Comprehensive Review of IE Browser Alternatives
A look at Internet Explorer alternatives (Part 1). This installment covers Mozilla and Opera.
Category «Internet»
Online Used Book Market Bypassing Royalty Fees
Online used-book sales concern some publishers: “Is Amazon.com becoming the Napster of the book business?”
Maryland County Considers Regulating Cable Modem Service
This article from yesterday’s Washington Post (reg. req’d, articles archived 14 days after publication) reviews the pioneering proposal under consideration by the Montgomery County Council to regulate service standards for cable service providers. See also this Council press release dated July 7: “Montgomery County is about to be the first local jurisdiction to put in …
Survey Finds Steep Decline in Literary Reading
From the New York Times today: Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (60 pages, PDF)
Reliable Health Websites
From the WSJ today ($$), A Guide to Some of the Internet’s Best — And Most Overlooked — Health Sites. For more substantive treatment of this issue (no pun intended), see the monthly column on LLRX.com, Metaforix@Health, and Gloria Miccioli’s Researching Medical Literature on the Internet — 2003 Update.
Campaign Websites and the Politics of Open Source
Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use. Democratic campaign party websites are using open source apps, and the Republicans are using Microsoft. See also Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, (56 pages, PDF), a study by GW’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet.
Open Source Journal Directory Adds Article Level Search
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) now provides users with keyword, Boolean and field search options. “This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1142 journals in the directory. Currently 302 journals are searchable on article level. As of …
Artificial Intelligence Resources
“Artificial Intelligence Resources is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet on Artificial Intelligence on the Internet.” [from Marcus P. Zillman]
Unplanned Break From Blogging
My PC power supply was zapped. Lesson learned. Turn everything off and just wait until it is all over.
Study Says Connectivity Keeps Us Working While on Vacation
Press release about the survey from Avaya Inc.: “An increasing number of vacationing workers include laptop computers, cell phones and PDAs with their beach towels, sunscreen and paperbacks in order to stay in touch with office business…85 percent of respondents remain accessible to co-workers during nights, weekends and vacations; 76 percent regularly retrieve messages during …
New Pew Internet Memo on VoIP
New research by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the New Millennium Research Project “shows that 27% of Internet users have heard of Voice over Internet Protocol phone calling, and 13% of that population have considered adopting VoIP in the home. This translates into 34 million Americans who have heard of VoIP and …
Study Released Today Rates How Sites Respect Customers
The 2004 Online Customer Respect Study of the Top 100 U. S. Companies ($$) evaluates “corporate performance from an online customer’s perspective,” according to the aggregate ratings for the following criteria: ease of navigation, quick and thorough responses to inquiries, respecting customer privacy, open and honest policies, values and respecting customer data. The top five …
