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@LOGO = Press Watch Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large Volume 1, 2001 Numbers 1-13 [including Preview, 12/2000] Walt Crawford ISSN 1534-0937 Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, ISSN 1534-0937, is written and produced monthly by Walt Crawford, a senior analyst at the Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG) Opinions herein do not reflect those of RLG. Comments should be sent to [email protected]. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large is available at http://cites.boisestate.edu Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large is copyright © 2001 by Walt Crawford. It may be copied in its entirety and is free (but not public domain). Cites & Insights comes from Mountain View, California. All body type is Arrus BT from Bitstream. Headings are Friz Quadrata BT, also from Bitstream. Composition and layout done in Microsoft Word 2000 (including index). Translation to PDF via Adobe Acrobat 4 Index to Cited Articles “10 big myths about copyright explained”, Oct 12 “Copyright thugs”, Jly 9 “10 hot tech trends of 2001”, Feb 7 “Copyright war”, Mid 3 “14th annual reader survey: service & reliability”, Sep 6 “Copyrights rule”, Pre 7 “2 GHz: another milestone”, Nov 17 “Copywrong?”, Oct 13 “20 yeas of missed opportunities”, Nov 12 “Corporate embrace”, Sep 3 “20/20: the 20th anniversary of the PC”, Nov 12 “Crunch time at Time Inc.”, Jly 10 “2001: the future is now”, Jan 11 “Curing the beige-box blues”, Mid 14 “21 big ideas for 2001”, Feb 7 “Current conditions”, Nov 20 “3d graphics grand prix”, Feb 15 “Customer disservice 2000”, Pre 11 “50 ways to beat the times”, Sep 13 “Cutting-edge to go”, Pre 22 “Cyberchondriac’s story”, Oct 9 AB “Accelerated living”, Nov 13 D “Adobe in wonderland”, May 9 “Daily we”, Sep 5 “America losing its lust for media gizmos”, Dec 8 “Dark side of P2P”, Jly 9 “And then there was light”, Mar 15 “Desparately seeking financing”, Mid 2 “Apocalypse soon”, Sep 11 “Different strokes”, Apr 9 “Are libraries the next Napster?”, Sep 4 “Digital rights management”, Jly 18 “Art formally known as prints”, May 16 “Digitizing education: a primer on ebooks”, Nov 11 “As we see it”, Mar 9 “Disc inferno”, Sep 17 “Attempts to find alternatives to the scientific journal…”, Jun 11 “Discriminating librarians”, Jan 6 “Automatic Media shuts down content sites”, Sep 6 “Disposable PC”, Pre 18 “Battle to define the future of the book in the digital world”, Jly 5 “Does MHz matter?”, Mid 2 “Being smart, Internet style”, Pre 14 “Doing Napster math”, Jly 17 “BESS’s secret loophole…”, Oct 3 “Do-it-yourself dream machines”, Oct 11 “Best and worst ISPs”, Pre 21 “Dot-com season of the witch”, Dec 19 “Best free stuff online”, Mar 6 “Dot-com survivors”, Aug 17 “Best of the web 2001”, Nov 12 “Dream screens”, Jan 15 “Best of the Web”, Pre 13 “Dude, where’s my desktop?”, Sep 15 “Better burning”, Nov 19 “DV camcorders”, Pre 19, Jan 14 “Bio-keys”, Mid 13 “DV guide”, Mid 15 “Biting the hand that feeds”, Nov 6 “DVD dilemma”, Dec 7 “Book scandal”, Aug 16 “Dynamic duo”, Mid 14 “Books and toasters: who ya gonna trust”, Jly 9 “Books on demand and epublishing…”, Aug 13 “Broadband”, Feb 13 E “Build your own PC”, Oct 11 “Earth’s largest