New Media + IT

BBC News reports that The British Library in cooperation with Microsoft, is preparing some 100.000 old books to go online.
The books are 19th century books which belong in the public domain — to avoid copyright infringements.
Google is also working in the digitizing of books department, but with other libraries: Stanford, Harvard, and Michigan university libraries, [...]

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[ categorized as: Books, Google, Microsoft ]

Phil Bradley shows people how to search the MI5 website, although the MI5 search is currently not working.
Needless to say, he uses Google ;-)
PS: If the MI5 website uses a robots.txt to avoid the search robots crawling the web, I don't assume that the above tip will work…

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[ categorized as: Google, Search, Tips ]

Phew. I'm done upgrading to WordPress 2.3.
As I pointed out a moment ago, Ultimate Tag Warrior had to go — after a tip from mister WordPress.dk, René.
One of the reasons was, that categories kept showing up in my WordPress administration even though I had deleted them and I got some nasty errors saying that [...]

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[ categorized as: About this blog, CMS, Open source ]

Apparently Ultimate Tag Warrior doesn't work with WordPress 2.3. Therefore it has now been substituted by the new tagging structure in WordPress 2.3.
Just thought you'd might like to know ;-)

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[ categorized as: About this blog ]

As a regular reader of my favorite magazine, The Economist I receive some of their newsletter. Today an interesting email landed in my inbox:
Our new Debate Series is an ongoing community forum where propositions about topical issues will be rigorously debated in the Oxford style by compelling Speakers. The first topic being debated is Education [...]

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[ categorized as: Communities ]

As some of you may have noticed, WordPress 2.3 is out.
I'll be making the update in the very near future. Included in WP 2.3 is a tagging structure, so I'll try to convert my tags into the new tagging system and limit my category system.
Hope for the best — but expect complete utter failure :-)
So, [...]

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[ categorized as: About this blog ]

Just saw that The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft might be very interesting in investing in social startup Facebook.
Facebook has — according to the WSJ — 40 million users, and Microsoft (and apparently also Google) is now trying to grab a piece of the action.
Microsoft's approach to Facebook in recent weeks with proposals [...]

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[ categorized as: Businesses, Microsoft, Social web ]

Duncan Riley at TechCrunch writes that "Google Wants You To Share Stuff".
The method: Google's new service for sharing your favorite content: Shared Stuff.
I haven't really had the time to test it yet (I dragged the Shared Stuff icon to my browser bar — but the pop up window doesn't always load correctly) so give it [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Online applications, Search ]

According to The Wallstreet Journal more companies are spending more money in the field of "Web 2.0" (we SO need to come up with another term for that) — mostly social networking or blogging.
Also the investments in Web 2.0 companies has started to move outside the San Francisco Bay Arena which is "known for producing [...]

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[ categorized as: Businesses, Web, Web 2.0 ]

Google's online application for producing presentations, formerly knows as "Presently", is now ready. Read more at the official Google blog.

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[ categorized as: Google, Online applications ]