Contents of Issues

No. 1 (January 2003)

How to Make Money Reading Books
Q&A
      multi-volume indexes
      acronyms & abbreviations
Software
      efax
      ZoneAlarm
Links
      For Fun
      Search Engines & Names
      Information Retrieval & the Web
      Googled News
Legal Beagle
      Work for Hire
i-TORQUE Information
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Indexers Reveal Themselves, Part 1

 

No. 2 (February 2003)

How to Make Money Indexing Books
Letters
      Marcia Bates and Push Technology
Q&A
      Cross-references from subheadings
Software
      The Inevitable Crash
Links
      For Fun
      Search Engine & IR Mumbo Gumbo
      What’s Hot
      Information Mapping
Legal Beagle
      Satisfactory Performance
i-TORQUE Information
Back Page
      Most Popular Posters

 

No. 3 (March 2003)

Book Indexing in a Digital World
Letters
      A Torque Index?
      In Defense of Indexers
Q&A
      Cross-referencing within an Entry
      See/See also under
Software
      Cleaning Up the Tracks
Links
      For Fun
      Just Released
      Hazel Bell Goes Online
      Semantic Web
Legal Beagle
      American Libraries: Signs of the Times
i-TORQUE Information
Back Page
      Where Is Index?

 

No. 4 (April 2003)

Interview: Jan C. Wright (Part 1)
Letters
      Spanish Indexing Market
      FAQ
Q&A
      Classified Entries
Software
      Taxonomy/Thesaurus Software
Links
      For Fun
      People & Paper, again
      Pesky Taxonomists
      Visualizing Information
Legal Beagle
      Protecting Yourself: Checking Out New Clients
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 5 (May/June 2003)

Interview: Jan C. Wright (Part 2)
Letters
      Classified Entries
      FYI
Q&A
      Charging for Printing PDFs
Software
      New Versions of Adobe Acrobat
Links
      For Fun
      Ontology, again
      Taxonomies Galore
      Spanish Glossary
      Hacking Google
      Tidbits
Legal Beagle
      Shifting Sands: Protecting Yourself from Change
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 6 (July 2003)

The Numbers, Please: U.S. Book Production, 2002
Letters
      New German Style Guide
Q&A
      Classified Entries, continued
Software
      Grokker
      Spybot
Links
      For Fun
      TinyURL
      Geographic Names
      Metadata Glossary
      Ebook Operation Folds
      Gotta Love It!
      Happy Birthday, PDF!
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 7 (August 2003)

The 15th Edition of The Chicago Manual of Style
Q&A
      Passing Mentions
Software
      Is Your Indexing Software Compatible with Chicago?
Links
      For Fun
      Salary Survey 2002
      Milstead Papers
      No Time for an Index
      Information Science Resource
      Harry Potter
In the News
      Amazon Plans to Scan Books
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 8 (September 2003)

Interview: Janet Perlman, Part 1
Q&A
      Sorting Symbols
      Finding Forthcoming Titles
Links
      For Fun
      Cooks Thesaurus
      Metadata Demystified
      Extreme Markup Languages
      eBook Formats
      Search Engine Relationships
      Synonym Rings & Authority Files
Legal Beagle
      Get Caught Reading
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 9 (October 2003)

Interview: Janet Perlman, Part 2
Letters
      Patriot Act
Q&A
      Power Outages & UPS
      Errors in the Text
Software
      Got the Time?
Links
      For Fun
      Taxonomy & Search
      Job Markets for Indexers
      eBook News
      Amazon Update
      African Names Resource
Legal Beage
      Invoices
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 10 (Nov./Dec. 2003)

eBooks in 2003
Letters
      Power Outages
Q&A
      Indexing Rates
Software
      Text Editors
Links
      For Fun
      Text Mining
      MediLexicon
      Indexing and Abstracting, 3rd Ed.
In the News
      Amazon Offers Full-Text Search
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 11 (January 2004)

Facing the Text: An Excerpt
Letters
      eBooks in 2003
Q&A
      Formatting See also references
      PDF ver. 6 and printing problems
Software
      Grokker Update
Links
      For Fun
      UC Press Digitized Books
      Google Jumps In
      Amazon's Search
      Umberto Eco on Books
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 12 (February 2004)

Offshoring Report
Q&A
      Email Aliases
Software
      Coping with Email
Links
      For Fun
      Indexing with FrameMaker
      Glosso-Thesaurus
      Taxonomies Mandated by Law
      One New Thing
      Offshoring Links
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 13 (March 2004)

India Report: Books, Publishing, Technical Writing, & Indexing
Q&A with Do Mi Stauber
      Real Names & Aliases
      Metatopics and Subheadings
Software
      Browsing for Browsers
Links
      For Fun
      Digitizing Books
      Criminal Editing
      Hans H. Wellisch
      Semantic Web Specs
      Cancer Ontology
      Finding Stuff
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 14 (April 2004)

Keeping Your Indexing Business Onshore
Letters
      "India Report"
Q&A
      Business Telephone Line
Software
      Tweaking Your Website
      Embedded Indexing with InDesign
Links
      For Fun
      IA Summit 2004
      Cost of Not Finding Information
      What's Microsoft Up To?
      Writers Get the Axe
      Hypertext Revisited
Legal Beagle
      Taxes & Indexers
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 15 (May/June 2004)

