Information Today articles from July 2007

Information Today archives from July 2007

ALA 2007: D.C. Welcomes 'radical, militant librarians'.
July 1, 2007... The piano-playing comedian at the ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Bash, Mark Russell of Mark Russell and The Capitol Steps, received a big round of applause from the thousands attending the fundraiser at the late June ALA Annual Conference in...

SIIA gets tough on software piracy.(Software & Information Industry Association)
July 1, 2007... Even those without a background in Latin are familiar with the phrase caveat emptor, or "buyer beware." Now, through a new anti-piracy program that sues sellers of illegal software, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is...

An update on orphan works.
July 1, 2007... Copyright has become a lead item on just about everyone's agenda these days. It's a complicated issue that is demanding more and more of our attention for obvious reasons. First, it's important to note that copyright law seeks to find a...

ThinkingStorm: the ABCs of online tutoring: online service works to provide private tutoring at low cost.
July 1, 2007... Since distance learning is so popular, why not online tutoring? Annie Burnquist launched Thinking-Storm, an online tutoring program, as an affordable solution that can reach any student. "The program can affect kids in a very similar way as...

Xrefer changes name to Credo Reference.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Xrefer changed its name to Credo Reference. Its CEO, John Dove, attributes the change to Xrefer being a "far from memorable" company name, making it difficult to spread via word-of-mouth. Source: Credo Reference (www.credoreference.com)

California passes data protection bill.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The California Senate Judiciary Committee approved A.B. 779, a data protection bill backed by the California Credit Union League (CCUL). The bill places responsibility on retailers to provide notice to consumers when their credit/debit card...

Website Pros buys Web.com.(NewsBytes)
July 1, 2007... Website Pros bought Web.com for $129 million. The former is a Jacksonville, Fla., Web design and Internet marketing company, and the latter deals with Web hosting. The buyout is an attempt to compete with larger companies such as Microsoft and...

CILIP launches ethics Web site.(Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals launched its ethics Web site (www.infoethics.org.uk/CILIP/admin/index.htm). Jonathan Gordon-Till and Sylvia Simmons, co-founders of InfoEthics.org.uk, designed the site,...

Elsevier partners with FAST.(Fast Search and Transfer)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Elsevier announced a partnership with Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) to launch Topic Pages, a free online scientific resource. Topic Pages will be hosted on Scirus, Elsevier's scientific information search engine, and will use FAST's Enterprise...

GPO names inspector general, teams up with RR Donnelley, and more.(Government Printing Office)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) appointed Tony Ogden as its inspector general. Ogden has been the acting inspector general since October 2006. Prior to that, he was the deputy inspector general and the senior legal and policy advisor...

Wiley-Blackwell selected to publish Financial Management.(signs deal with Financial Management Association International)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Wiley-Blackwell has been selected by the Financial Management Association International to publish Financial Management, the association's flagship journal covering primary research in finance. The company will publish the quarterly journal in...

Thomson opens Webcasting center in Boston, acquires EBIA.(mployee Benefits Institute of America, Inc.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Thomson Financial opened a Webcasting operations center in Boston that will encode and digitize live and recorded Webcasts. Since October 2000, Thomson Financial has produced and created more than 100,000 Webcasts and has offered its clients...

Ask.com's new ad strategy.(Up Front with Barbara Quint)(Column)
July 1, 2007... [Editor's Note: Here's one column that generated enough buzz for us to offer you a Point/Counterpoint on the topic. Read on for what's been happening at Ask.com and the wonderful world of advertising.] As you read this, the cause celebre...

Mad M&A scramble leads the news.(News Break Update)
July 1, 2007... A mid the flurry of late spring M&A activity, it seems that news and financial companies are hot, while education businesses are not. Michael Liedtke, an Associated Press business journalist, called it a "media mating dance." He pointed to the...

The art of generating buzz.(Ask.com's advertising campaign)
July 1, 2007... I first saw Ask.com's most recent ad campaign in California without knowing I had seen a campaign for Ask.com. Driving into town from the San Francisco airport, I spotted a billboard that read, "The Algorithm killed Jeeves." Later I saw...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office launches Peer-to-Patent.(website www.peertopatent.org)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched Peer-to-Patent (www.peertopatent.org), a Web site that will allow the public to review and discuss patent applications. The program will run for 1 year, and the USPTO will offer feedback on...

Meredith Corp. acquires Healia.(NewsBytes)
July 1, 2007... Meredith Corp. acquired Healia (www.healia.com), a health vertical search engine that has won several industry awards. Meredith will use Healia to expand its services to the health information market as many consumers go online for health...

