I know this story isn’t new but it did come out earlier this week. And, it does have major implications on libraries. I can’t fault Google for trying to Digitize newspaper archives. It’s a great idea. As I reported almost one year ago to the day, the Library of Congress is also digitizing old newspapers. [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘newspapers’
September 9, 2008
E-newspaper
Instead of the ebook, we now have the epaper. Or, we will. (Wired has better pictures of what this thing looks like than the Times.) I think this is a good thing. I have not been totally sold on the ebook if you are a regular reader of this blog, but epaper is a different [...]
July 23, 2008
Hodgepodge of information
This is going to be a link dump, but there are some interesting articles to think about.
“Universal: ‘Fair Use’ is still infringing” What struck me about this article was this statement: ‘Universal told a judge this week that, even though the clip may in fact be “fair use,” it was still “infringement.”‘ Seems a little [...]
June 3, 2008
Newstritional Disorder
Evidently people in the 18-34 age range often suffer from newstritional disorder according to a recent study. It’s a completely made up term but it means that people my age can only handle news in small amounts or as they say in this Time article, bite-sized pieces.
I suppose this doesn’t really surprise me because [...]
September 13, 2007
Historical Newspapers
Something that I came across a while ago and have been meaning to get to in this blog is a (relatively) new offering on the web by the Library of Congress. On the “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers” website, you can search through ~310,000 digitized newspaper pages from 1900-1910. What’s really cool about [...]
