| dc.description.abstract | As the result of the creation of advanced information technology within the past two decades, we are entering into a new era of civilization. In this new day and age, where large industry was once the dominant force in our Western civilization, individuals are now finding themselves empowered through information technology in ways they never dreamed possible. Services such as telephony are now being replaced by software tools that make possible all types of information transmission and retrieval via the worldwide Internet network. One service in particular will change as the print media gives way to electronic publishing, and that is the newspaper. While news services will certainly continue to exist, the reader of electronic media will have a much greater selection of stories at his fingertips. Our program, described herein, is one such tool which will allow a user to locate and extract desired information from a wide variety of sources and create a personalized journal that could serve as the user's newspaper or perhaps as a professional or technical journal, depending on the user's preferences. | en |
