Thanks, ACRL!

This piece by Barbara Fister, entitled “Libraries on Planet Google,” is the best rundown of the different opinions being expressed on the Google Book Settlement that I’ve seen so far.
Read it!

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The Google Settlement: For My Own Future Reference and That of Others

I’ve been at the ASIS&T conference in Columbus all this week – hence the colon in the posting title. Every title must have a colon. Didn’t you know?
Anyway, several lovely people emailed me about the Google Books lawsuit settlement yesterday, and today, as I sit in an airport waiting area for several hours, I thought [...]

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I Like this Article

[Note: I wrote this post on February 5, but held it back until I'd made my decisions about where I would be next year. Now that such decisions have been made, here it is...]
I think The New Yorker is probably one of the few mainstream media outlets that actually takes the time to provide [...]

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Interesting/Good

From the Official Google Blog:
When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, we kept this data for as long as it was useful. Today we’re pleased to report a change in our privacy policy: Unless we’re legally required to retain log [...]

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Readings and Writings

Just read Siva Vaidhyanathan’s new piece — “Copyright Jungle” — in the Columbia Journalism Review, and…
I loved it.
Admittedly, perhaps 90% of the article’s content was not really news to me, or likely to anyone who follows such issues with any regularity. But I think that’s kind of the point. As Siva points out, [...]

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Wishing I knew more about German copyright law

…because that would put me in a better position to evaluate this:
WBG, a German publisher, today decided to drop its petition for a preliminary injunction against the Google Books Library Project. WBG (whose legal action was supported by the German Publishers Association as an industry model) made the decision after being told by the Copyright [...]

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Linkages

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the digitization symposium that Michigan held in March, and in fact went back and watched a bunch of the archived webcasts over the weekend. So it was interesting to note while scanning through my blogroll today that Tim O’Reilly has expanded points made in the keynote address [...]

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Speaking of there being too much going on…

I’m never going to get this paper written.

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Eesh.

I think I’m probably the last person on earth who should have a blog — or at least, a blog that people actually read. Readership wigs me out (unnecessarily, highly irrationally, etc.). But I kind of like having the blog here, to just write down what I’m thinking, and maybe keep two or [...]

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Oh, the Acrimony

Y’know, in some ways, it’s terrible trying to write a term paper about something that’s actively under conversation. People keep saying things! And then I have to read them! And then my already-too-long notes document expands even further!
However, there’s been some intense acrimony flying back and forth in the last few days [...]

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