SLA report of note

At the just concluded Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference the following PowerPoint presentation was made and furthermore made available on the web. I highly recommend you view it before taking the Internet Searching class. Designed as speaker notes (essentially) but lots can be learned from just viewing it. See you all on the 8th at 5 pm. Point your browser to http://www.batesinfo.com/sla-2005-60-tips.pdf.

Firewalls and Port Numbers revisited

I noticed a few furrowed brows during the discussion of ports and hacking and firewalls last Saturday. Here, thanks to CNET, is a another way of describing that environment and the important issue of internet security. Point your browser to http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-10149-0.html?forumID=7&thread
ID=107024&messageID=1221546&tag=nl.e497.

FoxFire & IEEE 802.22

The July issues of Technology Review and PC World brought news that FireFox was named "Product of the Year" for 2005" and that a new wireless network standard using unused television channels will compete with WiMax in some rural areas. Interesting concept for rural schools. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/forward_spectrum.asp?p=1
I highly recommend a subscription to Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation for high school libraries and up. I'll bring copies of both of these articles to class for those who don't have access.