A group of Danish students have created Vorel Ol beer, releasing everything under a CC license.
The recipe and the whole brand of Our Beer is published under a Creative Commons license, which basically means that anyone can use our recipe to brew the beer or to create a derivative of our recipe. You are free […]
Google Scholar and EZProxy with a follow-up
Firefox extension adds OpenURL buttons to Google Scholar.
Nice Schoogle weblog
…on which I noticed this great page from U of Nevada, LV.
Google’s Advanced Scholar Search Tips page.
“More can be deduced by an intelligent study of public sources than by any number of ‘reliable’ but unintelligent ‘agents’ listening at keyholes or swapping drinks at bars.”
— Hugh Trevor-Roper, veteran of both MI5 and SIS in 1968; cited in West. Faber Book of Espionage (1993).
“Making a case for avoiding open source intelligence is a […]
Via IP and mentioned on BoingBoing, law prof Michael Geist uses his Toronto Star Law Bytes column to propose that Canada create a national digital library:
The library, which would be fully accessible online, would contain a digitally scanned copy of every book, government report, and legal decision ever published in Canada…
While digitally scanning more than […]
Over the holidays I finally got my hands on a copy of one of my favorite books for lazy reading, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, which includes a section on the 11 laws of internet branding. Most of what the book discusses seems dead obvious, but the authors stuff it with example after […]
A newspaper comic strip takes on internet publishing and a web cartoonist bites back. Ouch. It almost feels like ‘99 all over again.
Mark Leggott, University Librarian at the University of Winnipeg, makes an excellent proposal:
An EDEN Alternative - Electronic Document Exchange Network
I would propose that the ILL community define an open protocol for exchanging ILL documents as an alternative to proprietary system like Ariel. I understand that OCLC has developed a protocol for their ILLiad system called […]
If you haven’t seen it yet, the Oyez Project has a video of Lessig’s presentation (MPEG-4) to the Clio Society here at Northwestern in April 2003 posted on their page for creative commons. It’s really a spectacular intro to all things Lessig and copyleft. I highly recommend watching it.
Boing Boing reports on Lessig’s […]
So Gates basically lost it at the Consumer Electronics Show. Two windows machines crashed during demos, one with the blue screen, recalling a previous famous incident (mpg) that’s circled the web for years.
The bigger news, however, was his labeling of free culture advocates as “communists”:
Q: “In recent years, there’s been a lot of people […]
So the ILL-L interlibrary loan listserv was recently ablaze with discussion about Infotrieve’s mess with Ariel. Ariel is an electronic document delivery (EDD) P2P system for libraries. With it, libraries can scan, send and receive documents and post them online for patrons. It was originally developed by RLG, but was bought by […]
The story is overripe at this point, but if you haven’t seen the 60 Minutes piece on Google (sprinkled with Battelle) it’s worth a look: video (divx). Some interesting excerpts:
There was something else different about Google: the company motto, “Do no evil.”
“We have tried to boil it down at some point to a […]
ALA’s RUSA MARS ;) has recently released it’s annual list of best free reference sites. Included in the list is the NYPL’s image collection, which I generally like, absolutely huge dropdown menus notwithstanding. The criteria is pretty standard … to a fault, in my humble opinion. Wikipedia piggybacked in a mention as […]
A Google Suggest-like dictionary has been created using a javascript XMLHttpRequest object and the 1913 Webster’s.
Over the holidays Slashdot had a thread on free, open and common content images. Among the archives mentioned (some more well-known than others):
Wikimedia
Creative Commons
morgueFile
Stock.XCHNG
DHD Multimedia Gallery
BurningWell.org
Digital Divide Network has a short article on legal uses for BitTorrent.
Via Drum, yet another op-ed on google print and why books aren’t going anywhere any time soon. Among other reasons:
There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don’t intend to read […]
The Washington Post has a great article demonstrating the effectiveness of research using open sources to reveal government secrets. The jet is apparently being used to transport prisoners to countries that are more permissive when it comes to interrogations. Through the work of a number of journalists and online citizens, a large amount […]
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