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Product placement in 19th Century British novels (humor)

September 7th, 2010 · No Comments · humor

Normally I’d just link to an aritcle like this ,but I’ve already seen this reported as fact. The following is a joke, but the satire is subtle. I don’t want you to think I’m taking this seriously. There’s an article in today’s Seattle PI about the first in-book advertisements: What is little known is just [...]

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Murdoch rails against British Library

May 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments · opinion

James Murdoch attacked the British Library’s plans to digitize their several hundred year old, 40m page archive in a speech yesterday. The archive will be available online, but only as a for pay service.  Here is an excerpt the Guardian: “This is not simply being done for posterity, nor to make free access for library [...]

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The British Libary announces plans to digitize 40m newspaper pages in 10 years

May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects

From the announcement: Spanning three centuries and including 52,000 local, regional, national and international titles, the British Library holds one of the world’s finest collections of newspapers. Each year the Newspaper Library at Colindale is used by 30,000 researchers in subjects ranging from family history and genealogy to sports statistics, politics and industrial history. This [...]

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