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Revised Google Books settlement
Google and publishers submitted a revised settlement agreement to the court on Friday which addresses some of the concerns expressed about the previous agreement. Best coverage, as usual, on Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Land. The Open Book Alliance, which includes...
Free ebooks from University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press has begun a monthly ebook giveaway. This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First, it’s a major university press experimenting with both a new format and with using free ebooks as publicity....
Literary Twitter
One of the conventional responses to Twitter is puzzlement. It’s in the news all the time now, influencing revolutions and political coverage and celebrity news. And, despite having had it explained to me several times it made no sense...
Google Books: Department of Justice and ReCaptcha
Department of Justice Brief Filed on Google Books Settlement Not surprisingly there has been a lot of activity around the Google Books settlement right around the deadlines for filing. The US Department of Justice filed a brief (link via searchengineland)...
Google Books Practicalities (Part II)
(from a Greek/Latin New Testament on Google Books) Professionally speaking I have mixed feelings about the Google Books project, for reasons which I will try to explain below. It has the potential to completely change how research in the...
Google Books Settlement (Part I)
Today (September 4th, 2009) is the last day for authors to opt out of the proposed class action settlement between Google and publishers concerning the Google Books project. Since the settlement was announced last fall there has been a...
Future of Newspapers (again)
Rupert Murdoch recently announced in an earnings call with investors that he intends to charge for access to all his news websites. No details on how this would be managed have been announced, nor any time frame. The Wall Street...
40th Anniversary of Apollo 11
(image courtesy of NASA) The 40th anniversary of the first moon landing is kicking up a storm on the Internet. There are a variety of sites and services to look at if you’re interested in more information about this...
The Future of Newspapers
The economic downturn seems to be accelerating conversations about the future of the newspaper business. Recent announcements that the Christian Science Monitor and Seattle Post-Intelligencer would no longer produce print editions, but would instead be online-only publications have accompanied news...
Mapping Mutual Incomprehension
Classicists love it when people say “It’s all Greek to me” at parties. Really. The blog Strange Maps has a diagram showing which languages speakers of various other languages consider gibberish. For the French, Javanese. For Croatians, Spanish....
Entries from Teaching with Technology @ Tufts tagged with 'humanities'
Friday's Pick: Interdisciplinary "Haystack"
Actually this "haystack" is the pronunciation for the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). This "consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, social scientists and engineers from universities and other civic institutions across the U.S. and internationally...is committed to new...
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