday.com - Fri May 28, 08:38 pm GMT

Leaving the Earth

Leaving the Earth 03/06/2004 02:03 AM
Rannva dropped this URL on an older blog entry, so I figured I should pop it up to a larger readership, since it's just too cool:

Orion's Arm Worldbuilding Group.

A huge collection of Creative Commons -licensed alternative world history (and future) that should make the soul of every hardcore sci-fi fan tickle. I only took a quick glance through it, but already I started getting ideas...

I think this is another good example on how uncoordinated efforts of dedicated amateurs can produce things that rival commercial alternatives. I don't think it replaces them, though, but it can be a good choice among many. The Internet has really allowed a whole new kind of collaboration efforts to take place, things that were rather difficult to do before. Essentially the Internet is now doing the job of the scientific journals, and it is not surprising that many of the academic papers are being published on the Internet first these days...

FreeHeadset.org launches program to
promote wireless phone safety by giving
away free cell phone headsets.

FreeHeadset.org launches program to
promote wireless phone safety by giving
away free cell phone headsets. 07/26/2004 02:22 AM
New laws that mandate the use of cell phone headsets have recently passed in several states. In response, FreeHeadset.org has developed a program to provide wireless phone users with a free cell phone headset. [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

My President and Mother Earth

My President and Mother Earth 05/29/2004 05:13 AM

Do you want to feel bad this Friday?  Read this.

There was an incident with one of the cars. We shot an individual with his hands up. He got out of the car. He was badly shot. We lit him up. I don't know who started shooting first. One of the Marines came running over to where we were and said: "You all just shot a guy with his hands up." Man, I forgot about this.

To top it off, read this report about the health of Mother Earth.

See for yourself that the Earth isn't
flat... it's hollow.

See for yourself that the Earth isn't
flat... it's hollow. 07/26/2004 12:33 PM
River guide Steve Currey invites you to join him on a twenty-four day trip into the, er, hollow earth. Currey has chartered a Russian Nuclear Icebreaker ship to leave next summer and is accepting reservations for up to 100 passengers.

"The indigenous Eskimos believe there is a hole in the Arctic Ocean. Observations of several Arctic explorers of mirages of land in the Arctic indicate that the most plausible location for a north polar opening that leads into the interior of the earth is located at 84.4 N Latitude, 141 E Longitude.... Don't miss this chance to personally visit that paradise within our earth via the North Polar Opening and meet the highly advanced, friendly people who live there. We are of the opinion that they are the legendary Lost Tribes of Israel who migrated into the North Country over 2,500 years ago and literally became lost to the knowledge of mankind."

The trip runs $18,950 a head, but anyone adventurous enough to join Currey should note that:

"By joining Our Hollow Earth Expedition, expedition members agree that there are NO GUARANTEES that this expedition will reach Inner earth. The expedition will make a good faith effort to locate the North Polar Opening and enter therein, but worst case scenario is that we visit the geographic North Pole, explore the region, and continue on to the New Siberian Islands."

Link (Via RealityCarnival)

News for a Synergic Earth :

News for a Synergic Earth : 12/19/2004 03:20 PM

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb 1.0

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb 1.0 06/01/2004 11:14 PM
Your goal is to guide Rif on his adventure, find clues to locate a thief, and solve challenges along the way.

The enigma of Earth Station 5

The enigma of Earth Station 5 12/03/2003 07:25 PM
Salon Dec 3 2003 6:14PM ET

Bringing Search Down to Earth

Bringing Search Down to Earth 07/21/2004 09:07 AM
Source: ClickZ - Don't get me wrong. I fully believe search engine marketing (SEM) and paid placement (via text-based communications) should play a role in most interactive marketing plans. Yet to make SEM an integral part of a brand advertiser's...

Earth calling Google

Earth calling Google 05/07/2004 11:59 AM
ZDNet UK May 7 2004 3:54PM GMT

Earth Travel On Time, Again

Earth Travel On Time, Again 12/30/2003 07:43 PM
burgburgburg writes "The NY Times has an interesting article about a rather puzzling phenomena: for the fifth year in a row, the Earth's travel through space ...

NASA to Put 'Aura' Around Earth

NASA to Put 'Aura' Around Earth 07/09/2004 04:44 AM
The space agency's latest Earth-observing satellite, Aura, is slated to launch Sunday. Scientists say the mission will provide a trove of data about the atmosphere, from the ground up. By Amit Asaravala.

Programs Try Down-to-Earth Aid for
Marriages

Programs Try Down-to-Earth Aid for
Marriages 01/24/2004 09:29 PM
States have experimented for years with ways to bring down the divorce rate, much as President Bush proposes to do nationwide.

Bringing space down to Earth

Bringing space down to Earth 05/09/2004 08:57 AM
Chicago Tribune May 9 2004 12:23PM GMT

" flew to 40 miles above the earth"

" flew to 40 miles above the earth" 05/15/2004 08:41 AM

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ET phone earth?

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