INTERNET

The Economist debate- Internet Democracy:

This house believes that the internet is not inherently a force for democracy- a debate: http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/196?fsrc=nwl

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.

Wendy Boswell recommends 4 new web services:

Genieo:

http://websearch.about.com/od/web20/p/Genieo.htm?nl=1

Conduit: http://websearch.about.com/od/web20/p/Conduit.htm?nl=1

Groupon: http://websearch.about.com/od/onlineshoppingsearch/p/Groupon.htm?nl=1

Zappos: http://websearch.about.com/od/onlineshoppingsearch/p/Zappos.htm?nl=1

A very high quality info source: http://infodocket.com/

Thanks to Marylaine Block for this information. See also: http://fulltextreports.com/

New Bing toolbar and social search results: http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/63938

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Search + Social: A Growing Relationship:

http://searchenginewatch.com/3641925

Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/technology/internet/21blog.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

7 Major Features You Need To Know About In Latest WordPress 3.1 Version- Blogging platform:

Social Networking's Newest Friend: Genomics: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/32428/?nlid=4169

1 Facebook 'Share' = 7 Twitter 'Follows'

http://www.bizreport.com/2011/02/1-facebook-share-7-twitter-follows.html

Wikipedia- past and present: http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2011/PIP_Wikipedia.pdf

GOOGLE

4 new developments at Google:

http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/63902

Finding more high quality sites in search:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html

Testing Google’s new algorithm, it really is better: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/testing-googles-new-algorithm-it-really-is-better/71720/

Google Logo Honors Constantin Brancusi’s 135th Birthday

http://searchengineland.com/google-doodle-honors-constantin-brancusis-135th-birthday-65503

Google Custom Search: Got ideas? We are listening!:

http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2011/02/got-ideas-were-listening.html

Google stole my search results, says French engine http://www.techeye.net/business/google-stole-my-search-results-says-french-engine#ixzz1EmXKjZAC

Wendy Boswell- Google Search statistics: http://websearch.about.com/od/focusongoogle/f/Google-Search-Statistics.htm?nl=1

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness

The decline and fall of American English, and stuff:

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_snd-american-english.html

Speaking Foreign Languages May Help Protect Your Memory:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110222162304.htm

Copia – social media meets the eReader: http://www.gizmag.com/copia-combines-social-networking-with-ebook-reading/17952/

SCIENCE

Beauty of the brain:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Beauty-of-the-Brain.html

Conventional Wisdom of How Neurons Operate Challenged: Axons Can Work in Reverse: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110217171344.htm

Brain imaging provides window into consciousness:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-imaging-provides-window-into-consciousness

Brain doesn’t need vision to read material:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-doesnt-need-vision-to-read-material

Fly Over the “Brainbow: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/32423/?nlid=4174

Podcast: Thinking About Thinking (Meta-cognition): http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/podcast-thinking-about-thinking.html?etoc

The greatest unsolved problems:

http://byronknoll.blogspot.com/2011/02/greatest-unsolved-problems.html

Testing the Limits of Where Humans Can Live: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110220142803.htm

When our human ancestors first walked tall:

http://earthsky.org/biodiversity/when-our-human-ancestors-first-walked-tall

Science podcast- a global Katrina?:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/podcast-a-global-katrina.html?etoc

Lifeform of the Week: Tasmanian devils are not quiet, cuddly vegetarians:

http://earthsky.org/biodiversity/lifeform-of-the-week-tasmanian-devils-are-not-quiet-cuddly-vegetarians

Walking cactus gives arthropod evolution a leg-up: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4083/walking-cactus-gives-arthropod-evolution-a-leg

Physicists discover quantum law of protein folding:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/physicists-discover-quantum-law-of-protein-folding

Plankton Key to Origin of Earth's First Breathable Atmosphere:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110221163052.htm

New Form of Sulfur Discovered in Geological Fluids

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110225091019.htm

Extreme Galaxies: Why are Some 300 Times Brighter than the Milky Way:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/02/extreme-galaxies-why-are-some-300-times-brighter-than-the-milky-way.html

Neutron Star Provides Direct Evidence for Bizarre Type of Nuclear Matter: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/neutron-star-provides-direct-evi.html?etoc

Science explains why humor turns women on:

http://io9.com/#!5770759/science-explains-why-humor-turns-women-on

Free online calculators- calculate what: http://www.calculatewhat.com/

TECHNOLOGY

Cold Fusion –it may not be madness:

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Cold-Fusion-It-May-Not-Be-Madness-71916.html

A win-win for biodiversity and biofuels: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/26424/?nlid=4162

Green Chemistry Offers Route Towards Zero-Waste Production

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110218083426.htm

How to beat technology addiction.

