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The End of Literature?
Another fast update from the other day: Charles H. Featherstone writes this in response to the fact that all reading is apparently now suspect by the lovely folks in the U.S. government. Or, at least all the material that’s worth reading. (Yes, I think Mao’s "Little Red Book" is worth reading. If you care about
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“Come and get me, Feds!”
Normally when someone talks about how much damage librarians are doing the American Way of Life, you figure it’s just more talk radio hyperbole. Not this time. This time it comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. First, we have an article in the New York Times ("At FBI, Frustration Over Limits on an Antiterror
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Target: Google?
All four of my dedicated readers know that I like to keep track of Google links. Well, this one is from William Anderson writing from the Mises Institute (two words for those who’ve never heard of it: "libertarian economics") on the potential for Google’s despoiling at the hands of anti-trust bearing politicians. His point seems
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Wikipedia: Cool, But Not for Primary Research
This got a mention in this week’s ResourceShelf Newsletter: "Wikipedia, an Internet encyclopedia written entirely by volunteers, claimed that a prominent journalist might have been involved in the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, a false charge that has highlighted the Achilles’ heel of such do-it-yourself Web sites. The journalist, John Seigenthaler Sr., 78 — who
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Newspapers From Around the World
I picked this up from Andy, who picked it up from Alan . . . I get som many things from Andy’s site by way of his readers that had I not already listed him on the Economics typelist, I’d be tempted to sneak his wite onto the typelist for Library resources. Good stuff. Like
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Uncle Sam Wants You!
The Daily Reckoning has a great tidbit on the history of "Uncle Sam" today, including the fact that there is no copyright on the image used by Army recruiters in World War 1 (government documents generally are not copyrighted, so yeah, that makes sense even though I’ve never really thought much about it. More fool
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Still More About Google
After looking over the past bits and pieces I’ve posted about Google, I can imagine if you’re reading this, you’re probably thinking, "Oy, not another one!" And you’d be right to a certain point. Then again, this may bear repeating often. What brought me to this conclusion was an email from the head of IT
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Thomas Gets a Face Lift
It’s a short work week this week, so I have no excuse not tp post at least an article or two. In that spirit, here’s something I picked up by accident. THOMAS, one of the more amazing government legislation research tools available to internet users, has gotten a significant face-lift. You can still search for
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Amazing Magic Searches
It’s been very, very busy around here the past couple of weeks, and I’ve got six projects running concurrently, which means that something has to give and unfortunately, that’s what I write here. Luckily, the most time-intensive project which is a digitization grant I’m working on is due next week, and thing should slow down
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Google and Managing Metadata
BusinessWeek has another article on the trials and tribulation of Google as they continue to implement their Print for Libraries program. It’s interesting to watch this story develop over time, not the least reason for which is that Google’s big move in this direction was the subject of a serious panel discussion between David Ferriero