Monthly Archives: March 2008

Death of the information fixer

If you ever watched the Killing Fields, you know about Dith Pran, even if you forgot his name. He died this weekend and his story is being retold by most major western newspapers. The Independent in England ran a great …

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Another school to change its name?

A motion from the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto proposes to drop ‘studies’ from their name so as to create the more elegant Faculty of Information. If approved, as seems likely, this will create another information …

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The end of print encyclopedia? Not quite but…..

the sunday New York Times carried an interesting article on the end of paper encyclopedia, noting that Brockhaus in Germany announced it would electronically publish all 300,000 of its articles, which have been reviewed and refined through two centuries of …

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Computer Science seeks (and gets?) sex appeal (again)

Yes, the word is that the trauma has ended – CS is the sexy once more. Well maybe it’s not quite as unappealing as it was…….but is it really a case of ‘geek chic‘? Oh well, the numbers of grads, …

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