IntelliContact changes name to iContact.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... As of June 5, Broadwick Corp.'s email marketing and blogging application IntelliContact will be called iContact. The name has been shortened to make it easier to say and remember and as a play on the phrase "eye contact." Source: Broadwick...

Thieme and ZB MED agree on national license.(Thieme Publishing Group and Deutsche Zentralbibliothek fuer Medizin)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Thieme Publishing Group and Deutsche Zentralbibliothek fuer Medizin have agreed on a nationwide license that will give several German institutions access to an electronic archive of eight journals from Thieme. The journals are SYNLETT,...

Eagle Investment Systems partners with Impact Investing.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Eagle Investment Systems, LLC and Impact Investing have formed a partnership. Impact, which makes analytical software for portfolio managers, will have access to Eagle's data management tools and vice versa in order to provide more information...

Unlimited Priorities announces advisory board members.(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Unlimited Priorities Corp. announced the members of its advisory board. The chair of the board is Information Today, Inc.'s president and CEO, Thomas H. Hogan. The other board members are Bob Asleson, chairman of Paratext; John Ganly, assistant...

Knovel obtains 15 new academic subscribers.(NewsBytes)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Knovel Corp. recently gained 15 more subscribers from universities around the world, bringing its academic subscribers to more than 250. Five of the universities are from North America, eight are from Europe, and two are from South America. ...

EPA update.(Environmental Protection Agency)(Special Libraries Association's annual conference)
July 1, 2007... Mike Flynn, deputy director of the Office of Information Analysis & Access at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was a guest at SLA's Public Policy Update session at the SLA Annual Conference in June in Denver. The issues...

Letter from the editor.
July 1, 2007... As we sail into the long, hot summer, I wanted to give you an update on the 2007 People's Choice Awards. The nominations are in, and we'll be putting the final list of the top people, services, and products that you voted for this year into a...

Eye of the beholder.(Conference news)
July 1, 2007... Speaking at the annual SLA conference last month in Denver, Eugenie Prime used alliteration to catalog the core competencies of librarians. She said librarians are curious, creative, courageous, convicted, and good communicators. I could not...

Infotoons.(Cartoon)
July 1, 2007... HEY, SARAH... I GOT A "WII" FOR MY SON, IT'S AWESOME! BUT I CAN'T STOP PLAYING IT... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NEXT DAY... OK, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? MY ARM IS KILLING ME... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YOU'VE GOT "WIIITIS...

All aboard the OA express.(Focus on Publishing)(open access)
July 1, 2007... Trying to follow open access (OA) these days is a bit like riding on one of the animated trains in the Harry Potter series or The Polar Express. I can imagine coming into the station and hearing the conductor call out, "Everyone for the...

A stronger fair use doctrine?(Legal Issues)
July 1, 2007... When the Copyright Act of 1976 was enacted, it was supposed to be technology-neutral, covering all forms of technology. All forms of original works--print, audio/ video, microfiche, and even electronic--were included. It also wasn't supposed to...

Divine provenance ... or not.(Internet Waves)(Jerry Falwell)
July 1, 2007... About a week before I started writing this column, the Rev. Jerry Falwell shuffled off this mortal coil. As controversial and polarizing as he was, his passing elicited an outpouring of analysis (e.g., on the future of the Religious Right),...

Trying to convert? Try these tools.(Library Stuff Revisited)(PDF converters)
July 1, 2007... Since I work at Law Library Management (www.lawlib.com), which services many law firms, I've noticed that a new phrase is being used. And I'm sure it's a phrase that is becoming the norm at other firms and businesses across the world. On...

SimulScribe offers a text solution for voice mail.(IT Spotlight)(Company overview)
July 1, 2007... Here's the first of our IT Spotlight series on high-tech companies offering innovative new products and services. FOUNDER James Siminoff, founder and CEO, started SimulScribe, a voice mail transcription company, in 2003. The company's...

Online media & marketing services M&A.(Insider's Perspective)
July 1, 2007... "M&A action in the media sector has been ablaze," according to Maria Bartiromo, the business news anchor on CNBC's Closing Bell. M&A in the online media and marketing services sectors set new record highs in the first half of 2007, with 238...

Federal appeals court clarifies online fair use.(Intellectual Property)(Perfect 10 v. Google)
July 1, 2007... How could the Internet function if every click from a search engine to Web-based content carried the risk of copyright infringement with it? This was the question a federal appeals court in California answered partially in May, when it held...

