Just in case we journalists get too depressed about recent cases of invention and plagiarism, consider scientists. Nature’s website quotes the annual report of the Committee on Publishing Ethics, which it says details misdemeanours that “cover a wide range of unethical activity, from attempted bribery to potential medical malpractice.” Two complaints concern cases where researchers… Read More »
Here’s a new tool for folk using lots of bits of text and stuff time and time again. AbridgeInsert uses hotkey combinations, so you can “easily insert commonly-used text into any application, such as a word processors, email programs, tables, IDEs, etc.” You can use it for: exchange of text and graphics among applications coding… Read More »
An excellent way to collect news, particularly if you’re U.S.-based. The new Topix.net doesn’t look that great, but it’s simple and easy to configure. Most importantly, you can grab topics as XML feeds, straight into your RSS reader (or to your Yahoo homepage if you prefer). If you live in a U.S. town, you can… Read More »
Was the recent virus war just between kids, or something more sinister? Mi2g, the British Internet security consultants, reckon not. “Upon analysing the juvenile dialogue between the malware writers of NetSky, Bagle and MyDoom it has been prematurely concluded by a range of commentators that this is a turf war between teenagers or college students seeking global notoriety. Whilst script… Read More »
Here’s a new blogging tool that goes further than blogging. Developed by University of Maryland student Anthony Casalena, Squarespace is “an intelligent Internet content management system” he believes is the next evolution of publishing on the World Wide Web — for everyone. “Casalena threw HTML editors and file transfer protocol (FTP) software out the window.… Read More »