GoogleBooks

The idea of Googlebooks is great and follows the very heart of internet freedom. However we live in a world of recognized intellectual property laws and much of the world we are able to enjoy (as the intellectual propery lawers will tell you) is born of their bounty. In any case it seems the US justice department is attempting to, and will most likely succeed in, scuttling the agreement Google thought it had in place. This means Google will probably never be what it had hoped to become, but in a more limited role it has much to offer. Many writers value dissemination ahead of fortune and if the books which rights holders are happy for G to present are able to fing their way there without administrative difficulty it will indeed be a good thing.

In the imortal words of Mrs. Joseph (Rita Webb) from To Sir with Love " the more education the better....What with the bomb and all"

I like the librarythang. I think it would be particularly useful for avid readers of fiction but as a non-fiction reader I still like it. Every book I put in I found. Two thumbs up. I wish it did music also.

My catalogue http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MarcosR

RSS feeds diggin

I like the idea of RSS feeds and I have found some really useful feeds that I will happily continue subscribing to well after my23rd thing. However many of the things from Digg strike me as technology for it's own sake. To use a guitar analogy, it's like adding affects pedals to a good tube amp, what is music what is sound? It is easy to get caught up in the sound and forget about the music, but it is the music that is the pure creativity.

RSS feeds

As far as I can tell, RSS feeds are the closest thing in the real word to getting soneone else to take notes for you in a lecture while you are at home in bed. It works very well and is the logical next step from the email alerting services that cluttered up your emails for many years. Well done Mr or Ms RSS.

Blogs

Hi,
As I commented to DEMBLOG Aleksandr Solzenitsyn once said 'There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere' and we certainly seem to have our share here at UQ. I have read some very thoughtfully written blogs despite the authors being pushed out of their comfort zones.

Averted on the other half

Hi,
I am sensing a real Michael Jackson/Culture Club thing going on with Flickr and Picasa so this side of the Blogosphere can stop rumbling also.
http://picasaweb.google.com/xxiiithings/Desktop#5376654443105269362

Marcos

calamity averted

Hi,
I too have heard the rumbles around the bloggosphere about the lack of Greg Maddux related matryoshki. It has been addressed http://www.flickr.com/photos/23things/3876942702/

Marcos