They Don't Get It (Yet): A Look Back at the Rude Awakening that Was SES
By Andrew Goodman. Traffick (Aug 20) - Goodman reports on the success of the Search Engines Strategies Conference held in Toronto May 11-12. In spite of poor coverage by media, the conference was well attended. Goodman has some suggestions for the press and for Canadian businesses - basically to get with the program - "If Canadian businesses large and small are about 12-18 months behind in their adoption of paid search marketing tactics, some purported tech industry pundits need to be held accountable for their lack of vision. "
Huron County Library unveiled its new digital photographic library containing photographs of Reuben R. Sallows (1855-1937). The website - www.sallowsgallery.ca -- has over 900 original photographs, stereoscopic cards, postcards and cartes-de-visite created by Sallows. Search by subject ( agriculture, celebrations, buildings, farm life and many others). There is also biographical information aabout Sallows and some featured virtual exhibits.
Project was made possible through the Ontario Ministry of Culture: Library Strategic Development fund, an internship grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Young Canada Works at Building Careers in Heritage programme, plus support from the County of Huron, and Town of Goderich.
Read more about the project.
Munro is tops on Amazon book list By SANDRA MARTIN. Globe and Mail.
Amazon.ca published a list of the top 50 essential titles in CanLit and Alice Munro's The Love of a Good Woman was the top choice.
"Essential books follows the release of the top 50 music titles on Aug. 10 and DVDs last Tuesday. Mon Oncle Antoine, the late Claude Jutras's poetic vision of a young boy's coming of age in 1940s Quebec, took the film title while Music from Big Pink earned the nod as top CD."
Canadian Business has released the list of Top 100 Tech firms for 2004. Includes top 20 growth and top 20 money-makers.
The Rich 100 - 2003 - 2004 from Canadian Business -- the top 10, the gainers, and the losers.
Government of Canada has a website about the Canadian economy -- Canadian Economy Online. This is an education site. Researchers may find the statistics handy. Students will learn more about economic sectors and factors.
This is one of four segments that make up the Canada e-Book. Other segments are The Land, The People, The State (government). The eBook is based on the 2001 Canada Year Book - but with updates.
Rogers and Yahoo! Launch Suite of Yahoo! Services for Rogers Wireless Customers Across Canada Press Release, Canada Newswire (Jul 20) Rogers Wireless and Yahoo! Inc have partnered to supply Rogers Wireless customers with mail, messenger, sports, news, finance, games and weather.
Canada finally has an online service for renting movies on DVD. It's called VHQonline.ca. Price is $19.95 / month for as many movies as you wish and you can keep a revolving library of 3 titles. Movies are delivered by mail. There is a free 2 week trial and some bargains.
The US firm Zeppelin Energy has bought Rocket Technologies in Ottawa. Rocket Technologies developed the news aggregator and news reading tools, RocketInfo and RocketNews. Zeppelin Blasts off with Acquisition of Rocket Technologies Business Wire. (Aug 4)
Toronto Star has Pages of the Past -- the archives of the Toronto Star newspaper from 1892 to 2001 in pdf format. It costs money to access - there is a fee schedule starting at $4.95 CDN for 5 hours. Other options are for 2 days and 7 days. Content includes births/ deaths/ obits/ memorials, the editorial / opinion pages, and the classified as well as news, entertainment etc. There is no charge to search by date and keyword but you need a subscription to view.
1945 is the one year that is free as a trial. Pick a date or search for a term. Headline for January 18, 1945 was Konev Invades Silesia -- Moscow Russians Driving for Breslau. Print will be small and blurry - have to use the Acrobat Reader controls to magnify the text and shift the page.
Reviewed in ResearchBuzz -- Toronto Star Archives Available; 1945 Free (Aug 2)
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