Searcher articles from September 2008

Searcher archives from September 2008

Searcher's voice on the edge.(Editorial)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Serendipity is a wonderful thing. It is defined, by our beloved Wikipedia, as "an unsought, unintended, or unexpected discovery or occurrence, made by accident and sagacity." So, when you discover something wonderful...

Technology transfer heats up.(THE SIDEBAR: LiveLinks)
September 1, 2008... Technology transfer enables inventors who do not want to go into business to monetize their inventions and other intellectual property (IP) by marketing them to companies that do have the means and desire to exploit the technology. In return,...

Cybersquatting gives the web a bad name again.(LiveLinks)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Homesteading or squatting, pioneers or nesters, what you call a practice all depends on your point of view. Cybersquatting, as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO 2008) recently acknowledged, is still...

Tools for cross-border business decisions: business monitor international.
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] It should come as no surprise that all companies today, no matter what their size, need to consider and understand the global competition and opportunities within their markets. Increasing demand for goods and...

The world without wires.(LiveLinks)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wires strung from pole to pole across the landscape are being retired as most of us migrate to a world without wires. We can click up to 500 channels on a television. Some receive those TV signals through a satellite...

The ebook reader is not the future of ebooks.(LiveLinks)(Cover story)
September 1, 2008... "Over the last 20 years, most of the tools that we humans have invented have made it easier for us to be information snackers. If one of the outcomes of Kindle and other devices like it [is] making long-form reading more frictionless so that...

Evolution to revolution to chaos? Reference in transition.(Column)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many years ago, the exteemed Barbara Quint offered an estimate that Google answered as many reference queries in half an hour as all the reference librarians in the world did in 7 years. I suspect that ratio is...

Show me how: instructional videos on the Web.(INTERNET EXPRESS)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a recent busy Saturday, a woman came to the reference desk looking for cooking videos. "You know, like Rachel Ray?" she asked. It turned out that she wanted to bake a wedding cake while following a recipe on a...

Mohammed cartoons: the online history of an international controversy.(BOTH SIDES NOW)(Column)
September 1, 2008... I had every intention of writing a column about the Danish Mohammed cartoons crisis when it forced itself onto the world stage in January and February 2006. But don't go looking for an article in back issues of Searcher, though. It never got...

Contacts.(Directory)
September 1, 2008... 60 Frames 345 North Maple Drive, Suite 120 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (424) 603-5207 URL: http://www.60frames.com Stephen Abram SirsiDynix 412-120 Perth Ave. Toronto, ON M6P 4E1 Canada (416) 533-4855...