SFGate has an article on Brewster Kahle’s Open Content Alliance
“While Google has alienated authors and publishers with its plan to digitize books still in copyright, Kahle has moved gingerly, forging collaborations with Google’s fiercest archrivals — Microsoft and Yahoo — to create a kinder, gentler digital library effort called the Open Content Alliance.”
I praise the idea. Any way to get more content available is a good idea. However, to the above quoted paragraph I would add “smaller, and full of books few people are actually looking for” between the words “gentler” and “digital”.
When a library closes, who gets the books?
The rights to thousands of books are at the center of a conroversy brewing in the Town of Tonawanda.
In question are about 30,000 books remaining at the now-closed Brighton Library, one of 15 libraries shutting down by year’s end to cut expenses in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library system.
A citizen group, Friends of the Brighton Library, hopes to use the Brighton Road building as a community reading room and wants all the materials left behind for public use.
The town’s Library Board, meanwhile, already has planned a one-day book sale at Brighton, with the proceeds to benefit the two cash-strapped libraries staying open in Tonawanda.
Who should get the books?”>Buffalo News – When a library closes, who gets the books?
Here’s a few recent online multimedia presentations you should be listening to:
Here and Now: Google’ Big Book Plan
I’ve contributed to the Librarian Trading Cards meme. (Create one here.)
I’ve received a large number of these today:
Dear Sir/Madam,
we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.
Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.
Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison
*** Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-
*** 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 3220
*** Washington, DC 20535
*** phone: (202) 324-3000
They’ve all contained a copy of the Sober.CF worm. I’m assuming I’m not the only one so please check to make sure your AV software is up to date.
The recent Children in Need telethon in the UK included an eight minute Doctor Who episode which directly connects the recent regeneration to the Christmas Invasion. (It has not been said how long this will be available online so you’d better watch it soon.)
Check out the Dean Gray presents American Edit mashup. My favorite is Doctor Who on Holiday. Of course, if you ask the record companies, such creativity is illegal.
