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Here are a couple links that i ran across lately that discuss organizational complexity of "virtual organizations".

Simile Timeplot is a very nice javascript package for data plotting and manipulation. See below for an example using TimePlot to show Camera user registrations and major events. (Note: firefox and safari 3.x only)

Good links for the graphic design of website...

(from mike chiu)

• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/21/60-elegant-and-visually-appea...
• http://webdesignfromscratch.com/
• http://webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm

- karan

see http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/technology/06ibm.html?_r=1&ref=busines...

By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: August 6, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5 — The National Science Foundation is planning to award I.B.M. a contract to build the world’s fastest supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, according to documents that were accidentally placed on a federal government Web site for a short time last week.

ok, as a mac user, i have this problem _all_ the time. i put a powerpoint talk together and send it to a windows user who then complains that he can't see the graphic images. Windows gives a nice error about not having quicktime or some such thing. Even if the windows user installs quicktime, they still can't see the images. quite annoying.

The root cause are images that are "cut-and-pasted" into the presentation. images that are inserted from the insert->graphics->from file seem to work fine.

In the Aug edition of the CTWatch online magazine (Volume 2, Number 3), the article
National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR): Developing End-to-End Cyberinfrastructure for Multiscale Modeling in Biomedical Research describes the approach and software used to build the cyberinfrastructure of the NBCR related projects and highlights Gemstone, GAMA, and Opal tools.

Link to a quick google maps rendering of the distribution of the CAMERA user community of 700 or so users. This is based on user information at time of registration, geocoding done using geonames.org, roughly 600 out of 700 users mapped. I'm still having difficult geocodidng addresses in some countries such as brazil, and israel.

http://grid-devel.rocksclusters.org/karan/geo2.html

- karan

[update: the data has been processed and cleaned up a bit... the cleaned up map is at: http://grid-devel.rocksclusters.org/karan/geo3.html ]

Since i use ichat quite often, i use my ichat status to broadcast my current location (home versus calit2 versus sdsc, etc), but i invariably forget to set it after moving around. wouldn't it be nice to have a script that is executed everytime my network changes to reset the ichat status based on the SSID of the wireless network?

Attached is a report from NSF that details the "Cyberinfrasture" vision from NSF based on numerous discussions/workshops and projects.

A great resource ... lists all major NSF cyberinfrastructure projects and the key activities that NSF is interested in going forward...

- karan

IBM Developerworks has just published our article on
Topaz, a firefox browser extension to support the GridF
TP protocol. The article can be found:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/grid/library/gr-firefoxftp/