Information Research Weblog

Here's an interesting item from Current Cites - that useful alerting system for things about information and information technology: it concerns a new book from O'Reilly on 'Amazon Hacks', describing the tricks you can get up to in searching for books using the very powerful search engine at Amazon.com

This particular 'hack' discusses the advanced search possibilities, which go well beyond the typical Boolean search. Read all about it at the book's Web site.

On the Weblogging front, there's a dispute brewing up about RSS - Really Simple Syndication, or whatever use you want to make of those initials. The dispute surrounds the future of RSS and is too complicated to summarise here, so go look at the CNET News site.