A coincidence.

I had just composed the below note to post on this blog:

Are you finding Dialog less and less useful these days? I am and it’s got me a bit worried. I used to rely on it particularly to do indepth, precision searches of thousands of trade journals, and I still find it a good option and don’t even mind the Dialog command structure on Dialog Classic…but I’m finding that there are fewer journals, and those that are still represented, are not in fulltext and/or do not have recent issues.

Clearly this is a phenomena that’s been going on for awhile, but, unlike Factiva, why don’t I sense any action at all on the part of Dialog to figure out how to remain relevant in the Web 2.0 world? I would hate to see Dialog go, but I’m getting nervous, and Google is not a replacement for deep journal archive reseach!

…then I just came across Steven Cohen LibraryStuff post where he quoted Peter Scott here that Dialog has just instituted RSS feeds–big news that Dialog was catching the Web 2.0 Wave right?

Well, except that Dialog’s RSS is only for reading Dialog’s corporate news, bluesheet updates, its training and Quantum updates. It is not for doing any kind of substantive research or information gathering, such as monitoring keywords against a database…

Come on Dialog–we would like to see you more engaged in integrating the best of what you have (deep rich, archival content with sophisticated search options) with what the Web 2.0 world demands and wants.

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