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Follow up to previous posting on Google book search, this news release today: Justice Department Submits Views on Proposed Google Book Search Settlement: “The Department of Justice today advised the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that while it should not accept the class action settlement in The Authors Guild Inc. …
eWeek.com: “Google agrees to provide 2 million non-copyrighted book titles for On Demand Books printing and cutting using its high-speed Espresso Book Machine. Google Books titles offered via the Espresso Machine will have a recommended sales price of $8 per copy, though the price is subject to change by retailers. On Demand may have access …
“reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows…A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many …
“In arriving at Time Outs greatest cities, we were not looking for great holiday destinations but living, working cities. This meant looking at all aspects of urban life, not just those one encounters on a weekend break, and what everyday life is like for people who actually live there. Resident writers were asked to rate …
“Executives at Britain’s top companies saw their basic salaries leap 10% last year, despite the onset of the worst global recession in decades, in which their companies lost almost a third of their value amid a record decline in the FTSE. The Guardian’s annual survey of boardroom pay reveals that the full- and part-time directors …
Legal Implications of Cloud Computing – Part One (the Basics and Framing the Issues) – Attorney David Navetta contends that there there will be significant financial pressure on organizations to take advantage of the pricing and efficiency of cloud computing, and if attorneys fail to understand the issues ahead of time there is a serious …
Are Law Firms Ready for Transparency? Attorney and KM expert V. Mary Abraham provides details on how one law firm has found a way to create real transparency in its dealings with clients via an extranet, and whether this process may start a trend.
New York Times: Wall Streets Math Wizards Forgot a Few Variables: “But the real failure, according to finance experts and economists, was in the quants mathematical models of risk that suggested the arcane stuff was safe. The risk models proved myopic, they say, because they were too simple-minded. They focused mainly on figures like the …
The relationship between public libraries and Google: Too much information, by Vivienne Waller. First Monday, Volume 14, Number 9 – 7 September 2009 “This article explores the implications of a shift from public to private provision of information through focusing on the relationship between Google and public libraries. This relationship has sparked controversy, with concerns …
WSJ: Sept. 11 Attacks Remembered New York Times: Showcase: The World, as of 9/10/01 New York Times: Obama Extols the True Spirit of Sept. 11 New York Times: Remembering the Horror of a Bright Blue Morning LLRX Newstand – 9-11-2001 Related News, Legislation and Resources
Via Out of the Jungle, insightful commentary and content from a fee based Chronicle of Higher Education article, Choosing Up Sides to Hate or Love the Google Books Deal: “…Andthis is what intrigues me the mosthow will Judge Chin decide what role the federal courts can and should play in the creation and oversight of …
The Apps for America Winners [via Abi Morgan]: DataMasher: “DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the states.” GovPulse: …
