[WEB4LIB] Re: need technology news not business news

[HTheyer]

OK, someone hosts it, I'm in to watch slashdot.org  They often have many
things of interest to libraries.

Hillary Theyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Barry" <me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:17 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: need technology news not business news


> At 5:15 AM -0700 30/7/01, Drew, Bill wrote:
> >  Thank you to Rich for saying what I was trying to say.  Even magazines
like
> >PC World have less and less on new developments in IT and computers and
more
> >on what company is going to be the next dot com failure.  While knowing
that
> >type of thing is important for us systems librarians, it is screaming at
us
> >from everywhere.   I get the e-mail edition of the New York Times
everyday.
> >The technology section is dominated almost exclusively by business news.
I
> >also get several of the "free" trade journals; Interactive Week and
others.
> >When they first started the majority of articles was on how busnesses and
> >others were using the new technologies of the internet.  Now again they
are
> >dominated by what company is taking over what other company.
> >
> >Sorry about this whining.
>
> The solution is in our own hands. We start a list (not this one as
> it's for discussion). It's an announcement list and defaults to
> digest mode.
>
> Individuals put their hands up to watch a particular online
> publication and post a summary or the lead in paragraph and the URL
> of anything of interest to libraries.
>
> Anybody else can post things of interest which go to the moderator.
>
> The moderator approves postings and filters duplicates.
>
> It has an archive at a web site which also lists who has volunteered
> to watch what publication.
>
> There is a search engine on top of the archive.
>
>
> While this list is US-centric it does cover a large proportion of the
> potential market of those interested in library technology. Who knows
> if it was done sponsorship might be forthcoming to support it.
>
> Tony
>
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