publish an article in a scholarly journal

i am in my first year PhD and i have written 1 paper so far that has been published in conference proceedings, 1 is pending review, and 3 more I was co-author on….

but i would like to get a paper i wrote published in a journal. .. journals are more official & reputable than conference proceedings…

Just sent off a review that I was supposed to complete months ago. It is overdue, it is just a review, but it is DONE!

Baby steps, I suppose.

I just posted a tweet (on twitter) asking if anyone had any thoughts on a particular resource. Got this immediate response from a medical librarian: “No, but I’m looking for someone to review it for JMLA. Do you want to do it?” My reply: “Sure!”

Wow, is this really how the professional world works now? Wacky, but cool.

As of July 1, I’ll be tenured. But my only pub in a peer-reviewed journal was rather brief for teachers on e-books. It was useful, but not real heavy. I’d like something a little more challenging.

It might end up being a literature review on belly dance scholarship as I work on this annotated bibliography.

Or it might be an ethnography of an entrepreneur. Not sure yet.

Social Networking Sites: What’s the risk behind socialization?

By Fredrick Romanus Ishengoma

Have you ever been on Social Networking Sites (SNS)? Or have you ever received an invitation mail to join SNS?

SNS have been the most popular sites in internet world these days. The idea behind SNS is sharing interests in online community. According to Google, social networks Bebo and MySpace were the most searched-for terms in 2006.

MySpace get 300000 people signing up everyday with 50 million mails per day (more than Yahoo, Hotmail and Google), while Facebook receive more than 14 photos uploaded everyday, according to Social Network Statistics.

Have you asked yourself what’s the impact of the information that you leave in the internet? The risk of identity theft is high due to leaving of the internet footprints. Internet fraudsters can join up your information and generate username and password of your other online accounts.

According to internet security experts, three quarters of Facebook users leave their profiles open to all risking identity fraud. Last year, Sky News reported, in every ten seconds someone in Britain become a victim of cyber crime.

While some young teenagers use these sites to post pictures of them drinking and practically naked, the SNS does not have control over kid’s doings online, rather its parental responsibility. Here, the SNS probably invites sexual predators. What if teens can lie about their age and start dating adults?

October 2006, a teenager named Megan Meier from Missouri, USA committed suicide after being teased in her MySpace page by a fake member. The police arrested Aaron Clow, 21, for having sex with 13 year old girl. It is suspected that a man was contacting underage girls via MySpace.

It has been a common thing for people to lie their identities in these sites. What is the effect of contacting the person who lied to you about his name, age and residence? Can we term it selfishness? As you he can get to know the real you, but he does not want likewise? Or may be they value their personal information than you do. One such occurrence was reported by news.com that, Tom Anderson, the founder of MySpace having a fake profile on SNS. People registered in these sites can form and join groups with different interest. Apart from forming groups like, college-mates, awful groups can be made also. For instance, people can organize to form hackers, gays, lesbians and even terrorist groups.

Some companies started to use SNS as the tool in selection and de-selection process in hiring. Posting indecent photos of you or you doing something illegal can lead you to some trouble. Apart from the possibility of your boss viewing your weekend album, you photos can be altered and used without your awareness. For example, last year, 20-year-old Jason Johnson was expelled from the University of the Cumberlands after revealing he is gay on SNS.

Have you had a time to read on the privacy policy of these sites? Bear in mind that the information you entered can be used by the SNS without consulting you. For instance, one of the statements in a SNS’s privacy policy, Hi5.com states that”…Hi5 may analyze any collected information for its own internal purposes. In addition, Hi5 may remove personally identifying information from collected information to render it anonymous. Hi5 may use Anonymous Information for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Information in its discretion…”

There has been a rumour that, SNS’s data are used by the government for monitoring their citizens. Last year, MySpace agreed to give away to the states the names, addresses and online profiles of identified convicted sex offenders having account.

© 2008 Fredrick Ishengoma.

Fredrick Ishengoma, is working at the University of Dodoma, Tanzania as a Tutorial Assistant.

Just got an email asking me to submit something to a journal, based on my MLA poster. Things seem to be happening to me serendipitously.

Different approaches looking forward to personalizing users navigation in the web sites. An adaptive Web system uses AI community to adapt the Web pages to its users and generate them dynamically. When the pages are generated dynamically, all the features and attributes of the pages may be customized based on the current state of the system and do not have any restrictions. The result of any sort of adaptation, should be eventually reflected in the pages that are returned to users’ Web clients. Many systems use pre-styled templates and populate them with actual data in order to render the final page.
Although most of the adaptive systems and frameworks are designed for a particular application domain such as e-Tailer or e-News, the website designer should still think and design in terms of hypermedia concepts, e.g. Web pages and hyperlinks, and manage the Web system in terms of Web components. The adaptation rules are also specified to act on the page and page components. Separation of the role of application designer and manager from the role of Web designer requires automated Web synthesis for adaptive hypermedia. This paper studies some previous approaches which are used for automatic synthesizing of web pages. Then establish a new approach to combine between them to overcome their problems and get better performance

So I’ve just stayed up all night making revisions to my article. Seems like a never-ending process . . . and I’m not even being a perfectionist about it. What seems so smart in my head looks undercooked on the page. Arggggh!

I did chemistry research as a 17 year old at an Academy in Denton under a UNT professor. I never thought much would come of it, but I learned some awesome things about chlorines and enthalpies. Only several weeks ago did I learn that the research was published in a Physical Science journal! Exciting!

So, after sweating over this damn article this weekend, all I have is a bunch of goo. I just hate the pressure of trying to finish it by Thursday. So, I emailed the editor and told her that I can’t do this by Thursday after all and perhaps I could submit something for a future issue. I feel guilty AND it was making me miserable and crazy and I just don’t want to do this to myself right before Christmas. I mean, she only asked my to do this Friday afternoon. I just don’t think I can come up with something publishable in less than a week. Hopefully, I can submit something later instead.

aarrghh