I mentioned the announcements about Amazon's new Kindle book reader (wifi'd) and Google's selling access to ebooks online in passing yesterday in a post on a related topic, but today if:book takes a more detailed and future-oriented look at the...
A little off-topic in that there's not a copyright angle in here anywhere, but hoping that our audience is filled with bibliobloggers, I'm passing Meredith Farkas' Survey of the Biblioblogosphere Update | Information Wants To Be Free note on to...
I don't often lose sleep over copyright issues anymore. But last night I could not stop thinking about the Copyright Office's new resource for *children.* Please have a look if you haven't already: Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright. There's...
I am in France at the moment; typing in ... the municipal library in Lyon. The keyboard is way different! Hunt and peck or redo every 5th letter... Anyway, even here with little access to the Internet (the friend I...
An interesting little brou-ha-ha has erupted at Harvard over the effort by students to provide materials the University makes available through an official portal, in alternative ways. As explained at The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: No Course Material Allowed on...
A fellow Texan, and a fellow Ph.D. candidate (at North Texas State University), Brian Kenney gave a lecture about 2 weeks ago, ALA TechSource | Does Print Still Matter? Brian Kenney on the Future of Content in a 2.0 World,...
As we've noticed this year, there have been numerous indications that things may be shifting a bit in a positive way with respect to the business models of the media companies that have most resisted such change. We have discussed...
Putting a much finer point on it than I did yesterday, Larry Downes compares the escalating efforts to rein in file sharing to various revolutions of the past: The revolution will be televised...on YouTube | Stanford Center for Internet and...
If Web 2.0 is a little bit fuzzy for you, have a look at this entrancing YouTube video highlighted on Lessig's blog: Lawrence Lessig. Incredible, no?...
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