Archive for November, 2007

Good Words That Have Attacked Us

A “good word attack” is what happens when a spam e-mail firm idenfies words considered “strongly legitimate” by spam filters, and uses strings of these words to attack e-mail in-boxes.  A paper describing the practice is noted in issue #126 of Whiteboard Report.  We went to our logs and found these recent good word attacks […]

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Annual Meeting Highlights

Highlights of the 2007 NSDL Annual Meeting are captured in the blog Road Reports, including posts on Webmetrics, the use of digital learning resources by college faculty, what’s going on in the picture on the left, Lee Zia’s annual contribution of haiku, and this quote from Susan Jesuroga: “this meeting underscores that the important […]

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2007 NSDL Annual Meeting by the Numbers

A special issue of Whiteboard Report is loaded with information about the 2007 NSDL Annual Meeting, which will be held Tuesday-Thursday, November 6-8 in Arlington, Virginia. Here’s what we are expecting to see:
205 Registered Attendees
73 First-time Attendees
36 NSF program officers registered
117 Projects Represented
59 Registered Posters
34 Sessions
20 Hours of scheduled meeting time
49 Hours of potential meeting […]

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