Rare map dealer E. Forbes Smiley III seems to have been getting some maps by cutting them out of books in libraries and archives across the country, according to this Boston Globe article about his crimes and their impact on collections.
Addendum 8/10: The Boston Globe has another article about the situation that includes information on [...]
One of the people who’s invited me to speak this fall asked if I could spend a few minutes on Pluck. Since I need a new aggregator and it looks interesting, I started playing with it.
Pluck integrates into the Firefox Web browser. Importing my OPML file was really easy. I can subscribe to more things [...]
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which requires registration, about some ideas he has for protecting quality content in the encyclopedia, according to this Reuters article Cyberjournalist includes.
Thanks, Amy!
Addendum: A reader just e-mailed to let me know Jimmy Wales is guest blogging on the Lessig Wales blog about how this Reuters article is [...]