[WEB4LIB] How to keep up

[HTheyer]

slashdot.org  is a riot along with being useful.

corrante "tech news, filtered daily" is also hot.

Roy Tennant's Web managers reference center

all are indexed into the LII (http://www.lii.org)

Hillary Theyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Masters, Gary E" <GEM at CDRH.FDA.GOV>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:53 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] How to keep up


> I started out using Byte as my major source, if nothing else it was a
great
> catalog of who was selling what.  Then InfoWorld took over as a major
source
> of information.  During the 80's and early 90's, I could not miss an
issue.
> I even worried about Pammy.  PC Magazine was a good fill in for some areas
> and reading Scientific American gave me a better idea of technology in
> general.  Since I was in a science library, the IEEE journals and some
> others (New Scientist, and even the New Yorker) kept me up to date.  Or as
> much as I needed.
>
> However, InfoWorld does not review the same sort of products and the whole
> field has shifted.  I don't manage a network anymore, but take care of a
web
> page and help people in our library use their computers.  It is getting
> difficult to find a source of information that will help me solve the
latest
> questions I get about Microsoft office products, and my own about how to
> manage and create a web page for our Intranet.  This group is probably my
> best source of information, even when I just lurk.  I still like PC
> magazine, but they have drifted (or I have) away from the same focus.
There
> used to be a time in the late 90's when I had to take every new issue to
> work to try a few ideas out.
>
> So, to sum up, what are the best sources for a person who manages a web
page
> and does computer support for a Windows NT system?
>
> Is there another  list(s) that supplements this one?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> Gary E. Masters
> Librarian (Systems)
> CDRH - FDA
> (301) 827-6893