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• Financial impropriety charges: Pachauri rejoinder to British daily

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R.K. Pachauri Wednesday termed the financial impropriety allegations levelled against him by Britain’s Sunday Telegraph as “serious and false” and sought an apology from the newspaper.The Sunday Telegraph had said that he was “with ...
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• Public Domain Day

  
  Pratham Books — Authority: 431
  Via mosssig.wordpress.com January first is the day, each year, when the works of some authors enter the public domain. Their works become officially a part of our cultural heritage in a way that makes them open for use, and not hampered by restrictions. The terms of copyright expire and give us the opportunity to ...
  16 hours ago

• Walt Whitman & Levi’s Jeans

  
  Idiotprogrammer — Authority: 423
  Here’s an amazing TV commercial for Levi’s Jeans starring…. Walt Whitman! Yes, that’s his actual voice reading the 1888 poem America in this video poem/commercial .  Here’s another video poem for Whitman’s Pioneers from Leaves of Grass ..this time read by actor Will Greer. (These pieces are directed ...
  18 hours ago

• Brittany Murphy’s Death Photo: Does It Exist? – DesPardes.com

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 171
  CNN Brittany Murphys Death Photo : Does It Exist? DesPardes.com Brittany Murphys death photo : Does it exist?: The death photo of Brittany Murphy does not exist in the public domain yet. Otherwise, we all would have seen ... Brittany Murphys death photo in demand (video) Examiner.com ...
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• Smithsonian Commons–first look @ new website mockup

  
  Long Road — Authority: 114
  As these “commons” projects proliferate it’s valuable to keep in mind both the possibilities of openness and its limits. It’s nice to see the Smithsonian getting out there and engaging the public. I hope they also remember there are many different publics that have, and will have, different types of ...
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• 1895’s OTHER time travel book: The British Barbarians, by Grant Allen—free at Gutenberg and Manybooks.net

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  H.G. Wells didn’t have time travel lit all to himself in 1895 when he published The Time Machine . A prolific Canadian-born writer named Grant Allen , also known for his mysteries, came out with The British Barbarians . Copycat? No. Allen’s work is in some ways even the opposite of Wells’. Instead of the ...
  3 days ago

• Adding Content To Your Site: 4 Effective Methods

  
  Business to Business b2b | Marketing | eCommerce | Telemarketing — Authority: 155
  One of the main factors that influence the amount of targeted traffic driven to your website is the quantity and quality of content. To improve the amount and quality of your website, blog or forum content, you can consider allowing others to create content for you. Letting other people add content to your website ...
  3 days ago

• Google Book Settlement News 12/19/2009

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 140
  Librarians ask for Google Book oversight. Reuters. Open Book Alliance. French court rules against Google
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• Sony Digital Reader Pocket Edition – Dark Blue

  
  Kill Deal — Authority: 175
  Lightweight design with 5″ display Holds up to 350 books at a time Content is accessible from a wide number of online bookstores Paper-look display for natural reading Two full weeks of reading on a single battery charge Product Description The Reader Pocket Edition features a 5″ display and an elegant, ...
  5 days ago

• Images From the Christian Christmas Story

  
  Perpetualplum's Weblog — Authority: 119
  Since I had quite a few books that contained images from the Christian version of the Christmas story, I thought I would select some images of the Madonna and infant.  Regardless of the obvious religious slant, the story is wonderful.  Many artists and illustrators have created wonderful images of Jesus’s birth, ...
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• Sony Digital Reader Touch Edition – Black

  
  Kill Deal — Authority: 175
  Elegant 6 display with touch screen navigation Carry up to 350 of your favorite books at a time Freehand highlighting and annotation Access a wide number of online bookstores Thin, light, highly portable design Product Description The Reader Touch Edition features a 6″display with simple, easy-to-use ...
  5 days ago

• Palm Ares SDK now in public beta

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 460
  The web-based SDK from Palm known as Ares is no longer available to just selected developers, but has entered the public beta domain, basically opening the floodgates for anyone with some basic technical ability to churn out their own webOS app. Of course, the final results will probably be far from what a seasoned ...
  5 days ago

• Visualizar ‘09

  
  Open Knowledge Foundation Blog — Authority: 458
  The project presentations from last month’s Visualizar seminar have now been posted online. This annual event brought together creative teams from a range of disciplines, with the objective of delivering workable presentations using freely available data resources. The theme for 2009 was Public Data - Data In ...
  6 days ago

• Traditional Indian remedies digitised

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Drawing lessons from a bruising legal battle on turmeric, the government has digitised traditional Indian remedies and healing systems to prevent international pharmaceutical companies from claiming patents on them, parliament was informed Thursday.“The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library ...
  6 days ago

• Update on Malamud’s Congressional Testimony

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 484
  Cory has been following this story all along and shares the conclusion on Boing Boing. Carl figures that the material in question has been viewed maybe just over ten thousand times based on the for sale, proprietary system currently in place. What did his call to act yield? In less than a week, we did 14,664 ...
  6 days ago

• Santa Claus Annual

  
  Digital Sextant — Authority: 427
  
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• Just Do It: Preservation in a post-copyright era

  
  Musematic — Authority: 112
  Looking for something else entirely today, I stumbled across this 2007 blog post by Georgia Harper on “a post-copyright era” for digital preservation. It’s provocative: “I’ve begun more and more to believe that for some things libraries need to do for the future, they just need to be done without much ...
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• Cornell Gives about 80,000 Digitized Public Domain Books to Internet Archive

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 432
  The Cornell University Library has given about 80,000 digitized public domain books to the Internet Archive. Heres an excerpt from the press release : In an effort to make its materials globally accessible, Cornell University Library is sharing tens of thousands of digitized books with the Internet Archive. "We ...
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• Punjab IAS officers to encourage voluntary assets’ disclosure

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Chandigarh, Dec 15 (IANS) Assets of some of the ‘rich’ bureaucrats in the country could soon be in the public domain with the IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officers’ association in Punjab Tuesday saying that it will encourage officers to voluntarily disclose their property and assets.The move follows a ...
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• The Complete User’s Guide To the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2: Tips, Tricks, & Links To Unlock Cool Features & Save You Hundreds on Kindle Content (The Top Guide for the Kindle International!) (Kindle Edition)

  
  Cool Stuff — Authority: 131
  From the author and publisher of Kindle Nation Daily (the #1 paid blog in the Kindle Store), here’s the inside scoop on the latest generation Kindle (both the Kindle International and the Kindle 2).TABLE OF CONTENTS includes Part One: FREE – How to Get Millions of Free Books, Songs, Podcasts, Periodicals & ...
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