[Publib] A further signpost on the road to our oblivion (Live Search Books)

[Michael McCulley]

Good points all, Joe.. on the ones about losing answers to Google and
Wikipedia, I'd say the jury is still out on this.
But, the timeframe for responding professionally is a window closing...

Google just closed down their Google Answers Q&A project.. I'm not sure they
"won," over others, or just decided that was cool, now let's move on..
(read: I can't make money on it)...

For Wikipedia, I'm hopeful the Citizendium project takes root, and becomes a
validated source for information and knowledge. But, it's too soon to
tell...

Best,
DrWeb

-- 
P. Michael McCulley aka DrWeb
mailto:drweb at san.rr.com
San Diego, CA 
http://drweb.typepad.com/

Quote of the Moment:
 Sometimes the only solution is to find a new problem.
Friday, December 08, 2006 6:18:46 PM 
 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org 
>[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Joe Schallan
>Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:09 PM
>To: publib at webjunction.org
>Subject: [Publib] A further signpost on the road to our 
>oblivion (Live Search Books)
>
[snipped portions here]
>
>It does seem that just as we've lost the
>answer business to Google and Wikipedia,
>we're about to lose the book business to
>these digitization efforts.
>
>Book are we in the answers-and-books
>business, or in the access-and-explanation
>business?
>
>So our future is . . . ?  Our planning should
>entail . . . ?  Comments?
>
>-- Joe Schallan
>    Phoenix
>Who, aside from job security worries, absolutely
>rejoices at this kind of access delivered to
>readers and researchers in their homes . . .
>
>(And DO play with Live Search Books.  It is
>fun.  Right off I can see that the genealogists
>are going to have a field day with all the
>19th-century county histories and Civil War
>regimental histories in there.)