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Adam M. Smith, the Google Print Project Manager, announced the decision to suspend the scanning of copyrighted books in early August on Google’s corporate blog. He wrote that the scanning would stop to allow publishers time to inform Google of books they did not want included in the project...
...journalist who?d never blogged-who?d never published directly on the Internet and preferred to put his words on paper, where they couldn?t be erased by power surges or turned into ampersands by computer worms-I knew in my heart that the future was passing me by. I also believed that I could catch up later, the way I had with TiVo and instant messaging. But then, just recently, the future dawned -before I was prepared for it, as usual. The writer Andrew Sullivan, whose work I admired but who I barely knew, called...
...regular reader of blogs, or indeed of any kind of news website, you've probably been frustrated from time to time by information overload: the blogosphere creates way too much material for any human being to comfortably digest. Plus, there's no way of knowing when your favorite sites are updated. Some of the best blog writers publish once a week or less, and who has time to keep visiting these sites in the hope of finding a fresh item...
Some otherwise serious bloggers have spent the summer fascinated by a niche in romance literature with its own fan website: Sheikhs and Desert Love. Eerie, a contributor to 'Aqoul, a blog mostly about news from the Middle East, noting a significant increase in the number of romance novels featuring handsome desert nomads, provided a helpful graph documenting their rise. Yin Shui Si Yuan dismissed these romance novels as "incredibly ill-informed, orientalist, romantic fantasies involving oil sheikhs." Political Animal's Kevin Drum and Abu Aardvark's Marc Lynch have found the subject an amusing distraction from the August doldrums...
...regular reader of blogs, or indeed of any kind of news website, you've probably been frustrated from time to time by information overload: the blogosphere creates way too much material for any human being to comfortably digest. Plus, there's no way of knowing when your favorite sites are updated. Who has time to keep visiting these sites in the hope of finding a fresh item? But as most blog readers these days know, there's a solution to these problems, and it's simple. Actually, it's called Real Simple Syndication, or RSS - you've probably seen...