“A meme (it rhymes with ‘dream’) is short for mimetics, a word denoting mimicry. Dawkins wanted to identify a self-replicating unit of culture that would play a role in cultural evolution similar in some ways to the role played by self-replicating genes in the evolution of bodies. He chose the word ‘meme’ because it had one syllable, like gene, and because it sounded like gene. A meme is anything humans do or say that is not genetically determined and is passed from person to person by imitation or copying, such as the wish to ‘have a nice day.’”

“Simplicity is the core of good art. But achieving simplicity is very difficult. I tell my students that if they came to my studio and saw all the sketches I throw in the garbage, they’d realize how difficult it is to create something simple.” —Luba Lukova.

“Museum historians hope this section prods guests to consider their own place in history and their power to change it. They also hope it prepares visitors to explore how everyday folks from the past answered the same questions. The exhibit clearly announces Missouri Historical Society president Robert Archibald’s philosophy of public history — one that starts with current problems like the environment, transportation or education and then works backwards presenting examples of how our predecessors addressed such issues. But does ‘Seeking St. Louis’ provide a thoughtful and complete picture of the past? Many critics of the exhibit say no.” Note: This story will be routed to postnet.com’s pay archives after a week and this link will be broken.

“Ritual and publicity models of communication provide a theoretical basis for studying interactivity of online newspapers. An operational definition of interactivity is developed and applied to an empirical study of 100 online newspapers.”

“Ritual and publicity models of communication provide a theoretical basis for studying interactivity of online newspapers. An operational definition of interactivity is developed and applied to an empirical study of 100 online newspapers.”

“Ad-fat magazines like the Industry Standard, Business 2.0 and the Red Herring have swelled to telephone-book size. But who has time to read 3,000 pages a month?”

“Classified as ‘the most popular Apache module’ by E-Soft, PHP is one of the least frequently mentioned languages amongst the XML discussion lists. Yet PHP was amongs the first languages to support XML (since release 3.0.6, December 98 using James Clark’s expat library). Although this feature is sufficient to parse a XML document, the limitations of the object oriented features of PHP3 didn’t allow for an easy implementation of any DOM interface, and the function libraries developed for XML have always been very proprietary and limited. PHP4 (of which beta4 patch level 1 looks very stable) brings many enhancements to PHP’s object oriented features and should therefore allow a leap forward in the XML direction.”

Calling itself a “Tech Content Harvester,” 10.AM finds and publishes links to a variety of Technology-oriented news stories: OS Related, Industry, Software, Hardware, Web, Development, Security, Personal, Connectivity, General, Weblogs and Newsgroups. It’s so new (0.3 preBETA) the “About” section isn’t even written yet.

Calling itself a “Tech Content Harvester,” 10.AM finds and publishes links to a variety of Technology-oriented news stories: OS Related, Industry, Software, Hardware, Web, Development, Security, Personal, Connectivity, General, Weblogs and Newsgroups. It’s so new (0.3 preBETA) the “About” section isn’t even written yet.

“Classified as ‘the most popular Apache module’ by E-Soft, PHP is one of the least frequently mentioned languages amongst the XML discussion lists. Yet PHP was amongs the first languages to support XML (since release 3.0.6, December 98 using James Clark’s expat library). Although this feature is sufficient to parse a XML document, the limitations of the object oriented features of PHP3 didn’t allow for an easy implementation of any DOM interface, and the function libraries developed for XML have always been very proprietary and limited. PHP4 (of which beta4 patch level 1 looks very stable) brings many enhancements to PHP’s object oriented features and should therefore allow a leap forward in the XML direction.”

“Cafe con Leche is designed to provide more or less daily news updates from and for the XML community. It’s modeled after my highly successful Java news and resource site, Cafe au Lait. This site is still being fleshed out.”