Scout Report: Week ending July 8, 1994
NOTES: Due to real-world travel by the Info Scout last week, the release
of the Scout Report was delayed. Coming attractions: commercial Net
resources section. Remember, your preferences on the length and content of
the Report are welcome. Mail to scout@internic.net.
This is the 11th issue of the Scout Report.
World Wide Web:
- Academe This Week,
The Chronicle of Higher Education's complimentary information service
on the Internet. Gopher version
also still available.
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The Ada Project (TAP), a WorldWideWeb (WWW) site designed to serve as a
clearinghouse for information and resources relating to women in
computing. Information includes conferences, projects, discussion groups
and organizations, fellowships and grants, more.
- Commonwealth of Learning, (COL)
an organization interested in widening the
access to learning in the 51 member countries through the use of distance
learning and communications technologies. Includes documents, news
releases, updates, more.
- _Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine_ ,
July issue,
now available on the Web. Back issues (
May and June)
also available.
- The Imaging and Distributed Computing Group of Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory announces its interactive forms-based
frog dissection kit. Images of the frog from various views, and in
various stages of dissection, are generated on-the-fly based on parameters
set by the user.
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The Jerusalem Mosaic. Contains information, exhibits and
images about Jerusalem.
- List of mailing lists and Usenet News groups related to
WWW.
- One Book List.
From the announcement by Paul Phillips, InterNIC
Information Services: "My proposal is this: one book. I would like for
each of you to decide on a single book that you would most like for the
world to read, and mail me the author and title. The book that, for you,
was the most influential, or thought-provoking, or enjoyable, or moving,
or philosophically powerful, or deep in some sense you cannot properly
define, or any other criteria you wish to set."
- Socioeconomic and environmental data collection at the
World Bank.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including data from the
National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, and Social
Security Administration.
- University of Manitoba,
including Canadian Geographical WWW Index.
- World Wide Web and Mosaic:
User's Guide,
made available by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Gopher/FTP:
- African National Congress
information online. Directories include: graphics, history, misc,
policy docs, press statements.
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British Columbia Institute of Technology, including Applied Research in
Computer Systems (ARCS Lab), Health Applied Research & Development
(H.A.R.D.) program, and Entrepreneurial Centre & Venture Program.
-
Dr. E's Eclectic Compendium of Electronic Resources for Adult/Distance
Education, updated version.
- The FinanceNet
Core Team at the Vice President's National Performance
Review in Washington, DC., in association with the National Science
Foundation, announced availability of a new Gopher server. Also
announced: a series of 20 or more topical moderated mailing lists relating
to Federal, state and local financial management practices and policies.
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- Summary of
mail server commands for five widely used mail server
programs, including REVISED LISTSERV (also called BITNET LISTSERV), Unix
ListProcessor (or Listproc), Majordomo, Mailserv, and Mailbase.
- GlasNews,
published quarterly by the Communications Exchange Program, is
aimed at East-West communicators in such fields as journalism,
advertising, public relations and telecommunications.
- University of Wisconsin,
Trace Center: Disability and Computer Access
Information. A Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on
Adapted Computers and Information Systems, through the National Institute
on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US. Department of Education.
Communication by the non-speaking and physically disabled; the control
mechanisms used to operate computers, communication aids, and home
environmental controls; computer access -- ways to make computers,
electronic equipment and information systems more accessible to people
with disabilities.
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The US. Consumer Product Safety Commission includes all Press Releases
from 1991 to the present and the agency's Public Calendar. Future plans:
the Commission's Annual Report and executive summaries of briefing
packages submitted to the Commission.
National Information Infrastructure:
The Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) and the Council on
Competitiveness (nonprofit organization) announced joint sponsorship of an
NII conference:
Breaking the Barriers to the National Information Infrastructure.
The conference will focus on the applications being
developed to run on the NII, and to explore the implementation hurdles
that users and application developers are experiencing as they create and
deploy new applications in health care, education, manufacturing,
electronic informationmanagement and commerce as well as
entertainment/home services. September 7-8, 1994, in Washington DC.
$295/$395. See posting for registration information.
NetBytes
- From _The Internet Letter_:
"Ruling on Internet Trademark Sought,
Patent Office Suspends Applications Process. The U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office (PTO) has suspended action on approving all applications for trademarks
using the word Internet. With some potentially significant financial
interests involved, the patent office is trying to decide if anybody has
exclusive rights to the name Internet."
(Jayne Levin, Editor netweek@access.digex.net)
- From the highlights of _Interactive Publishing Alert_: "In the Spotlight:
Knight-Ridder Pulls Dave Barry Off the Internet -- Knight-Ridder has
pulled Dave Barry off the Internet -- and it's no laughing matter. On June
23, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services terminated its contract
with ClariNet Communications Corp., an electronic newspaper based in San
Jose, Calif., to distribute humorist Dave Barry's columns on the Internet
global communications network. The reason: Electronic piracy that the
media giant and its Internet distributor were powerless to stop.
(Rosalind Resnick, Editor and Publisher gopher: enews.com)
- "Good Morning America Sunday" on July 10, 1994, included a segment on how
the OJ Simpson case is being discussed in electronic forums, including
USENET Newsgroups and Internet mailing lists.
(Note from He Who Converts ASCII Scout Reports Into HTML For Your
Web Pleasure: the overly modest InfoScout did not mention that she
was featured on Good Morning America -- check it out if you can.)
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