A new Web site being developed by researchers at Syracuse University and the University of Washington (UW) will provide users with tools and tips for separating good online information from the vast amounts of unreliable material. R. David Lankes, associate professor of information studies at Syracuse, and Michael Eisenberg, professor in the Information School at UW, are codirectors of the Credibility Commons, which is funded by a $250,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Lankes said that many users assess the credibility of online information based on what a site looks like or whether it tells users what they want to hear. The Credibility Commons will gather computer programs–written by others and by the organizers of the new site–that can help users find credible information on the Web. The site will also solicit feedback from users for how best to locate reliable, accurate information. The tools developed by the Credibility Commons will be available as open source applications, which users may download and modify provided they share those changes with the site.Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 March 2006 (sub. req’d)

http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/03/2006032901t.htm

see:

http://www.pdfzone.com/article2/0,1895,1937092,00.asp

Notable quotation: “In versions 6 and previous, Adobe allowed a certain tolerance for font errors that engineers tightened up in version 7.”

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality just released its ‘New State Snapshot - Web Tool Measures Health Care Quality Performance.’ 

http://ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2006/stsnappr.htm

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They do MP3 podcasts and the website has realaudio on it if you need to get it again later.

http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/ 

Microsoft debuts Web-to-PC clipboard

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/apps/story/0,10801,109320,00.html?source=NLT_PM&nid=109320 

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