lat this past week, LeVar Burton, former host of Reading Rainbow, was in Kansas City. He took a few minutes one day to read Shel Silverstein at a public library. I only have a clip to show you, unfortunately. But I grew up on Reading Rainbow, so it’s neat none the less.
Entries Tagged as 'public'
Freescale to go public
February 14th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
The WSJ are reporting Freescale will soon be going public again. Their parent company file for an iPO last week, and are trying to raise about $1b USD. Freescale was spun off from Motorola in 2004, and then they went private in 2006. Freescale don’t really have the same marketing presence as their competition (Marvell, [...]
Public Domain Parasites: An Ongoing Series
December 1st, 2010 · 10 Comments · opinion
Editor’s Note; The Amazon free ebook story today inspired me to go dig up this post Mike wrote back in June. This is the real problem, not people selling pd ebooks. I got this tweet: Just finished reading THE LODGER by Marie Belloc Lowndes, possibly the first serial killer novel (published in 1914) #fridayreadsFri Jun [...]
Public Domain Day is coming up again
November 28th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
In most of the world 1 January is the day that copyrights expire and previously monopolized content enters the public domain. The one exception is the USA, becuase every time it looks a copyright might expire Congress is bribed into adding more years.
Creative Commons launch the public domain mark
October 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments · press release
From the press release: Today, Creative Commons announces the release of the Public Domain Mark, a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public, and allows the works to be easily discovered over the Internet. The Public Domain Mark effectively [...]
EBSCO Publishing extends TTS to school and public library Databases
August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has added text-to-speech (read aloud) support to EBSCOhost®databases, including its major school and public library databases, by embedding Texthelp Systems’ SpeechStream toolbar—a valuable benefit provided at no additional cost to the user. Users will be able to take advantage of this new feature with any full-text articles available [...]
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ORGCon: James Boyle: The Incredible Shrinking Public Domain (video)
August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows, Open Rights Group, video
The Open Rights Group held a conference a couple weeks ago in London. I just now learned that they posted 6 videos of the sessions on Vimeo. If you follow digital content, the ACTA, and related issues then this is a group worth watching. [ORGCon] James Boyle: The Incredible Shrinking Public Domain from Open Rights [...]
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B&N promotion: free public domain ebooks
July 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · bn
Barnes & Noble are running several promotions for the upcoming 4th of July holiday. I wanted to bring your attention to this one because I find it offensive. From now until Monday night, B&N are generously giving away ebooks that don’t belong to anyone. These ebooks are public domain in the US, which means that [...]
Sony Unveil Reader Library Program for Public Libraries
June 29th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: In recognition of Library Advocacy Day, Sony today unveiled the Reader Library program, a new initiative to support the work of public libraries as they expand and promote their eBook collections. The program provides public libraries with training on digital reading devices, educational materials to help readers learn about the eBooks [...]
Toronto public schools to Dump Paper Textbooks?
May 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · digitization projects
The Toronto Sun is reporting: In a bid that he says will save millions annually, trustee Michael Coteau wants the Toronto District School Board to go digital when it comes to textbooks. Coteau will be asking colleagues on the board’s program and school services committee Wednesday to endorse an ambitious goal to phase hard-copy textbooks [...]
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