Most people who read this blog are aware of Wikipedia, but are you aware that Wikimedia Foundation has been building various functional / subject portals? Although, not all the portals are ready for prime time, many are robust.  Here are some of my favorites:

• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Robotics
• Space Exploration

In addition … you need to understand even to this day, I am the kind of person who likes to take a "physical" encyclopedia off the shelf (perhaps the letter "S") and just browse!  Anyhow, these portals allow a virtual browse in the same manner.  Here are a couple of other related links:

• Wikipedia Portals: Released | Under Development

In this blog I’ve often talked about why enterprise wide tagging with context is important. Here is some data from participants who attended a recent Scientific Computing webinar. Click upon the thumbnail to see the survey results. An intelligent tagging solution which includes the ability to create a tag, while saving those tags as favorites in a category list … subscribable by other users via RSS … is part of the solution.

In other words, the key is allowing your users to create "context". See more of my posts on this topic.

• Scientific Computing Knowledge Management Article
  (includes links to the webinar and a pdf copy of the discussion)

I only have a MP3 player, so I can not test this …. but the idea is very cool.  Via SourceForge.Net, you can now install Wikipedia on your iPod. There are English, German and Italian language versions.  (via OpenCulture)
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I just attended a private meeting with a number of engineering training managers from large Fortune 500 companies. One of our laments was the fact that there are not any independent vendors who teach live scientific computing classes via the web (Labview, MatLab, ProE, etc). While most vendors teach their own virtual courses, unlike for advanced I.T. software topics, vendors have not come to the forefront to fill this niche.

With that though in mind, I invite you to review and subscribe to a very new education focused blog from Scientific Computing World Magazine. Although the blog is only a month old, and is still in the stages of defining itself … it could become a valuable virtual presence (after my blog, of course!!)

• Scientific Computing Education Blog

I decided I had to take the plunge and post a video to YouTube.  Years ago I attended a presentation by Guy Kawasaki during the early days of the net.  He challenged his audience … if you’ve never sold on eBay, how can you claim to understand eBusiness? At the time I went home, accepted Guy’s challenge, and sold two lots of accordion music for over $100!

Anyhow, I decided that if I wanted to truly understand YouTube (the social phenomenon), I needed to post a video … and see what happens. My video is a satire of box opening videos. Here is the YouTube link. If I learn anything of interest, I’ll update this post, and point back to it in the future.

• Rapala Box Opening Video
• Date Posted on YouTube: April 27
• Views as of July 26: 851
• One Five Star Rating
• Two Comments
• Now listed on first page of "Rapala" YouTube search results

As a fyi, watching my video via my earlier post will not drive up my YouTube stats.  My blog hosts a higher quality Flash version, which links directly from Typepad.
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