EContent articles from June 2004

EContent archives from June 2004

Living color.(edit this)
June 1, 2004... i remember the day I learned the word "psychedelic." Telling on many fronts, it is as much indicative of a time and place as of any more colorful circumstances. In 1974, my mother and I perched side by side on a brown velour chaise lounge at...

Everybody's doing it.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2004... Great article by David Scott in the March issue [p. 48]. He's spot on in saying that the Web has enabled all companies to become publishers and that the new big name publishers are often large companies, institutions, and non-profits who happen...

Difficulty by design.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2004... I was reading our copy of EContent, and noticed someone made some bad color choices when designing the layout. I'm assuming, since everything else looks normal, that it's not a case of the printer running out of one of the ink colors when...

E-book experiment.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2004... I'd love to read the digital EContent 100 report, but unfortunately the format can only be read on MS Windows platforms. It's ironic how an econtent portal would deliver content for only some readers, when many multi-platform delivery methods...

Content-ed.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2004... As someone who has spent his entire career in the world of econtent--going back to the days when a 1200-baud modem was a high-speed connection--I was glad to see Jenny Ambrozek's and Lynne Bundesen's March 2004 article on creating content ROI...

Hit the books.(letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2004... I have just finished Marla Misek's March article [pp. 36-40] on the eScholarship Repository. This is a thorough and incisive piece. I am glad we could contribute to it. Greg Tananbaum, President The Berkeley Electronic Press

The New Media Institute Educates the Wireless Market.(news feature)
June 1, 2004... the market for wireless mobile communications is being held back--in the classic chicken vs. the egg manner--by a shortage of compelling content, according to Scott Shamp, director of the New Media Institute (NMI) ar the University of Georgia...

Thomson acquires Newport Strategies, Inc.(news & product Briefs; Thomson Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Thomson Corporation has acquired Newport Strategies, Inc., a provider of competitive intelligence for the pharmaceutical industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Newport Strategies will become part of the scientific business...

Dialog releases new version of Profound.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Dialog, a Thomson business and provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, has announced a new version of its Dialog Profound subscription service, which offers a collection of market research reports...

Google teams up with colleges to test searches of scholarly materials.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Google has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world in an effort to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers. A pilot test of the project has begun and...

In-Q-Tel and basis technology sign investment and development agreement.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... In-Q-Tel, a private not-for-profit venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency, and Basis Technology, a provider of software solutions for multilingual text mining and information retrieval applications, have signed a strategic...

SealedMedia launches v3.2.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... SealedMedia Inc., has announced version 3.2 of its document and email security solution for enterprises, which adds deployment, administration, and management functions. SealedMedia 3.2 is designed to make interfacing with other enterprise...

Thomson ISI releases open access journals information.(news & product Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... According to Thomson ISI, a business of The Thomson Corporation, joumals published in the new Open Access (OA) model are beginning to register impact in the field of scholarly research. Of the 8,700 selected journals currently covered in Web of...

Free for all? The science of publishing research online.(news feature)
June 1, 2004... the scientific community has built a solid reputation for being early adopters of technology, including harnessing the efficiencies of the Internet to disseminate scientific articles and journals electronically. Since 1995, more than 100...

Searching for a cure: Boston cure project implements MatchPoint.(news feature)
June 1, 2004... a serendipitous result of the vast amount of information now available on the Internet is that it can be sifted and used by organizations for the betterment of the general population. While some of the health conscious may surf for nutritional...

Adobe takes barcodes to the next dimension.(news feature)
June 1, 2004... Later this year, Adobe plans release a series of new 2D barcode technology products dubbed the Intelligent Document Platform. The product line, which was beta released at the March AIIM On Demand show, is aimed at government and enterprise...

Understanding the underground: CSUS's digital slavery archive.(news feature)
June 1, 2004... Most Americans have at least a general understanding of the atrocities of slavery, but that knowledge likely comes from middle school history class, the media, and works from historical figures such as Frederick Douglass. One aspect many are...

Thomson Learning.(peopleware)(Gordon T. Macomber joined Thomson Gale)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Thomson Learning, a division of The Thomson Corporation, has announced that Gordon T. Macomber has joined Thomson Gale as president. Macomber will report to Ronald Dunn, president and CEO of Thomson Learning Academic & International Group. Most...

Seybold Seminars, Publications, & Consulting.(peopleware)(Cynthia Wood, Charles Lenatti, Eve Asbury appointed)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Seybold Seminars, Publications, & Consulting has consolidated its editorial and conference content group in San Francisco, adding Cynthia Wood, director of content, and Charles Lenatti, managing editor of The Seybold Report to its management...

Tramp Steamer Media.(peopleware)(Tramp Steamer Media, LLC)( appointments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Rick Bremble has joined Tramp Steamer Media, LLC as director of national accounts. Bremble will be responsible for the company's sales and business development efforts in financial services and related industries.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (KRTB).(peopleware)(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Wayne Lown has been named account executive for Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (KRTB). Lown is based in Chicago and will work with KRTB's contributing local newspapers developing new distribution channels for KRTB's content and exploring...

Verity Inc.(peopleware)( appointments )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Verity Inc. has appointed Darren R. Johnson to VP, sales, for the Western region of the United States and Latin America. Johnson will report to Michael D. Mooney, SVP, field sales operations, the Americas and worldwide business development....

