Current Happenings on the Internet: Blogs, Bots and News Aggregators
October 14, 2003

Florida Gulf Coast University
Reed Hall, 146



Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, author, speaker and creator/founder of BotSpot.com BotSpot.com


Discussion covered the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of blogs (weblogs), bots and intelligent agents and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman showed these new resources live on the Internet and talked about how they help us search and find the information we require for both personal and academic research. His presentation was designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent was the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions were discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available from http://www.LinksByMarcus.com/.