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  "id": "1995-december-bits-bytes-and-barks",
  "slug": "1995-december-bits-bytes-and-barks",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1995-december-bits-bytes-and-barks.html",
  "year": 1995,
  "month": "December",
  "monthNum": 12,
  "headline": "Bits, Bytes and Barks",
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  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "The Tennessean",
  "summary": "The new U.S. Patent and Trademark Information site offers improved search capabilities over its predecessor but has limitations, including the ability to search only one year at a time and potentially incomplete search results. The article also includes job announcements for journalism positions at various newspapers and universities.",
  "keywords": [
    "patents",
    "database",
    "journalism"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Technology",
    "Investigative Methods"
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  "technologies": [
    "Internet"
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  "full_text": "A new patent site with new problems\n\nThe new U.S. Patent and Trademark Information site is much prettier than its Internet Multicasting Service predecessor, and it professes to include patents back to 1985 where IMS was limited to 1994 and 1995. The interface supports everything from simple point-and-click to full Boolean language searching by field, and is easy to use.\n\nOne problem of the IMS site that shows up again here is that you may only search one year at a time. A warning: a quick search for inventors in Nashville (a search I performed often at the IMS site) turned up just 18 patents, much less than the 50-60 I was used to experiencing. And the latest of those patents was from June. This could have been a bug in the system, which was still being worked on when I logged on (Nov. 13). But beware of assuming that any search is pulling up \"all\" patents on that subject in the given year.\n\nHeather Newman, The Tennessean; send e-mail to hnewman@tennessean.com\n\nChicago Sun-Times hires Schmid\n\nJon Schmid recently left as database editor for the Raleigh News and Observer to join the Chicago Sun-Times in November as a reporter.\n\nDown in El Paso\n\nThe El Paso Times is seeking applicants for its systems editor position. The systems editor supervises all computer-related operations in the newsroom, including maintenance, training, networking, hardware, software and upgrades for all computer systems including SII, AP LeafDesk, Macintosh and PCs. Serves as primary liaison between the newsroom and technical personnel. Advises management on the impact and potential of new technology in news gathering, news production and other newsroom projects. Apply to: Don Flores, editor, El Paso Times, P.O. Box 20, El Paso, Texas, 79999, (915) 546-6149. For more jobs in the Gannett chain, visit the company's web site at http://www.gannett.com.\n\nCronkite school looking for professor\n\nThe Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication at Arizona State University is seeking applicants for a continuing full professor to occupy the Knight Chair in Journalism. The school seeks a working journalist who would play a leadership role in teaching students how to use electronic retrieval technology to better analyze and present news stories. Please contact them by Feb. 1, for complete job description and requirements. Direct inquiries to Dr. John Craft or Dr. Fran Matera, co-chairs of the search committee, at (602) 965-5011, or e-mail your snail mailing address to: atfrm@asuvm.inre.asu.edu\n\nJoin NICAR on the Internet\n\nDon't forget to keep up with NICAR on the Internet. Subscribe to our listserve and join in as reporters talk about how to do the job better. E-mail to LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU. In the message, on the first line, write: subscribe NICAR-L your name. To join IRE on the Internet, the instructions are the same except, on first line, write: subscribe ire-1 your name.",
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