Archive for October 7th, 2003

Michael Has Some Great Ideas for Blogging in the Medical World

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

No, I’m not just saying this ’cause he calls me reliable and lovely. (Don’t worry: I’m sure everything else on his blog is true.)
I read part of his discussion with Enoch Choi on Enoch’s blog about the problems doctors have with communication when several specialists are caring for the same patient. [...]

Archiving Printed News: Digital Files vs Microfilm

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

At BloggerCon, I had a conversation with someone about whether digital files will replace traditional archiving methods. I told him about the perspective of many news librarians: microfilm is still the standard, but we’re paying attention to digital technology. As if right on cue, today someone raised the issue on Newslib (an e-mail [...]

Paid Listings in Search Engines

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

The October 6 BusinessWeek has an interesting subscriber-restricted article about how some search engines offer paid listings. That means that if a company pays them money, their site might appear higher in the search results–or even in the search results at all. Some people claim that these paid listings help searchers by bringing [...]

When Print Doesn’t Translate to the Web

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

One of my blog readers forwarded me something he found strange:
He read Folio Magazine’s October column “Small Magazines we adore” and couldn’t find the name of the magazine anywhere in the column. The initials are given in passing, but the magazine is never fully identified. He figures the print edition has an image [...]


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