Searcher articles from March 2006

Searcher archives from March 2006

Convergence.(information technology)
March 1, 2006... Wouldn't it be cool if every electronic appliance had a computer attached? If TVs were computers and computers, TVs? If cell phones were laptops and laptops were cell phones? If all the world were one vast... Web? About 5 years ago all...

Innovation blogs.(Column)
March 1, 2006... Pick up any newspaper or popular news magazine, listen to the news on the radio or television, or surf the Internet, and you will learn and hear about innovations--new gadgets, new toys, new tools, new cars, new medical innovations--new, new,...

Wikipedia and Britannica: the kid's all right (and so's the old man).(e-books)(Cover Story)
March 1, 2006... Many Searcher readers, especially those of us who went to library school, remember the hushed reverence with which the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the last published in the U.K., was spoken. Here was a classic work of...

Building a European digital library: a challenge in the culture wars.(Google Inc. planning to convert world famous books into e-books format)
March 1, 2006... Google's December 2004 announcement to expand its plans to digitize the world's books into scanning collections from five major world libraries in the U.S. and U.K. brought a strong reaction from Europe, primarily from France. Jean-Noel...

Science.gov 3.0.(THE BETTER MOUSETRAP)
March 1, 2006... If you are interested in science and want to know what the U.S. government is doing in the field, then Science.gov [http://www.science. gov] is the Web site to use. Launched in December 2002 and updated in November 2005, the revised Science.gov...

How old is your web site?: Making that upgrade decision.(TOOLS OF THE TRADE)(Column)
March 1, 2006... Once again that well-modulated and soothing tone oozed through the phone and uttered that famous opening line, "I've been thinking..." If I had better reactions, I could have pulled a duck-and-cover, but instead, trapped like Bambi in the...

An omnibus ICANN and Internet update.(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)(Organization overview)
March 1, 2006... There have been a number of interesting changes and proponed changes to the Internet environment. Some of these changes are largely technical; others have a far greater political, economic, and social significance. The Internet Corporation...

What would you do if you received a "Cease and Desist" letter?(Wendy Seltzer interviewed)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... An Interview with Wendy Seltzer of Chilling Effects Searching the Net you may find yourself on Web sites that you never intended. Domain names are frequently confusingly similar. Is it intentional? Is it truly trademark or copyright...

Cleaning up with the Web.(house cleaning information vya web)(Column)
March 1, 2006... I live in one of those wee bungalows sold as prefabricated kits by Sears and Roebuck circa 1912. Its compact size means that when we open both the front and back doors, it feels like we're living in a breezeway. That should be great feng shui,...

Blindsided: not a professional competency.(WHAT'S NEXT)(Column)
March 1, 2006... "Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working on the engines." --Actor Gary Sinise "A career is a job that has gone on too long." --Jeff Mac Nelly, creator of comic strip "Shoe" and...

NTIS adds value: interview with Ellen Herbst, Director National Technical Information Service.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... These days, there is increasing interest among governments, international organizations, foundations, scholars, and others in making the results of publicly funded research freely available to all who want to know. This article is the first in...

Contacts.(digital libraries)(Directory)
March 1, 2006... The Association of Residential Cleaning Professionals 1010 19th Avenue, Suite 10 Meridian, MS 39301 (601) 621-4762 (601) 427-1065 (fax) URL: http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/page.do?sitePageld=22911 Paula Berinstein ...

Correspondence.
March 1, 2006... Hoover's Gets There! In reference to the article on Hoover's Online's inaccessibility to users who require more flexible pricing such as the members of the Association of Independent Information Professionals ("The Hoover's Vacuum: 'Wish...