Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Maryland and Howard University have developed a technique to create tiny, highly efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from nanowires. New fabrication technique yields nanoscale UV LEDs

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Digital Web contributor and “information indexer” Heather Hedden returns this week with a fresh look at taxonomies in Better Living Through Taxonomies. Web projects can vary in complexity and size. But web professionals could improve the life of most websites with attention paid to hierarchy, controlled vocabularies and clear wording. A solid, simple taxonomy can greatly improve search and findability, so give people visiting your site a solid starting place for browsing.

In addition, thanks to all Digital Web readers who said “hi” during Web Directions North this past week! It was an excellent event, and I’d like to thank the amazing organizers, generous sponsors and high-quality attendees who made it (again) one of the best conferences of any calendar year.

New Issue: Taxonomies For All

Text Editor, Hex Editor, PHP Editor, HTML Editor, Programmer’s .With all the features of UltraEdit, UEStudio adds native support for over 30 popular compilers, an integrated debugger, VCS version .

Wikipedia Scanner, a new data-mining service launched Monday, traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation.CalTech graduate student . See Who’s Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign

University of Haifa researchers have discovered a yeast-derived substance called Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) that acts similarly to insulin and may become an oral treatment for diabetes and its complications.In the studies–done on cell cultur. Yeast-Based Oral Diabetes Treatment Discovered

London is full of amazing sights and to do it justice you would have to spend weeks exploring its vast areas. The only problem is that it can take a long time to get from A to B so you have to be prepared for some frustrating times whether its delays on A vacation to remember in London, England

AOL seems to be in some kind of a no-win spiral. It is the one-time superstar of online access, but in the 2000s has become the silly old-timer to spunky relative newcomers like Google and Yahoo. AOL has tried changing CEOs, changing strategies. It has actually done a lot of interesting things — its phone service and In2TV, for instance — yet rarely seems to get much credit.

Today, the University of Michigan released data from its American Consumer Satisfaction Index. Google and Yahoo are about even, getting scores of 78 and 79, respectively. Way down the list — barely above government agencies such as the IRS — sits AOL, with a score of 67.

It’s not as if old Web properties can’t be turned around. The survey also shows that Ask.com — the one-time Ask Jeeves — rose nearly 6% in the ratings to 75 points.

Why Can’t AOL Be Fixed?

Sovereign wealth funds from Asia and elsewhere are buying into firms in the west but are often less than transparent Big spenders stir protectionism

A swarm of spacecraft with mirrors focused on asteroids is the best way to deflect them, a new study finds.Illustration: M Vasile et al, University of Glas. Are mirrors the best way to deflect asteroids?

I’ve been waiting for Matt Hodgson to post a summary of a presentation he did for our local IA group recently. This is a truly awesome piece of IA work - he analysed a large volume of unstructured text and designed a framework to rewrite it in a consistent, machine-readable, human-readable way:Semantic analysis: Making sense of the chaos of free text Semantic analysis: Making sense of the chaos of free text

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Smaller schools are struggling to cope with the sudden arrival of immigrant children, says a heads’ leader. Heads warn of migrant problems

The news that a property developer channelled thousands of pounds to Labour through friends attracts much coverage. Papers focus on party donations

Our approachFollowing the launch, at the end of 2003, of the Group’s corporate responsibility approach based on four priorities, France Telecom structured its organization during 2004 with a .