Commentary on Information Overload
Knowing When to Log Off – Wired campuses may be causing ‘information overload’. The insights and advice in this article apply equally to those of us not on campuses, but always online and “connected.”
Category «Internet»
Challenges to the News Business Addressed in Commentary and Surveys
When Those Pesky Blogs Undermine NPR News From the Carnegie Reporter, Spring 2005, What’s the future of the news business? This report to Carnegie Corporation of New York offers some provocative ideas. PowerPoint slides on the survey data above
VoIP Adherents Expand, But Hackers Threaten
VoIP Is Killing Traditional Telephony: Report Is VoIP Service the Next Big Target for Hackers?
Range of Research Oriented Sites Win Webby Awards
Among the many and varied categories of sites which are worth your review, comprising both winners and nominees, I note the following: the State Bar of Arizona – Public Information Site, the National Cancer Institute Web site, ConsumerReports.org, The Merck Manual — Second Home Edition Online, Singingfish.com – The Destination for Audio/Video Search on the …
Guide to VoIP at Home
From the New York Times, Internet Phones Arrive at Home (And Some Need No Computer)
PBS Report on Proliferation of Free Daily Newspapers
At Metro stations in the DC area, commuters are now offered a choice of two free daily newspapers; a significantly slimmed-downed version of the Washington Post, and a newcomer called the Examiner. I have been regularly reading both, and recommend this PBS report on the national trend to lure readers back to daily newspapers with …
Hope Springs Eternal
In the Swamp, an ‘Extinct’ Woodpecker Lives, and Ivory-billed woodpecker flies back from the dead.
Report on Model Programs in Health Information
Libraries and Health Communication: Model Programs in Health Information Provided by Libraries Throughout the Nation. The NCLIS 2004 Blue Ribbon Consumer Health Information Recognition Awards for Libraries (57 pages, PDF) “This document records some of the programs and methodologies used by libraries that are providing accurate, useful consumer health information to the people of the …
Security Experts Report on Critical Internet Vulnerabilities
Press release: “More than 600 new Internet security vulnerabilities were discovered during the first quarter of 2005, according to the SANS Institute and a team of experts from industry and government. This group has identified the most critical vulnerabilities disclosed in Q1 that pose critical risks that need to be addressed through patching and other …
Technology and libraries of the future; competing or complementary interests?
The Infinite Library, by Wade Roush, May 2005 issue of TechnologyReview.com. Related reference: European libraries join forces against Google
New Website Documents Auto Recall Info
Tim Stanley and crew have been busy, with the usual outstanding results. See his latest launch, Auto Recalls, an A to Z listing of makes and models, with accompanying RSS feeds. This site is easy to use, fast, comprehensive…and I just found out that my old minivan has a problem that needs to be addressed …
Greatest Number of Links By Bloggers Are to Yahoo
According to new stats by BlogPulse, Yahoo News ranks at the top of the list of sources to which bloggers most frequently link, with the New York Times a close second. Interesting, as Yahoo News is an aggregator and the Times is a primary publisher, although it too aggregates stories, from AP.
