Brought To Book

Sydney Morning Herald

Saturday April 18, 1998

KIRSTY NEEDHAM

EVERY surfer knows that his or her bookmark list is an invaluable document - a map with which to retrace the path to the interesting and useful sites discovered among the virtual crap out there. For those too bewildered by the Web to set up their own bookmarks, the Australian company Internet Technology is offering pre-packaged sets of sites on CD-ROM for $19.95.

There are five BookM@arkers: News and Weather; Sports; Arts; Kids and Education; and Technology, sold separately through Harvey Norman. The CD-ROM installs the links on your computer, with the promise that Yahoo! Australia & NZ will update the list each month. Icon took Arts for a test-drive. A total 208 sites were downloaded onto my favourites list, sorted into cinema, film, gallery, government, museum, music, radio, theatre and TV lists.

Theatre was a bit thin with only one site, from Tasmania, music seemed comprehensive, and the museums were great. If you can't copy a bookmark list from the PC of a Net addict friend and don't fancy navigating your own way through the sites recommended each week by everyone else buying bookmarks could be a good starting point.