http://www.ia-blog.com A blog by Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:54:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This posting was also published as an editorial in the February issue of The Information Advisor. Please let me know your reaction and thoughts: In an Op-ed piece published in December 28th 2009 issue of the New York Times, (www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/opinion/28raff.html) Adam Raff argues that Google’s results are  biased towards promoting its ... http://www.ia-blog.com/2010/02/16/on-the-matter-of-google-and-search-neutrality/ Our December 2009 issue of The Information Advisor will provide an indepth article on sources and strategies for locating international industry information. On rare occasions, we make one of our articles available to non-subscribers, and we are doing so here: it's a 4 page PDF that identifies and describes databases ... http://www.ia-blog.com/2009/11/30/free-international-industry-round-up-from-information-advisor/ I'm running a very short survey on paying for online news via a Twitter survey app--you can take it here: http://twtpoll.com/693nl6 http://www.ia-blog.com/2009/04/23/would-you-pay-for-online-news/ This was a very interesting piece by management guru Gary Hamel published in the Wall Street Journal on how the values and expectations of what he calls the "Facebook Generation" are going to rub up against the traditional ways of doing things in Fortune 500 firms. Well worth reading, and ties ... http://www.ia-blog.com/2009/03/27/the-facebook-generation-vs-the-fortune-500/ The long awaited regulations from the SEC outlining which firms must file with XBRL tags (generally the largest 500 that follow GAAP) and when (end of 2nd quarter)  have just been published by the SEC. You can link to the full report in PDF here, but the relevant information begin on page ... http://www.ia-blog.com/2009/02/10/sec-rules-are-out-on-new-xbrl-filings-with-one-surprise/ In an interview I had yesterday with Information & Knowledge Management Forrester analyst Gil Yehuda, on Enterprise 2.0, we began talking about information professionals role in E 2.0.   Gil made one of those "stop and makes you think" observations, which I felt was worth noting here. He told me: A ... http://www.ia-blog.com/2009/02/06/as-value-of-older-information-declines-new-opportunities-arise/ Pew's reports are always worth reading: this one just out on the Future of the Internet III concludes: A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead ... http://www.ia-blog.com/2008/12/15/pew-on-the-future-of-the-internet/ I turn to the Web to find answers on almost any topic these days, and typically advise others some tips along the same lines--except in one area... You know when you are aware of something for awhile, but then a news story appears that confirms what you already know. Today that ... http://www.ia-blog.com/2008/11/25/fear-and-web-searching/ While I don’t pretend to have anywhere near the influence of Jeff Jarvis, or that this post will have the impact of his famous “Dell Hell” “Dell Sucks” rant on his blog of several years ago, I do think I need to vent about an experience I had last ... http://www.ia-blog.com/2008/11/18/an-awful-evening-on-the-phone-with-hp/ In an interview today with the CEO of a well known business information product vendor, the CEO confirmed that his firm’s sales were down quite a bit: primarily as a result of the loss of the buying power of financial service firms such as Lehman and other Wall ... http://www.ia-blog.com/2008/11/03/the-recession-financial-crisis-and-info-industry/