Global survey offers insight into libraries' use of ebooks.
July 1, 2007... ebrary launched a survey in the spring that focused on the digital needs of the library community. Librarians all over the world took part in this survey via the Survey Monkey online tool, which used ebrary's newsletter distribution list....

Lubuto Library Project: a global connection.(Jane Kinney Meyers)(Interview)
July 1, 2007... In his opening keynote address at SLA, former Vice President Al Gore quoted an African proverb: "If you want to go quickly, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together." And Jane Kinney Meyers, winner of the 2007 Dow Jones Leadership...

Combating cybercrime, connecting Africa, and supporting the young.(International Telecommunication Union)
July 1, 2007... The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced three major initiatives in May on World Information Society Day (WISD). The ITU, which was established in 1865, revealed a plan that will include an attack on cybercrime, new efforts to...

CAS celebrates special historic designation.(Chemical Abstracts Service)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... This year, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has more than one reason to celebrate. In addition to 2007 being the company's 100th anniversary, CAS was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark on June 14 in a special ceremony in Columbus,...

Where in the world is ...(John Yunker of Byte Level Research develops map for country codes in website links)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... For global professionals who need to know what .tj stands for (it's Tajikistan, by the way), John Yunker of Byte Level Research developed a color-coded map of the World Wide Web. The map is a rendering of the world map with country codes in...

SIIA appoints Generate, Inc. CEO to its content division board of directors.(Software & Information Industry Association hires Tom Aley)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) appointed Tom Aley, president and CEO of Generate, Inc., to its content division board of directors. The board directs and oversees content division activities, providing companies that...

On the horizon: conferences on information science, scholarly publishing, and knowledge management.(Conference Circuit)(Calendar)
July 1, 2007... Information science, scholarly publishing, and knowledge management are a few of the dominant information industry conference themes this summer. The usual complement of professional society meetings rounds out the conference calendar. ...

SLA: rocky mountain mile-high conference.(Special Libraries Association)(Conference news)
July 1, 2007... This year's annual SLA conference in Denver was quite an event. SLA planners admit that the attendance and exhibitions at the conference "exceeded planners' expectations," while gathering SLA members from every chapter worldwide. Even the...

From Web 2.0 to health literacy: the buzz at MLA '07.(Medical Library Association's annual conference)(Conference news)
July 1, 2007... What makes a Medical Library Association (MLA) annual conference a success? As a rule, participants attend continuing education classes and poster presentations, listen to speeches at plenary sessions, partake in vendor-sponsored wine-and-dine...

Blogs & social media forum 2: what's on the corporate horizon?(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)
July 1, 2007... Countless conferences have been devoted to the topic of the Internet, and many of them have recently focused on social media. However, few of them will end up using the interactive and social techniques of the Web so effectively as in the...

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2007.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Conference news)
July 1, 2007... Researchers are not only relying more on libraries, but they seem to be reading more, according to Donald W. King, distinguished research professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill. King addressed an audience at the...

O'Reilly Media launches TOC conference.(REPORT FROM THE FIELD)(Tools of Change for Publishing)(Conference news)
July 1, 2007... O'Reilly Media-publishers of computer technology and programming books with pictures of animals on the covers, the Hacks and Missing Manual series of books, MAKE and CRAFT magazines, and similar publications -launched a Tools of Change (TOC)...

Bridging the digital and print worlds.
July 1, 2007... In today's digital world, books-physical objects-continue to be relevant because they are cheap, they endure for generations, and their efficient user interface has withstood the test of time. Now that more ebooks are entering the...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2007... July 9-12: Orlando, Fla. (Imperial Swan Hotel & Suites). The International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies, sponsored by the International Society for Research in Science and Technology, will cover the...

CCC Offers Annual Copyright License for academia.(Product News & Reviews)(Copyright Clearance Center)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) announced the launch of the Annual Copyright License for academic institutions. It's a single license that provides faculty and staff with preapproved permissions to use content in course management systems,...

EBSCO enhances EBSCONET.(Product News & Reviews)(EBSCO Information Services)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... EBSCO Information Services announced enhancements to the EBSCONET Subscription Management System, a multilingual Web-based management tool. New features include the ability to view publisher packages, more order detail, and all available rates;...

ProQuest expands PIO, forms partnership, unveils parliamentary papers.(Product News & Reviews)(Periodicals Index Online)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... ProQuest has expanded Periodicals Index Online (PIO), the index for periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The company added 176 titles, bringing the total to 5,255 titles, including 16 million articles in 40 languages and...

