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 ]

I just ordered this book on Ubuntu – let's just hope it delivers as much as it promises :-)

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[ categorized as: Books, Linux, Open source ]

The book WordPress Complete is now out. You can read more about it at Newsforge:
This book is a beginner's guide to WordPress, for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and [...]

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[ categorized as: Books, CMS ]

I just pre-ordered this book, called "WordPress Pro Development".
I haven't really been able to find any other information about the book, except »Deals with computers/software«, as Amazon writes.
But I hope it contains a lot of tips, tricks and code examples of how to customize or build upon the WordPress platform. Let's face it, PHP rocks! [...]

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[ categorized as: Books, CMS, PHP, Web 2.0 ]