EContent articles from January 2004

EContent archives from January 2004

2004 event calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... Computers in Libraries 2004 March 10-12, 2004 Hilton Washington Washington, DC www.infotoday.com Buying & Selling eContent 2004 April 25-27, 2004 Miarriott's Camelback Inn Resort Golf Club and Spa Scottsdale, AZ ...

Memory's echo.(edit this)
January 1, 2004... Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. --T. S. Eliot To any of you who've met me, this may come as a surprise: If I'd not found the company where I...

Getting beyond infoslurp.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... I enjoyed your editorial in the November 2003 issue [p. 5]. I am also a book addict, buying books every week, and at any time I am likely to have three or four open on my desk and another two in my backpack. My wife is also a book reader, and...

A standard scormed.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... The October 2003 article in EContent entitled "KM and Elearning" was quite interesting and informative in many respects. However, I would like to point out that to call the SCORM (www.adlnet.org) standard a training metadata standard is quite...

100 percent.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... Just got the December 2003 issue: Good stuff. Great editorial piece too. It's tough responding quick enough to some people. And, I think you're right on the button with "search" for 2004. Steve Kayser Editor of Cincom's Expert Access and PR...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2004... In the October 2003 issue, the news feature Intro to Open Access: The Public Library of Science on page 11 contained the following errors: Harold Varmos heads the PLOS; it received a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. We...

Navio personalizes content commerce.(content news)
January 1, 2004... Imagine a digital content-commerce environment where buying and selling the rights to a game, song, or ring tone is as buying a newspaper. That is exactly the goal of Navio, a digital commerce service provider that launched a brandable version...

GoMOOS--smart buoys make ocean observation as easy as A-B-sea.(content news)(Gulf of Maine Ocean Observiing System (GoMOOS) collects data from buoys and makes the information available to the public)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... For most Americans, knowledge of nautical weather patterns is cursory or anecdotal at best, but for those whose livelihoods and lives depend on understanding the ocean's every move, technological advances have made the waters of the Gulf of...

RealNetworks files antirust lawsuit against Microsoft.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... RealNetworks, Inc. has sued the Microsoft Corporation for violations of federal and state antitrust laws. The complaint was flied in federal court in San Jose, California and alleges that Microsoft has illegally used its power to restrict...

Publishers sue document deliverers for copyright infringement.(news & product Briefs)(scholarly journal publishers sue Medical Review Services and LMS Information Services for copyright violations)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Five scientific, technical, and medical publishers (the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Inc.; Marcel Dekker, Inc.; SAGE Publications, Inc.; and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) have filed copyright...

LexisNexis launches global technology platform.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... LexisNexis Group has announced the launch of a single global technology platform designed to deliver its information products and services in the United States and worldwide. LexisNexis plans to launch enhanced online legal research products in...

RedDot announces xCMS.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... In response to the changing ECMS market and the growth of unstructured content, RedDot has announced its eXtended Content Management suite. The suite consists of integrated document management, content management, business process workflow,...

Content Reference Forum forms to fight online piracy.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... A number of media and technology companies have joined forces to create the Content Reference Forum (CRF), a standards organization that seeks to combat online piracy. The group consists of Universal Music Group, inc.; Microsoft Corp.; Nippon...

Entertaining high hopes for digital content, DMP founded.(content news)(Digital Media Project to propose new ways of managing intellectual property and protecting digital media in the technology age)
January 1, 2004... The entertainment industry has been plagued with problems since the advent of digital distribution: The post-Napster music business will never be the same and the film industry can't begin to control the increasing flood of pirated movies...

Mirror Image gets smart (Content).(content news)
January 1, 2004... In April of 2003, EContent reported on the strides Mirror Image had taken in moving beyond content delivery, Web computing, and streaming, towards offering a complete end-to-end package to its Global 2000 customers. January brings a major...

mGen, Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... mGen, Inc., a provider of learning and training software solutions, has announced that Jonathan Gordon is joining the company as president and CEO. Gordon replaces mGen's former CEO and president, Jack Battersby.

LexisNexis Group.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Michael Walsh has joined the LexisNexis Group as SVP leading the company's global strategy and business development efforts. LexisNexis is a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc. He will report directly to Andrew Prozes, CEO of LexisNexis...

Identitech.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Identitech, a provider of integrated business process management software has announced two management changes. Steve Quehl will take over as President and COO from Kerry Gilger, founder, who will continue to serve Identitech as CEO. Jim Lochry...

PRIMEDIA Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... PRIMEDIA Inc. has named Kelly P. Conlin president and CEO. Conlin previously served as president and CEO of International Data Group (IDG). He replaces Charles G. McCurdy, president and interim CEO, who will be leaving the company after a...

Swets Blackwell.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Swets Blackwell has appointed Sjoerd Vogt managing director of Swets Blackwell UK. Vogt joined Swets Blackwell from Thomson Dialog's OnDisc/@Site division where he was the VP and general manager. Vogt will be based in the Abingdon, UK office.

G-SAM.(peopleware)(G-SAM formed to assist in accelerating the adoption of Digital Asset Management technologies )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... G-SAM, an international trade association dedicated to accelerating the adoption of DAM technologies, has named its first Executive Governing Board. The Board, which will serve for a one-year term beginning in January 2004, includes Bob Long,...

CenterBoard.(peopleware)(Centerboard - data integration software company makes executive appointments)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... CenterBoard has announced its executive management team. Founder Thomas Henn, previously president and CEO of Cloudscape, will serve as CenterBoard's president and CEO. Founder Glen Livingston has been named VP, worldwide sales and service....

