I think you're crazy...

Click here to read about acclaimed producer (and 1/2 of Gnarls Barkley) Danger Mouse's new "CD". I put "CD" in quotation marks because the disc in question has no actual music on it. Part of me think this is a publicity stunt for a more traditional release in a few months or so. However, this isn't the first time Danger Mouse has been in legal hot water. He made his name by releasing The Grey Album, a mash-up of The Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's The Black Album with Jay-Z's rhymes on top of The Beatles' tracks.

I should also credit Grackles and the Truth for reporting on this first.

I wonder if the Stockholm Pirates would've swept the Mets last week

Here is a rather interesting article on Sweden's Free-Web party. This is the first I've ever heard of such a political party existing anywhere in the world. Given my feelings about these matters, I'd consider voting for them. I certainly believe in as much de-regulation of the internet as possible and that it should kept a free, open forum. I'm also strongly in favor of net neutrality and strongly opposed to large corporations squeezing fines (with threats of lawsuits) from so-called "thieves". This is a strategy which they've largely abandoned in the last year or so since they finally understand that it's horrible PR to sue your own customers and that it breeds a lot of well-justified ill will, but they still insist on going after sites like piratebay even though the spread of information online is virtually unstoppable. I can go on in much greater detail about this, but I figured that this might be food for thought for all of you given today's LIS 2000 presentation on fair use and what not.

Well well blogs go on long after the thrill of blogging is gone

Check out yesterday's New York Times article on blogging here.

WorldCat assignment and other assorted ramblings

Well, I finished up the WorldCat assignment yesterday. Overall, I'd say that this assignment was far less difficult, more straightforward and thus took a far shorter amount of time than the previous assignment (Scopus, RefWorks, etc.) did. The only part that confused me initially was the RIS format aspect, but once I looked at the message board, I was finally able to get it. I'm still not sure if we can export it in .csv format, but while I'm unsure, I submitted it in the format that was assigned in the syllabus. I hope I wasn't supposed to do it in .csv as well, but I'll take that chance (unless someone tells me otherwise).

Otherwise, I'm still trying to figure out how we can find out how we're doing in this class. LIS 2000 is much easier to keep track of. Will we just get all of our grades at the end of the term?

Yet Another One...

Here's another fun article from Saturday's New York Times that I missed until today. Click here to read, or re-read.

More on the BookExpo

If you click here, you can read another article about the BookExpo held this past weekend in New York City. This one deals more with the book publishing industry and its future. Like the article I linked to in my previous post, this one also deals with digitization.

Extra Extra! Read All About It!

I found an interesting article about Google's plan to compete with the Amazon Kindle in today's New York Times that may be of interest to some of you and that also encompass some of what we're learning in LIS 2000 and to a lesser extent, in LIS 2600 as well. Enjoy!

Click here.