Searcher articles from June 2007

Searcher archives from June 2007

The great change agent.(Searcher's VOICE)(information industry)(Column)
June 1, 2007... Sometimes, as I watch the parade of digital life march past, I begin to wonder whether I could be wrong about the direction the parade is taking. Then, I look a little closer and--guess what?--I was right all along. Case in point: For some...

Lions! Tigers! And bears! Oh, My! Competitive intelligence and search analytics.
June 1, 2007... According to the digital generation's "go-to" reference manual, Wikipedia, competitive intelligence is "the process by which business enterprises gather and analyze information on their external competitive environment." Wherever there's...

Recovering from disruption: the theme of the 49th Annual NFAIS Meeting.(PUBLISHING TRENDS)(National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services)
June 1, 2007... NFAIS, the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services [http://www.nfais.org], is a membership association for organizations that create, organize, and facilitate access to information. The topic of its 49th annual meeting was...

Mash it up! Remixing the information superhighway.(web applications)
June 1, 2007... In more descriptive terms, mashups represent the latest wave of Web potential stemming from maturing technologies that further enable innovative and tantalizing uses of the Internet. By combining sometimes disparate sources of digital content...

The plague of plagiarism and academic dishonesty.
June 1, 2007... Academic cheating, including buying term papers, went on long before the invention of the Internet or the World Wide Web. There have always been students who have found ways to cheat on exams or to buy term papers from other students. The...

I'm getting married--on the Web.(INTERNET EXPRESS)
June 1, 2007... For many women, there is so much more to marriage than simply a contractual binding with a male of the species. In our society's subliminal life script for gals, where the knight in shining armor sweeps the beautiful princess away to the...

Sports wikis: who's on first?(Cover story)
June 1, 2007... Viewing wikis from a mountain climber's perspective, you see a lot of names--mapkis, swikis, twikis, et al. But whatever the name, the concepts all have a common characteristic: online collaboration, going on by multiple parties anytime,...

The evolution of copyright: William Patry; some interviews are as painful and laborious to conduct as a root canal. Others are not so much interviews as easy conversations: effortless, stimulating, and enjoyable. For me, at least, this interview clearly fell into the latter category.(Interview)
June 1, 2007... The chance to interview William Patry came about, really, because we are both active participants in the blogosphere, writing extensively on copyright and related issues. I have followed The Patry Copyright Blog...

Negotiating in areas where end-user services dominate.(libraries)
June 1, 2007... The online environment continues to change dramatically with respect to the library market. Not surprisingly, these changes are having an impact on the way librarians negotiate with traditional vendors, as well as with the new nontraditionals...

Best buys.(consumer electronics)(Buyers guide)
June 1, 2007... Hardware Best Desktop Computer Overdrive's Core2.X-Fire ($5,172) Source: "Top 5 Performance Desktops," Computer Shopper, April 2007, p. 43. Best Vista Computers Desktop H-P's TouchSmart IQ770 PC ($1,800) Laptop...

Contacts.(business)(Directory)
June 1, 2007... Amazon.com, Inc. 1200 12th Avenue S, Suite 1200 Seattle, WA 98144-2734 (206) 266-1000 (206)266-4206 (fax) Internet: info@amazon.com URL: http://www.amazon.com/ AOL (AIM 6.0) 8619 Westwood Center Drive...