Here's the simple, non-techy way of tagging photos with the location of where you took them on planet Earth. There are lots of ways to do this, and I'll write about those later- but this is fun thing to do over the holiday weekend. As an added bonus, I'll show you how to see your photos on a cool Mapping application called Mappr, as well as Google Earth...

Essentially, it provides a framework from which to hang new definitions which can themselves be used as knowledge enhancing extension points.

Alternate Reality Games in Virtual Spaces

he next version of Second Life will be seamlessly integrated with the Web, making it easier for real-world businesses to sell items through SL. For example, a retailer like L.L. Bean could have a “door” to an SL store on its Web site, inviting people to jump from 2-D browsing into a 3-D saunter around, where an avatar with your exact mea­surements could try on clothes for you.

annual gross domestic product of $64 million (U.S. dollars).

What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model?

In condemning Israel for the civilian deaths in Lebanon, and not Hizballah and its state sponsors for using those civilians as human shields, the international community is empowering terrorists and undermining civilized concern for noncombatants.

The Crisis in the Middle East

CSIS fellow Haim Malka offers a new analysis of Israel's intentions in the conflict. Several other CSIS experts have provided their thoughts on various aspects of the crisis including the lessons to be learned from it, Iran's role, peacekeeping, and defense technology.

n response to growing concern over the quality of medical care in the U.S., Medicare is experimenting with "pay-for-performance" (P4P), a financial incentive that rewards health care providers for recommended care. In "Pay-for-Performance: Is Medicare a Good Candidate?," a new Cato Institute working paper to be published in the Yale Journal of Health Policy Law & Ethics, Cato scholar Michael Cannon warns policymakers to take a cautious approach to P4P, especially when applying it to Medicare. According to Cannon, Congress can harness the potential of provider-focused P4P incentives while reducing the likelihood of harm by confining P4P to private Medicare Advantage plans and by encouraging greater participation in those plans.