Rough Drafts

The International Children’s Digital Library debuts today with 200 books; 10,000 to be made available online in the project’s next phase.

“You’re the most intellectual and thoroughly intense theologian on the block. You know what you’re talking about and you recommend people to ignore you at their own risk. Yeah, baby, you know your stuff. You speak in riddles and confuse people for fun. Still, this hurts your social skills a lot… and

David Weinberger reports on his talk to a bunch of librarians. The discussion eventually turned to “whether there can be librarians without books,” D.W. says. The librarians proposed a continued role for themselves as “gatekeepers of information.” Weinberger is unconvinced: If information is widely

Since the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, I’ve written about 12,000 words of “Fatal Exception” – my dot com murder mystery. Not bad for two weeks. The first week went great guns, but then my mom was visiting, I got sick, and there’s that nasty work thing, so I’ve only written 2,000 words

I’m looking forward to the arrival of this book on the freelance writing life by Mat Coward: Success and How to Avoid It. Here’s an excerpt . Said excerpt is formatted, annoyingly, in tiny un-resizable white type on a black background — I had to copy it and paste it into Word in order to […]

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

Werbach critiques the accepted wisdom that sorting out the digital copyright mess is a prerequisite to widespread broadband adoption. According to Werbach, it’s a mistake to think that video-on-demand will be broadband’s killer app: “Real killer apps tend to surprise people. No one in the early 1990

Daniel Radosh has just published the excellent PowerPoint Anthology of Literature, featuring one- or two-slide PowerPoint versions of Hamlet, Lolita, Goodnight Moon, and others. (Thanks to Dan Pink, who also recommends Abe Lincoln’s PowerPoint presentation for the Gettysburg Address.)