African academics connect up online
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Connect with the power of Progress at
2004 African user conference
Connect with the power of Progress at
2004 African user conference
07/06/2004 11:18 PMSunday Times South Africa Jul 7 2004 3:17AM GMT
African Journals Online
African Journals Online
07/16/2004 07:07 AMAfrican Journals Online http://www.ajol.info/ African Journals Online is a portal for "African-published
journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and
social sciences." Abstracts are provided for the journals, and many
also contain links to sites with fulltext articles. Reprints can be
ordered for those articles that are not available in fulltext online.
This will be added to
Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
African Online Digital Library
African Online Digital Library
06/28/2004 05:18 AMAfrican Online Digital Libraryhttp://www.africandl.org/MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center
at MSU, and in partnership with premiere research institutions in
Africa, is pioneering the African Online Digital Library. The goal of
this fully accessible online digital repository is to adopt the
emerging best practices of the American digital library community and
apply them in an African context. AODL benefits a wide variety of
scholars, students, and institutions by producing multilingual,
multimedia materials for both scholarly research and public viewing
audiences. AODL serves scholars and students conducting research and
teaching about West and South Africa as well as teachers and students
of African languages in both the United States and Africa. It also
provides a valuable model for creating and distributing a diverse
array of materials in a region with very limited electronic
connectivity. This will be added to
Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
Chondo brings African beat to online
listeners
Chondo brings African beat to online
listeners
08/30/2004 06:35 AMSeattletimes.nwsource.com - Mon Aug 30, 09:02 am GMT
Jamboweb.com Launches Giving African Web
Users Unprecedented Access To African
Businesses, News, And Events
Jamboweb.com Launches Giving African Web
Users Unprecedented Access To African
Businesses, News, And Events
04/03/2005 05:54 AMTreeLife Soltutions LLC has launched a website targeted toward
Africans and friends of Africa called Jamboweb.com, that will for the
first time bring comprehensive access to African focused articles,
events, and business and organization ‘yellow-page’ listings into one
central online location. [PRWEB Apr 3, 2005]
“Virtual Mentoring Program” Offers
Unique Online Opportunity for African
Americans
“Virtual Mentoring Program” Offers
Unique Online Opportunity for African
Americans
02/05/2005 09:05 PMThrough this program, participants develop Mentor Profiles and Protégé
Profiles, and then selection is facilitated by iZania through an
online search. Communications take place using Private Messaging,
Private Chat Rooms, and email. When a “match” is established, the
mentor and protégé are encouraged to use the G.R.O.W. Model, a 4-step
approach to setting and reaching goals. [PRWEB Feb 2, 2005]
Connect to the Internet in minutes with
Telkom online activation
Connect to the Internet in minutes with
Telkom online activation
02/13/2004 11:47 PMSunday Times South Africa Feb 14 2004 3:16AM GMT
New Service Allows Small Businesses to
Connect with Consumers Online
New Service Allows Small Businesses to
Connect with Consumers Online
04/18/2005 08:40 AMWebhostdir.com - Mon Apr 18, 10:58 am GMT
Liberal incumbent goes online to connect
with young people
Liberal incumbent goes online to connect
with young people
06/25/2004 05:47 AMThestar.com - Fri Jun 25, 08:05 am GMT
Sony Connect Online Music Download Store
Launches
Sony Connect Online Music Download Store
Launches
05/04/2004 01:58 PMReal Estate Connect opens online
listings debate
Real Estate Connect opens online
listings debate
03/12/2003 01:46 AMCEO Bob Moles; HomeGain CEO Bruce Schroder; eRealty CEO Russ Capper;
ServiceMagic Co-founder Rodney Rice; David Scacco, Director of
Vertical Markets at Google ...
Those crazy academics
Those crazy academics
04/11/2005 07:45 PM
The
World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
sends email so aggresively to academics in computer science that they
are thought of as no better than spammers. It doesn't appear you can
make them stop sending you email. Worse, it's clear they are a place
for "dead wood" faculty who just need a paper count for
their yearly reviews. So, recently, the academics have been taking
things into their own hands by generating bogus submissions. Some with
a sophisticated
fake
paper generator and others with more
direct statements.
Academics Can Be Fun and Games
Academics Can Be Fun and Games
11/13/2003 06:31 AMThe University of Southern California will be the first well-known
research university to offer a minor in game design when it rolls out
a new program next fall. By Katie Dean.
