Doc: I believe one answer is to find more ways to get more academic stuff on line. Three of my own best resources have historically been, and continue to be, the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore and Delphion. All allow some level of exploration for non-members. But let me reiterate, I strongly urge everyone with an interest in past and current research in HCI/HCHI become a member of the ACM, join SIGGROUP and SIGCHI, and subscribe to the Digital Library. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]
News.Com: Microsoft to abandon standalone IE. This means that to get a new version of the browser you'll have to install a new version of the operating system? Also, what about the Mac version of IE? Again, Web developers never asked to be Microsoft developers, now they think we should be Windows developers. Oy. [Scripting News]