Has your BlackBerry taken over your life, or your iPhone?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/14/information-overload-research

Heat a nanotube, make a nanolamp: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26417/?nlid=4159

Super-thin Superconducting Cables: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/32424/?nlid=4162

New plastics can conduct electricity: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-plastics-electricity.html

Swype's Keyboard Alternative

The days of the QWERTY keyboard may be numbered: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/26424/?nlid=4162

Microsoft’s Kinect the new mouse:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/microsofts-kinect-the-new-mouse/

Computers Get In Touch with Your Emotions

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/32429/?nlid=4169&a=f

After Moore’s Law:

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/02/after-moores-law/

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

Nearly half a billion people escaped extreme poverty the last five years: Brookings report

http://www.kurzweilai.net/nearly-half-a-billion-people-escaped-extreme-poverty-the-last-five-years-brookings-report

World Freedom Atlas: http://freedom.indiemaps.com/

How rich are the super-rich:

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

The Positive Psychology Oscars of 2010:

http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/ryan-niemiec/2011022416696

People with low self-esteem show more signs of prejudice:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/02/23/people.with.low.self.esteem.show.more.signs.prejudice

Teaching geoscience online: http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/online/index.html

BUSINESS

Three simple presentation tips for leaders:

http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2011/02/3-simple-presentation-tips-for-leaders.html

The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/01/the_number_one_key_to_innovati.html

An inspiring essay by Miki Saxon: “When the world says No to you”:

http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2011/02/entrepreneur-when-the-world-tells-you-no/

Expand your mind- hot innovation- by Miki Saxon: http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2011/02/expand-your-mind-hot-innovation/

Rethinking Capitalism, Interview with Michael E. Porter, HBR: http://theentrepreneurialist.net/2011/01/18/rethinking-capitalism-interview-with-michael-e-porter-hbr/\

Capitalism for the long term: http://hbr.org/2011/03/capitalism-for-the-long-term/ar/pr

A life-or-death question to start your day:

http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2011/01/a-life-or-death-question-to-st.html

The rise of generation C:

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11110?gko=64e54&cid=20110222enews

Freedom to surf: workers more productive if allowed to use the internet for leisure http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/news/5750/

Rise of Neurocinema: How Hollywood Studios Harness Your Brainwaves to Win Oscars:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1731055/oscars-avatar-neurocinema-neuromarketing

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Look After Your Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110220142811.htm

Asthma Tied to Bacterial Communities in the Airway:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110217151457.htm

Early warning for asthma sufferers: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/32369/?nlid=4159

Drug follows melanoma wherever it goes: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/32372/?nlid=4161

Dry Copper Kills Bacteria on Contact:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110216120436.htm

Nanosized vaccines:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/nano-sized-vaccines-0222.html

Virus-Mimicking Nanoparticles Can Stimulate Long-Lasting Immunity: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110223133846.htm

Revealed: a first view inside the HIV virus:

http://www.visualnews.com/2011/02/24/revealed-a-first-view-inside-the-hiv-virus/

Microbes Help Children Breathe Easily? Bacteria and Fungi May Offer Protection Against Asthma, Study Suggests: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110223170831.htm

The reason loneliness could be bad for your health: http://www.economist.com/node/18226813?story_id=18226813&fsrc=nlw|hig|02-24-2011|editors_highlights

Global project on the history of leprosy: http://www.leprosyhistory.org/english/englishhome.htm

Scientists Accidentally Discover Cure for Baldness: http://gimundo.com/news/article/scientists-accidentally-discover-cure-for-baldness/ Too late for me, I was bald for at least 54 years

FOOD & COOKING

Agropolis Museum: Food and agricultures of the world: http://www.museum.agropolis.fr/english/index.html

The 9 billion-people question-food:

http://www.economist.com/node/18200618?story_id=18200618&fsrc=nlw|hig|02-24-2011|editors_highlights

Food security in Asia and the changing role of rice: http://asiafoundation.org/publications/pdf/782

Recipe View Makes Google Search Even More delicious:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380834,00.asp

The real cost of obesity: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/chartfocus/2011_01.htm

A push for the acceptance of genetically modified foods:

http://www.itsgeneticallymodified.com/2011/02/a-push-for-acceptance-of-genetically-modified-foods/

Where genetically modified crops are grown:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/02/daily_chart_genetically_modified_crops&fsrc=nwl

A Semantic Sommelier: Wine Application Highlights the Power of Web 3.0: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110223122415.htm

Healthy breakfast recipes:

http://kidscooking.about.com/od/breakfastrecipes/tp/healthy_breakfast_recipes.htm?nl=1

MISCELLANEA

The Top 10 Fears You Might Have !!:

http://gilygily.com/the-top-10-fears-you-might-have.html

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE

Google changes algorithm to fight search spam:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_17474527?nclick_check=1

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

Tips for Securing your PC

http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/Tips_for_Securing_your_PC.htm

New bank Trojan employs fresh tricks to steal account data

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9210764/New_bank_Trojan_employs_fresh_tricks_to_steal_account_data?taxonomyId=82

WiFi

Cellphone Use Tied to Changes in Brain Activity:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/cellphone-use-tied-to-changes-in-brain-activity/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

http://www.kurzweilai.net/cell-phone-use-affects-brain-glucose-metabolism

Mobile Web statistics:

http://websearch.about.com/od/themobileweb/tp/Mobile-Web-Statistics.htm?nl=1

Sunday, February 27, 2011

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No. 444