The World is still functional, has some problems- but as you will see from this new issue of my information newsletter there are people who try to solve the problems..

SEARCH

INTERNET

Fruit flies could hold key to future internet:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/fruit-flies-could-hold-key-to-future-internet

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.

Search Engine 101:

http://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/110322-Search-Engine-101

What are the best search-engines- in the opinion of Wendy Boswell:

http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/p/websearch101.htm

Three new search engines worth checking out:

http://www.itworld.com/internet/140913/three-new-search-engines-worth-checking-out?page=0%2C2

Yahoo Search Direct Takes On Google Instant By Providing Answers In The Search Box:

http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-launches-rich-version-of-instant-search-direct-69636 http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-reveals-secrets-of-search-direct-alogrithm-69705 http://searchengineland.com/head-to-head-yahoo-search-direct-vs-google-instant-69681

Five visionaries sum up the future of Search: http://searchengineland.com/five-visionaries-sum-up-the-future-of-search-69877?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=web

Knowledge Discovery Resources 2011 - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation: http://www.llrx.com/features/knowledgediscovery2011.htm

10 Visually Appealing Online Color Tools You Would Love To Use:

http://savedelete.com/best-free-online-color-tools.html

The Social Evolution of Search Engine Result Pages: http://searchenginewatch.com/3642073

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

Why is a blog article directory better than search engines:

http://presenttensemagazine.org/2011/03/why-is-a-blog-article-directory-better-than-search-engines/

14 Sure Short Ways To Write Compelling Guest Post

http://savedelete.com/guest-post-tips.html

Facebook- linked to narcissism?:

http://www.alternet.org/story/150339/facebook_linked_to_narcissism?akid=6719.112117.bY2zEQ&rd=1&t=12

The best Twitter search engines: http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/twitter-search-engines.htm

Four new Twitter poems: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/weekinreview/20twitterature-poems.html

LinkedIn reaches 10 million members worldwide:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110322005818/en/LinkedIn-Reaches-100-Million-Members-Worldwide

GOOGLE

The evolving mission of Google: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/business/media/21carr.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots:

http://slacy.com/blog/2011/03/what-larry-page-really-needs-to-do-to-return-google-to-its-startup

Report: Google most valuable brand of 2011:

http://searchengineland.com/report-google-most-valuable-brand-of-2011-69850

25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later:

http://searchengineland.com/25-things-i-hate-about-google-revisited-5-years-later-67969

12 Highly Useful Google Cheatsheets For Free Download: http://technologytosoftware.com/google-cheatsheets-free-download.html

Google launches online magazine “Think Quarterly”:

http://infodocket.com/2011/03/24/google-launches-online-magazine-think-quarterly/ Perhaps the frequency of thinking is not great enough?

Google’s New Chrome Icon: Less Simon-Like, More Hurricane-Like; Easier To Draw: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21/google-chrome-icon/

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

Google May Not Realize Its Vision for Books: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/26559/?nlid=4269

James Warner on the Future of Books: http://infodocket.com/2011/03/24/james-warner-on-the-future-of-books/

Wendy Boswell top ten book search engines: http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/booksearch.htm

SCIENCE

Ten things everyone should know about science:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2299fd16-9701-11dc-b2da-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz1GcWDo8Re

New Insight Into the Brain's Ability to Reorganize Itself:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318091014.htm

Massive maps of the brain:

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/36956/?nlid=4264&a=f

The Evolution of Brain Wiring: Navigating to the Neocortex:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323135629.htm

Similarities Found in Brain Activity for Both Habits and Goals:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110323135618.htm

‘Knowing it in your gut' is real: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-gut-real.html

Universal test of intelligence:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-universal-intelligence.html

What is consciousness?

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/what-is-consciousness/

A talk on how organisms have evolved to make use of quantum effects, by Seth Lloyd of MIT.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcXSpXyZVuY

Masked Fears: Are Fears That Are Seemingly Overcome Only Hidden?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318112018.htm

World Record for DNA Analysis: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308075522.htm

Toads point to new mechanism for evolution: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/03/22/3169531.htm

TECHNOLOGY

Today in energy: http://www.eia.doe.gov/todayinenergy/

I have discovered a smart renewable energy website/blog: http://renewable.50webs.com/

Batteries Charge Quickly and Retain Capacity, Thanks to New Structure: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110320164225.htm

Nano-electrodes may lead to phones that charge in seconds, electric cars in minutes:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/nano-electrodes-may-lead-to-phones-that-charge-in-seconds-electric-cars-in-minutes

Scientists use bacteria to create fuel from sunlight and CO2: http://www.gizmag.com/bacteria-sunlight-co2-renewable-petroleum/18223/

Move over Graphene, there's a new material in town: Silicene

http://www.nanopaprika.eu/ Special thanks to Andrs Paszternak creator of Nanopaprika!

