Monday, July 14, 2003

No answers?. The second session I attedned today was on Analog Media: Maximum Preservation for Today and Tomorrow. [CALI Radio Station 13]

Debbie reports on this rather interesting topic.  I can't locate the official description on the AALL site though.  I'm wondering if anyone bothered to point out that digital info can be put on tapes as well as analog, so what's the real difference.  Now if they were talking about analog books vs. digital images that's another story.  I'm pretty sure that right now I prefer digital copies of stuff to paper.


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Conference Bloggers Keep on Rolling
Conference Bloggers Keep on Rolling -
2 of the CALI conference bloggers are currently blogging the American Association of Law Libraries annual get-together being held this week in Seatle. Debbie Ginsberg, (CALI Radio Station 13), and Stephanie Davidson, (Steph's CALIBlog), are continuing their blogging ways with reports from the sessions and the hallways of AALL. Very cool and keep up the posting.
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Apparently things are afoot at lawlug.com
Apparently things are afoot at lawlug.com.
The group is getting a new website and some new tools. The law school linux community is really starting to come together, a Good Thing.  Apparently the new site will be unveiled officially during a chat to be held Thursday or Friday of this week.
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Hello from Dean for America. Hello from the Dean for America campaign. Governor Howard Dean will be posting later today, here and at the official campaign blog, Blog for America. It’s our policy that whenever Governor Dean posts anywhere on the Internet, his posts will also be crossposted to our site.… [Lessig Blog]

Democratic candidate for president Governor Howard Dean is guest blogging on the Lessig blog.  Now this is an interesting turn of events.  I'll be keeping an eye on this.


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Jakob Nielsen: PDF is Unfit for Human Consumption. [Scripting News]
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Yahoo to buy Overture for $1.63 billion. The Web portal says that it plans to buy search firm Overture Services in a move squarely aimed at taking on competitors in the search engine market. [CNET News.com]

Big news.  More consolidation on the search front.  It's shaping up to look like Yahoo vs. Google vs. Microsoft.  Anyone want to bet on a winner?  Here's how it could play out: Microsoft bursts onto the search scene, adding some sort of search into the core of IE and Windows.  In a bit of a panic Yahoo and Google face a tough choice: battle to the end or merge.  Merger seems likely but only after enough delay to give MSFT an edge.  The merged Yahoogle will not be able to compete with the deep pockets of MSFT (surprize) and MSFT ends up with the search market, relagating Yahoogle to a marginal role.  Time span 3-5 years.

 


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