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Web search: how the Web has changed information retrieval. “This paper suggests that the significance of the topical metadata controversy depends on the technological appropriateness of adding them to Web pages. This paper surveys Web technology with an eye on assessing the appropriateness of Web pages as hosts for topical metadata. The survey reveals Web …
Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web, 1998 – 2002 “examines three key trends in the development of the public Web — size and growth, internationalization, and metadata usage — based on data from the OCLC Office of Research Web Characterization Project , an initiative that explores fundamental questions about the Web and its …
On December 11, 2002, I posted on the High Court of Australia’s ruling in the Internet defamation case Dow Jones and Company v. Gutnick. Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Barron’s (owned by Dow Jones) news bureau editor/reporter Bill Alpert (the author of the article at issue in the case) filed a complaint with the …
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a new report today: The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A new look at Internet access and the digital divide. Use this link to download the full-text report in PDF or to access each section of the table of contents. Amanda Lenhart, the Research Specialist who authored this report, …
The White House has launched Ask the White House, “a live online interactive forum where you can communicate with White House and administration officials.” The forum is for one hour, 7pm – 7:30pm (ET), and questions may be submitted in advance. Guests are announced on the website.
Ten years ago this April, Marc Andreessen and his colleagues at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, launched the first free web browser, called Mosaic. See also this MSNBC article for more background, and this News.com article, Legacy: A brave new World Wide Web that profiles “Jon Mittelhauser, a founding father of the Web browser,” …
Jenny, the Shifted Librarian, has linked to her April 9 PowerPoint presentation, Keeping Current Using RSS, from the 5th Annual Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Conference. She also provides a link to an informative workshop outline, Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web, by Ray Matthews, and to an RSS Feed Reader/News Aggregators Directory. …
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns (MA) dismissed a lawsuit by the ACLU on behalf of Harvard law student and cyber-activist Ben Edelman who argued a first amendment right to create software to decrypt an Internet blocking program by N2H2. The filtering software, used by public and school libraries, is marketed as “CIPA compliant.” Edelman …
This AP report briefly describes an innovative new program underway in Iowa, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. It currently includes 150 doctors who will direct patients to reliable sources of health-related information on the web.
Dave Pollard posted this commentary, Why Complex Intranets Don’t Work and ‘Librarians’ Do: Re-intermediation, that appeared as the Library Link of the Day. He makes an interesting case for the continued, if not expanded, need for expert researchers to leverage the demand within organizations for knowledge resources and information.
Incentives to Preserve Digital Materials: OCLC Research White Paper by Brian Lavoie. (via David Mattison)
The Nando Times 24-hour free news service, and the free Nando SportServer, will both cease operations within 60 days, according to their parent company, Internet and newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. See the respective announcements from each site here and here.
