Check out the message for president Obama from Professor Cornel West of Princeton University on BBC.
The controversial Google project to scan books from libraries, index them, and make them full-text searchable (books.google.com) has been known by several names in its short existence: the Google library project, Google book search, Google books, and now Google Editions. The popular press has repeatedly referred to the project as a “library” even “the Google [...]
January 1st NY Times ran a story titled Why Twitter Will Endure along with a modified image of Hokusai’s famous woodblock print. I thought it was an interesting juxtaposition between the two images.
The End of the Internet?
Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, wrote this article back in February. In fact, we probably blogged about it right here because net neutrality is a HUGE issue for libraries. And if you didn’t get a chance to read the article the first time around, Amy Goodman [...]
The Edge Annual Question – 2006
To the Edge Community,
Last year’s 2005 Edge Question – “What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” – generated many eye-opening responses from a “who’s who” of third culture scientists and science-minded thinkers. The 120 contributions comprised a document of 60,000 words. The New York [...]
National Security Archive 20th Anniversary: Celebrating 20 Years of Keeping Government Honest
The National Security Archive celebrates its 20th anniversary today with a special event at George Washington University, headlined by Bill Moyers, with Seymour M. Hersh, Tina Rosenberg, Scott Armstrong, Geneva Overholser, Walter B. Slocombe, Morton H. Halperin and Sherry Jones. You can download audio [...]
Yahoo! Search – Instant Search.
“Instant Search gives you answers as you type — no more waiting!”
This beta application from
Yahoo next uses
Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming to deliver immediately, as you type, a best match
for your search. This is certainly an interesting and flashy application
that may be useful in some search situations.
It is [...]
Without comment, here are several articles of interest from
the last week or so. Have a good weekend!
Academic Libraries Join in Marking September 11 With Discussions of
What Freedom Means
Roberts Errs on Side of Secrecy as White House Counsel
Public Being Shut Out of Environmental Right-to-Know Hearings
At long last, it’s Lockheed for electronic archives
Audio overboard College students [...]
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The Triangle unwired by Fiona Morgan, Independent Weekly. The article describes the Internet access is not a luxury but a public utility and the need of WiFi. It provides various examples of WiFi programs around the country.
Bad Behavior has blocked 238 access attempts in the last 7 days.