Amazon’s LibraryThing Competitor
Just found out about this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/ays, which Amazon calls Your Media Library. Looks an awful lot, at first blush, like…
Another Reason to Blog for Love, not Money
The NYT has an intriguing hypothesis: blogging isn’t good for you*. The author profiles the rapid-paced lifestyles of several well…
Scrabble vs. Scrabulous
The NYT carries an interesting article today on the phenomenal success of the online game Scrabulous, which it compares, in…
Getting Spammed? Help Scan a Book!
Humans are apparently much better than machines at decoding words than OCR scanners are, so Carnegie Mellon University is putting…
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Google Books
In Educational Technology there’s a longish article pointing out the “good, bad and ugly” of Google Books. Includes a detailed…
Worldwide Digital Libraries
Along with Google Books and the Internet Archive/Open Content Alliance, there is a lesser-known collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University Libaries…
Code4LibJournal
Launched last month, Code4Lib Journal is an outgrowth of Code4Lib, an informally organized cadre of library-centric coders. Code4Lib itself is…
Are you paying attention?
Forget RSS … the hippest thing these days appears to be Attention Management, at least according to the geekgods who…
Creative Commons' New Look
Those of you bloggers must be familiar with Creative Commons. If you visited the website recently, you’d notice that it…
British Library's Digitization Project with Microsoft
Microsoft is working with the British Library to make the 19th century books at the Library available for viewing online…