DigitalKoans

What was new and interesting during the week of 6/18/07? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers"
  

  While in no way definitive—there’s simply too much going on in this space to cover it all—we did our best to bring you a comprehensive list of blogging resources, which should be equally useful to beginners as well as veteran bloggers.

• "Book Scanning: Emory Univ. & Someone’s MPOW"
  

  Speaking of Kirtas, blog.mignault.net has a post about the book digitization efforts at his place of work. . . He says publicly what many say privately—the high cost machines are nice, but not for everyone.

• "Buy By the Chapter"
  

  After many hours of dedicated developer time, [O’Reilly’s] our customers now have the ability to buy our book content by the chapter in PDF format. Pricing per chapter is $3.99.

• "DRM Drags Down Economic Growth"
  

  Digital-rights management (DRM) drags down economic growth, and countries that back the technology are doomed to lag behind, a top Linden Research Inc. executive said Thursday.

• "Educating the Educators"
  

  At this point in time it is accurate to call the emphasis that educational organizations are placing on Scholarly Communications a movement.

• "Email Protected by 4th Amendment, Court Says"
  

  The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday, in Warshak v. U.S., that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their email, so that the government needs a search warrant or similar process to access it.

• "EMI Says DRM-Free Music Is Selling Well"
  

  Early sales indicate that DRM-free music is noticeably more popular than DRMed music, EMI senior VP Lauren Berkowitz recently told Bloomberg.

• "FCC Should Make ISPs Play Copyright Cop, Says NBC"
  

  Not even a week after AT&T announced plans to adopt undefined technical measures to stop "piracy," NBC Universal has asked the FCC to declare that "broadband service providers have an obligation to use readily available means" (emphasis added) to stop copyright infringement.

• "Focusing on Members’ Perceptions of ACRL"
  

  The focus groups showed a distinct generation gap. At one end of the spectrum young librarians long for the retirement of the older generation. But at the other end middle and upper level librarians felt neglected by ACRL, to some extent, while new librarians are getting much more attention.

• "Good Copy, Bad Copy: Superb Copyright Documentary on the Remix Wars"
  

  I [Cory Doctorow] just watched Good Copy, Bad Copy, a stunning Danish documentary on remix culture and copyright, available as a free download.

• "Google Book Search Has a Busy Week"
  

  The first week of June saw Google Book Search (http://books.google.com) add a 12-university consortium. . . . And, if that wasn’t enough, a university in Georgia has decided to out-Google Google by starting its own mass digitization project accompanied by a revenue-producing, print-on-demand service administered by Amazon.com

• "Internet Radio to Go Silent on June 26?"
  

  In protest of the elevated royalty fees Webcasters are poised to begin owing to the record industry next month, Internet radio operators are planning to stage a "day of silence."

• "Judge Deals Blow to RIAA, Says Students Can Respond to John Doe Lawsuit"
  

  In a ruling issued last month but disclosed today by file-sharing attorney Ray Beckerman, Judge Lorenzo F. Garcia denied the RIAA’s motion to engage in discovery. This means that the RIAA will not be able to easily get subpoenas to obtain identifying information from the University.

• "Lessig Switches from Copyright to Corruption"
  

  Last week, at the International Creative Commons Summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Lawrence Lessig made a stunning announcement: he is going to retire from copyfighting and take up a new career, fighting for a new issue.

• "Maine is First State to Pass Net Neutrality Legislation"
  

  A diverse coalition of Mainers applauded the enactment today of the first net neutrality resolve in the nation.

• "The Mellon Foundation and Evergreen"
  

  Yes, the Evergreen project, by way of GPLS, has been approached by the Mellon Foundation.

• "Microsoft Live Search Books Partners with Ingram"
  

  Ingram Digital Group will work as an outsource partner with Microsoft Corp., helping the company with its Live Search Books Service. Ingram will provide high-volume scanning, content acquisition, metadata management and account management for publishers in Microsoft’s program.

• "Nature Precedings Goes Live"
  

  The site has now gone live with a total of 64 submissions.

• "Pirate-Proofing Hollywood"
  

  By the end of May, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will report to its member studios the results of tests of a dozen computerized video-fingerprinting systems.

• "Publishers Throw Support behind Adobe Digital Editions"
  

  Today marks the launch of the much-anticipated Adobe Digital Editions 1.0, software created for purchasing, managing and reading eBooks and digital editions of newspapers, magazines and other publications.

• "Q & A on Author’s Rights Now Available"
  

  The University [of Minnesota] Libraries have developed this list of questions and answers to inform University authors who wish to manage their rights as authors of journal articles submitted for publication.

• "Repository Listing: OAI-PMH vs Atom vs Sitemaps"
  

  A basic repository feature is providing a list of all the resources in a collection, and a way to incrementally discover changes. The usual way for repos to enable this is OAI-PMH. . . The way the rest of the world does it is with Atom or RSS.

• "Telling Stories"
  

  I [Andy Powell] spent today at the Telling More Stories conference in Wolverhampton, a one day conference about e-portfolios facilitated by Shane Sutherland. . . .Shane started the day by (re)defining e-portfolio firmly as a noun—an e-portfolio is a purposeful aggregation of digital items that functions as a representation of a person thru their work, ideas, achievements, reflections and qualifications and so on.

• "A View of Regional Digitization Centers"
  

  As a part of work for an OhioLINK strategic task force, I have been exploring the creation and operation of regional/collaborative/shared digitization centers. This is a report of findings to date after an open call for information1.

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