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From a National Digital Public Library Announcement by John Palfrey, Steering Committee Chair John Palfrey on the DPLA: I wanted to share with you a video about some of the Boston-area Beta Sprint projects that was created this summer by two Berkman Center interns, Ben Naddaff-Hafrey and Meredith Whipple. In their words: “We’re interns at the Berkman […]
Acting General Counsel releases report on social media cases The National Labor Relations Board’s Acting General Counsel today released a report detailing the outcome of investigations into 14 cases involving the use of social media and employers’ social and general media policies. In releasing the document, Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon said, “I hope that […]
Last week we reported that BookLamp.org was expected to go live on Tuesday. Well, it’s now Tuesday AM in the U.S. and the service, the result of an “exploratory project” at the U. of Utah is live. Direct to BookLamp.org Our post from last week has background you might want to have before using BookLamp. […]
A 17 Item Roundup of News From and About Google and Google+
Data Files, Interviews, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Publishing, Reports, Roundup
|UPDATED (Monday, August 15, 2011): Google Acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion; Patents Seen as a Leading Reason for Deal Time once again for another in our series of Google news roundups. We missed last week so this is going to be full of items in addition to several Google items we posted as soon as […]
Direct to Video: “Here’s What Normal People Really Think Of Google (via Business Insider) We’ve said it many times and we will say it again, although Google+ has been successful (very successful) to this point with early adopters and tech geeks, it in no way reflects what the non-geek user (aka “the masses”) think or […]
From The Charleston Advisor: Sam Brooks, Senior VP for Sales and Marketing with EBSCO Publishing is interviewed for his views about EBSCO’s May 2011 acquisition of the H.W. Wilson Company. The interview covers topics such as the future of the H.W. Wilson Company and its various products, the future of the H.W. Wilson brand, plans […]
Interview: "The Social Context of Reading: Five Questions for Bob Stein"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, Profiles, Publishing
|From an Interview by Buzz Poole (via Imprint) I first learned about The Institute for the Future of the Book while working on a magazine assignment that eventually became this piece for The Millions. In getting to know Bob Stein, his colleagues and the projects they championed I became convinced that concerns about the death […]
“Search needs a shake-up” is the the title of a commentary in the latest issue of Nature by Dr. Oren Etzioni. If you don’t know Etizioni by name you do know his work. His accomplishments are many and include: Co-Developer of MetaCrawler (an early web metasearch tool) Farecast (now offering fare predictions on Bing Travel) […]
1. “The Court of Appeal in London has today upheld a ruling that headlines and web links taken from newspapers websites are protected by copyright.” (via Managing IP) Case: NLA v Meltwater & PRCA Full Text of Ruling (via BAILII) “Winners And Losers In The News Aggregator Copyright Case” (via paidContent) “PRCA and Meltwater are […]
Transcript: "Library Spaces for the Scholarship Process" and Skills For a Digital Librarian
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Podcasts, Profiles
|Interview Transcript and Link to Complete Podcast. Gerry Baynes speaks with Gary Strong, University Librarian at UCLA. Here’s the opening exchange. From EDUCAUSE (46.4): Gerry Baynes: One of the elements planned for the space being redesigned at the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library is a research commons for digital scholarship. Can you describe this […]