Searcher articles from February 2009

Searcher archives from February 2009

The downs and ups of fear.(economic depression)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Are we having fun yet? It looks like the current economic downturn is on its way to rivaling the Great Depression of the 1930s. By the way, did you know that the use of the term "depression" to describe economic...

Correction.(Correction notice)
February 1, 2009... In the November/December 2008 Searcher's Voice column, subtitled "What Is the Question?" [http://www. infotoday.com/searcher/nov08/voice.shtml], I reported that the Southern California Online Users Group (SCOUG) [http://www.scougweb.org] was...

Boomer beauty on the Web.
February 1, 2009... "Marriage is not only time: it is also, paradoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age." --Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking A short time after Joan Didion's husband dropped...

Is that a computer in your pocket? The incredibly shrinking computer.
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We have a come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell uttered those famous words, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." It was 1876 and while I did not personally know Bell or Antonio Meucci (another believed to be...

A searcher's journey through a morass: researching the financial crisis.(LiveLinks)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Midday, Monday, Sept. 29, 2008. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average were in the midst of steep declines. Later that day, the U.S. House of Representatives would reject the $700...

Reference checking in a Web world: a reference librarian's trek through Sci-tech and news sources.
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A request to find all publications and news items for an author, especially someone who has a fairly common name, is something reference librarians either look forward to as a challenge, face with dread, or both....

Beyond findability: organizing in the age of the miscellaneous.
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Michael Wesch's video, Information R/evolution, focuses on an electric typewriter that could use a new ribbon. Under the drone of inane music, the video [http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM] presents a...

The changing language of search: part 2. Global English.(Statistical data)
February 1, 2009... In the first part of this series on the changing language of searching, we looked at Nu Speak, the newest version of a shorthand that is changing the face of communication and invading the repositories and websites of the internet. But another...

Contacts.(Directory)
February 1, 2009... Aging Backwards c/o Jackie Silver 13176 North Dale Mabry Highway, Suite 413 Tampa, FL 33618 (813) 404-4100 Internet: jackie@agingbackwards.com URL: http://agingbackwards.com Katherine Bertolucci Isis...