Archive for March, 2009

Copyright — let the authors beware

March 28, 2009
Books

I’ve been pre­oc­cu­pied of late, so the con­fer­ence men­tioned in the Kar­lin Lilling­ton arti­cle in the Irish Times passed under my radar. UNDER A recent court set­tle­ment, Google now has rights to the con­tent of pub­lished or out of print works by Irish authors. It will be able to dis­play sig­nif­i­cant parts of any book for free on the web, sell access to that con­tent, or place online adver­tise­ments next to …Read the Rest

Slim Links March 23 2009

Slim Links March 23 2009
March 23, 2009
Science & Techno

Build­ing the 21st-Century Mind A pro­fes­sor of cog­ni­tion and edu­ca­tion reveals the five minds you need for suc­cess, how to …Read the Rest