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* Goodness does not consist in greatness but greatness in goodness. - Athenaeus
* In the absences of a decent time machine fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
* It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
* Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain
* A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. Piet Hein
* Eternity is a mere moment just long enough for a joke.
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Research and development organisation, working to generate insights and evidence, create new solutions and provide leadership for action to improve health and tackle inequality.

The Centre provides a setting where academics, policy-makers, practitioners and local people can come together to confront the problems facing population health in Glasgow and beyond.

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* Overview: Integeratng Back, History and Bookmarks in Web Browsers
* An Overview and Understanding of the paper titled “The Perfect Search Engine Is Not Enough: A Study of Orienteering Behavior in Directed Search” by Jaime Teevan, Christine Alvarado, Mark S. Ackerman and David R. Karger
* Overview: Contextual Web History
* An Overview and Understanding of the paper titled ” Searching to Eliminate Personal Information Management (PIM) ” by Edward Cutrell, Susan T. Dumais and Jaime Teevan
* Firefox Addons : Enhanced History tools – Part 2
* Firefox Addons : Enhanced History tools – Part 1
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* Infoaxe and Hooeey have many interesting features. Our ideas on the timeline and pivot are definitely inspired by these add-ons. I think we need both to provide the user with sufficient clues and context. But you are correct that privacy is an issue. Even though Infoaxe is supported by Garcia-Molina from Stanford, I wouldn't trust to send my data over there.
* What occurs to me is that WebMynd and ThumbStrips seem to adopt the same approach for refinding information: they just let you browse a list of pictures of the sites. Intuitive sorting and filtering appears to be quite limited. Obviously you don't want to overload the user with functionality, but a filmpstrip is just not enough. Hope we can do better!
[...] formally proved by the auhors of CWH, it is important to include the visual cues to help user find what they are looking for more [...]
* I completely agree with you gautum that they usually google search it again and this is what was found by the authors of the paper (Contextual Web History, see my next post for details), but then that just defies the purpose of the web history tools.
Also, the bookmark thing you are talking about..I am not sure how often we use that. For longer re-visitation patterns, we usually forget that we even bookmarked it at an earlier time. We use those bookmarks, only if we are using the website on a regular or mid-regular basis.

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Before trying to address the current state of human rights, it is worth considering what is admitted into that sacred canon. The question constantly arises, quite concretely. For example, 10 days ago, on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, when Amnesty International declared that "Poverty is the world's worst human rights crisis." Or two days before that, on World Food Day, when the UN food agency reported that the number of people going hungry rose to over 1 billion, while rich countries sharply cut back food aid because of the priority of bailing out banks, and Oxfam reported that 16,000 children are dying a day from hunger-related causes. And the issues regularly arise even in the richest country in the world, where the question of whether health care is a human right is being hotly debated while some 45,000 people die a year from lack of insurance, unknown numbers from utterly inadequate insurance, in the only industrial society I know of where health care is rationed by wealth, not need. In all these cases, the lives could be saved by a tiny fraction of the GDP of the rich countries, so the question is whether they recognize the right to life as among human rights.

The same stand was elaborated by Paula Dobriansky, Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs under Bush II, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Human Affairs in the Reagan and Bush I administrations. In the latter capacity, she took pains to dispel what she called "myths" about human rights, the most salient being the myth that so-called "`economic and social rights' constitute human rights." She denounced the efforts to obfuscate human rights discourse by introducing these spurious rights -- which are entrenched in the UD, formulated at US initiative, but explicitly rejected by Washington, not alone of course.
Such contrasts lead to situations that are highly revealing about the prospects for human rights. Right now, the two American political parties are competing to see which can uphold more fervently its ded

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Welcome to the Blogging 101 Wikibook. This book (which anybody can edit) is a collection of resources about blogs and blogging. It is divided into several categories. Please add whatever links you think would be useful to people under the appropriate headings. (Off-topic & inappropriate material will of course be edited out.)

A weblog, or simply a blog, is a web application which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage. Such a Web site would typically be accessible to any Internet user. Part of the reason "blog" was coined and commonly accepted into use is the fact that in saying "blog," confusion with server log is avoided.
Blogs run from individual diaries to arms of political campaigns, media programs and corporations, and from one occasional author to having large communities of writers. The totality of weblogs or blog-related webs is usually called the blogosphere.
The format of weblogs varies, from simple bullet lists of hyperlinks, to article summaries with user-provided comments and ratings. Individual weblog entries are almost always date and time-stamped, with the newest post at the top of the page. Because links are so important to weblogs, most blogs have a way of archiving older entries and generating a static address for individual entries; this static link is referred to as a permalink. The latest headlines, with hyperlinks and summaries, are offered in weblogs in the RSS XML-format, to be read with a RSS feedreader.

