From search keywords to market intelligence
28th January 2008

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Research in the non-English world
28th January 2008

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How Chinese blogs are different
28th January 2008

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Information has no border. Culture does.
23rd January 2008

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Searching for the killer app
17th January 2008

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Silos primed for demolition
17th January 2008

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Compliance – gearing up a notch
2nd January 2008

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Social networking for business ‘hyped up’
2nd January 2008

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The Library in the Twenty-first Century: New Services for the Information Age [ABSTRACT]
1st January 2008

Are libraries threatened with extinction, or are they morphing into a universal hub of information and knowledge, an indispensable factor in the success of their constituents? Peter Brophy weighs in on the discussion once again with the revised edition of his comprehensive assessment of "The Library in the Twenty-first Century" (London: Facet Publishing). Six years after the initial publication of this book, Brophy sees no reason to revise his original judgment that libraries continue to be under threat and have to be proactive, if not aggressive about defining and taking their place in their respective environments, whether it is universities, schools, corporations, or the general public.

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Widgets for Content Distribution: A Shift in the Internet [ABSTRACT]
1st January 2008

In what has been described as the "deportalization" of the Internet, users of Web 2.0 services are no longer content to use the big portals. Instead, these users seek to create their own Internet spaces. Web 2.0 users want to select the content they need, group it with other content in which they are interested, arrange that on a blog or social network page, customise its look, comment on it and share it with friends or colleagues.

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