the tweney review

Weinberger posts some interesting historical notes on how the usage of the term ‘information’ has changed since the advent of the computer age.

Help Project Gutenberg build its collection of digital documents by proofreading or scanning public-domain texts at Distributed Proofreaders.

Gareth Branwyn offers a number of solid tips on writing well (or, as he calls it, sucks-less writing). (thanks, BoingBoing)

This ALA Journal article spells out the top 10 reasons to be a librarian.

MIT and HP this week unveiled a digital library project called DSpace. The system is designed to be a manageable repository for research material, such as conference papers, technical reports, and other kinds of media.

“Preserving data in an accessible manner is increasingly becoming a problem for a number of universities and government agencies. MIT itself produces an estimated 10,000 pieces of digital content a year, a figure that includes conference papers and technical reports,” says the News.com report.

Among other goodies in this library are electronic texts of out-of-print books from MIT Press. Nice of them to put this content online — that’s a gesture towards openness that other publishers might do well to emulate.

Here’s a link to the DSpace home page (which, oddly, uses an SSL connection).