Some useful academics after all.

I don't know why Browser hasn't mentioned Artifact before this. It is at www.artifact.ac.uk. One reason might be because I quite enjoy writing this column and don't want to give my secrets away all at once. Whatever, Artifact is a guide to arts and creative industries on the web. One thing it is not good at is journalists. When you have navigated to one of the various sub-categories you are offered the letters of the alphabet--a guide to the names of the people you are looking for. There is also an ordinary and not all that great search engine. But the site is pretty light on journalists. No bad thing, you say. Nor are there that many architects. Still there are quite a lot of links to architecture-related sites. There is a sufficient number for my above worry about revealing sources to disappear. The site is a branch of Resource Discovery Network, an academic network, as you would have guessed from the url, based at the universities of Manchester and Bath. Taxonomy is always an issue with really big omnibus sites like this. Which affects searching, so you wish the database people would hurry up and get those new approaches to searching like Liquid Information, Spotlight and Beagle out in the open for sites such as this to use.