Friday, October 14, 2005

Defining the Blog. Jon Garfunkel says there are three sorts of bloggers -- he says these categories are "three distinct definitions, which are larger circles of inclusion." [Dan Gillmor's blog] 9:53:03 PM    comment []

Dave: John Gruber examines the life of an independent software developer through the experience of Brent & Sheila Simmons, NetNewsWire and NewsGator. [Scripting News] 9:48:24 PM    comment []

U.S. and France Agree Iran Must Stop Making Nuclear Fuel. France said that Iran should be allowed to have a civilian nuclear power program as long as it acquires the nuclear fuel elsewhere. By JOEL BRINKLEY. [NYT > International] 9:41:12 PM    comment []

Getting Down to Business with Negativland Tape It Off The Internet [unmediated] 9:39:46 PM    comment []

3980 :: Syllabus [del.icio.us]. Syllabus for course in technical writing taught entirely in Anarchy Online. [jill/txt] 9:31:35 PM    comment []

Wes: Light Reading: Internet Peering on Thin Ice? and Cogent: King of Ports. It's interesting to contrast comments like "What services is Cogent providing? Direct internet access and very, very little else. Cogent is competing simply on price and absolutely nothing else. This doesn't work because the costs involved in providing ethernet service requires higher revenue per customer. Cogent is useless because they provide no useful service." with the idea of connectivity as a utility. There appears to be little progress even on understanding this paradox since 2003. Takes me back to 1997, that's what I thought when I read about the peering issues. 9:31:23 PM    comment []

Here's an annotated bibliography of research on how gender affects evaluations. (Found in the comments on the Confessions of a Community College Dean weblog.) 9:54:58 AM    comment []

From OHRP-L: The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is soliciting public comment on a draft guidance document for Institutional Review Boards, investigators, research institutions, Department of Health and Human Services agencies that conduct or sponsor human subjects research, and other interested parties, entitled "Guidance on Reporting and Reviewing Adverse Events and Unanticipated Problems Involving Risks to Subjects or Others." The draft guidance can be viewed on the OHRP website at http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/requests/com101105.html. Comments should be submitted by 1/13/06 to OHRP by email at ohrp@osophs.dhhs.gov. Please include the term "Draft guidance on reporting adverse events" in the subject field. Alternatively, comments may be submitted by mail to: CAPT Michael Carome, M.D. U.S. Public Health Service Associate Director for Regulatory Affairs Office for Human Research Protections 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200 Rockville, MD 20852 6:54:30 AM    comment []