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Interesting interview from Scholarly Kitchen with Tim Collins .  Here's a clip: Many libraries are starting to see that, while they ma...

News from Google about their use of Micro formats reminded me of something Yahoo announced over two years ago. First here is a snip from th...

Originally posted June 24th, 2008 Large publishers like Elsevier, Macmillan and Kluwer spent the past 20-30 years or so consolidating journa...

Originally posted on 2/22/2007, I was speaking to someone this afternoon about this topic and it reminded me a little of this post. Earlier ...

Fellow traveler Peter Brantley has posted on Scribd the submission by ALA , ARL and ACRL addressing their concerns about the Google Settl...

Writing in the UM Journal of Electronic Publishing Peter Suber provides a complete run down of open access initiatives. This article mainl...

For most public and academic institutions, amassing a collection of seven million volumes would be a pipe dream of extraordinary proportion ...

I always wondered at my own immediate need for 10,000 e-book titles available on things like the Kindle and Sony e-Reader. Give me an e-Book...

I came across this a few weeks ago and I thought it was very interesting. Google has place where you can see some of their experimentation ...

The dam has finally busted. Will Microsoft be able to pull off the deal to buy Yahoo and then, more importantly will they be able to make a ...

At a conference in New York yesterday, World Association of Newspapers President Gavin O'Reilly updated the content community on the st...

Deals, M/A: Apparently News of Murdoch's Dow Jones Purchase was Premature: MSNBC Not so Smooth: Pearson are Selling Les Echos: WSJ Soon ...

I don't seem to hear too much about the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), which is being developed by a group of content produce...

Read/WriteWeb is an excellent blog dedicated to all things web 2.0ish. You could spend a lot of time here catching up with whats new in web...

Against the back drop of a very friendly audience Jimmy Wales gave his first public talk this evening about his new search project. In fairn...

Update: I think the following YouTube video from the same source as the GoogleTV episode proves GoogleTV is a hoax. This video is about rech...

Ebay and Amazon.com are network level applications. What defines them as network level applications is that they raise to the level of a pl...

Unfairly a part of me thinks this is the work of a troubled mind. On the other hand, I am having difficulty remembering what books I read ba...

The Sunday Times reports that Google is looking a developing 'a system' to allow e-book downloads to laptops and PDAs. Hummm. Not to...

Visit the British Library web site and page through some amazing texts coupled with an audio recording about the work. It is very cool. As m...