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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Facebook’s Devilish Contract
News of changes to Facebook’s Terms of Service hit FriendFeed yesterday and sparked several debates amongst the relatively small set of librarians I follow. Facebook has always claimed ownership of everything you post there, but now there are two new lines that have caused the buzz: You may remove your User Content from the Site [...]
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Preserving the Zeitgeist
The internet is a weird place. It seems like nothing that you’d prefer to forget ever dies while whole chunks of your life can disappear into the cloud with very little warning. People worry about preserving all the digital ephemera that we produce, or about deciding which categories of ephemera are worthy of these efforts. [...]
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Strolling Across Campus
Tonight was the second meeting of a faculty/staff book group that’s reading the Odyssey together. We sit in the well appointed living room of a campus-owned guest house, sip wine, eat hors d’oeuvres, and discuss this book with the added benefit that the man leading the book group is a classicist. It’s pretty much an [...]
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The Obama Drama that Interests Me The Most
I have no idea how to fix the current economic crisis, create peace in the Middle East, or make sure everyone gets health insurance. I listen to the news pretty passively, hoping that the Powers That Be make good decisions on my behalf, since there’s no way I’d be able to make these decisions with [...]
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OCLC Question for the masses