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Who among us doesn't have a desire to know more about something? And who among us has not grown frustrated by going down blind alleys that appeared to be boulevards, in the search for information?

The Infosources Group hopes to help clarify, filter, and focus some of the information sources we deal with on a daily basis. We will explore different types of information, how it may be accessed, and, in some instances, offer links to and reviews of information sites available on the Internet, primarily through the World Wide Web, ftp, and gopher.

The subject of this page is INFORMATION: Information on the World Wide Web can be broadly classified as written, spoken, and pictorial - which includes graphics, still and moving pictures, and "virtual reality" presentations. Often these several categories are combined in various ways to enhance the effectiveness of what is being presented.

Orthogonal to the information, but important to any discussion of it, is the technology that makes this possible, and the problems - both present and future - that this technology may present.

The ways in which we can gather information have changed. No longer tied to our local and personal libraries, our Internet accounts allows us to access information in other countries more easily than we can hop into the car and drive across town to the library.

One of the problems facing us as we search for information on the Internet is finding the useful information. There is a vast amount of information available on almost every imaginable topic, but we have the burden of sifting through it to find the gems we need.

Irwin shows off his talents by adding a graphical enhancement to a traditional written information source. Select graphics from the menu in the left frame to view his special project. Use the Home button in the left frame when you are done. Find out what Sally has added to this site in her review of Pixelsight under Technology.

orthogonal : Mutually independent; well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to. Used in a generalisation of its mathematical meaning to describe sets of primitives or capabilities that, like a vector basis in geometry, span the entire "capability space" of the system and are in some sense non-overlapping or mutually independent.