library—panacea or anathema?”, Jan 5 “Building America’s largest library”, Jan 5 “eBay cleared in copyright infringement case”, Oct 14 “Building the best machine”, Jly 8 “E-book outcast”, Sep 11 “Built for speed”, Nov 16 “E-book saga is full of woe—and a bit of intrigue”, Sep 11 “Ebook scenarios”, Feb 6 “Ebooks and their future in academic libraries…”, Sep 10 C “Ebooks in Victorian libraries…”, Nov 11 “C@ll waiting”, Aug 15 “E-books: the University of Texas experience”, Sep 11 “Call to action”, Sep 12 “E-bookstore: overcoming fatal application errors and other “Call to arms”, Jly 10 annoyances”, Aug 13 “Can Napster change its tune?”, Apr 7 “Editorial role: a disillusionment in the publishing arts”, Aug 12 “Can Scott Adams save e-books”, Nov 11 “Effects of September 11 on the leading search engines”, Nov 6 “Carry a tune”, Pre 19 “Electronic journals: a user’s experience”, Dec 5 “CD and MP3: a match made in music heaven”, Apr 13 “Electronic paper turns the page”, Jly 14 “CD writer”, Pre 3, Mar 2 “Electronic textbooks: a pilot study of student e-reading habits”, Aug “CD-burning software”, Sep 17 12 “CD-RW ASAP”, Nov 19 “elitists vs. the eBook”, Aug 9 “Censorship Watch”, Oct 3 “End of the road”, Sep 3 “Channeling television’s future”, Jly 10 “End to squabbling over digital TV? Maybe”, Dec 19 “Cheap shots”, Jan 14 “Even better than the real thing”, Nov 12 “Choice taken from parents”, Oct 2 “Evolution of portable electronic books”, Nov 12 “Choose your weapon”, May 15 “Exit Gutenberg”, Jun 7 “Class struggle”, Jly 6 “Expanding possibilities”, Apr 13 “Clean it up”, Oct 3 “Exporting Japan’s revolution”, Mar 5 “Color workgroup laser printers”, Jan 16 “Compose yourself”, Sep 17 “Consumer product selection process in an Internet age…”, Aug 16 F “Coop’s 2001 predictions”, Feb 8 “Fall and rise of home video”, Sep 13 “Copy protection robs the future”, Dec 15 “Fantastic flatbeds”, Pre 23 “Copyright endurance and change”, Nov 7 “FAQ—monitor resolution: debunking misconceptions”, Sep 7 “Copyright in a frictionless world…”, Oct 13 “Farewell, photo lab?”, Apr 14 Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large Indexes to Volume 1 1 “Fast burn”, Nov 19 “Ink fast”, Pre 23 “Fast Company loves you”, Pre 5 “Internal ATA hard drives”, Feb 16 “Few of our favorite things”, Jan 9 “Internet filters: a public policy report”, Dec 1 “Fiber: fantastic or fantasy”, Nov 5 “Internet porn and kids…”, Oct 2 “Fight photo fade-out”, Aug 18 “Internet tips”, Feb 2 “Film scanners”, Nov 20 “Internet-only explosion”, Dec 16 “Filter foes misguided”, Oct 2 “Interview with Salon.com’s David Talbot”, Oct 9 “Find everything faster”, Oct 11 “Invisible cities”, Pre 7 “Fine print on ink jets”, Pre 22 “Is film dead?”, Pre 18 “Fingered by the movie cops”, Oct 13 “Is the price right?”, Sep 12 “FireWire CD-RW drives”, Pre 17 “It slices, dices, blends—and surfs”, Jan 7 “First Amendment’s limitations on the use of Internet filtering in “It’s a gas gas gas: plasma display technology today”, Aug 14 public and school libraries…”, Mid 4 “It’s like printing money”, Mid 16 “First line of defense”, Jly 10 “It’s not just for Lara Croft anymore”, Oct 6 “Fixing the Internet”, Sep 12 “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)…”, Jly 15 “Flatly affordable”, Nov 6 “Flattening up”, Mid 15 “Focus on retail”, Jan 10 JKL “Forecasts of an e-book era were, it seems, premature”, Nov 10 “Jeeves hitches a ride”, Mid 2 “Free at last”, Sep 7 “Joining the in-crowd”, Jly 18 “Free scholarly electronic journals: how good are they?”, May 5 “Know your enemy”, Jun 18 “Free vs. fee: upselling content without upsetting customers”, Mid 2 “Last book”, Aug 11 “From here to ubiquity”, Mid 3 “Lawyer Lessig raps new copyright laws”, Oct 13 “Future is now”, Feb 8 “Let’s hear it”, May 16 “Librarians’ dilemma: contemplating the costs of the Big Deal”, Dec 5 G “Libraries behind on Internet filtering”, Oct 3 “Get back in that box”, Jun 17 “Light makes right”, Pre 21 “Get crafty”, Mid 16 “Lighter gets brighter”, Apr 12 “Get in the game”, Pre 18 “Lights! camcorder! action!”, Mid 15 “Getting to first database”, Nov 16 “Lights! camera! learning curve!”, Jly 17 “Glossies”, Oct 16 “Livin’ large”, Mar 16 “Go beyond iMovie”, Feb 15 “Log on for a tune-up”, Jan 16 “Going, but not forgotten…”, Dec 15 “Long road to broadband”, Sep 14 “Good life: 100 products you’ll love”, Sep 12 “Long-haul lasers”, Mid 17 “Goodbye”, Sep 2 “Look at this”, Feb 15 “GPS showdown”, Sep 4 “Look of OpenGL”, Apr 12 “Graphics cards”, Mar 15 “Look under ‘M’ for mess”, May 10 “Great giveaway”, Apr 5 “Great pretenders”, Mid 3 “Great XPectations”, Nov 6 M “Gutting America’s local libraries”, Jan 5 “Mac OS secrets”, Mid 13 “Mac OS X first aid”, Nov 5 “Macworld’s ultimate buyers guide: printers”, Sep 16 H “Magazines: a tribute, or maybe an elegy”, Dec 15 “Handheld heaven”, Feb 15 “Make it funky”, Sep 16 “Handicapper’s guide to storage”, May 10 “Making home movies”, Nov 18 “Hard disk wars”, Pre 9 “Making of a DVD-Audio title”, Jly 6 “Has the Internet peaked?”, Feb 1 “Managed PCs: look like a hero”, Mid 14 “Has the net stopped growing?”, Aug 16 “Media bytes”, Sep 2 “Have projector, will travel”, Sep 15 “Media criticism gone horribly wrong”, Sep 5 “Here come the Napster-proof CDs”, Jun 3 “Media merger”, Pre 11 “High-end PCs”, Jan 13 “Metacrap: putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta- “Historical overview of the effects of new mass media…”, Nov 4 utopia”, Oct 12 “Hitting the books”, Sep 16 “Microsoft ships its biggest OS upgrade ever—early”, Nov 6 “Hollywood loves Hollings’ bill”, Oct 15 “Mind your scanners”, Sep 16 “Home network improvement”, Pre 21 “Missing the boat on broadband”, Sep 13 “Home on the Web”, Pre 8 “Money for nothing”, Aug 13 “Home PCs: help yourself”, Jan 13 “Moneybox”, Sep 2 “Home safety nets”, Mid 17 “Monitoring software”, Apr 14 “Home, smart home”, Mid 11 “More entertainment, more ka-ching”, Mid 11 “Houston, do you copy”, Nov 1 “More P4 pep for less”, Mid 14 “How about a little privacy?”, Nov 7 “Most valuable players”, Sep 17 “How to stop searching and start finding”, Pre 6 “Movie makers”, Nov 18 “Multifunction printers”, Mar 16 I “Myth of broadband”, Mid 12 “I will buy no content before it’s time”, Jly 18 “iBooks”, Sep 15 NO “Image makers”, Apr 12 “Net phones: dialing without dollars”, Pre 21 “Implications”, Aug 12 “Net threats 2001”, Jun 17 “In search of…”, Jan 16 “Never mind the friggin’ e-book, it’s all about the Web”, Jly 16 Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large Indexes to Volume 1
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