For a detailed breakdown of blog tool features see: Blog Software Breakdown
A similar German-language version is here.
Here is another good post on comparing blogging tools like Blogger vs TypePad vs Movable Type vs blosxom vs b2evolution vs Wordpress
Feature by feature comparison of the two most popular hosted blog solutions, TypePad vs Blogger
Weblogs Compendium has good and long list of a variety of blog tools.
Globe of Blogs is an excellent list of blog tools, hosting & design services, etc.
For an excellent blogging guide with Tips and Tutori

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If pictures speak a thousand words, a cartoon by RK Laxman of the ‘You Said It’ fame and the likes speak volumes. Most agree but none know the next Common Man might bloom out of a tech pen. Taking a break from the monotonous world of coding and decoding, IT professionals have begun using the stroke of the pen to tickle the funny bone of many.
Srikant Jakilinki, a computer engineer who uses cartoony imagery for social commentary on http://cworks.blogspot.com the sketching bug began in their childhood. “I got gripped by this passion when I stumbled upon a book ‘Kontebommala Bapu’ as a child and was mesmerised at the bandwidth of images which are nothing but simple strokes of ink. Fascinations of childhood linger for a lifetime and that knowledge (cartoons) is quite tricky in the sense that the more one acquires it, the more one wants it,” says Srikant.

An IT professional sketching or making cartoons is often unheard of because it contradicts the stereotype image of a computer geek. But these techie artists think the two talents complement each other. Srikant, who vents his emotions, thoughts, ideas and observations of society through his toons, says: “The cartoon escapism keeps me occupied beyond ‘office’ hours, releases me from the humdrum conformity of a typical IT worker.”
What is it that ensures that these creative juices keep on flowing? For Srikant, people inspire him — coffee talk with colleagues to family dinner conversations to chats with mates over drinks and the media. About 20% of his work comes from ideas of other people directly or indirectly. He believes in soliciting suggestions from readers wholeheartedly. His good observation and articulation transform an ordinary pen and paper into magical works. He feels the rest — drawing and sketching talents — are merely incidental.

But not many techies go ahead with building on these incidentals. Lack of time and the daily hustle-bustle at work force them to lock up the canvas in their bags. But Srikant opted to pursue this passion despite the odds. “The

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Citizen journalism…is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information”… Wikipedia.
Journalism is the art and practice of providing people with the information they need to be free. But in our world much of professional journalism has become industrialized, trivialized, and monetized -- far more concerned with ratings, circulation and return on investment, than the stuff of freedom.

Citizen journalism is the art and practice of sharing information with each other. Citizen journalists are artisans who work in the unshaped clay of events before perception has been hardened, glazed and fired in the kilns of public discourse.

At Broowaha we have editors who screen stories so that vulgar or offensive do not get published and correct or amend the writing, but our editors don't have control over where stories end up on the front page or back section. That is determined by the Community. Join and become a member – as a writer, reader or both.

Info for Creative Authors. We invite original submissions of humor, essay, memoir, short story, and poetry with a maximum of 1,000 words. This length restriction is somewhat limiting when it comes to short story in particular. But the types of stories we are looking for should be along the lines of vignettes, character sketches, and succinctly drawn slices of life.

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Bloggers Unite is a community that cares. An attempt to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place. By asking bloggers to write about a particular subject on 1 day of the month, a single voice can be joined with thousands to help make a difference; from raising awareness for cancer, to an effort to better education systems or supporting 3rd world countries.

Back in early 2007 Antony Berkman was the CEO of BlogCatalog.com, a social network and blog directory whose mission was to deliver the most amazing collection of bloggers to the type of audience who love and crave new blogs. With BlogCatalog designer Oscar Tijerina and his brother, programmer Daniel Tijerina, Berkman began working on an idea to use the large network of bloggers for a force of good. The idea was simple, the BlogCatalog team would pick a topic and ask bloggers to participate on a single day to raise awareness about a particular cause. Within a week the BlogCatalog team began creating a landing page and organizing the very first Bloggers Unite Challenge.

On July 18th 2007 the Donor Awareness Campaign became the very first attempt at using the blogosphere to collectively spread the word about a topic for the good of mankind. Seven campaigns and a year and a half later bloggersunite.org was launched to help spread the word even further.

Today, BloggersUnite continues to branch out, giving any user the resources to create and manage a campaign of their own no matter how big or small. We believe that no cause should go unnoticed and we strive to help bloggers find new and exciting ways to use the blogosphere for good because together, we CAN make a difference.

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The internet has changed the face of media. New media has shifted the power from the few owners of old media establishments to the users. We are proud to be part of this evolution with our network of sites, fulfilling the needs of today’s bloggers and online audience. We are dedicated to helping make the world a better place through communication and education. We cover everything that a new media practitioner needs, including: new media news, analysis, tips, tutorials, software, hosting, design, tools, statistics, metrics, marketing, copyright protection and consultancy services.

