BIBLIOTHEKE

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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