[WEB4LIB] Re: technology news sources

[Richard Wiggins]

It is frustrating how the IT press tends to cover the money aspects and to lose the technology aspects.  I subscribe to the ZDNET Anchordesk mentioned below, but to me the reporting style and the "teases" are often more sophomoric than local TV news -- and that's not a compliment.  "The Top Five Reasons Why You Have to Have Wireless" and such.

Lately I've been impressed with ACM Technews. It's roughly analogous to Salon's summary of the front page of major daily newspapers for AvantGo subscribers.  You get capsule summaries and can follow hyperlinks to the full text in whatever publication (e.g. NY Times, Washington Post, various Net media outlets).

Technews comes out 3 times per week.  Subscribe here:

http://www.acm.org/technews/

Here are recent headlines:

ACM TechNews                                                            
Volume 3, Number 158                                                    
Date: January 29, 2001                                                  
Site Sponsored by Gateway (http://www.gateway.com)                      
                                                                        
Top Stories for Monday, January 29, 2001:                               
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html                                                                                            
"Unions Address High-Tech Workers"                                      
"Tech Industry in Turmoil Gets a New Top Lobbyist"                      
"The Odyssey of a Hacker: From Outlaw to Consultant"                    
"Contracting Grows in Popularity as Option for Out-of-Work Techies"     
"Software Companies Rise Above Tech Pessimism"                          
"Companies' Spending on Communications Is Seen Rising 10 Percent"       
"Congress Opens Debate on Online Privacy"                               
"New ICANN President: Learning, Listening Are Top Priorities"           
"Intranets Nurture Companies From the Inside"                           
"U.S. Senate Reintroduces Permanent R&D Tax Credit"                     
"Study: E-Business Is Top Concern for CEOs"                             
"Report Outlines Path to Secure E-Government"                           
"Union Leader Targets Tech Industry"                                    
"Standardizing Linux--It's a Good Thing"                                
"Bush Expected to Rattle Federal IT"                                    
"IT Industry Opposes Impending Ergonomics Rules"                        
"Clues to Bush's High-Tech Plans"                                       
"California Energy Woes Affecting High-Tech"                            
"With Accessibility for All"                                            
                                                                        
******************* News Stories ***********************                
                                                                        
"Unions Address High-Tech Workers"                                      
Organized labor is meeting with a variety of challenges as it           
tries to form unions in the high-tech industry.  One reason, says       
Microsoft's Dan Leach, is because high-tech workers generally           
have an entrepreneurial spirit that does not correspond well with . . . 
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0129m.html#item1            
                                                                        
"Tech Industry in Turmoil Gets a New Top Lobbyist"                      
The tech-industry lobbying organization TechNet has named Rick          









------Original Message------
From: Joy Schwarz <schwarz at AXP.WINNEFOX.ORG>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: January 31, 2001 5:45:14 PM GMT
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: technology news sources


I subscribe to these free daily e-mail services that you may find 
useful as well:

Tomalak's Realm < http://www.tomalak.org/ >
"...a daily source of links to strategic Web design stories".
You can subscribe at 
< http://www.tomalak.org/todayslinks/newsletter.html >.

ZDNet AnchorDesk 
"...a concise digest of computing news in your email box 
every business day."
< http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/filters/subscribe/ >

Joy Schwarz
Web Coordinator
Winnefox Library System
Oshkosh, WI  USA
http://www.winnefox.org 

"A computer lets you make more mistakes 
faster than any invention in human history --
with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
                        -- Mitch Ratliffe

At 08:14 AM 1/31/01 -0800, Drew, Bill wrote:
>Reading Walt Crawford's latest musings and reading Infobeat in my e-mail
>this morning leaves me pining for the days when technology news, especially
>computer and information technology, was about the technology and how it
>would or could be used instead about stock performance and IPOs.  Does
>anyone know of an online source, preferably free, that sends out real
>information and computer technology news, not mixed with business news?
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