Press Release
Five New GLORIAD Blogs Up On Website
For more information:
Susie Baker
Research Leader, GLORIAD
UT-ORNL JICS
sbaker@gloriad.org
GLORIAD now has five new blogs up on its website to benefit the entire GLORIAD team
GLORIAD blogs can be found at the GLORIAD Community Blog Website. But what are these blogs all about? Read on:
GLORIAD Blog is a platform for sharing information, engaging in thought leadership, discussing special interests, troubleshooting, and occasionally offering web events, on just about anything having to do with GLORIAD. GLORIAD Blog is intended to be a multi-author "group blog" with a group of international GLORIAD authors that, hopefully, will come from all of the partners. GLORIAD blogging will provide the foundation for this online community to foster a variety of angles and specializations, with an eye on forming a whole look towards the past, present and future. The topics are wide open -- and we encourage relevant cross-posting from other blogs (especially existing blogs of GLORIAD members and partners), discussion, and comments from the entire community. The goal is for GLORIAD Blog to be a useful tool that will cover the diverse array of issues and components that combine to form GLORIAD, as well as the world of global networks. Anyone interested in becoming a GLORIAD blogger should contact us and we'll set you up. Blogging is simple, and the time commitment can be as minimal or substantial as each individual blogger chooses.
Security at GLORIAD is written by John Gerber, the GLORIAD-US security engineer, and contains comprehensive analyses and astute observations, security approaches and equipment, thoughts on web 2.0 offerings, and some discussion. Peppered with humor and featuring deep knowledge of security issues, Security at GLORIAD is a must read for anyone interested in furthering capability in this area.
GLORIAD Classroom is a brand new blog, which is part of the larger GLORIAD Classroom project, scheduled to launch officially in fall 2007. GLORIAD Classroom serves as a large curated information clearinghouse with services made accessible via a dynamically generated, multi-lingual, browser independent web interface, and extended search methods. The Classroom notifies users of new content through a flexible “current awareness” service by which new information added and curated each day is made available to subscribers based on their own specified interest/s and disseminated via a user-defined, personalized web interface, as well as by email alerts. GLORIAD Classroom blog initially will serve as a location to compile wisdom based on best practices from the international advanced computing community, and any other useful sources. We welcome multiple blog authors, contributors, commentors, discussants, tips, lurkers, etc. Help us improve productivity by sending your tips and tutorials on applications and network best practices to sbaker@gloriad.org so we can populate the GLORIAD Classroom database with real world examples and practical "how to" knowledge.
Global Networks is blogged by Susie Baker of the GLORIAD-US team. Global Networks is a roundup of news and blog postings and provides broadly cross-cutting information, such as GLORIAD partner news and news from the worlds of advanced computing applications, grid computing, optical networks, digital humanities and social sciences, institutes and centers of excellence, nexus of industry and academia, grant opps, international collaboration, emerging global arenas, prototypes and futurist thought, websites that engage kids in international global networks, ways to encourage students to pursue careers in research and education, and just about any other attention-grabbers. Global Networks currently features postings in Russian and English, and is striving to add a more comprehensive set of links to its already substantial sidebar. Contributions of tips, links, new sources of information, and items in other languages (especially GLORIAD partner languages) are welcome, as are comments and discussion of blog posts.
GLORIAD Webcasting Tips and Tricks is a brand new blog that will serve as a compendium of DIY (Do It Yourself) tricks and tips found around the web for those wishing to produce any type of webcasts. The blog's main purpose is to support GLORIAD's efforts to produce its own podcasts and video productions, as well as web 2.0 projects, and to share what we learn with the international GLORIAD team and the whole R&E community. Topics will include both technical and strategic subject matter. We plan to add posts on creating podcasts and vodcasts, equipment reviews, writing compelling scripts, adding music, posting to YouTube and Flickr and many other web 2.0 sites, interviewing techniques, creating a "look and feel" for your productions, incorporating webcasts into a public outreach or marketing strategy, identifying and reaching target audiences, and incredibly practical "hands on" tutorials. We hope that GLORIAD team members who are experienced webcasters will share some of their best secrets! Webcasts are surprisingly simple to produce and hopefully this blog will provide support and encouragement to anyone wishing to further advanced computing applications and information sharing via cutting-edge audio-visual means. Tips welcome!
The GLORIAD blog web page also serves as a portal to "Community Blogs" that cover various aspects of R&E networks, science, and digital humanities and are in some way relevant to GLORIAD's mission. Our page features a "blogroll" (a list of other blogs) with blogs authored by well-known leaders in our own community, as well as technology leaders in relevant fields and up-and-comers who are leading the next generation of network engineers, scientists, applications developers, digital platform developers and others. Stay on top of the future of applications by staying in touch with top bloggers contributing to the "big conversation." Please drop us a line if you have suggestions for blogs to add to our "Community Blogs" blogroll or if you'd like to start a GLORIAD blog of your own!
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About GLORIAD
The GLORIAD (Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development) advanced science internet network was launched in January 2004 by the USA, Russia and China, expanded its reach in 2005 – to Korea, Canada and The Netherlands – and in 2006 to the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland. GLORIAD provides an optical network ring encircling the northern hemisphere of the globe with individual network circuits providing up to 10 Gbps – promoting new opportunities for cooperation for scientists, educators and students. The GLORIAD project is supported by the Ministry of Science and Education of Russian Federation, the National Science Foundation of USA, the USA Research & Education (R&E) network National LambdaRail, the Chinese Academy of Science, the Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea, Canadian non-profit association CANARIE, the national R&E network of Netherlands SURFnet, the national R&E network of the Nordic Countries NORDUnet, as well as a number of other organizations representing countries which participate in the project. GLORIAD/USA is based at the University of Tennessee – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Joint Institute for Computation Science. GLORIAD/Russia is based at the Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”. GLORIAD/Netherlands is based in Amsterdam and managed by SURFnet. For more information, see www.gloriad.org
