GENERAL INFORMATION USE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Barboza, David. “Ogre to Slay? Outsource It To Chinese.” The New York Times 9 Dec 2005. 14 Dec. 2005 <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/technology/09gaming.html>. An article about teens paying Chinese to play rounds of video games for them.

Bossman, Julie. “Would You Like Some Fries With That Download?” New York Times 12 Dec. 2005. 18 Dec. 2005 <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/technology/12mcdonalds.html?emc=eta1>. News story about the plans for McDonald’s Happy Meal toys to be replaced with Disney-provided multimedia players. Content could be obtained as a reward for purchasing food.

Bildt, Carl. “The Coming Web 2.0 Tsunami.” Blog Posting. 13 Nov. 2005. 15 Dec. 2005 <http://bildt.blogspot.com/2005/11/coming-web-20-tsunami.html>. A blog article that talks about the new Web 2.0, its features and effects.

Davenport, Thomas, David De Long and Michael Beers. “Building Successful Knowledge Management Projects.” Electronic Health records Dynamic Resource Jan 1997. 19 Dec. 2005 <http://www.providersedge.com/docs/km_articles/Building_Successful_KM_Projects.pdf>. This article describes various ways of knowledge management techniques in the workplace.

Fox, Susannah, Janna Quitney Anderson and Lee Rainie. “The Future Of The Internet.” Pew/Internet 9 Jan. 2005. 15 Dec. 2005 <http://www.pewInternet.org/PPF/r/145/report_display.asp>.

This article includes a broad-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials and other members who evaluate future network trends.

Google. Corporate Information. 15 Dec 2005 <http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html>. Google’s yearly corporate milestone information.

Hallett, Vicky. “Teaching With Tech.” U.S. News 17 Oct.2005. 15 Dec. 2005 <http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/articles/051017/17elearn.htm>. This article describes how podcasts, back channels, and bookless libraries come to campuses.

Johnson Steven. “Digging For Google Holes: Google May Be Our New God, But It’s Not Omnipotent.” Slate 16 Jul. 2003. 16 Dec. 2005 <http://slate.msn.com/id/2085668>.

An article talking about Google’s cool features but explaining that it is not an oracle.

Kharif, Olga. “VoIP Providers: Heeding The Call?” Business Week 28 Nov 2005. 16 Dec 2005 <http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2005/tc20051128_964764.htm> This article talks about the facts that while Internet phone services are catching on rapidly, quality and reliability are still suspect.

Kotz, David and Robert Gray. “Mobile Agents And The Future Of The Internet.” Hanover. 15 May 1999. 16 Dec. 2005 <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/kotz:future2/>.

In this paper authors show how current technological trends may lead to a system based substantially on mobile code, and in many cases, mobile agents.

Kornblum, Janet. “Teens Wear Their Hearts On Their Blog.” USA Today 30 Oct. 2005. 16 Dec 2005 <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-10-30-teen-blogs_x.htm> This article talks about teens’ usage of blogs.

Levin, Douglas, and Sousan Arafeh. “The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap Between Internet-Savvy Students And Their Schools.” Pew/Internet 14 Aug. 2002. 16 Dec. 2005 <http://www.pewInternet.org/PPF/r/67/report_display.asp>.

This article explains how much impact the Internet has on the children and their education process.

Lindgren, Hugo. “Video Game Books: Generation Xbox.” Rev. of Synthetic Worlds. New York Times 18 Dec. 2005. 18 Dec. 2005 <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/books/review/18lindgren.html?emc=eta1>. Lindgren reviews Synthetic Worlds, a book documenting the immense impact of gaming on society.

OCLC. “Five-Year Information Format Trends (2003).” 2003. 15 Dec. 2005 <http://www.oclc.org/reports/2003format.htm>. Research report from OCLC providing a snapshot look at how trends and innovation in information formats are creating new challenges and opportunities for librarians.

OCLC. “2004 Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers.” 2004. 13 Dec. 2005 <http://www.oclc.org/reports/2004format.htm>. Research report from OCLC documenting information use changes away from print as content is unbundled, born digital, and accessed from a growing variety of mobile and computer devices.

Outsell. FutureFacts: Information Industry Outlook 2006. 2005. 14 Dec. 2005 <http://www.outsellinc.com/subscribe/FutureFactsIndustryOutlook.htm>.

Outsell provides data, trends and analysis driving most major sector of the publication and information industries.

Sharma, Dinesh. “Study: Teenagers Favor IM Over E-mail.” CNET News.com 10 Nov. 2005. 14 Dec 2005 <http://news.com.com/Study+Teenagers+favor+IM+over+e-mail/2100-1032_3-5944265.html?tag=sas.email>

This survey explains that a younger sector of our population prefers instant messaging to e-mail.

Shiu, Eulynn and Amanda Lenhart. “How Americans Use Instant Messaging.” Pew/Internet 1 Sept. 2004. 14 Dec. 2005 <http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/133/report_display.asp>

This article provides messaging trends and statistics along with messaging adoption at work.

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