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Day 632: Funny Like A Big Stuffed Rodent, I Amuse You?

May 22, 2007

Just in from MSH (and mostly for the enjoyment of Mr. Suds & Soliloquies and JTG): Looks like Hamas is finished.  They just crossed Disney. Nobody messes with The Mouse and survives. Related Links: IP, IP, IP, Find Out What It Means To Me It’s worth noting that, as someone who would love to earn [...]

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Day 621: Michael Hart Interviewed On NPR Today

May 11, 2007

Founder and executive director of Project Gutenberg, Michael Hart, was interviewed on NPR’s Science Friday this morning. Fellow interviewees are Brewster Kahle of Internet Archive (that “dovetails with Project Gutenberg”) and Michael Keller of Stanford University’s library (representing Google). The topic is Digital Libraries and universal access to all knowledge. This conversation will help those [...]

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Day 608: Hart Article In Global Politician

April 28, 2007

Michael has a great article in the Global Politician entitled Web2.0 – Erudition, Not Hoarding: Response to Sam Vaknin.  With computing and electronic media, as with any medium including book, newspaper, television, radio, its value depends on the user.  For the person who really doesn’t want to learn, the argument over medium is immaterial. … Sam [...]

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Day 573: GeoPress Experiment

March 24, 2007

Following up on the last two posts, I installed GeoPress on this WordPress site. The installation took under 10 minutes, most of which was spent acquiring Google and Yahoo! Maps API keys and waiting for all of the servers to talk to one another. As a test, let’s map the armed robbery that recently took [...]

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Day 573: OpenSource Mapping Tools On The Web

March 24, 2007

Or what Maitri has been putzing with when not working, reading or blogging. FYI, this post is not an exercise in geekery; it involves free visual mapping tools that anyone at any level of computer expertise can get around, learning a new skill and helping your community and you understand your particular space and its [...]

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Day 516: Challenges To Copyright Law Rejected By 9th Circuit

January 26, 2007

Brewster Kahle, Chairman of the Internet Archive and board member of Project Gutenberg, is shut down by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.  From beSpacific: Stanford Center for Internet and Society: “Kahle v. Gonzales – In this case, two archives ask the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to hold that statutes [...]

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Day 422: In The Age Of The Internet

October 25, 2006

… is an eensy-weensy crosscheck so hard? “Charles Darwin’s works go online,” proclaims BBC.  The complete works of one of history’s greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published online.  The project run by Cambridge University has digitised some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 images of original publications – all of it searchable. Other texts [...]

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Day 413: The eBook Reader Revisited

October 16, 2006

Sony will soon unveil its latest version of the eBook reader, retailing at $350.  In NYT’s Trying Again to Make Books Obsolete, David Pogue addresses readability problems and remarks that, with its new design, this reader has very few. The Reader employs a remarkable new display technology from a company called E Ink. Sandwiched between layers of plastic film [...]

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Day 396: Announcing The Second World eBook Fair

September 28, 2006

Remember the 1st World eBook Fair from back in July?  From July 4th to August 4, 2006, users downloaded their selections from 1/3 million free eBooks.  Well, the second one is now here! In the 90 days since The 1st World eBook Fair as many eBooks have been added as you can download from Google’s entire eBook collection [...]

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Day 354: Why I Blog

August 17, 2006

The mission of VatulBlog is as follows: To leave behind a free, searchable repository of data, research and a somewhat coherent set of my thoughts about geology, computing, the internet, Project Gutenberg, culture navigation and, lately, living in New Orleans. In 1991, this high schooler, who didn’t foresee weblogs, began to write email missives to friends on the topics [...]

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