Interview: Gale Rhoades on Equipment for Small Offices
Q & A with Do Mi Stauber
      Consistency
      Name Indexes
Software
      Usenet Newsgroups
Links
      For Fun
      Natural Language Search
      Amazon's Search Engine
      Findability
i-TORQUE Information
Torqueness
      Torquing Google
      Q & A Columnists
Back Page

No. 16 (July 2004)

The Numbers, Please: U.S. Book Production, 2003
Letters
      Favicons
Q & A with Jan C. Wright
      HTML Indexer
Software
      BeLarc Advisor
Links
      For Fun
      Website Indexing, 2nd Ed.
      Littered Offices
      Time Spent Searching
      Cost of Flawed Searching
      1961: High Hopes
      1985: Dashed Hopes
Taking Care of Business
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 17 (August 2004)

Interview: Janet Russell and AACR2
Letters
      India Offshores to U.S.
      Pricing of Website Indexing
      Indexing Rate Database
Software
      Let's Get Organized
Links
      For Fun
      German Network of Indexers
      Metastuff
      The Perfect Book?
Taking Care of Business
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 18 (September 2004)

Interview: Krista Wall, Microsoft Learning
Q & A
      Publishers Weekly
      Ignoring Hyphens
      Chicago and Numbers
Software
      Linux
Links
      For Fun
      Kurt Vonnegut: 2004
      Kurt Vonnegut: 1978
      Software Engineering Glossary
      eBook Articles
      Web Search Garage
      Scholarly Publishing Woes
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 19 (October 2004)

Embedded Indexing
Letters
      Publishers Weekly
      Golden Gate Workshop
Q & A
      Inconsistency in Wording
      Encyclopedia Locators
Software
      Linux: Word Processing
Legal Beagle
      Publishers & Authors File Lawsuit
Links
      For Fun
      U.S. Government Manual
      Internet Security Resource
      Categorization
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 20 (Nov./Dec. 2004)

Interview: Barbara DeGennaro on Indexing Children's Books
Letters
      Indexing Rates and a Database
Software
      Macros & Plug-ins
Links
      For Fun
      Another Lawsuit Filed
      Firefox
      Elizabeth (Betty) Moys
      Offshoring & the Printing Industry
Taking Care of Business
      Timekeep for Windows
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 21 (Jan./Feb. 2005)

i-TORQUE News
Letters
      Indexing Rates
Q & A
      UC Berkeley Classes
      Shortening Titles
Software
      Timekeep for Windows
Links
      For Fun
      Google Me, Google You
      Writing: Still Important
      Lawbooks and Libraries
      Website Indexing: The PDF
      Cognitive Overload
      Travel and Dissociative Fugue
Taking Care of Business
      Vacation
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 22 (March/April 2005)

Publishing Trends for Indexers
Indexing Rate Database
Letters
      Librarians
      Back Page & Tinfoil Hat
Q & A
      Getting Started in Indexing
Software
      Holy Macros
Links
      For Fun
      Overcommitted?
      Search Engine Technologies
      Getting There with Maps
      Cognitive Flow
      Indexing Conferences
      eBook Hype
Tidbits
      Offshoring
      Sarbanes-Oxley
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 23 (May/June 2005)

Interview with Kathy Pitcoff, Health Science Indexer
Indexing Rate Database
Q & A
      Foreign words in italics
      Completeness of Names
      Last minute calls for indexes
Links
      For Fun
      NISO Vocabularies Standard
      Medical Resources
      Amazon Goes Data Crazy
      3.1 Miles Offshore
      Book Trade Deficit with China
      American Printers
      Learning to Read
In the News
      Another Fruitful Market?
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 24 (July/August 2005)

The Numbers, Please: U.S. Book Production 2004
Letters
      Indexing Rate Database
      Kudos
      A Second Edition?
Q & A
      Index-L
      Mangled Index
Software
      Grokker
      Mac OS X and Windows
Links
      For Fun
      Microsoft Metero
      Taxonomy Boot Camp
      Search Technologies
      Inside Indexing
      eBook Numbers for 2004
      American Printers
      New Words for 2005
I Love London
Taking Care of Business
      Indexer's Block
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 25 (Sept./Oct. 2005)

Interview: Victoria Baker, indexer of Indexing Books, 2nd edition
Letters
      Mangled Indexes
i-TORQUE Cumulative Index
Software
      Spyware
Links
      For Fun
      Meaning of Information
      Kudos for UCB Class
Taking Care of Business
      Accounting
i-TORQUE Information
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No. 26 (Nov./Dec. 2005)

Google Print for Libraries: The Elephant in the Corner
Letters
      Wikipedia Is Unreliable
      Wikipedia Is Okay Sometimes
i-TORQUE Cumulative Index
Links
      For Fun
      LibraryThing
      Indexers at Frankfurt Fair
      Digitizing without Infringing
      Publishing Industry Salaries
      Offshoring: Alive and Well
      My Outsourced Life
Taking Care of Business
      Distractions & Interruptions
i-TORQUE Information
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