Searcher back issues from March 2006:
Convergence.(information technology)
Mar 01, 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 the magi of the business and technology ...
Innovation blogs.(Column)
Mar 01, 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, new. I love new toys, but more than that, I ...
Wikipedia and Britannica: the kid's all right (and so's the old man).(e-books)(Cover Story)
Mar 01, 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 scholarship that was so definitive, so monumental, ...
Building a European digital library: a challenge in the culture wars.(Google Inc. planning to convert world famous books into e-books format)
Mar 01, 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 Jeanneney, president of the Bibliotheque Nationale de ...
Science.gov 3.0.(THE BETTER MOUSETRAP)
Mar 01, 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 has some very useful features. Many of the ...
How old is your web site?: Making that upgrade decision.(TOOLS OF THE TRADE)(Column)
Mar 01, 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 headlights, I clutched the phone and waited for ...
An omnibus ICANN and Internet update.(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)(Organization overview)
Mar 01, 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 for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ...
What would you do if you received a "Cease and Desist" letter?(Wendy Seltzer interviewed)(Interview)
Mar 01, 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 infringement? When the site you land on is a ...
Cleaning up with the Web.(house cleaning information vya web)(Column)
Mar 01, 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, if only all the stuff packed into our house ...
Blindsided: not a professional competency.(WHAT'S NEXT)(Column)
Mar 01, 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 Pulitzer-Prize winner for ...
NTIS adds value: interview with Ellen Herbst, Director National Technical Information Service.(Interview)
Mar 01, 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 a series dealing with issues associated with ...
Contacts.(digital libraries)(Directory)
Mar 01, 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.
Mar 01, 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 You Were Here,'" February 2006), we ...