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The Invent Blog :: Stephen M. Nippe (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I rarely use Westlaw/Lexis, but the CiteGenie FireFox extension could be really useful for those of you whom do. As their website points out: Cutting and pasting when doing legal research using your browser is simple. But having to construct the citation for what you pasted is not so simple. This is especially true with legal citations [...] Related posts: Tech Tip of the Day — Archive.org and...
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Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The latest revision of the Google Books settlement has been granted preliminary approval by a New York district judge, though it will be some time before that approval is finalized — if it is finalized. Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District of New York said Thursday that he will hold a hearing Feb. 18 on the new agreement, which will restore access to millions of out-of-print books, but may...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A federal judge granted preliminary approval Thursday to a revised settlement between Google and authors and publishers over the Internet giant's effort to create a vast digital library.
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Post I.T. (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A federal judge late Thursday granted preliminary approval to a revised settlement between Google and two authors and publishers groups over the Internet giant's effort to create a vast digital library. U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin, of the Southern District of New York, said he will hold a hearing Feb. 18 on the new settlement, which would give Google access to scan and print millions of out-of-print...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A Chinese authors' group demanded late Wednesday that Google compensate writers whose books the U.S. company scanned without permission, cranking up tension in the country over Google's digital library project. The demand marked the second time in just days that a U.S. company came under fire in China for intellectual property violations. A Chinese court this week ruled that Microsoft's use of certain...
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Computer World (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A Chinese authors' group demanded late Wednesday that Google compensate writers whose books the U.S. company scanned without permission, cranking up tension in the country over Google's digital library project.
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Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
MITH is pleased to report the launching of the Shakespeare Quartos Archive by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. Funded by a JISC/ NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grant, The Shakespeare Quartos Archive provides access to the early rare quarto editions of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a [...]
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Techquila Shots (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
You can read it, here. Enjoy! http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/15/twitter-facebook-amazon-affiliate-marketing/ Related posts:My Guest Post on Shoemoney: Gaming Google AdWords I did a guest post over on Shoemoney’s blog yesterday — “Gaming Google AdWords with Google redirects“....IDEA #61 – Music Affiliate JavaScript Blog Include A simple script that anyone could grab...
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Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
My digital library students have had a conversation this semester about whether blogs are scholarly. When I discussed this topic with one of our PhD students, he rephrased the question and used the words "authority" and "trust". Is a blog (or blogger) recognized as being an authority? Can a blog be trusted? To him, the answer is provided by the community. For example, it is the...
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Netlabelism - Sharing music (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This month, netwaves has the honour to be mentioned in the Belgian/Dutch nr.1 leftfield musicmagazine Gonzo (Circus) . The people of Gonzo have started a series of articles about the compatibility of music and the internet, starting the first article about 'netlabelism' followed by one about piracy. You can read the full article here (Dutch), or buy a copy: Netwaves was also asked to compile a sampler:...
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pluGGd.in (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Indian Government’s ambitious Unique ID project that will impart unique identity number to each and every resident is all set to change the way social welfare systems are delivered to the mass. » Join our Google group | » Do check out Indian Startup Directory | Indian VC Directory and Active Startup Discussion Forum » Catch us on Twitter Advertise @ pluGGd.in UID Project Details...
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Dubious Quality (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I've listened to last.fm on occasion, but I'd never signed up for an account. After creating a custom radio station today with The Beatles and Miranda Lee Richards, I decided to sign up so that I could save some of my preferences. If you follow the "sign up for free" link off the main page, the sign up screen includes two words that you have to identify (as part of the ongoing book digitization...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Per Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, Google backed out of a debate on Google Books that was supposed to air on Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour show yesterday. The stated reason was that the Open Content Alliance changed their representative at the last minute from a professor to a lawyer. Google did not want to put an [...]
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Fee's family history blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The visitations of England can provide a wealth of information for the family history researcher. The visitation from 1893 contains not just family history information but also in some cases portraits and silhouettes. It's worth searching quite carefully. Visitation of England and Wales (1893) Visitation of England and Wales Vol 1 1893 * Visitation of England and Wales Vol 2 1894 Visitation of England...
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open... (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Oh look, the British Library thinks it has passed a milestone : The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term Digital Library System. The milestone item was a digitised copy of a newspaper originally published in 1864 and scanned as part of the Library's 19th Century British Library Newspapers project, which recently made more than 2 million pages of historic newspapers available...
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