Three cheers for the Internet Archive, which announced yesterday a new resource for the visually impaired (or as the IA called them, the “print disabled,” which I guess includes dyslexic people). These […]
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Morning Buzz — May 7, 2010
The BBC has an interesting article on the new non-Latin character Web addresses. Getting translations by taking a picture of text with your cell phone camera? WOW. You know that “Google Editions” […]
Embedding Tweets With Blackbird Pie: Why?
I will be the first to admit that sometimes I don’t “get” stuff that I come across on the Internet. And such it is with Twitter’s new offering, Blackbird Pie. The whole […]
Playing with the National Data Catalog
I first read the announcement about the National Data Catalog over a week ago, but decided to play with it a little before I wrote about it. But first, what the heck […]
Morning Buzz — May 6, 2010
Google is mapping the Gulf oil spill with Google Earth. Congratulations to The Cherokeean, which in conjunction with Singletary Memorial Library has gotten a grant to digitize sixty years of its archives. […]