Our network covers a wide range of blogs and new media applications on a variety of topics.
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The Jetpack Gallery is a community for developers and add-on users: Users get innovative add-ons that add functionality to Firefox, while developers receive valuable feedback and visibility in the Jetpack community.

Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project that enables anyone who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create powerful Firefox add-ons. Our goal is to allow anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play.
As with all Labs experiments, Jetpack is an open source project and everyone is welcome to participate in its design, development, and testing.
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Science is driving our conversation unlike ever before. From climate change to intelligent design, HIV/AIDS to stem cells, science education to space exploration, science is figuring prominently in our discussions of politics, religion, philosophy, business and the arts. New insights and discoveries in neuroscience, theoretical physics and genetics are revolutionizing our understanding of who are are, where we come from and where we're heading. Launched in January 2006, ScienceBlogs is a portal to this global dialogue, a digital science salon featuring the leading bloggers from a wide array of scientific disciplines. Today, ScienceBlogs is the largest online community dedicated to science.

We believe in providing our bloggers with the freedom to exercise their own editorial and creative instincts. We do not edit their work and we do not tell them what to write about.
We have selected our 80+ bloggers based on their originality, insight, talent, and dedication and how we think they would contribute to the discussion at ScienceBlogs. Our role, as we see it, is to create and continue to improve this forum for discussion, and to ensure that the rich dialogue that takes place at ScienceBlogs resonates outside the blogosphere.
ScienceBlogs is very much an experiment in science communication, and being first also means being first to encounter unforeseen obstacles. We are learning as we go (and as goes the blogosphere) and appreciate your understanding and patience.

ScienceBlogs was created by Seed Media Group. We believe that science literacy is a pre-condition for progress in the 21st century. At a time when public interest in science is high but public understanding of science remains weak, we have set out to create innovative media ventures to improve science literacy and to advance global science culture. To learn more about what we do and why we do it, please visit seedmediagroup.com.
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To find out, we went through the Technorati top 100 blogs and investigated what blog platforms they are using. It turned out to be a highly interesting survey with plenty of surprises along the way.
Did you know that Weblogs, Inc. and Gawker Media together have 22 of the top 100 blogs?
* Wordpress is used by 27 blogs in the top 100.
* Movable Type is used by 12 blogs in the top 100.
* Only 8 of the top 100 blogs use a custom-made blog platform.
* Drupal is the only general-purpose CMS with any presence.
* More than one third of the top 100 blogs use a blogging service.
* Typepad is used by 16 blogs in the top 100.
* Blogsmith is used by 14 blogs in the top 100.
* Wordpress.com is used by 5 blogs in the top 100.
* Blogger is used by 3 blogs in the top 100

Something we noticed while going through the top 100 blog list at Technorati is that two big blog networks have taken a large chunk of the top 100 blogs. In addition to these, Wired has created a small blog empire of its own.

Perez Hilton 18 Wordpress
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Chris Brogan 69 Wordpress
Zen Habits 77 Wordpress
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The Caucus Blog – NYTimes 22 Wordpress
Bits Blog – NYTimes 51 Wordpress
Freakonomics – NYTimes 70 Wordpress
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Seth’s Blog 14 Typepad
The Daily Dish 21 Typepad
Threat Level – Wired Blogs 24 Typepad
Gadget Lab – Wired Blogs 26 Typepad
Wired Science – Wired Blogs 31 Typepad
The Pioneer Woman 32 Typepad
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Flagfox is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that shows a flag icon, either in the status bar or in the address bar, indicating the current website's server location. It uses relatively little resources, and works by accessing an IP address database contained within the extension rather than relying on top-level-domain roots like ".com" or ".uk". Clicking the icon loads Geotool, which provides a map of the location as well as more information such as the ISP and city. The context menu also provides quick access to information about the country of origin, as well as the ability to lookup the site's registrant via Whois. Since Flagfox 3.3 it is also possible to add a custom lookup to the context menu.


Flagfox 3 is a Firefox extension based on the original Flagfox extension written by Joseph Birr-Pixton.
The original version was not actively maintened so in January 2006 Flagfox II was created and maintained by Richard van der Leeden. Some enhancements were make in this version and the IP databases was regularly updated.
Then in October 2007 Dave Garrett did a major rewrite of the code and incorporated many enhancements. With the help of BabelZilla.org Flagfox 3 is now available for a variety of locales.

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FlagFox is a Mozilla FireFox extension which displays the flag of the location of the current server. It achieves this by using an IP address to country database rather than domain-name top-level-domains (eg ".uk" or ".br"), and so works with all sites. Clicking the flag takes you to Wikipedia page for that country.

FlagFox uses no additional network resources. It does one DNS lookup which is guaranteed to be a local DNS cache hit. All images and the mapping database is kept in the extension (which is why the extension is so large!)

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