Information World Review articles from July 2007

Information World Review archives from July 2007

digging for Tesco's green label credentials.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth digging for Tesco's green label credentials With great power comes great responsibility, and Tesco is the most powerful supermarket retailer in the UK. It holds a 31.2% share of the national grocery...

blog monitoring services.
July 9, 2007... Byline: davey winder Blog monitoring services If your definition of blog monitoring has less to do with who is talking about your blog, and more about which blogs are talking about your product or area of interest, then there are a...

trackbacks, permalinks and pings.
July 9, 2007... Byline: davey winder Advantages n Provides insight into blog traffic n Can help with blog development strategy Disadvantages n Poor granularity

trackback spam.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Davey Winder Advantages n Lets you see what others are saying about your posts n Once enabled, are largely automated n Publication of trackbacks remains under your control n Trackbacks treated as comments for...

blogging for beginners: monitoring.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Davey Winder Trackback spam Just as some people abuse blog posts by submitting spam as comments, so the trackback system is open to similar abuse. Instead of being a legitimate related blog posting, the spammer simply...

Does your brain need a lifecycle management tool?
July 9, 2007... Byline: David Tebbutt Does your brain need a lifecycle management tool? David Tebbutt Wouldn't it be great to stamp our thoughts with an expiry date and have a little pinger go off when it's time to revisit? Then we'd be able to...

feedback.(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth ' feedback Web 2.0 posting #1a[bar] The problem with Web 2.0 is not "that there are so many different iterations of this technology" (IWR blog, June) but that someone tried to encapsulate something so...

Tough times ahead for market research aggregators.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Tim Buckley Owen Tough times ahead for market research aggregators Even though some users may have been surprised by the [pounds sterling]502m paid by Informa for analyst and forecaster Datamonitor, business experts generally...

The entire business laid bare.(Business Information Sources: A Beginner's Guide)(Book review)
July 9, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell The entire business laid bare ' book review This book is aimed at info pros who have started working with business information, lecturers and students, staff in business support agencies and users of...

Swets extends PressDisplay deal globally.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Subscription services company Swets is to act as global distributor for web-based newspaper portal PressDisplay in an extension to its deal with digital newspaper distributor NewspaperDirect, writes Kim Thomas. In an...

PDF to HTML converter opens up web.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas PDF to HTML converter opens up web Kim Thomas Dublin-based company RiverDocs has released a product that converts PDF files to HTML, enabling organisations to comply with accessibility laws and make web content...

The monkey cult destroying the temple of knowledge.
July 9, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth The monkey cult destroying the temple of knowledge ' book review "It's the blind leading the blind -- infinite monkeys providing infinite information for infinite readers, perpetuating the cycle of...

Defender of the expert's realm.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Defender of the expert's realm ' analysis A book is a fitting medium to argue for a reassessment of how Web 2.0 is affecting information and information users, because, as Andrew Keen's polemic points...

Experimental subs drive OA at OJ.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Experimental subs drive OA at OJ Kim Thomas A new open access (OA) model based on whether an author's institution has a subscription to the Journal of Experimental Botany has been launched by its publisher...

FoI restrictions stall in the Lords.(Freedom of Information )(House of Lords )
July 9, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith FoI restrictions stall in the Lords Laura Smith Controversial plans by MPs to exempt themselves from the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act have stalled in the House of Lords after failing to find a sponsor...

It's good to be scared.(Web 2.0)(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth It's good to be scared Recently, I was lucky enough to be part of a discussion panel organised by City Information Group (CIG). We were debating the future role of research and information professionals in...

US info pros plug into Web 2.0 computing.(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith US info pros plug into Web 2.0 computing Laura Smith A survey into the technology use of information professionals in the US has revealed that Web 2.0 resources are fast catching up with more traditional...

Data preservation strategy urgently needed.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Data preservation strategy urgently needed Laura Smith Universities need to overhaul the "fragmented and incomplete" way they store research data if they are to make effective use of everything from transcripts...

Open access spreads malaria journal as disease bites.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Open access spreads malaria journal as disease bites Laura Smith The only scientific journal dedicated exclusively to malaria research has become the number one ranked journal in the field of tropical medicine,...

Public sector shirking online engagement.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Public sector shirking online engagement A government-commissioned report into how the public sector can better grasp the benefits and opportunities offered by the internet and Web 2.0 technologies has concluded...

digging for tesco's green label credentials.
July 9, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth Carbon footprint A product's carbon footprint represents the total amount of carbon dioxide added to the environment throughout the production and lifetime of that product. This includes the sourcing of...

EU pushes on with research union.(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell EU pushes on with research union Tracey Caldwell The EU is pressing ahead with plans for co-ordinating European research even as the consultation rumbles on over its green paper, The European Research Area:...

Xrefer loses battle of pronunciation.(Brief article)
July 9, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Xrefer loses battle of pronunciation Tracey Caldwell Online reference services provider Xrefer has changed its name to Credo Reference to emphasise the quality of its resources rather the functionality of...

Impact factors 'flawed, misleading and unfair'.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Impact factors 'flawed, misleading and unfair' An argument has erupted about the impact factor measure of scientific journals following an editorial in the journal Retrovirology damning Thomson Scientific's...

Proquest drops CSA.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell ProQuest drops CSA ProQuest has dropped the CSA moniker from its name in a bid to simplify its branding. The CSA brand will be kept on in familiar services like CSA Illumina. ProQuest CSA was born when...

in brief.
July 9, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth Cambridge collects e-books from MyiLibrary A deal between Cambridge University Press and electronic book specialist MyiLibrary to deliver five collections of e-books has been announced. The five collections...

National Archives deal lifts threat of digital dark age.
July 9, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth National Archives deal lifts threat of digital dark age Digital documents at the National Archives (TNA) created on older versions of Microsoft systems will be made accessible following a deal between the...