Saturday, March 17, 2007

March 2007 Web Server Survey

The March 2007 survey received responses from 110,460,149 (110 million) sites, an increase of 1.64 million from last month. The Web crosses the 110 million mark just five months after reaching 100 million web sites in the November 2006 survey, continuing the strong growth trend seen in the last two years.

For more information, visit: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

Tharanga.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Presentation on E-LIS

I made a presentation on "E-LIS: an international open access archive for library professionals" at the SLSTINET Librarians' Meeting held at the National Science Foundation, Colombo on 8th February 2007.

To view the presentation click:http://tharangaonline.pbwiki.com/f/E-LIS%20Sri%20Lanka.pdf; http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00008697/

Tharanga.

Friday, January 19, 2007

New issue of Information Research

Dear all,

you'll find the new issue (Volume 12 No 2 January, 2007) of "Information Research" up at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-2/infres122.html.

Tharanga.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

January 2007 Web Server Survey


January 2007 survey received responses from 106,875,138 sites, an increase of 1.63 million from last month's (December 2006) survey. Leading the growth is Microsoft, which adds more than 650K hostnames on its Windows Live Spaces blog service, while Go Daddy (+165K) and Google (+105K) also had growth of more than 100,000 sites this month.

For more information: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

Tharanga.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

December 2006 Web Server Survey

The December 2006 survey received responses from 105,244,649 sites, an increase of 3.8 million hostnames from last month, when the survey topped 100 million sites for the first time. The increase brings the Web's total growth for 2006 to 30.9 million sites, shattering the previous one-year record gain of 17.5 million sites from 2005.

For more information: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

Saturday, November 18, 2006

LISWiki

Dear Colleagues,

LISWiki was established to give the library community a chance to explore the usefulness of Wikis. It exists as a niche encyclopedia covering library-related issues.

The field of librarianship has already benefited from adopting innovative publishing and communication models, such as weblogs and open access archives. Wikis are quickly becoming the next big thing in the field of information. So please, have fun exploring the site. And consider contributing to the new project.

Tharanga.

Encyclopedia article on "Reference Interview"

Dear Colleagues,

I have edited 2 articles on "Reference Interview" in "Wikipedia" & "LISWiki".

In addition, I have updated the article on "Search engine" in LISWiki too.

Now, it's your time!

Tharanga.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Search engine: an effective tool for exploring the Internet

Dear Colleages,

You can read & download my above article deposited on E-LIS.

URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007606/

Tharanga.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

100 million site milestone!

According to the November 2006 Web survey of Netcraft, there are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet, which gained 3.5 million sites last month to continue the dynamic growth seen throughout 2006. In the November 2006 survey we received responses from 101,435,253 sites, up from 97.9 million sites last month.

For more information: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html

Tharanga.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

E-LIS : an open archive for Library and Information Science

Dear Colleagues,

E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas. It serves LIS researchers by facilitating their self-archiving, ensuring the long-term preservation of their documents and by providing word-wide easy access to their papers.

Visit: http://eprints.rclis.org/

Tharanga.