Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
Excerpts from Peter Brantley's eloquent words on the Google Book settlement, in A fire on the plain (bold added).
With recent back and forth over the proposed Google Book Search settlement (e.g., Robert Darnton's essay in The New York Review of Books; Tim O'Reilly's response; and James Grimmelman's litany of proposed ...
Posted in Google Book Search, PicsNo, The Stream, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
In a brief response letter, author and publisher Marc Aronson writes about the copyright status of pictures that are in publisher partner books in Google Books. Aronson suggests that the rights for pictures are separate from the rights for text. I've corresponded with Aronson to expand on this idea, and ...
Posted in Copyright, Google Book Search, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Venn diagrams have long been used in teaching online searching, to help users visualize how Boolean searching works. A new application of Venn diagrams, Twitter Venn, gives on-the-fly Venn diagrams of Twitter postings. Because Twitter does such a good job of taking the pulse of the Web, Twitter Venn is ...
Posted in PicsYes, Twitter, Uncategorized, Visualization | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Mike Cane hits the target on color eBooks ...
Truly, the first device that can do color eBooks will change things forever ... There are three recent signs — as well as a total wild card — that point to possible dramatic changes in the eBook-reading hardware landscape. ...
... The first ...
Posted in Color, PicsNo, Uncategorized, eBooks | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
A month ago, Google announced that it has begun putting magazines in Google Books. In one way, this is a new direction for Google. But looked at broadly, it’s really not so new — Google has been putting old journals in Google Books for a long time. The basic ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Journals, Magazines, PicsYes, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
