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02 Dec 06

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO GPS Tag Photos: Flickr, Mappr, Google Earth....

  • 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...
30 Nov 06

The Dictionary Project | Global Telelanguage Resources

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

Your Second Life is Ready - Popular Science

  • 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).
04 Sep 06

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

  • What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model?
04 Aug 06

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Insight and Analysis on U.S. Middle East Policy

  • 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 Heritage Foundation - Policy Research and Analysis





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    Before the Senate adjourns for recess, it is poised to

Home page - Center for Strategic and International Studies

  • 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.

The Cato Institute

  • 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.

The Brookings Institution


  • As Israel's offensive in Lebanon continues, efforts to halt the fighting have stalled in the United Nations over the terms of a cease-fire. "Stopping for the sake of stopping," said President Bush, "can be okay, except it won't address the root cause of the problem."

Welcome to AEI

  • In the Company of Dictators
03 Aug 06

Joho the Blog: Social reading -- A niche to be filled?

  • pa2 the ways people thought of making this happen just two years ago - asgood on 2006-08-03
  • sounds like a job for MetaFilter!
  • Social reading -- A niche to be filled?

http://www.diigo.com/user/asgood

  • first time i've seen this phrase; r2 evolution of literature (cyclical?) oral-> private (silent) -> socially related + private; think of rB tags/SIPs -> tags as part of shifting taxonomic system, SIPs as essentially one-offs, but how to utilize their relational potential? - asgood on 2006-08-03
  • social reading 
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