Archive for August, 2008
Monday, August 18th, 2008
I probably shouldn't bother, but I love to hate on American Libraries, the trade magazine of the American Library Association. In August's issue, I particularly enjoyed tearing into Adam Bennington's "Dissecting the Web through Wikipedia," in which the author entreats teaching librarians to have students analyze encyclopedia entries for bias ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
In a comment on Anne-Marie's "secret library books" post last week I mentioned that I had started reading The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it by Jonathan Zittrain. I'm not sure it turned out to be a secret library book or not, but there is much to ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
So I want to confess something about this paper I wrote in college.
See, I took this Constitutional Law class in the PoliSci department. We had to analyze a hypothetical Supreme Court case and write up a legal opinion just like we were Justices. For this class we used an actual ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
William Patry's announced on friday that he would be ending his blog; breaking my heart into tiny little pieces. In the public discourse about copyright issues in the US, Patry's voice has always been one of the clearest, most reasoned, erudite, passionate, and scholarly. Whenever some copyright related issue has ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
In my West-coast hidey hole, I missed all the hullabaloo about the new search engine Cuil's official launch this week. Everyone was talking, but no one was particularly impressed. The site was down. People didn't find what they expected. Pictures of the wrong things showed up in the right places. ...
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