Coemergence Inc.(peopleware)(KM software solutions provider, Coemergence, names new board member)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Coemergence Inc., a KM software solutions provider, has appointed Bradford Mills to its board of advisors. Mills is CEO of BHP Billiton Base Metals, a base metals producer, and a member of the Executive Committee of BHP Billiton, a natural...

Associated Press.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Associated Press has named Jane Seagrave as director of AP Digital. Seagrave will have financial and content responsibility for the AP Digital business. Seagrave, a former AP journalist, returns to the AP after most recently managing the...

Cloakware Corporation.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Cloakware Corporation has appointed Dr. Fred B. Schneider to its Technical Advisory Council. Schneider is a professor in the computer science department at Cornell University. Schneider joins existing Council members Dr. Preneel, Dr. Paul Van...

Nstein Technologies Inc.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Nstein Technologies Inc. has appointed Denis Lavallee VP, business development. Lavallee will lead the company's business strategies initiatives, specifically the planning and development of targeted content management solutions for key...

Mark Opzoomer has resigned as managing director of Yahoo! Europe.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Mark Opzoomer has resigned as managing director of Yahoo! Europe. John Marcom, SVP, international operations, will temporarily fill the position until a replacement can be found. xrefer, the online reference service, has named John G. Dove,...

Relizon Company.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Relizon Company, a business process solutions provider, has promoted Sarah L. Burton to CFO. Burton had been acting as Relizon's CFO since June 2003, when Timothy Schriner was promoted from CFO to president of Relizon's U.S. Business...

Change in IT spending according to senior IT executives worldwide, 2003 vs. 2002 (as a % of respondents).(metrics)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Change in IT Spending According to Senior IT Executives Worldwide, 2003 vs. 2002 (as a % of respondents) Significantly Higher 9% Higher 34% Unchanged 34% Lower 19%...

Sources that Canadians use to find information about prescription medications and drugs, October 2003 (as a % of respondents).(metrics)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Sources that Canadians Use to Find Information about Prescription Medications and Drugs, October 2003 (as a % of respondents) Doctor - 64% Pharmacist - 55% Internet - 28% Books/Library -...

Number of identity theft complaints registered by the US IDT Data Clearinghouse, 1999-2003 (in millions).(metrics)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Number of Identity Theft Complaints Registered by the US IDT Data Clearinghouse, 1999-2003 (in millions) 1999 1.4 2000 31.1 2001 86.2 2002 181.8 2003 * 210.0 Note: * projected...

Monthly usage of Internet video has not grown in three years.(metrics)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Monthly Usage of Internet Video Has Not Grown in Three Years Percentage of Americans Who Have Watched Internet Video in the Past Month Jan 2000 7% Jan 2001 6% Jan 2002 9% Jan 2003 7% Note: Base =...

Types of media US Internet users would find very hard to give up, by type of user, October 2002.(Favorite Media)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Types of Media US Internet Users Would Find Very Hard to Give up, by Type of User, October 2002 Note: * only those who use these particular technologies were asked to comment about them ...

Faces of econtent.(Mathew Gross)
January 1, 2004... Mathew Gross has changed the face of Presidential politics. As Internet communications manager and blogmaster for Howard Dean's campaign, Gross oversees an awesome communications infrastructure and has pioneered the Weblog as a grassroots...

Adobe Creative Suite Premium 1.0.(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 1, 2004... Suites are all the rage these days in the software industry, and they make sense from a business point of view. Why sell one piece of software when you can sell three, four, or five, and you not only move product, you lock the buyer into a...

Finding intranet solutions: do you know the way to San Jose?(behind the firewall)
January 1, 2004... there is nothing quite as daunting as the prospect of spending I over ten hours in a 747 flying from London to San Francisco and then driving thirty miles south down 101 to get to the Santa Clara Convention Center. Note that I arrive at San...

Taking a vertical leap with content management.(Cover Story)
January 1, 2004... "When you come down to it, all content management installations are vertical," according to Shore Communications' president John Blossom. "There's no such thing as an general corporate implementation." That may be so, but the three, content...

Why I love paper.(infopro)
January 1, 2004... Now that the Matrix Reloaded is out on DVD, I rented the original Matrix once more, for old times' sake. (Yes, I know, we're now waxing nostalgic over movies only four years old.) I was struck by the relatively low-tech way that Neo battles the...

APT analysis: tools that put content to work.
January 1, 2004... Stepping back from the small picture of an individual user's PC to survey the potential vastness of an enterprise's information landscape, one quickly ascertains that when multiple users try to create, share, analyze, and store data, problems...

Ejournal hosts: the next generation.
January 1, 2004... Thanks to the Web, we've gone from an era of print books and journals to the idea that "If it's not online, it doesn't exist." Who can ignore users' expectations for desktop access to much of the world's most important literature? The need to...

Content goes Googling for dollars.(follow the money)
January 1, 2004... Psst! Wanna make some quick cash? Here, take these search I engine text ads and run them next to some of your own relevant content. They precisely match the topics on that Web page of yours over there. Don't worry, we checked already. We'll...

Good enough?(disContent)
January 1, 2004... What do reference librarians and econtent providers asking for micropayments have in common? They're both bedeviled by good enough--adequacy as a threat to excellence. That's not the only problem with micropayment-based econtent. Steve...

HighBeam Research: going beyond Googleing.(Profile)
January 1, 2004... It's often hard to pinpoint the moment a word or phrase officially enters the cultural lexicon, but for Google, that moment may have come 12 months ago. Last February, Interbrand's BrandChannel.com named the Internet search engine "Brand of the...

Don't panic, it's only Sarbanes-Oxley.(after thought)
January 1, 2004... for decades, the econtent world had been rather unaffected by changes in laws and regulations--at least in the U.S. Mostly, it's been business as usual... but no more. In recent years, a slew of actions mean content producers and consuming...