Some cool tech events are happening in the next few days. Instead of flooding you with a post about each of them, I’m going to cheat and clump them together. Many are events sponsored or hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Saturday, 9/20: Software Freedom Day in Boston and elsewhere, hosted by [...]
Tuesday’s (9/16) Berkman Center lunch is, as the title suggestions, about blogging, journalism, and reality. Tune into the webcast. It’s too late to RSVP for the lunch. (One of these days, I’ll post one of these notices so there’s enough time to RSVP and attend.) Blogging, Journalism and Reality Persephone Miel, Berkman Fellow Tuesday, September [...]
The Special Libraries Association Boston Chapter’s Fall Kickoff is Wednesday, September 17, at Tia’s, 200 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, from 5:30-8:00 p.
NELINET is hosting it’s IT Conference 2008 – Web 2.0: Where Are We Now? at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island on Friday, October 10, 2008: “This year’s IT Conference – Web 2.0: Where Are We Now? will feature exciting new developments, updates and improvements to Web 2.0 tools in the library world and beyond. [...]
Today’s Berkman Center lunch features Jonathan Zittrain on the Future of the Internet, a talk based on his new book. The webcast will begin around 12:30 pm ET and last for at least an hour. Zittrain is well-known for his expertise in copyright law and Internet issues. He gave a alk about the book back [...]
Last week, The Boston Globe dove into the Iron Mountain storage facility in Pennsylvania that is a former mine. The desire for off-site storage has been growing because of terrorists attacks, an increasing value companies place on their records, and privacy needs for certain kinds of records. The article mentions everything from stored materials to [...]
Some folks are suing a Cape Cod Today blogger for libel because of the words he used when discussing who’s responsible for not dredging the waterway. The number of lawsuits against bloggers, especially for libel, is increasing.
One of the front page articles in today’s City Weekly section of The Boston Globe features some of the old books in the Somerville Public Library’s collection and comments by librarian Kevin O’Kelly about the books and challenges with preservation in a library with tight funding. Luckily, the library just got a grant that will [...]
One of my coworkers gave me a copy of Haruki Murakami’s Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, suggesting it to be a good place to enter his writing. Little did I know as I took it from his hand I would end up blogging about the book. The book alternates between two worlds. [...]
“Oh, in case you hadn’t heard yet, here’s a new browser for you to test on ” joked a friend of mine yesterday. Lots of folks are talking about Google’s new search engine Chrome, especially how it might effect the browser market and compete with Firefox and Internet Explorer. The Boston Globe published a review [...]
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