There has been some interesting blogging going on in the library world related to Google and their scanning project. Recently, the University of Michigan’s provost turned head librarian Paul Courant started his own blog and talked about his library’s partnership with Google. It’s worth clicking over and reading the full posts, including his [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Siva Vaidhyanathan’
October 11, 2007
Google Street Views
This post has nothing about libraries in particular, but it does have something to do with technology. And, as we all now probably do when we plan a vacation or drive to an unfamiliar location, we use the internet and the map technologies that are available online. A recent addition to the map [...]
September 27, 2007
Googlization of everything
Over the past few weeks I’ve come across work done by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia. The first reference that I saw of him was on the First Monday website which linked to a podcast he had done for that site as well as a lecture when he [...]