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Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
This 20-minute video on the TED.com web site became available in September 2008, but the talk is from December 2007. At 7 minutes into the video, Kahle talks about using a $100 laptop as an ebook reader. At 9 minutes, he talks about digitizing books and about using robotic book scanners then about creating their own. He also talks about capturing and storing film, audio, video (e.g., TV), and...
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The Current Buzz - Tech (Free subscription) | yesterday
In this 1936 Modern Mechanix article, a fantasy about shrinking the Library of Congress to fit “in a few small filing cabinets” on microfiche/film. Once this is done, copies of the great library will be distributed to worthy institutions all over the world. This is one of the Ur-dreams of librarianship, what Brewster Kahle of [...]
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
In this 1936 Modern Mechanix article, a fantasy about shrinking the Library of Congress to fit "in a few small filing cabinets" on microfiche/film. Once this is done, copies of the great library will be distributed to worthy institutions all over the world. This is one of the Ur-dreams of librarianship, what Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive calls "universal access to all human knowledge."...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
In this 1936 Modern Mechanix article, a fantasy about shrinking the Library of Congress to fit "in a few small filing cabinets" on microfiche/film. Once this is done, copies of the great library will be distributed to worthy institutions all over the world. This is one of the Ur-dreams of librarianship, what Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive calls "universal access to all human knowledge."...
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TED Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
This past weekend, we added a captcha system to TED.com's "Send this user an email" feature. We're using reCaptcha , which harnesses the mighty power of captcha to help digitize old books and newspapers. Right now, reCaptcha is decoding texts from the Internet Archive ( watch Brewster Kahle talk about the Internet Archive on TED.com). We take our users' privacy and security really seriously....
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Berkeley Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... P.S. My recommendations for the Obama cabinet include Larry Lessig as head of the FCC; Brewster Kahle as director of the Library of Congress; and Steve Beck as director of a new commission on the Arts and Technology. I've heard that Vint Cerf is up for appointment as CTO, whatever that job entails, and that sounds right to me.
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DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
In "The LJ Academic Newswire Newsmaker Interview: Georgia Harper," Harper, Scholarly Communications Advisor at the University Libraries of the University of Texas at Austin, discusses the Google-AAP/AG copyright settlement and the part that research libraries played in it. Also see her blog posting ("Google Book Search—and Buy"). Here's an excerpt: Brewster Kahle has chastised public...
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Tools of Change for Publishing (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... and how it might apply to non-software projects. Wikipedia was a big inspiration there, as was Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive , and his call for, " universal access to all human knowledge ." I'd been enjoying podcasting, and in particular had been excited by AKMA's project to get a group of volunteers to record and distribute Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture , also an inspiration....
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Chris O'Brien of the San Jose Mercury News writes: "When I heard Google had settled its feud with book publishers, I knew exactly whom I wanted to call first: Brewster Kahle , the digital librarian who is the founder of the Internet Archive. I first talked to Kahle back in 2004, around the time Google launched its Book Search. The program riled publishers, who felt it amounted...
