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I love how when I print directions from Google Maps, the line showing the route doesn’t show on the print out. I imagine it’s just a printer issue, but I still think it’s hilarious.

Bwah ha ha ha!
I just report what’s out there. I don’t find errors myself … often.

I realized a few hours after Jimmy Wales’ talk at Harvard Law School was over that I completely forgot to post something in this space letting people know I was making a transcript on IRC. My apologies for totally flubbing that for those of you who might have wanted to tune in.
The transcript is now [...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on ways academic libraries are preserving, digitizing, and providing access to films. Some of the film collections come from local new stations.

One of the topics that came up at Jimmy Wales’ lunch talk at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society is that no one in the room besides Jimmy seemed to have Wikipedia entries. Seeing this item on Library Stuff about someone determining whether Jessamyn West, the librarian and blogger, deserves an entry or not [...]