Charity watchdogs guide good giving.
July 1, 2007... We've all been in this situation. We get a charity solicitation in the mail or by phone. Usually it's annoying, but we sometimes think, "This is a genuinely worthy cause. Maybe I should support it." We get ready to write the check, but we may...

R.R. Bowker launches Syndetics Indexed Content Enrichment, Non-Fiction Connection.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Syndetic Solutions, a subsidiary of R.R. Bowker and the provider of content for a library's online catalog, announced the introduction of Syndetics Indexed Content Enrichment (ICE). This enhancement will let patrons search all Syndetics content...

EBSCO publishing announces agreement with ABC-CLIO and more.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... EBSCO Publishing and ABC-CLIO announced a new alliance that will benefit history scholars, teachers, and students. EBSCO has acquired two of ABC-CLIO's databases: Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life. EBSCO will also distribute...

Global IP Solutions releases Remote Extension 5.0.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Global IP Solutions (GIPS) announced the release of its softphone, Remote Extension 5.0. GIPS Remote Extension lets a remote or mobile worker securely connect to any corporate phone system without having to establish a virtual private network....

ChemSW enhances inventory technology, releases expanded chemical inventory white paper.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... ChemSW, Inc. released enhancements to its CISPro Global and CISPro Live inventory systems that let users track biological and radiological material based on user-defined properties. Users are now able to store pictures of the materials. They...

Experian teams up with eCredit to expand offerings.(Product News & Reviews)(Experian Information Solutions Inc.)
July 1, 2007... Success in business can often depend on who makes the best decisions quickly with minimal risk. Now, Experian and eCredit have streamlined the process even more. When Experian merged its global information services with eCredit's online...

ThomasNet launches new toolbar.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... ThomasNet launched the new ThomasNet.com Toolbar to provide industrial professionals with access to hundreds of product catalogs, more than 20 million CAD (computer-aided design) drawings, industry news, and more. New toolbar features include a...

OneSource enhances business browser.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... OneSource Information Services, Inc., an infoUSA company, has enhanced the company's flagship Business Browser solution. The enhancement aims to improve user productivity and value, bringing all regional editions of Global Business Browser...

Elsevier renews agreement with AdvanTechnologies.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Elsevier has renewed its agreement with AdvanTechnologies, paving the way for the launch of Inteleos Universal Integrator (UI), a tool to integrate information on drug pipeline research from multiple data sources. With Inteleos UI,...

Exanet: transforming data into information.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... In the age of information overload, Exanet is taking the pain out of the process by letting users access the data they need when they need it. As a provider of software-based clustered network attached storage (NAS), Exanet is introducing...

Scottrade: investing in a good center.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... When you make your money online, you can't afford to have online failure. So when online investment firm Scottrade started designing its new $25 million, state-of-the-art data center, the designers set to work on getting the project done right....

Thomson expands record archive, launches module, and more.(Product News & Reviews)(Thomson Scientific)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Thomson Scientific has added about 1.8 million records of archived research data from 1926 to 1968 to its BIOSIS Previews database. It has also expanded the archives of its Zoological Record database, with information that now dates from 1864....

Scirus: topic pages designed for collaboration.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Scirus has introduced collaboration to its mix of offerings to the scientific community with Scirus Topic Pages. This new feature gathers relevant academic information on a specific scientific topic on a single Web page. "The Web 2.0...

NPG launches two new Web sites.(Product News & Reviews)(Nature Publishing Group)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Nature Publishing Group (NPG) will launch two new Web sites: Nature Reports Climate Change and Nature Reports Stem Cells. The two sites will highlight the two topical political and scientific issues by presenting peer-reviewed primary research...

Scirus launches library partners program.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Scirus Library Partners is now available online. The program integrates the Scirus search engine with library link resolvers, letting librarians provide patrons with faster access to full-text articles. Source: Scirus (www.scirus.com)

Xiotech introduces Xiotech CEMS.(Product News & Reviews)(Corporate Evidence Management System)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Xiotech Corp. introduced Xiotech CEMS (Corporate Evidence Management System), which proactively captures, classifies, manages, and controls electronic files that could potentially become evidence in a legal or compliance action. After capturing...

WebFeat unveils new product line.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... At the ALA Annual Conference, WebFeat debuted WebFeat Express v3.0, its federated search engine. Also featured were WebFeat Proxy, which enables single sign-on for all e-resources accessed from its federated search; WebFeat Menu Manager, a...

JBL installs audio system in New American Quarter Horse Museum.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... JBL, Inc. installed a multichannel audio system in the newly renovated American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum in Amarillo, Texas. The museum reopened on June 9. The system is installed in the grand hall, which is the main entry to the...

