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 ‘TED’
August 1, 2008
The next 5000 days of the web
I get new TED videos at home and as I was watching the video you see below, I thought it would be worth sharing on the blog. It’s speaker is Kevin Kelly and in this talk he describes what he thinks will happen in the next 5000 days of the web. While leading up to [...]
May 26, 2008
American-centric News -> Ignorant Americans
Alisa Miller gives a fascinating talk at TED on American-centric news and how it shapes what we know about the world. Considering the proliferation of news sources with the likes of cable news, the internet, blogs, etc. it is startling and not too surprising how little we actually know about the world around us. [...]
