After Norman Horrocks died last fall, Megan Fitzgibbons collected links to many of the tributes that appeared. It seemed that putting these links together in a web page might be a good project for the E-text class (INFO 6620) that I teach. For a number of reasons, this project did not happen—partly because it did not seem a task to assign as a requirement. So, today I put together a page setting out these links—Norman Horrocks: Tributes and Memories.
Google books fail
New York judge rules against Google books settlement | Books | guardian.co.uk
We are in the age of the ebook, but the process of creating a world library along the model Google planned has suffered a setback. With 15 million books already scanned, Google will have to work some more to make its books project a reality. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Managing Personal Libraries
As the blogger of the week, I want to begin by reflecting on the data of all sorts that piles up on our hard drives. We all have to find ways to manage the information that we just acquire as we work or research or just browse the web. What is clear is that all users are facing the same challenges.