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Is Google good for history?

Posted Fri, 01/08/2010 - 23:15 by Richard Adler
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http://www.dancohen.org/2010/01/07/is-google-good-for-history/

Text of a speech from this year's American Historical Association meeting in San Diego. Argues the typical complaints of academics toward Google are often unfair, but that the real issue is the lack of openness in Google Book Search, which prevents computational analysis among other things.

A follow up piece from inside Higher Ed summarizes the other panelists at the session, and the discussion that ensued.

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Reading the future

Posted Fri, 10/09/2009 - 23:30 by Sam Rose
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http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/article-3527-reading-the-future....

At this point, the mini chain has purchased a single Espresso for its 28th Street store in Grand Rapids, but it will deliver on-demand books to its Okemos and Lansing stores several times a week.

Fehsenfeld said the bookstore had been exploring on-demand printing for some time, but this year OnDemandBooks, manufacturer of the Espresso, signed content agreements with Google and Ingram Book Co., which helped make his decision. “On demand is important to the future of the industry,” Fehsenfeld said.

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the perils of insufficient metadata

Posted Tue, 09/08/2009 - 08:58 by Richard Adler
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http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/07/2046243/Google-Books-As-Train-Wr...

Google Book Search is having some trouble with metadata that is limited and, in some cases, outright bad. Also, there's an interesting question raised here whether Google made a deal with OCLC, and if so, whether that deal gave them access to the metadata they would need to get the job done.

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google wave (email + im + twitter?)

Posted Sat, 05/30/2009 - 02:52 by Richard Adler
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http://lifehacker.com/5272702/google-wave-video-demo-makes-a-little-more...

An overly long video from the recent I/O conference, but about seven minutes in you start to get a sense of what this is about.

It's early on, and there's a lot of hype happening here, but it seems like Wave is blending elements of email and instant-messaging and twitter-style communication together, and if I'm right about that, I might just fall in love with the thing.

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Another twist in the Google book deal

Posted Wed, 04/29/2009 - 06:52 by Richard Adler
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/28/1613214&from=rss

I guess this pretty much speaks for itself. Thoughts?

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Google and the book search settlement

Posted Sat, 04/18/2009 - 20:54 by Richard Adler
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/17/google-book-search-s-1.html

If Cory is right, we might all have cause to regret this, to say the least. I'm sure we'll have to wait and see how it all falls out, but this is ominous:

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