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» Gay_Klok - I am
a little hesitant to answer, thought you would frown on chit chatBut thanks, Kirk, that sounds reassuring that we are not going down the gurgler!
We, earth grubbers rely on you to a certain extent. You see, I dearly want to buy myself a grander camera for my garden photos but if there is no Suite101.com, in the very near future, it would be extra hard to justify this act.
Thank you Judi, I always enjoy your posts here
-- posted by Gay_Klok
» Phish - News
From Yahoo FinanceSuite101.com First Commercial Web Directory to Adopt the World's Most Popular Information Classification System
Suite's never-ending quest for more predictable search results
VANCOUVER, July 10 /CNW-PRN/ - Suite101.com, Inc. (OTC BB: BOWG) and Forest Press Distributions, a subsidiary of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated (owner of the world's most popular and recognized information classification system, the Dewey Decimal Classification® (DDC) system), announced today that they have signed a licensing agreement. The agreement moves Suite101.com one step closer to launching its Best-of-Web millennium Directory, the first commercial Web Directory that will incorporate both the DDC® system, used by 95 percent of US school and public libraries, and the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the most widely-used thesaurus in the English-speaking world.
``Incorporating the two systems into our Best-of-Web Millennium Directory will make it even easier for our visitors and members to quickly get better, more predictable search results,'' said Sandra Singh, Suite101.com's Head Cybrarian. ``Because all of our content will be organized using these systems, users will be able to quickly find and then cross-reference information on the Web with information in most public and online libraries.''
``It's all about connecting users with information,'' Singh said. ``A visitor to our new Directory will be able to find links to all the best Web sites on say, theatre, for example, and then, using the DDC number or subject headings for that topic, zip over to their local public library and quickly and easily find books on theatre.''
``We're excited that a major Web directory service is seeking the same features for its knowledge organization tool that libraries value in the DDC,'' said Joan Mitchell, executive director, OCLC Forest Press, and editor-in-chief, Dewey Decimal Classification. ``These features include Dewey's well-defined categories, well-developed hierarchies, meaningful notation, rich network of relationships, worldwide use and continuous updating.''
Suite101.com's Best-of-Web Millennium Directory project was launched late last year when the company appointed Elizabeth Smith, PhD, Dean of University Libraries at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, to its Advisory Board and hired Sandra Singh as its Head Cybrarian. Singh, along with a team of some 30 cataloguers from across the Internet, are working to reorganize and reclassify Suite101.com's 87,000 unique pieces of content, including the 28,000 articles, 33,000 links, and 28,000 discussions contained in its Best-of-Web Directory.
``Incorporating both the DDC (R) system and the Library of Congress Subject Headings will ensure Suite101.com maintains its leadership position as one of the most comprehensive Web directories on the Internet,'' said Julie Bradshaw, Managing Director of Suite101.com. ``It's all part of our vision,'' Bradshaw said. ``Creating order out of chaos for the Internet user.''
Suite101.com's Directory currently has over 1,000 Contributing Editors, working from 30 different countries, who each manage a unique topic. Started in 1996 to provide better, more reliable search results for users looking for information on the Internet, the Directory is now attracting over half a million unique users each month.
Suite101.com plans to launch the Best-of-Web Millennium Directory later this year.
About Suite101.com
Suite101.com was the first virtual community to have Web guides (``Contributing Editors'') search the Internet for the best Web sites in their areas of expertise. As of June 21, 2000, the Best-of-Web Directory had 1034 unique topics, each managed by a Contributing Editor. Collectively, the Editors have created 33,300 reviewed links, written 28,000 articles, and hosted 27,800 discussions, all archived and readily available at www.suite101.com. Since 1996, the Suite101.com community now has grown to over 220,000 Members, all of whom have unlimited access to a full suite of Web-based services, including topic-specific discussions and chats, personal start pages and HomePages, Web-based email, and electronic postcards.
About OCLC
OCLC Forest Press, a division of OCLC since 1988, publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system and a variety of related materials to help people keep pace with knowledge and distributes them through OCLC's subsidiary, Forest Press Distributions (http://www.oclc.org/fp ). Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link more than 37,000 libraries in 76 countries and territories. OCLC is dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. More information about OCLC, its affiliated U.S. regional networks, international divisions and distributors is available on the OCLC Web site (http://www.oclc.org ). Dewey, DDC, Dewey Decimal Classification, Forest Press and OCLC are registered trademarks of OCLC. All copyright rights in the DDC system are owned by OCLC.
