Engadget has been reporting over the last couple weeks on the upcoming e-book reader from Sony. More details can be found in the BusinessWeek article. It will support PDF docs as well as e-books from the Sony Connect online store and will retail for about $300-$400. Engadget has some photos of the […]
Chicagocrime.org lists reported crimes by type and displays the location of the crime on an inserted Google Maps display. Pretty nice integration. From BB
The latest Ars OS X review has been posted and covers a lot of details of 10.4.
All too often I read someone hyping blogs and, particularly in the online librarian world, saying that it’s a choice between blogging and digital death. One of the great things about the past 10 years is that the world has shrunk dramatically and information is now so completely accessible. Particularly in the case […]
If you use Adblock with Firefox, here is a good filter set.
When should virtual property be treated like physical property?
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Massive multiplayer games have exploded in popularity, with games that range far beyond the quests and giant rat killings of a traditional title such as “Everquest II.” Some skip Dungeons & Dragon-style role-playing altogether in favor of a free-form world not unlike a virtual “Burning Man.” … […]
I was browsing Apple-related forums and came across a nice long list of all of the new Tiger features. There are rumors that it will be coming out as soon as next month and I’m really excited to see some of the new features, in particular Core Data (bottom of page). Click below […]
From the FlickrBlog:
Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!! Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks!
And here I am reading Hackers and Painters and Paul Graham’s experiences with the same thing.
By the […]
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), one of the entertainment industry’s most powerful congressional allies, will remain at the forefront of the national debate over copyright and illegal downloading after being named to head a new subcommittee on intellectual property.
from WaPo
It’s a rather unfortunate path we are headed down. /. discussion here
The Findory neighborhood for Bibliotheke shows all of the related blogs on Findory and represents their relative ‘connectedness’ through size and shading.
Findory itself is pretty cool. As you read articles or blog posts it changes the ranking of other articles, thus personalizing the interface by giving you stories according to your past reading.
This is PSA for the non-programmers:
It’s pretty often that I’m on a web page and want to know when it was last modified in order to see if the info is out of date. By typing this command into the address bar when you are on a page or saving it as a bookmark […]
I don’t really want to give any more fame to the comments from ALA prez-elect Gorman last week, but George Needham’s satirical post at It’s all good is a rather amusing response.
John Heilemann gives us tons of dirt on Google’s path to IPO. Tons of untold stories, like the engineer squating in CEO Schmidt’s office to Sergey and Larry playing hardball with VCs, breaking rules all along the way.
From Cory Doctorow:
It’s not a service I’d use, but I believe that it’s the kind of service that is vital to the Web’s health. The ability of end-users to avail themselves of tools that decomopose and reassemble web-pages to their tastes is an issue like inlining, framing, and linking: it’s a matter of letting users […]
John Ritterbush, a colleague of mine from Northwestern, has a fantastic new blog, Anatomy of a Psychictoad, with an interesting post on Beauty and the Biography. In it he asks, “can you admire art without the artist’s biography?” His post is a great point to start, and this began as a comment there, […]
Jesse James Garrett breaks down the tech that’s introducing desktop app functionality to web apps.
Slashdot article and discussion
Battelle links to Vimeo, a Flickr-like system for videos.
A couple cool videos on there are a clip of Marc Cantor talking about the lack of metadata for podcasting, etc, and a clip of Wooden Mirror by Daniel Rozin which was all the rage at the 2000 Siggraph (and one of my personal favorite works of […]
Everybody’s been talking about Righting Copyright: Fair Use and Digital Environmentalism from the current BOOKFORUM, so I’m linking to it for those who haven’t yet read it. It’s actually a very good overview of the current state of digital copyright and what some call the Digital Environmentalism movement, led by folks like Lessig, that […]
Google Scholar now has a preferences page to specify your institution (if it’s among the few included in the pilot) and get links to your resolver in the results. I don’t have time to play with it just yet, but according to a post by North Carolina State University’s Andrew Pace on the web4lib […]
I found this absolutely fascinating and thought I’d pass it on:
Tammet is calculating 377 multiplied by 795. Actually, he isn’t “calculating”: there is nothing conscious about what he is doing. He arrives at the answer instantly. Since his epileptic fit, he has been able to see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. The number two, […]