Autor: Lech Borkowski (lbs_at_phys.ufl.edu)
Data: Fri 11 Nov 1994 - 01:51:19 MET
The Guardian
November 10, 1994
NETWATCH
by Jack Schofield
AFTER attending the Information Superhighway Conference in London last
month, Liz Thomson (E.Thomson_at_plymouth.ac.uk) has set up a World-Wide Web page
to point to information and discussions about I-way development in the UK. The
URL (Uniform Resource Locator or network address) is: http:
/tin.ssc.plym.ac.uk/up.html But turn off graphics before calling as the page
includes three pointless snaps taken at the conference . . . .
WITH 'cult tragedies' in the news, a non-profit information service has been
added to the Internet by FACTNet (Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network).
'FACTNet's library contains journal, magazine, and news articles, professional
studies, reports of personal experiences of former members, summaries of
relevant legal decisions or government investigations, as well as key reference
materials, resources, and support people or organizations who may be able to
provide more assistance. FACTNet provides information from many perspectives.
The individual decides the truth.' Groups covered include the Children of God,
Dianetics, EST, Hare Krishna, Rajneesh, Scientology, TM (Transcendental
Meditation), Unification Church (Moonies) and The Worldwide Church of God
FACTNet runs a bulletin board at (0101-303) 530-1942 and can be e-mailed as
factnet_at_rmii.com. It also now has a Web site at: http: /www.acmeweb.com/factnet
STRIKING workers from the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner are now
publishing the San Francisco Free Press on the Web at the URL of: http:
/ccnet.com /SF-Free-Press/ The management side is continuing to publish editions
at the newspapers' official Web site, The Gate, at: http: /cyber.sfgate.com: 80/
A good place to look for current and new net newspapers like these is: http:
/akebono.stanford.edu/ yahoo/Business/Corporations/ Newspapers/
GEORGE MILLER, a cognitive psychologist at Princeton University, is
compiling WordNet, a new sort of electronic thesaurus. As well as synonyms and
antonyms it also includes meronyms (components, as handle is to cup), holonyms
(larger whole, as cup is to handle), and hyponyms (subsets, as rose is to
flower). This 'semantic concordance' now runs to definitions of about 125,000
words. For a trial run, visit the URL: http:
/www.cogsci.princeton.edu/wn/index.html Unix, PC (DOS and Windows), and
Macintosh versions of the program and databases are also available by ftp from
the pub directory at clarity.princeton.edu (but be warned: even the compressed
PC version is five megabytes).
THE fourth Internet Index, inspired by Harper's Index in Harper's Magazine,
has just been compiled by Win Treese. It's a short collection of interesting
facts about the net. For example: Based on current growth rates, estimated year
when every person on the planet will be on the Internet: 2003. To subscribe to
the Index, e-mail the message: subscribe internet-index to
internet-index-request_at_OpenMarket.com. You can now read the latest compilation
online at: http: /www.openmarket.com/ info/internet-index/current.html IF YOU
want to know why California has earthquakes while Texas has oil, the answer may
be available by e-mail. The US Geological Survey, a federal government body, is
offering an experimental Internet service, Ask-A-Geologist. Send your query to
ask-a-geologist_at_octopus.wr.usgs.gov and with luck the designated 'geologist of
the day' will reply within a day or two. All questions and answers become part
of the public record. Later, a Frequently Asked Questions list will be made
available via anonymous ftp and the Web. Geologists have so far been willing to
answer questions from foreigners, but say 'we rarely have detailed knowledge of
geology outside the US'.
HERE'S a bad idea: the Higher Education Statistics Agency, has linked the
Novell User List program on its network to the People page on its Web server at:
http: /www.hesa.ac.uk/ In theory, you can tell who's at work, or at least,
logged on, so the boss can check while on holiday. However, 14 out of 16 staff
were listed as online at midnight on Sunday. Would a statistics agency computer
lie to us?
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