Ex Libris Group updates SFX A-Z list, releases ARC version 2.0.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Ex Libris Group's SFX link resolver A-Z list has been updated with features including the addition of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language options. In addition, SFX Citation Linker places known citations for search results directly on the...

reCAPTCHA puts digitizing texts in the public's hands.(Product News & Reviews)('Completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans apart')(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans apart (CAPTCHAs) are implemented on many Web sites to verify that the user is human, as opposed to an automated program. CAPTCHAs usually consist of randomly generated...

Amazon launches Askville.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Amazon has launched Askville, a free answer service. Users can log on to ask real people questions on any topic. To try it out, go to http://askville.amazon.com/askville/CIndex.do?id=3#answers. Source: Amazon (www.amazon.com)

HiHiSoft releases file anti-copy 3.1.(Product News & Reviews)(file protection software)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... HiHiSoft introduced a new file protection application called File Anti-Copy. The program prohibits anyone from opening, copying, or deleting a file without entering a user-generated password. The program serves as an inhibitor to anyone who...

CleverStat releases parameter 2.0.(Product News & Reviews)(search engine optimizing software)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... CleverStat released v2.0 of Parameter, its search engine optimizing (SEO) software. Parameter monitors several factors including Web site rank, link popularity, and traffic rank, for users'Web sites as well as their competitors.' Parameter is...

Lingoport releases Globalyzer Version 2.4.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Lingoport, Inc. released Globalyzer 2.4, which finds embedded HTML strings that inhibit localization and translation of software. Version 2.4 reduces false positives and works through source code more quickly. The updated HTML detection engine...

ITerating's wiki watch.(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... When it comes to setting up a wiki, one size doesn't fit all. That's one of the reasons why ITerating developed a special wiki-based software guide that's Web-based, free, and comprehensive. Users can pick and choose from a range of wikis,...

Intellext changes its name, introduces ClickSurge.(Product News & Reviews)(Intellext is now MediaRiver)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Intellext, the company that delivered Watson, changed its name to MediaRiver and released a new product for Web publishers called ClickSurge. Web publishers can use ClickSurge to guide Internet users to the publishers' online content in a...

Experian launches BizSource and TrueSearch.(Product News & Reviews)(Experian Information Solutions Inc.'s new databases)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Experian Group announced the launch of BizSource, a new commercial database that compiles all the data that Experian has accrued in its 30-plus years of operation. It also announced the release of TrueSearch search and match technology, which...

BioMed Central publishes biotechnology for biofuels.(Product News & Reviews)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... BioMed Central has announced that it will publish Biotechnology for Biofuels, a new journal that will focus on how biotechnology can improve plant and biological conversion to fuels. The journal will be peer-reviewed by members of the biofuel...

Ensynch, Inc.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Hunter Bennett)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Ensynch, Inc. announced the appointment of Hunter Bennett to the newly created position of CTO. In this role, he will serve as lead strategist and evangelist for the development of services for the company. He will determine which market...

SirsiDynix.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Gary M. Rautenstrauch and Douglas R. Maughan )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... SirsiDynix announced the appointments of Gary M. Rautenstrauch as CEO and Douglas R. Maughan as CFO. Rautenstrauch will be responsible for all corporate functions. He has more than 30 years of corporate experience. Prior to this, he held...

H.W. Wilson.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Donna L. Liss)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... H.W. Wilson announced the appointment of Donna L. Liss as sales representative for the West Coast territory. Most recently, Liss was library representative for Recorded Books, where she increased audiobook business and introduced and...

Coutts Information Services.(People Line & the Executive Profile)(appointment of Stephen Pugh, Steve Forrest and Scott Gibbens )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Coutts Information Services announced the appointment of Stephen Pugh as vice president of international sales. In this position, he will build a sales team to work with clients in Asia, Africa, and Australasia in order to advise clients on the...

Robert Mercer, President, Ex Libris North America.(People Line & the Executive Profile)
July 1, 2007... Thanks to Web 2.0, consumers are taking part in the production process more than ever before. According to Robert Mercer, the new president of Ex Libris North America, consumers have become "prosumers"-a term coined by Alvin Toffler to mean a...

Hit all the right notes with digital sheet music: despite the early difficulties, printing technology had a profound effect on the musical world.(Link-Up@Home: Your Personal Guide to the Web)
July 1, 2007... Think for a moment how difficult it was for early printers to produce sheet music. If they were printing a book and a letter didn't line up with other letters in a word, the word was usually still readable, but if they were printing music and a...