As we reported earlier this week, Google has settled the lawsuit brought in 2005 by authors and book publishers regarding its massive book scanning and indexing project.
Source:Google Book Search Settlement: A Reader's Guide (Electronic Frontier Foundations)
★ BEST NEW NYC NATURAL DISASTER First, weary travelers started complaining of contaminated hotel beds (and we’re not talking about splooge). Then, the city’s finest found they weren’t alone come bedtime.
Source:Best Secretly Obvious Way to Get to JFK (New York Press)
Artists are warning that something as simple as street photography could die out under the Australia Council’s proposed protocols for photographing children.
Source:Children in artwork rules 'too restrictive' (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
LibriVox is a volunteer effort with a big goal: record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. In the following Q&A, LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire discusses the project’s beginnings, the organic development of the LibriVox community, and the distinctions (or lack thereof) between “professional” and “amateur” efforts. How did LibriVox start? LibriVox came about in August 2005, when I was looking for free, full-length audiobooks online for a long car trip. I went to gutenbe
Source:Open Source, Community and Audiobooks: Q&A with LibriVox Founder Hugh McGuire
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Source:Free Images for Your Blog
Filed under: Nintendo Wii, E3, Rhythm Speaking at the Nintendo’s 2008 E3 developer roundtable, Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed that the Wii Music “game” disc will contain 50 songs, featuring a variety of of public domain songs, as well as licensed music. As for DLC? Nintendo is “not really thinking” about digital song distribution, instead focusing on using WiiConnect24 to share music videos. Gallery: Wii MusicPermalink | Email this | Comments
Source:Wii Music disc to include licensed songs, Nintendo 'not really thinking' about DLC
LibriVox is a volunteer effort with a big goal: record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. In this Q&A, LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire discusses the project’s beginnings, the organic development of the LibriVox community, and the distinctions (or lack thereof) between “professional” and “amateur” efforts.
Source:Open Source, Community and Audiobooks: Q&A with LibriVox Founder Hugh McGuire (O'Reilly Media)