An Unexpected Honor
Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford, where I did my doctoral work,
A Google Books Cautionary Tale
This one made the rounds of Twitter earlier today thanks to Jo Guldi. This month Wired Magazine tells a cautionary tale for those following the progress of Google Books. Entitled "Google’s
Briefly Noted: Timetoast; Google Books Settlement; Curators and Wikipedians
Via Mashable, yet another timeline service: Timetoast.
Many readers will have seen this already, but Robert Darton's February piece in The New York Review of Books is the most readable discussion
Tragedy at the Commons
Nat Torkington at the O'Reilly Radar blog has news this morning that George Oates, Senior Program Manager in charge of Flickr Commons and an original member of the Flickr design team,
History and the Long Tail
In an interview on the most recent Digital Campus, PublicDomainReprints.org founder Yakov Shafranovich notes that one of the most popular uses of his print-on-demand service for public domain Google and Open Content