Monthly Archives: August 2006

Google now lets you download and print entire books (unfortunately only those in the public domain). So for example, want to read your kids Aesop’s Fables? Click here. Download. Print. You’re good to go.

I’m not sure how I missed this announcement. “[Jimmy Wales] also announced a new project called Wikiversity. It will serve as an online center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. It will create and host … Continue reading →

Interesting article on an update to the German site that may help cut down on vandalism… “In the German system, any user will still be allowed to make edits to any article. Those edits won’t show up in the live … Continue reading →

So if this blog wasn’t already enough of a pastiche of random information, I’m adding one more topic to the mix. Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is an incredibly powerful something or other, that does this one thing really, … Continue reading →

For you long time readers of the blog, you will remember a post in which I described a strange event at my house, one that I could only explain away by arguing that coconuts must explode. Well, last night I … Continue reading →

So, I’ve finished my second book, Bullies in the Headlights. I also found myself a bit burned out by the end, so I switched audiences, and with the help of a brother and sister-in-law, started and finished a second book. … Continue reading →

Interesting report out of Harvard. The Berkman Center has found that “provisions of copyright law concerning the educational use of copyrighted material, as well as the business and institutional structures shaped by that law, are among the most important obstacles … Continue reading →

Great story on how somebody thought they could pass off other people’s work as their own. No, it wasn’t the police that caught the guy. It was the ‘BlogMob’. “Soon the thief’s possible home address and phone number were made … Continue reading →

Wikipedia has been bashed by just about everybody now. It’s been called everything from inacurate to a public toilet. And yet it works so well. I came across this article that discussed the recent prank attempted by Comedy Central’s Stephen … Continue reading →

In celebration of YouTube growing out of control, I’d like to send you over to this little nugget, called The Day of the Long Tail. I’ve heard the book is good too…