scratchpad jr. (2nd import)

LISNews brought this recently opened zine library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to my attention. The Boston Phoenix has more about the library and its founding.

Slate exmanines voice over IP (VoIP) software in this article from a few months ago.
seen on the Librarians’ Index to the Internet

"ProQuest Information and Learning has expanded its acclaimed newspaper digitization program to include small town and community newspaper archives. …
… Rod Gauvin, ProQuest vice president [believes] ‘Small town newspapers are particularly important resources for genealogists and students because they’re often the only written history available. Providing high-quality digital access to this history is a [...]

Gary reports on the Search Engine Watch blog that Yahoo! is now using content from the Internet Archive to provide cached content.
It’s funny: I don’t subscribe to the Search Engine Watch blog (yet), but I’m finding lots of goodies from it in my aggregator via other sources.

A lot has happened with Google Print and the Authors Guild lawsuit:
The Authors Guild sued Google over its massive library digitization
project, claiming copyright infringement and potential revenue loss for authors.