Archive for March 31st, 2004

April is the cruellest month

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

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 [...]

2 Academics Cause Errors in Newspapers

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

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 [...]

Six Academic Publishers and NetPacks Settle Over Illegal Electronic Distribution

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

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 [...]

“Blogging Is Cool – But It Could Be Even Cooler”

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

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

Lecture: Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

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.


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