| FEATURES |
End
of an Era: Online World 2000
Sheri Lanza reviews
the last of the Online World conferences, which began in the 1970s, picking
out the presentation highlights (Gary Price and Chris Sherman) and the
hot topics of interest (the invisible Web, value-added solutions, business
research and monitoring).
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Internet Users
at Risk: The Identity/Privacy Target Zone
Steve Arnold examines
the tenuous-at-best state of Internet security, looking at such areas as
online shopping and data mining. He also tackles the myriad of security
terms and options, such as Pay Pal, and looks at how new crime tactics
are merging with the more familiar scams, offering his version of a digital
bulletproof vest.
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Intelligent
Conferences: Reality or Oxymoron?
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Stephen Abram
and Rebecca Jones test the stability of the five pillars of any successful
meeting — the speakers, the attendees, the exhibitors, special events,
and location — as each becomes increasingly impacted by technology.
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Business-to-Government
E-Commerce Procurement: Business Models, E-Malls, and Special Groups
In her second
article in the series, Laura Gordon-Murnane focuses on how the federal
government is applying e-commerce principles to its procurement process,
making procurement opportunities easier in particular for small and minority-run
businesses.
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| COLUMNS |
Searcher's
Voice
An Information
Today Newsbreak penned by bq, "OCLC Sets New Strategy: Earth's Largest
Library in Sight?," announces a project first envisioned in the March 1999
Searcher
article
"Earth's Largest Library," written by Steve Coffman.
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Interview:
Clare Hart
Factiva's CEO
Clare Hart reports on the continuing integration of Reuters and Dow Jones
Interactive and the new ventures and products in development within the
company.
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Sidebar
Now that the U.S.
Supreme Court will hear the appeal New York Times v. Tasini, Carol
Ebbinghouse presents all sides of this thorny copyright issue, explaining
how publishers, data aggregators, searchers, and freelancers might all
be affected — positively or negatively — depending on the ruling handed
down.
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Internet
Express
Irene McDermott
gives fellow librarians guidelines to follow to successfully offer patrons
free e-mail, along with tips for avoiding the problems that might arise
with this popular service.
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The
Better Mousetrap
Let the "hunting"
begin! Nancy Lambert targets a new Web site, BountyQuest, which pays a
"finder's fee" of sorts to researchers or any other source who can present
prior art to invalidate pending or existing patents.
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| DEPARTMENTS |
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Correspondence
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| Contacts |
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