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Fw: Government begins tracking ecommerce




WASHINGTON -- The Commerce Department, hoping to keep from falling
further behind the curve of technological changes transforming the
economy, unveiled a new index to track e-commerce separately from its
overall retail-sales figures. 
The move, which many economists welcomed, is the government's first
attempt to provide an indicator devoted solely to tracking the online
boom. But some analysts warned that further refinements would be
necessary to truly gauge the economic changes wrought by the Internet,
many of which are fairly difficult to track. 

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2455334,00.html?chkpt=zdhp
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Lisa Potter
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC  27599