Searcher back issues from July 2007:
Who cares about whois?
Jul 01, 2007; ... What is a whois? According to that intrepid and often accurate online resource, Wikipedia, a whois is "a TCP-based query/ response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the ...
Entertainment advisory: book, movie, and television reviews and news on the Web.(INTERNET EXPRESS)(Website list)
Jul 01, 2007; ... As media morphs and proliferates in our technological age, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to decide what we actually want to spend our leisure time watching or reading. What's worse, anyone with an Internet connection can express an opinion about leisure-time offerings on blogs ...
Citations and aberrations.
Jul 01, 2007; ... In today's Webbed-up world, the subject of bibliographic citations may seem dreary at best. Writing teachers may love to pick citations apart, but creating them is tedious. Students detest them. Editors' assistants routinely suffer nightmares about correcting them. Researchers depend on ...
LibraryThing.com: The Holy Grail of book recommendation engines.(WEB MASTERY)(Interview)
Jul 01, 2007; ... I started a book club when I was pregnant with my first child, worrying I wouldn't make time to read. Years later, the book club is still going strong, but we struggle, as many clubs do, to find great new selections. I create a list of possible choices and we select them together, but, all ...
Online social networks, virtual communities, enterprises, and information professionals.
Jul 01, 2007; ... Part 1. Past and Present Most organizations ... ours included ... are just beginning to experiment with meaningful social networking. What will it take for most of us to make the transition from business-as-usual ... to business in a wired-in world of online social networking ...
The high risk of free: state law on the Web.(THE SIDEBAR)
Jul 01, 2007; ... In the April 2006 issue, my column warned of the dangers in trusting too much in free sources of legal information online ["The People's Law: Free Legal Help and Legal Research on the Web," http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr06/Ebbinghouse.shtml]. I told you that although the dot-gov and ...
Open access: the yellow brick road, its walls, and speed bumps.
Jul 01, 2007; ... The road to open access is paved with bricks, stones, and speed bumps. Open access has its pioneers, advocates, fighters, and protesters. Access to the world's scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research results and data is not--yet--completely free to users without barriers. In ...