Grafton's brilliant invervention to the digital library debate (The Googlization of Everything)

Tony Grafton is a brilliant historian of the book who often writes for magazines. I could not do my work without modeling it on his. This week in The New Yorker Tony issues his views on Google, mass digitization projects, and the values of a great library.

Please check it out. He and I clearly share many ideas on these fronts.

Filed under: Is Google a Library?
Posted by Siva Vaidhyanathan, November 2, 2007 1:58 PM

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Siva Vaidhyanathan

This blog, the result of a collaboration between myself and the Institute for the Future of the Book, is dedicated to exploring the process of writing a critical interpretation of the actions and intentions behind the cultural behemoth that is Google, Inc. The book will answer three key questions: What does the world look like through the lens of Google?; How is Google's ubiquity affecting the production and dissemination of knowledge?; and how has the corporation altered the rules and practices that govern other companies, institutions, and states? [more]

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