``Safe Harbor'' Statement
This Press Release may contain statements which constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the plans, intentions, beliefs and current expectations of Suite101.com, Inc. (``Company''), its directors, or its officers with respect to the future business activities and operating performance of the Company, its business and marketing plans, growth in Members and revenues. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future business activities or performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that the Company's future business activities may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including, among others, unexpected delays in the implementation of its marketing plan, failure to achieve its targeted goals of Membership increases, failure to implement its e-commerce revenue model, and the inability of the Company to raise such additional capital as may be necessary for the fulfillment of its business plan. Additional important factors that could cause such differences are described in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's annual report on Form 10-KSB, quarterly reports on Form 10-QSB and current reports on Form 8-K. The filings may be viewed at http://www.sec.gov.
SOURCE: Suite101.com, Inc.
-Randy
-- posted by Phish
» Hugs - Hmmm....
Interesting how such great news can be so casually overlooked by most "investors."I've not time to say much, but, I will say this...
Suppose you had, during the course of life, learned something that you believed was valuable. (Now, before you "poo poo" that away as "not likely"... consider what it is that motivates most people. Or, why it is that they want to be "paid" for something that they do. Don't most people equate what they "do" with "value"?) And, suppose you thought it valuable enough that you wanted to communicate it to others (Hey... just why does anybody ever design a web site, or put or publish anything on the internet?).
In today's society, we might think... oh, just "put it on the web, and people will find it. And, that may be true... or, maybe not. But, what has been the media of choice for communication in the past? .... that's right, books. If you really wanted to communicate to large numbers of people, you write a book. And, just how many books have been written throughout the centuries of history?
If you are serious about doing any kind of great and indepth research, quite frankly, the internet doesn't "cut it." It may work somewhat as a "supplemental" tool, but inadequately as "the fundamental basis" for it. Why? Basically because there is still a problem finding "the right stuff" on the net. Sure... you can and will find "some stuff" on what you are looking for. But, what assurance of "completeness" or "thoroughness" do you have? ...virtually none.
You have to look at the "problem" from both sides. If you've ever tried to "advertise" what you would like to communicate to others on the net, then you might have an idea of what I am talking about. What would you think if, in the later stages of life, a some renowned author wanted to write and communicate the best of his life's work and expertise in a final volume that all people (that were interested in his area of expertise) could find it very easily. But, what if the Library of Congress, or the public libraries decided to "abandon" their current method of "classification" in favor of a new "internet style" search engine?
No problem, you say? Hmm... let's see... how difficult is would it be for us to "imagine" what his "area of expertise" might need to be so that it "all of sudden" becomes "burried" and obscured by the billions of other similar "hits" that a good search engine might have? Especially given how "easy" it has become for "anybody" to wirte, publish, and add their own thoughts and words to the database that needs to be searched?
The fact is, there is a big and ongoing problem organizing information still on the internet. Human guide directories are supposed to help in that regard. In my mind, Suite101 has simply "leapfrogged" over the top of what they are attempting with this latest accomplishment. Only, it's not easy to see yet just what it is that they are doing, or have accomplished with this latest liscening agreement.
If you know how to go th the local library and "find a book" on any given topic, imagine having access to finding imformation on the internet in a similar fashion. Only, not only can you access the "title of the book" and a short review, you can now do the familliar "internet style" search "within" the specific catagories that you are interested in. You have immediately "filtered" a lot of "unwanted" garbage out of your search. (So, you aren't bombarded by "real estate listings" when you enter a search for "pools")
Sure, it's in early stages still. But, the problem of how to find information quickly and efficiently on the internet is going away any time soon, and it only seems to be "getting worse" as more and more things are "published" and entered into that huge database out there.
One of these days,,,, somebody "big" out there is going to "recognize" just what it is that the management here at Suite101 is "on to." And, it seems that for some reason, there are a lot of "investors" out there that haven't given it much of a thought either.
Hu
-- posted by Hugs
» Gay_Klok - discussions lately
in various media in Australia has focused on publishing on the net or regular outlets.They always end in the one premise "Who wants to curl up in bed with their computer?" and I might add, thinking of my husband, of course, "Who wants to browse, whilst sitting on the toilet, with a computer balanced on their knees?"
We don't all have laptops!
And they would have to introduce "smellies" - only my garden surpasses the joy of the scent of a new book
Unfortunately, here and I heard on the TV, in England, they are phrasing out the Public Libraries
-- posted by Gay_Klok
-- posted by JenL_2
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