Cheap catalysts made easy: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110322151252.htm

More Efficient Means of Creating, Arranging Carbon Nanofibers Developed: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317102554.htm

Gemlike 3D microscope lens developed: http://www.gizmag.com/3d-microscope-lens-developed/18198/

Superconducting Niobium Chip Smashes Silicon Power Consumption Standards:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26560/?nlid=4274

The First Plastic Computer Processor: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37126/?nlid=4274

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

Wendy Boswell : use the Khan Academy to learn almost anything for free:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/03/18/use-the-khan-academy-to-learn-almost-anything-for-free.htm?nl=1

Miki Saxon’s essential question: Education = Thinking?

http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2011/03/does-education-thinking/ Please also see:

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/03/20/career-counselor-bill-gates-or-steve-jobs/rival-philosophies-both-compelling

Natural disasters- counting the cost:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/03/natural_disasters&fsrc=nwl

Deindividuation: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/02/10/deindividuation/

Photography collections

http://culturaloffering.com/2011/03/20/picture-perfect.aspx

Rules of discussion:

http://culturaloffering.com/2011/03/21/rules-of-discussion.aspx

Predictably irrational: Introducing Friend Measure:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=355&bpid=26548&nlid=4264

Universal property of music discovered: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325102008.htm

BUSINESS

Ease of use is a competitive advantage:

http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2011/nt-2011-03-21-Ease-competitive.htm

Global innovation commons: http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org/home

Three answers every employee needs: http://blogs.hbr.org/johnson/2011/01/three-answers-every-employee-n.html

Poke The Box: A Review and One Question to Seth Godin: http://qaspire.com/blog/2011/03/23/poke-the-box-a-review-and-one-question-to-seth-godin/ Thanks to Cultural Offering!

Are we thinking too little or too much?: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6630.html?wknews=03212011

10 Body Language Techniques to Make You Succeed in Business:

http://www.businesspundit.com/10-body-language-techniques-to-make-you-succeed-in-business/

Get your goals back on the track:

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/02/get_your_goals_back_on_track.html

I’m Your Boss, Not Your Friend; 10 Reasons Why Your Boss Shouldn’t be Your Friend:

http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2011/03/im-your-boss-not-your-friend-10-reasons.html

Managing Yourself: Stop Holding Yourself Back:

http://hbr.org/2011/01/managing-yourself-stop-holding-yourself-back/ar/1

2010 world’s most ethical companies: http://ethisphere.com/wme2010/

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Wendy Boswell- top 5 medical search engines: http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/tp/medical.htm

A genomic blueprint for cancer:

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37075/?nlid=4269

Making Targeted Cancer Drugs Work Better:

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37125/?nlid=4274&a=f

Potential Health Effects of Radiation Exposure :

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/35128/?nlid=4263&a=f

Blood Pressure: 100 Million Americans May Be Unnecessarily Labeled Abnormal: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110309101807.htm

Discovery may lead to cure for drug addiction: http://www.kurzweilai.net/molecular-code-regulates-neuronal-excitability

Restless Legs Syndrome Is Due To Decreased Brain Iron Acquisition - New Study:

http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/7136/Restless-Legs-Syndrome-Is-Due-To-Decreased-Brain-Iron-Acquisition--New-Study/

New Statement Offers Advice on Treating Dangerous, Deep Blood Clot: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321161923.htm

World Allergy Organization: http://www.worldallergy.org/index.php

Scientists Grow Personalized Collections of Intestinal Microbes:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321162001.htm

Bees could reveal key to dementia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321102118.htm

FOOD & COOKING

Nutrition-Quality, not quantity Why small doses of vitamins could make a huge difference to the world’s health: http://www.economist.com/node/18440801?story_id=18440801&fsrc=nlw|hig|24-03-2011|editors_highlights

Wendy Boswell- expand your recipe collection with cookstr.:

http://websearch.about.com/b/2011/03/10/expand-your-recipe-collection-with-cookstr.htm?nl=1

Are Saturated Fats Really The Enemy?

http://www.alternet.org/story/150278/are_saturated_fats_really_the_enemy?akid=6735.112117.bzXhLn&rd=1&t=30

Chemical-Free Pest Management Cuts Rice Waste:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317093349.htm

Dieting is stressful and makes you irritable and angry:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8393699/Dieting-is-stressful-and-makes-you-irritable-and-angry.html

MISCELLANEA

10 Ways Not to Be a Jerk Online: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371502,00.asp

Feeling Angry? Say a Prayer and the Wrath Fades Away, Study Suggests: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321134714.htm

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE

Fighting Search Spam with Blekko Co-Founder Mike Markson

http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/110482/blekko_brightedge_mike_markson.php

Rustock botnet spammers sought following takedown: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2011/03/26/rustock_botnet_spammers_sought_following_takedown

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

“Your PC is Infected" Phone Scam:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/emailscams/a/Your-Pc-Is-Infected-Phone-Scam.htm?nl=1

Google patches 6 serious Chrome bugs:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215070/Google_patches_6_serious_Chrome_bugs

Bob Rankin- is Internet faxing secure?

http://askbobrankin.com/is_internet_faxing_secure.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=1ewyLLx0m8P6SL

WiFi

Sunday, March 27, 2011

INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY NO. 448