Chronicle.com: October 30, 2008 Harvard Says No Thanks to Google Deal for Scanning In-Copyright Works Harvard University has examined Google's recent legal settlement with publishers and authors, and found it wanting. The Harvard Crimson reported today that the university would...
continue reading "Harvard takes a stand vs. the Google Book Search settlement" »
comments (1)
Balkinization: Google Book Search Settlement Neil Netanel EDITED ON OCTOBER 29: Google has reached a settlement with the authors and publishers who sued it for copyright infringement over Google's Book Search Project. If the 141 page settlement agreement (not including...
continue reading "A very helpful reading of the Google/publishers' settlement from Neil Netanel" »
From Cathy Davidson: Google now offers the option of creating custom search engines, which are google searches of multiple sites which you specify. John Unsworth, Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University...
continue reading "A cool use of Google's custom search engine feature" »
Last night I opened my mail to find my royalty statement for my 2004 book, The Anarchist in the Library. I was elated to find that Basic Books had sold the Korean rights to it. And I was tickled to...
continue reading "My initial take on the Google-publishers settlement" »
Reuters; Lawmaker questions Google-backed spectrum plan Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:40am EDT By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker on Friday joined a growing chorus asking the head of the Federal Communications Commission to explain his plan...
continue reading "Rep. Dingell pushes back on White Space plan" »
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The cost of First Click Free October 20, 2008 The web you see when you go through Google's search engine is no longer the web you see when you don't go through Google's search engine....
continue reading "Google changes the Web" »
Deutsche Welle: Google might reign as the unchallenged king of German search engines, but a lawsuit over the company's popular image search feature brings into question the rights of German artists in the Internet age....
continue reading "On Google in Germany" »
Chronicle.com: AND GUESS WHAT COMES UP WHEN YOU TYPE 'WIKIPEDIA': Wikipedia is, like, really popular, according to an article in the spring issue of the quarterly journal Education Next. Michael J. Petrilli, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, selected...
continue reading "The unsurprising rise of Wikipedia in Google ranks" »
WSJ.com: * OCTOBER 20, 2008 Google CEO Backs Obama Schmidt Expands Political Role by Hitting the Campaign Trail By MONICA LANGLEY and JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt in Washington earlier this year. He has advised the Obama...
continue reading "Schmidt for Obama" »
picenter from Wired.com: Study: Google Makes You Smart By Betsy Schiffman EmailOctober 15, 2008 | 1:50:32 PMCategories: Google All that talk about how Google is making us stupid is a bit of a crock, according to a new study from...
continue reading "Does Google make you smarter?" »
NYTimes.com: Google’s Net (and Stock) Rise Sharply By MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO — For months, Google has promised investors that the company’s online advertising system would do relatively well in an economic downturn. On Thursday, it showed evidence that...
continue reading "Google weathers the storm on Wall Street" »
NYTimes.com: McCain Fights for the Right to Remix on YouTube By Saul Hansell (UPDATED 10/15: Added YouTube’s response) Internet issues have taken a back seat in the presidential campaign. But this week, even as Senator John McCain unveiled his new...
continue reading "McCain campaign appeals YouTube takedowns" »
First Monday: The Google Books and Open Content Alliance (OCA) initiatives have become the poster children of the access digitization revolution. With their sights firmly set on creating digital copies of millions upon millions of books and making them available...
continue reading "A deeper look at Google Book Search vs. Open Content Alliance" »
First Monday: Abstract Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has challenged the way that reference works are used and understood, and even the way that the collective enterprise of knowledge construction and circulation is itself conceptualized. The article presents an ethnographic...
continue reading "Wikiversity?" »
Chronicle.com: Settlement Near in Google Book Search Lawsuit? Rumors are swirling again that the long-running lawsuit between publishers and Google over its book-scanning program is on the verge of a settlement. According to a report in Library Journal, anonymous sources...
continue reading "Settlement near in Google Book Search case?" »
Bloomberg.com: Google Rewires Washington in Challenge to Microsoft (Update2) By Molly Peterson Enlarge Image/Details Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Vivek Kundra, recruited to Washington to overhaul city computer networks plagued by cost overruns and viruses, treats his projects like stocks. The...
continue reading "More on Google in DC" »
Deutsche Welle: A German photographer and an artist won lawsuits against Google for displaying thumbnails of their works in search results without permission. Google will reportedly appeal the ruling. Google cannot display copyrighted works as thumbnails without an owner's permission,...
continue reading "Major confusion ahead for Google Image Search and copyright" »
picenter from Wired.com: Google may have Microsoft beat in the search innovation game, but Microsoft has more practice in lobbying Congress and knows how the throw its weight around in Washington. Microsoft has been hard at work trying to thwart...
