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Subject:    [WEB4LIB] Re: technology news sources
From:       wiggins () mail ! com (Richard Wiggins)
Date:       2001-01-31 19:33:56
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It is frustrating how the IT press tends to cover the money aspects and to lose the \
technology aspects.  I subscribe to the ZDNET Anchordesk mentioned below, but to me \
the reporting style and the "teases" are often more sophomoric than local TV news -- \
and that's not a compliment.  "The Top Five Reasons Why You Have to Have Wireless" \
and such.

Lately I've been impressed with ACM Technews. It's roughly analogous to Salon's \
summary of the front page of major daily newspapers for AvantGo subscribers.  You get \
capsule summaries and can follow hyperlinks to the full text in whatever publication \
(e.g. NY Times, Washington Post, various Net media outlets).

Technews comes out 3 times per week.  Subscribe here:

http://www.acm.org/technews/

Here are recent headlines:

ACM TechNews                                                            
Volume 3, Number 158                                                    
Date: January 29, 2001                                                  
Site Sponsored by Gateway (http://www.gateway.com)                      
                                                                        
Top Stories for Monday, January 29, 2001:                               
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html                                     \
 "Unions Address High-Tech Workers"                                      
"Tech Industry in Turmoil Gets a New Top Lobbyist"                      
"The Odyssey of a Hacker: From Outlaw to Consultant"                    
"Contracting Grows in Popularity as Option for Out-of-Work Techies"     
"Software Companies Rise Above Tech Pessimism"                          
"Companies' Spending on Communications Is Seen Rising 10 Percent"       
"Congress Opens Debate on Online Privacy"                               
"New ICANN President: Learning, Listening Are Top Priorities"           
"Intranets Nurture Companies From the Inside"                           
"U.S. Senate Reintroduces Permanent R&D Tax Credit"                     
"Study: E-Business Is Top Concern for CEOs"                             
"Report Outlines Path to Secure E-Government"                           
"Union Leader Targets Tech Industry"                                    
"Standardizing Linux--It's a Good Thing"                                
"Bush Expected to Rattle Federal IT"                                    
"IT Industry Opposes Impending Ergonomics Rules"                        
"Clues to Bush's High-Tech Plans"                                       
"California Energy Woes Affecting High-Tech"                            
"With Accessibility for All"                                            
                                                                        
******************* News Stories ***********************                
                                                                        
"Unions Address High-Tech Workers"                                      
Organized labor is meeting with a variety of challenges as it           
tries to form unions in the high-tech industry.  One reason, says       
Microsoft's Dan Leach, is because high-tech workers generally           
have an entrepreneurial spirit that does not correspond well with . . . 
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0129m.html#item1            
                                                                        
"Tech Industry in Turmoil Gets a New Top Lobbyist"                      
The tech-industry lobbying organization TechNet has named Rick          









------Original Message------
From: Joy Schwarz <schwarz@AXP.WINNEFOX.ORG>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib@webjunction.org>
Sent: January 31, 2001 5:45:14 PM GMT
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: technology news sources


I subscribe to these free daily e-mail services that you may find 
useful as well:

Tomalak's Realm < http://www.tomalak.org/ >
"...a daily source of links to strategic Web design stories".
You can subscribe at 
< http://www.tomalak.org/todayslinks/newsletter.html >.

ZDNet AnchorDesk 
"...a concise digest of computing news in your email box 
every business day."
< http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/filters/subscribe/ >

Joy Schwarz
Web Coordinator
Winnefox Library System
Oshkosh, WI  USA
http://www.winnefox.org 

"A computer lets you make more mistakes 
faster than any invention in human history --
with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
                        -- Mitch Ratliffe

At 08:14 AM 1/31/01 -0800, Drew, Bill wrote:
> Reading Walt Crawford's latest musings and reading Infobeat in my e-mail
> this morning leaves me pining for the days when technology news, especially
> computer and information technology, was about the technology and how it
> would or could be used instead about stock performance and IPOs.  Does
> anyone know of an online source, preferably free, that sends out real
> information and computer technology news, not mixed with business news?
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