IEEE always makes a few articles available online at no charge. Recently, three articles were made available that will likely be of interest to the info pro.

+ Recommender Systems
4 pages, PDF.
Source: IEEE Intelligent Systems

+ Evolving the Link
Danny Ayers writes:

When the Web appeared, many in the hypertext community criticized it because of its simplifications. For a start, links that break easily went against conventional wisdom. Broken links were, in fact, designed in as a Web feature (think HTTP 404 error). Somewhat counterintuitively, this has made the system as a whole significantly more robust. A Web that relied on everyone ensuring that something was always at the end of their links would be seriously brittle and hardly likely to survive long, given human nature.

Critics also pointed to the limitations of links that pointed in only one direction and were untyped. The Web’s success has to a large extent overridden these criticisms without really proving them wrong. Ironically, it now seems that many of the early criticisms weren’t exactly incorrect per se, but merely shortsighted.

Source: IEEE Internet Computing

+ A Comparison of Presentation Methods for Reading on Mobile Phones

This study compares traditional scroll-based methods for reading text-based content on mobile phones with Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), a method that displays words sequentially.

Source: IEEE Distributed Systems Online

Note: In two cases the articles listed above are “introductory articles” to a special issue of a specific publication. In most cases, access to additional articles will require users to purchase them online or have a access to IEEE’s Digital Library.

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