continue reading "MS vs. Google in DC" »
Chronicle.com: University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library By JEFFREY R. YOUNG A group of major universities has been quietly working for the past two years to build one of the largest online collections of books ever...
continue reading "University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library" »
BuzzMachine : * The link changes everything. We live in a hyperconnected world. Look at the financial crisis as a metaphor for what can happen in systems of information, news, commerce, regulation, education, culture, design. It’s not that one piece...
continue reading "Jeff Jarvis uses Google models to fix the world economy" »
Times Online: How the Google generation thinks differently Digital-age kids process information differently from parents. Our writer admits misjudging how her son was learning Catherine O'Brien My elder son Oli is almost 15 and way beyond the stage where I...
continue reading "Another useless "digital generation" or "generation google" article" »
Here is the chapter outline I am working with now. Long ago I abandoned the outline with which I proposed this book. Please give me comments. Have I omitted an important subject? ============================ I. Introduction: “Like the Mind of God”...
continue reading "The Googlization of Everything: The Outline" »
UCL press release: Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth 16 January 2008 * All age groups revealed to share so-called ‘Google Generation' traits * New study argues that libraries will have to adapt to the digital mindset *...
continue reading "Right on!: University of London (the Fightin' Benthams) study shows "no such thing as a Google Generation"" »
NYTimes.com: Study of Data Mining for Terrorists Is Urged By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — A federal panel of policy makers and scientific experts urged a government-wide evaluation Tuesday of programs that sift through databases looking for clues on terrorism, to...
continue reading ""More data does not mean better data"" »
NYTimes.com: Digital Domain Can’t Open Your E-Mailbox? Good Luck By RANDALL STROSS LOGGING on to Gmail or other e-mail service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought. What would you do, however, if you woke up...
continue reading "Google's tech-support trap" »
International Herald Tribune: European standoff over search engine data By Kevin J. O'Brien Published: October 5, 2008 BERLIN: For more than a year, European data privacy officials have been battling with U.S. Internet search engines, trying to get them to...
continue reading "Europe vs. Google on search data retention" »
Machinist - Salon.com: Microsoft doesn't matter anymore Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled a new promotion that tries to encourage more people to use Microsoft Live Search instead of Google. Here's the way it works: Each time you search on Live...
continue reading "Not that I believe the answer is yes, but does Microsoft matter?" »
eweek.com: Google Explains How Green Is Good for Its Data Centers = Green has been very, very good to Google. That's the theme of Google's new Web site on data center efficiency. On the site, Google explains how the cost...
continue reading "Google on its data centers" »
csmonitor.com: One month later, has Chrome’s polish lasted? Google has attracted few converts with its Web browser but it's thinking long term. By Jeremy Kutner| Contributor for The Christian Science Monitor/ October 2, 2008 edition * E-mail a friend *...
continue reading "Chrome shows Google has its head in the cloud -- and that's ok" »
See the video here. BBC NEWS: Google 'Goliath' Microsoft says By Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News The chief executive of Microsoft has admitted that his firm's slowness to grasp the potential of internet search had hit the business. Steve...
continue reading "Ballmer throws mud at Google" »
IntelligenceSquared presents: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Google violates its 'don't be evil' motto Moderator: John Donvan Speaking for the motion: Harry Lewis, Randal C. Picker and Siva Vaidhyanathan Speaking against the motion: John Battelle, Esther Dyson and Jeff Jarvis $40.00...
continue reading "Great debate on Google Nov. 18" »
From Kieran at Crooked Timber: Google 2001 by Kieran Healy on October 1, 2008 Though it may have seemed impossibly far off in our hazy youth, these days we fondly look back at the turn of the 21st century and...
continue reading "A Snapshot of Google in 2001" »
Monthly Archive
October 2008
This page contains an archive of all entries written between October 1, 2008 12:00 AM and October 31, 2008 11:59 PM, listed from newest to oldest.
Search
Archive
- September 2010
- August 2010
- May 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
Other Topics
Like the Mind of God (57 posts)
All the World's Information (75 posts)
What If Big Ads Don't Work (20 posts)
Don't Be Evil (16 posts)
Is Google a Library? (84 posts)
Challenging Big Media (46 posts)
The Dossier (49 posts)
Global Google (26 posts)
Google Earth (6 posts)
A Public Utility? (37 posts)
About this Book (28 posts)
Other books by Siva:
Links
RSS Feed
Siva Vaidhyanathan.
A project of the Institute for the Future of the Book
Site design by Holladay Penick