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Some might say moves like this are the future, but it sure seems awfully insecure in the long run, IMHO.

The library world has been buzzing for the last few days over an article in a small newspaper relaying a report from two UMass Dartmouth professors that a senior at the school claimed he was visited by, as the article put it, “two agents of the Department of Homeland Security” after getting Mao’s Quotations from […]

iRex Technologies has announced The Illiad, a competitor to the Sony Librie. According to the product specs it will have an 8.1-inch 1024 x 768 ePaper display, a 400MHz INTEL X-Scale Processor, about 224MB internal FLASH memory for content and will support PDF, XHTML, TXT and MP3 when released in April 06.

It looks like Sanger is finally putting his ideas for a more “authoritative” Wikipedia alternative to the test with Digital Universe. Sanger’s well-publicized criticisms of what he sees as Wikipedia’s lack of respect for expertise have contributed to widespread debate how the wiki model’s accuracy compares to traditional reference resources, particularly with respect to […]

Hot on the heels of widespread criticism of Wikipedia’s authority, Nature conducted a comparison and found that the difference in accuracy between science articles in Britannica and Wikipedia is not that big. See the Nature article for details.

However, as noted in the Slashdot posting, some folks at Wikipedia found that the Wikipedia samples used […]

With Musipedia you can use this applet to translate the whistle into Pasons Code and search the database for matching tunes.

Parsons Code is a neat way of encoding melodies:

Each pair of consecutive notes is coded as “U” (”up”) if the second note is higher than the first note, “R” (”repeat”) if the pitches are equal, […]

George Washington University’s Daniel J. Solove asks “What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere?”
I think that it is a fair generalization to say that the use of copyrighted material is much more liberal in the blogosphere than in regular print publications. If I were writing something in print, for example, I would […]