Academics of Central Asia (A-C-A)
Academics of Central Asia (A-C-A)
06/12/2004 04:40 AMAcademics of Central Asia (A-C-A)http://www.a-c-a.info/Academics of Central Asia seeks to motivate and mobilise Central
Asian scholars in becoming more active in academics networks
regionally and globally. Three national coordinators will be in charge
of contacting a minimum of 60 scholars each and collecting information
(including list of key publications) for the database. The national
coordinators will send out a minimum of three electronic newsletters
in Russian to the Central Asian scholars that have joined the
Web-page. These will give news about conferences, funding
opportunities, etc. The three national coordinators are active and
dedicated scholars who are all well situated in the academic
communities in their respective countries. This will be added to
Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
Academics Patent P2P Spoofing
Academics Patent P2P Spoofing
05/08/2004 05:06 AMTwo computer scientists get a patent on a technique that floods
peer-to-peer networks with spoofed files. They hope to sell it to
content owners. Could companies that already spoof files be in
violation of the patent? By Katie Dean.
Academics Take On Government Net
Censorship
Academics Take On Government Net
Censorship
04/18/2004 10:58 AMSlashdot Apr 18 2004 3:14PM GMT
Academics caught in copyright Web
Academics caught in copyright Web
09/22/2004 08:22 AMCNEWS Sep 22 2004 11:57AM GMT
Academics call for UWB licensing
Academics call for UWB licensing
04/19/2005 09:21 AM'Cross people in both camps'
Web lifeline for Iraqi academics
Web lifeline for Iraqi academics
01/22/2004 03:12 AMIraqi academics are using the power of the web to help rebuild their
country's intellectual power.
Academics get serious about video games
Academics get serious about video games
02/13/2004 05:10 PMSan Jose Mercury News Feb 13 2004 9:45PM GMT
Academics get NSF grant for Net security
centers
Academics get NSF grant for Net security
centers
09/22/2004 08:13 AMAcademics Enlist in Spam Battle
Academics Enlist in Spam Battle
07/31/2004 05:29 PMWhether from cryptography or bioinformatics, from universities or
industry, researchers ready new approaches for improving e-mail.
Academics Turn to Video Games (AP)
Academics Turn to Video Games (AP)
02/13/2004 06:37 PMAP - Ever yearn to study "Tetris" as a metaphor for American
consumerism? Or write a paper on narrative structure in the horror
action game "Silent Hill"? How about ponder "Grand Theft Auto III,"
infamous for its violent bent, as an examination of the human
condition?
Academics allege review trickery
Academics allege review trickery
06/09/2004 06:59 PMAcademics say university managers are manipulating staff to try to
boost their ratings in a major research review.
Internet Publishing Attracting Academics
Internet Publishing Attracting Academics
08/22/2004 05:57 AMInternet Publishing Attracting Academics By Julie Bell,
Baltimore Sunhttp://snipurl.com/8hhwManuel Llinas knew his career was at stake. The young scientist had
just finished work on an eye-catching paper on the genome of a
parasite that causes malaria. Now he and his lab director faced a
critical decision: where to submit the article for publication. A
prestigious journal such as Science would draw attention and help
Llinas when he interviewed for faculty jobs at top research
institutions. But Llinas and Joseph DeRisi, his mentor at the
University of California at San Francisco, chose a once unthinkable
journal. They submitted the paper to PLoS Biology, a free online
journal that had yet to publish its first edition.
Academics turn to video games
Academics turn to video games
02/13/2004 08:05 PMBoston Globe Feb 14 2004 0:45AM GMT
Academics give lessons on bl0gs
Academics give lessons on bl0gs
04/07/2005 05:15 AMNews.bbc.co.uk - Wed Apr 6, 05:15 pm GMT
Academics Call for More CRM Research
(NewsFactor)
Academics Call for More CRM Research
(NewsFactor)
08/04/2004 01:41 PMNewsFactor - Academic researchers at a recent CRM conference gathered
to discuss the role of technology in CRM and what the field needs to
advance. They reached general agreement on two points. Technology does
not necessarily mean good customer relationship management. In
addition, industry should open the door for more collaboration with
academics in order to improve the field.
