Gender Differences in Internet Usage

How Women and Men Use the Internet. Deborah Fallows. Pew Internet and American Life Project. December 28, 2005.
Men's and women's Internet usage is compared, one of the findings being that women are catching up overall.

Information Overload

Ready Access to Info Means Smarts or Stress? Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press. USA Today.com. December 25, 2005.
Young researchers, overwhelmed with online information, are yet avoiding libraries.

Inventor of the Web is Blogging

Father of the Web Starts Blogging. Jay Wrolstad. Newsfactor.com (via Yahoo! News). December 22, 2005.
Tim Berners-Lee, now holder of the 3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has started his own blog. [timbl's blog]

Google's AOL Investment

What's Behind the AOL/Google Deal? Susan Kuchinskas. Internetnews.com. December 20, 2005.
The author examines Google's $1 billion investment to find out what the company has to gain from owning 5 percent of AOL.

Report on Information Seeking

Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005). Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Diane Cellentani, Janet Hawk, Lillie Jenkins, Alane Wilson. OCLC. November 2005.
In this report on the public's information seeking habits, the authors find that the library's electronic resources are not widely appreciated.

Philosophies of Information

Information as a Value Concept: Reconciling Theory and Practice. Thomas Weissinger. Library Philosophy and Practice. Vol.8, No.1. (Fall 2005).
The author of this philosophical article compares the theories of Michael K. Buckland, Jesse H. Shera, H. Curtis Wright, and Ronald E. Day.

Print and Electronic Publishing Compared

Movers and Shakers in the Library Publishing World Highlight their Roles:Interviews with Print and Electronic Journal Editors - A Comparison. Julie Banks and Carl Pracht.
Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship. v.6 no.3 (Winter 2005).
Editors of print and electronic LIS journals were interviewed to determine their respective attitudes on issues such as peer review and article acceptance.

Wikipedia Founder Deletes Info from Own Biography

Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio. Evan Hansen. Wired News. December 19, 2005.
wikiedia founder Jimmy Wales has repeatedly revised his own biography, deleting references to Larry Sanger, once credited as co-founder of Wikipedia, as well as to references to an "adult" site once run by Wales.

Analog TV to be Phased Out

Lawmakers Establish 2009 Deadline for Analog TV Phaseout. Arshad Mohammed. Washington Post. December 20, 2005.
The U.S. House and Senate have agreed to terminate analog television effective February 17, 2009.

Man Behind Fake Wikipedia Posting

Wikipedia Joker Eats Humble Pie. BBC News. December 12, 2005.
The posting of fake data in journalist John Seigenthaler's biography raises further questions about the online reference work's credibility.

HarperCollins Creating Digital Library

HarperCollins Will Create a Searchable Digital Library. Edward Wyatt. New York Times. December 13, 2005.
HarperCollins Publishers has announced it intention of digitizing its own book and audio content, and making it searchable on the Web.