Centra Software, Inc.(peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Centra Software, Inc. has appointed Charles Zaiontz to its executive management team as managing director, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Zaiontz will manage Centra's EMEA sales, marketing, services, and consulting operations as the...

DataPower Technology, Inc.(peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... DataPower Technology, Inc. has named Mark Taber VP, worldwide sales and channels. Before joining DataPower, Mark served as VP, sales, at AEP Systems where he focused on secure enterprise networks and secure remote access for commercial...

FatWire Software.(peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Charles Giametta has joined FatWire Software as VP, North America sales. Giametta was previously VP, sales, Eastern region at Legato Systems.

Endeca.(peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Endeca has appointed Sean Alger to the newly created position of general manager of Endeca's Federal Sales Group. In his new role, Alger will spearhead Endeca's push into the federal government. Alger was previously VP and general manager,...

BitPass.(peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... BitPass has named former Salon Media Group CEO Michael O'Donnell as CEO anda member of its board of directors. Kurt Huang, BitPass cofounder and current CEO, will become chief product officer and continue asa board member.

Wolters Kluwer Health.(peopleware)(appointments)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer NV, has announced that Gary Foster has joined as president and CEO of the global medical research division, which includes Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journal publishing. Most...

Endeavor Information Systems.(peopleware)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Endeavor Information Systems has announced that Kathryn Harnish has rejoined the library software developer in the newly created position of product manager, electronic resource management systems. Harnish will assist Endeavor in the research...

SealedMedia Inc.(peopleware; appointment)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... SealedMedia Inc. has appointed Alan Pettit, VP, sales. Pettit will be based in Silicon Valley and will lead the company's sales operations in the Americas.

Vasont Systems.(peopleware; appointment)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Michael Hahn has joined Vasont Systems as senior content management analyst. Hahn will be responsible for the analysis of client requirements for new installations. He will also design curriculum and perform training for users and...

Metrics.
June 1, 2004... Internet Access Penetration (U.S., Home) Persons with Total Persons Internet Age/Gender Group Web Access (000) in U.S. * Penetration % ** Females 35-54 34,614 42,350 ...

Faces of econtent.(Nathan Treloar of Fast Search and Transfer )
June 1, 2004... Name With The Face: Nathan Treloar Job Title: Director Of Technical Sales Organization: Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) URL: www.fastsearch.com Job Function: Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) creates real-time search and filter...

ClearTags.(Econtent * Decision-Maker review)
June 1, 2004... Company: ClearForest Purpose: Provides a platform to read and meta-tag large volumes of documents, to discover relationships between documents, and to provide reports with the output. Starting Price: From the low six figures and up....

Tapping Into the Brains of the Web.(infopro)
June 1, 2004... We know about the problems of finding information on the "invisible Web"--that portion of the Web that search engines cannot or will not spider. But there is a deeper, truly invisible Web of information that will forever exist beyond the scope...

Collaboration be dam'd: what we think we know about digital asset management and collaboration by teams using rich media assets constantly changes.
June 1, 2004... Only a few years ago, you could predict that most--if not all--of the users and contributors to a project would be employees of a particular company and that those employees would be connected via a high-speed local area network. There might...

Web services in theory and practice.(Layer 7 Technologies)
June 1, 2004... These days the world of work is a distributed place: People work on the road, in airports, at home, and ar the office. No matter where or when they're working, they want the same access to content that they would have it they were sitting in...

Benchmarking the bounce back.(Follow the money)(Internet revenues grow)
June 1, 2004... excuse me for breaking the silence, but has anyone noticed that the Web is back? Over the course of the past year at least, many online consumer content brands (and a handful of business publishers as well) have quietly reported double-digit...

P2P collaboration tools at work: for those who have experienced the efficiency of P2P technologies leveraged for legitimate business use, its place in the digital content lifecycle is welcomed. With its reputation on the mend, P2P faces new hurdles and new promise for developers and would-be users alike.(Peer-to-peer technology)
June 1, 2004... Peer-to-peer technology (P2P) was around long before Napster stepped up and gave it a black eye. But take the notoriety that came from P2P file-sharing tools used to plunder valuable content, add in security concerns, and it comes as no...

Doing it by the book ... if only there were books to do it by.(Behind the firewall)(Books on Intranet)
June 1, 2004... i'm a bit of a bookshop junkie. One of the pleasures of visiting the U.S. is being able to visit the vast bookshops that are a feature of American cities. Borders on New York's Union Square is probably my favorite. Lugging said book...

Losing what counts: the swamping phenomenon.(disContent)
June 1, 2004... remember when Amazon first introduced "Search in the Book," and some people looking for specific books suddenly found the process much more difficult? That was swamping. It was entirely predictable. It also might have been avoidable. Improved...

CrossRef: citation linking gets a backbone.(Profile)
June 1, 2004... "Content managers today are grappling not only with rapidly changing technology, but also with seismic shifts in user expectations when it comes to functionality and accessibility." Virtually every academic, medical, scientific, and...

The intranets newsletter: strategies, tips, and tools.(Intranets: enterprise strategies and solutions)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The INTRANETS newsletter covers the strategies, tips, and tools required to help organizations develop, deploy, and manage intranets, extranets. portals, and other knowledge and information management initiatives. We recognize that the role of...

Information arbitrage.(after thought)
June 1, 2004... I've recently become fascinated by the views of pointy-headed pundits, the legion of so-called experts who pontificate about what's good in the content world. In every market and vertical industry, power-users and pundits consume different...