Understanding Online’s Value Proposition, an article by writer, speaker and consultant Robert Spears, presents an overview of a diverse range of websites and online services that consumers have determined provide content that justifies a fee. This short but interesting commentary is part of an upcoming book, Strategic Convergence: The Path to Sustainable Profits. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2003
Incentivizing KM Buy-In
An update on knowledge management incentives reviews the successes and failures of programs used by high profile companies such as Siemens and Hill & Knowlton to encourage and sustain employee participation in building intranets and knowledge manangement applications. Continue Reading
Managing a Website
The Accidental Webmaster, by Julie M. Still, reference librarian at Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey. Continue Reading
More Competition in Online Lawyer Directory Market
Firms Take Hard Line on Law Directories spotlights the growing competition among global legal publishers for a share of the lucrative legal directory marketplace, as well as highlights other online marketing and branding strategies available to high-profile firms. Continue Reading
Vermont Rep. Will Keynote ALA/CLA Conference
Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who sponsored the Freedom to Read Protection Act, (H.R. 1157), will present the keynote at the opening session of the Joint Annual Conference of the American Library Association and Canadian Library Association, in Toronto on June 21. Continue Reading
Privacy, Encryption and Terrorism
PCWorld has an important article on the implications of and serious ramifications that result when powerful encryption technologies used to protect individual privacy are also exploited in increasingly sophisticated ways by groups planning terrorist acts. Continue Reading
Locating Personal Info Online
Naked in Cyberspace, How To Find Personal Information Online, 2nd Edition, reviewed by Stephen Lafferty. Continue Reading
Popular File Utility Changes Standard
Updated WinZip Alters Zip Format. “WinZip 9.0, from the market leader among file-compression utilities, has entered public beta with scheduled release later this year, bringing with it a new .zip format–which means some of its functions will not be compatible with earlier versions or other programs.” Continue Reading
Yale Law Librarians Save Rare Books After Explosion
Conservators Restore Rare Books Damaged In Yale Blast: Water From Sprinklers Damages About 300 Books. “About 300 rare books — the major casualties of Wednesday’s bomb explosion at Yale Law School — are being treated by expert conservators. Librarians catalogued and bagged the books, then moved them into a blast freezer at Yale’s Beinecke Rare… Continue Reading
New House Bill to Combat Spam
Via Politechbot, the text of the Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act of 2003, (43 pages, pdf) introduced May 22 by Rep. Richard Burr, (R-NC) in another effort to stem the tide of unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE). For other related information on state and federal anti-spam legislation that I have posted, see this link. Also… Continue Reading
California Senate Passes Tough Anti-Spam Bill
Sen. Debra Bowen’s bill, SB 12, “would…prohibit a person or entity from initiating an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement either from California or to a California electronic mail address. The bill would also make it unlawful for a person or entity to collect electronic mail addresses posted on the Internet, or to sell or provide a… Continue Reading
Alaska Resolution Opposes Patriot Act Surveillance
The Alaska legislature passed House Joint Resolution 22 stating “it is the policy of the State of Alaska to oppose any portion of the USA Patriot Act that would violate the rights and liberties guaranteed equally under the state and federal constitutions.” According to the ACLU, “Alaska’s resolution is the 114th of its kind to… Continue Reading
