I. The Burial of the Dead
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. …
Please allow me this diversion of the first few lines of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
Oh. I understand your disappointment now. You expected an April Fool’s joke. Noch nicht.
It can be enough work checking for plagiarism among a newspaper’s own staff. The subscribers-only Chronicle of Higher Education recently published articles about two academics who plagariazied pieces they wrote for newspapers.
The president of Central Connecticut State University plagiarized portions of an opinion piece The Hartford Courant published. He recently announced his retirement in July. […]
A Texas copy shop owner created and distributed digital course packs without proper copyright clearance to University of Texas at Austin students. Six academic publishers sued him in January. The parties recently settled out of court. The action could be the first dealing with electronic distribution of unauthorized course packs.
from The Chronicle of Higher Education
according to Hewlett-Packard’s Semantic Blogging Demonstrator, an HP Laboratories experiment supporting the European “Semantic Web - Advanced Development” project. It uses semantics to improve views, searching, and navigation on blogs.
spotted on shimonolog
I attended the lecture Pablo Boczkowski gave at MIT about his dissertation: Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. It’s based on observations he made at three news organizations between 1997 and 1999. Read my notes.
A version of this description of the Librarianesque Session at BloggerCon II is now on the BloggerCon blog. I’m posting it here, too, to market the session.
j Baumgart, moderator
Plans for the session are still being developed. Please comment below, as I am interested in feedback about this session.
The main goal of the session is to […]
This article announces the Dallas Fort-Worth Star-Telegram’s efforts to monitor their staff’s writing for plagiarism and fabrication.
“The Star-Telegram is responding, effective immediately, with a permanent fact-checking policy designed to help keep staffers alert to the dangers of plagiarism and fabrication. The policy also aims to assure readers that this newspaper’s constant goal is to earn […]
Reuters and several other news sources report Web sites for parts of the Department of Interior are back online. I wrote about them being offline about ten days ago. An appeals court decided the department Web sites could come back online “… while the court considers whether payments owed to American Indians are vulnerable to […]
I shared the discussion Shimon and I are having about libraries with Kevin, a public librarian. He allowed me to post his comments on my blog.
According to this brief San Jose Mercury News article, Microsoft’s NewsJunkie moves new news stories to the top of the list and news stories with repetitive content to the bottom so the user doesn’t keep sorting through the same material.
Seen on ResourceShelf