Stress kills workaholic academics at
young age
Stress kills workaholic academics at
young age
07/04/2004 01:07 AMContent.sina.com - Sat Jul 3, 08:59 am GMT
Wired News: Academics Patent P2P
Spoofing
Wired News: Academics Patent P2P
Spoofing
05/09/2004 04:48 AMwired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63384,00.html
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Academics Use Formulas to Predict Bush
Win (Reuters)
Academics Use Formulas to Predict Bush
Win (Reuters)
07/01/2004 10:35 AMReuters - Polls may show the presidential race
in a dead heat, but for a small band of academics who use
scientific formulas to predict elections President Bush is on
his way to a sizable win.
Narratologists versus Ludologists:
battle of the games-academics
Narratologists versus Ludologists:
battle of the games-academics
09/10/2004 02:53 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Over on Terra Nova, academic Timothy Burke has posted a fascinating
state-of-the-nation report on the fight between "narratologists" (who
argue that the value of games is best understood by treating them as
stories) and "ludologists" (who argue that the value is best
understoof by analyzing games as a form of play). This is a new
discipline a-borning, and its paradigm is being framed before our
eyes:
In the context of games criticism, this tendency might lead to a
narratologist placing enormous interpretative weight on the fact that
most first-person shooters are structured by conflicts between the
player’s avatar and small groups of three to six enemies, seeing
this as a narrative choice that has authorial intent behind it, that
can be related to various similar kinds of narratives in other media
(e.g., the ur-narrative of Die Hard or Rambo or James Bond films, the
narrative pacing of action films where the uber-masculine hero crushes
small packs of slightly-less-manly bad guys). The problem is that the
narratological kinship between Die Hard and first-person-shooters is a
much more complicated matter in its actual historical evolution. If
anything, when first-person-shooters first appeared with
narratological structure that resembled the narrative of action films,
to some extent that content was a superficial add-on rather than a
deep structure of gameplay, a kind of narratological “skin”. The
original Doom is a very good example of this pattern. The deep
structure of the game (single player avatar versus distributed
clusters of enemies) was, before anything else, a technical
requirement dictated by the number of enemies it was then possible to
have on the screen. This continues to be the case even though
computers have much more processing power because the enemies have
become much more graphically demanding.
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How Free Software won the hearts of
hackers, capitalists, commies and
academics
How Free Software won the hearts of
hackers, capitalists, commies and
academics
06/29/2004 05:48 AMMy friends Biella and Mako have written a good, short academic paper
on how it is that "Free and Open Source Software" can be seen as
tactically advantageous to big corporations, Starbucks-smashing
anti-globalists, and liberal commons-oriented IP wonks.
While the money behind IBM's advertising machine makes their take on
FOSS particularly visible, they hold no monopoly on the interpretation
of FOSS's meaning and importance. This is evidenced by the extensive
use of FOSS as an iconic tactic by leftist activists around the world.
Also bearing a three letter acronym, the Independent Media Centers
(IMC) are a socio-political project whose mission and spirit are
completely contrary to the goals of a large corporation like IBM.
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(Thanks, Biella!)
Hundreds of articles in medical
journals, signed by doctors or
academics, are ghostwritten by agencies
for big cash from drug-makers
Hundreds of articles in medical
journals, signed by doctors or
academics, are ghostwritten by agencies
for big cash from drug-makers
12/11/2003 06:12 AMcomo as farmacuticas esto a enganar as mais conceituadas revistas
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African Hats and Hair
African Hats and Hair
10/30/2003 01:42 PM Hats Off!
A Salute to African Headwear. 'Many African cultures throughout
the continent have long considered the head the center of one's
being--a source of individual and collective identity, power,
intelligence and ability. Adorning the head as part of everyday attire
or as a statement, therefore, is especially significant. '
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The Making of an African Petrostate
02/18/2004 07:55 AMChad, among the poorest countries in the world, is now Africa's newest
petrostate.
Information on African Journals
Information on African Journals
07/07/2004 09:32 PMAfrican Journals Online has information about journals available from
all over Africa, as well as information on the contents of those
journals. It's available at http://www.ajol.info/ . The front page...
Software First for African Languages
Software First for African Languages
09/05/2004 07:59 AMSoftware First for African Languageshttp://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=6835&do=gpage
Two years of computer programming will culminate with the
launch of the first word processing software to run in Zulu, Sepedi
and Afrikaans. Its developers claim that this is the first word
processor to be released in African languages, beating a project by
Microsoft SA to convert its own software into native languages.
African talks on three conflicts
African talks on three conflicts
07/28/2004 10:08 PMThe UN secretary general and 11 African heads of state are due at
talks to try to end three African conflicts.
Grok Description matches for African academics connect up online
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African academics connect up online
