11 April 2005

Mapping Scientific Frontiers : http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345/citespace/Figure4.png At some point, challenges to the prevailing wisdom become strong enough to put science in crisis. The crisis is finally resolved with a transition from the old paradigm to a new, more compelling model. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040313/mathtrek.asp A scientific revolution occurs. Chaomei Chen has a Web site devoted to his CITESPACE project at http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345/citespace/.

http://www.markmonmonier.com/index.htm writes books that explore the impact of cartography on society.

Supposedly http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/ archives has neat stuff hidden in Google's satellite images.

A Beginner's Guide to TrackBack ; designed to provide a method of notification between websites: it is a method of person A saying to person B, "This is something you may be interested in." : http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/

Bootstrapping: The Secret to Entrepreneurial Success : http://www.sandhill.com/opinion/editorial.php?id=16

"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith
"My final thought is a simple but mighty one: it is the obligation we have been given. It is to not turn out the same. It is to grow, to accomplish, to change the world." - Stephen Sondheim, Merrily We Roll Along
"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Emerson
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882) American Essayist & Poet
"This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American Author

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