Open Culture (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Internet Archive has done it again. The San Francisco non-profit has teamed up with NASA to give you access to NASA’s image, video, and audio collections. The content is all available in one single, searchable resource, which makes it the largest collection of NASA’s media on the web. When you enter NasaImages.org, you’ll see that [...]
24 FRAMES PER SECOND (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I was born in 1981, roughly the same time that video was becoming popular. I missed the revolution though, the sudden availability to movie fans (albeit often in rather compromised form, thanks to 'pan and scan') of their enduring favourite movies (and, yes, an endless cavalcade of crap too). Generations prior to mine will remember a time when the only way to see movies again was on TV, and before...
Devon History Society (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Anna Eliza Bray, engraving from frontispiece of Autobiography . Click to enlarge. Anna Eliza Bray (1790-1883) was a writer of considerable output, which included biographies, historical novels and topographic works. Born Anna Eliza Kempe, she was first married to the historical draughtsman and antiquarian Charles Alfred Stothard, with whom she travelled widely until his death in 1821 from a fall while...
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...
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:...
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...
Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Internet Archive: Free Download: 2. TAJWID HAMS HAL-33.mp3.
Fee's family history blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
More and more copies of the Gentleman's Magazine are coming into the public domain via the internet archive. This is a collection of links to the ones available currently, which I hope to add to when I discover new ones. You may find notices of births and deaths, other announcements in here. The numbers after the title in the Internet Archive don't seem to relate to the date of the magazine. The London...
Web Digger (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Several URL shortening services have agreed to hand over the keys to 301Works in the event that a URL shortening company goes under. 301Works will be administered by Internet Archive. Participating companies will provide regular backups of their URL mappings to the 301Works.org service. In the event of the closure of a participating organization, technical control of the shortening service domain will...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
URL shorteners are problematical, as everybody knows, but with the rise of Twitter and its ilk they seem to be a necessary part of the landscape. Some of the biggest questions around services shch as bit.ly, TinyURL, and is.gd is what happens when they go out of business (as tr.im did last August). Now a group of such companies, organized under the auspices of the Internet Archive, has formed a non-profit...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
At 14 minutes to midnight last night, Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers filed a revised settlement agreement with a US district court in New York. Here is the blog post of Dan Clancy, Google Books engineering director. Google has provided an outline of the differences from the original settlement (PDF) and a FAQ (PDF); the full revised settlement (PDF) is also available....
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Many of us are using shortened urls, especially in connection with services such as Twitter. I do a tweet of almost every post here and it is a nice, quick overview of what’s gone on during the day. Of course, each tweet contains a short url and I’ve been using Tinyurl along withTweetdeck. However, [...]
Library Stuff (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
301Works – “The Internet Archive and founding companies announce today the launch of 301Works.org, a service to archive shortened Universal Resource Locators (URLs). This will enable redirect services to incorporate these shortened URLs when a member company ceases business activities.”
Chicago IP Litigation Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
SP Techs., LLC v. Garmin Int'l., Inc. , No. 08 C 3248, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Sep. 30, 2009) (Pallmeyer, J.) Judge Pallmeyer denied defendants' motion for summary judgment of inequitable conduct in this patent infringement case. Plaintiff SP Technologies ("SPT") asserted a patent for a touch screen keyboard that cannot be moved, resized or closed by a user. Defendants argued the patent should...
Daily SEO Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Posted by randfish Tonight's post comes via the Pubcon conference in Las Vegas and is likely of interest to many in the webmaster and search communities. Today, during the Interactive Site Review Session , Google's head of Web Spam, Matt Cutts , along with Vanessa Fox of NinebyBlue and Derrick Wheeler of Microsoft took thorough dives into a number of sites. The session was well coverd on Twitter,...
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