The Revised Google Books Settlement Agreement
https://sites.google.com/a/pressatgoogle.com/googlebookssettlement/revised-settlement/SettlementModificationsOverview.pdf
Supplementary Notice ---http://www.googlebooksettlement.com/Supplemental-Notice.pdf
Terms of Digital Book Deal With Google Revised
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/technology/internet/14books.html?_r=1
The amended settlement dropped in the eleventh hour. Here's a redline version and here's the related memorandum with the procedural details. The best news coverage is the New York Times story; the best blog coverage is Danny Sullivan's. I've just completed a first pass through the amended settlement, tweeting all the way.
The biggest change is that the class of affected books has been dramatically reduced, although not at all in the way I was expecting. Books registered in the U.S. are still in, as are books published in Canada, the U.K., and Australia. That change should largely take foreign non-Anglophone books out of the settlement entirely. There are a number of other tweaks to the definitions to deal with specific classes of works (e.g. comic books).
http://laboratorium.net/archive/2009/11/14/gbs_midnight_madness
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
UC regents approve fee hikes; Nov.18, 2009
UC regents approve fee hikes
Buzz up!By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee, Wednesday, November 18, 2009
http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2009/11/18/kim.ca.ucla.student.protests.cnn
Students at UCLA protest a plan that would boost student fees by 32 percent over two years. KCAL's Rachel Kim reports.
Campus police at UCLA have arrested protesters who repeatedly interrupted a regent board meeting about a rise in student fees.
California university regents approve 32 percent tuition increase
By Alan Duke, CNN
November 19, 2009 4:18 p.m. EST
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/19/california.tuition.protests/index.html
Buzz up!By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee, Wednesday, November 18, 2009
"A panel of University of California regents has approved a plan to raise student fees 32 percent over the next year, bringing annual cost of a UC education to more than $10,000 - not including room, board and books."
http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2009/11/18/kim.ca.ucla.student.protests.cnn
Added On November 18, 2009 (CNN)
http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2009/11/18/kabc.ucla.protestors.arrested.KABC
Added On November 18, 2009
Added On November 18, 2009
California university regents approve 32 percent tuition increase
By Alan Duke, CNN
November 19, 2009 4:18 p.m. EST
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/19/california.tuition.protests/index.html
Friday, October 9, 2009
Questions for Mark Yudof: Big Man on Campus (NY TImes article)
UC President Mark Yudof commenting on faculty furloughs.
"Already professors on all 10 U.C. campuses are taking required “furloughs,” to use a buzzword.
Let me tell you why we used it. The faculty said “furlough” sounds more temporary than “salary cut,” and being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening. I listen to them."
"The word “furlough,” I recently read, comes from the Dutch word “verlof,” which means permission, as in soldiers’ getting permission to take a few days off. How has it come to be a euphemism for salary cuts?
Look, I’m from West Philadelphia. My dad was an electrician. We didn’t look up stuff like this. It wasn’t part of what we did. When I was growing up we didn’t debate the finer points of what the word “furlough” meant."
Yudof has subsequently said that the report was "zany" so his responses were also "zany." Disappointing for the chief executive of a major university system to be less than earnest.
Questions for Mark Yudof: Big Man on Campus
"Already professors on all 10 U.C. campuses are taking required “furloughs,” to use a buzzword.
Let me tell you why we used it. The faculty said “furlough” sounds more temporary than “salary cut,” and being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening. I listen to them."
"The word “furlough,” I recently read, comes from the Dutch word “verlof,” which means permission, as in soldiers’ getting permission to take a few days off. How has it come to be a euphemism for salary cuts?
Look, I’m from West Philadelphia. My dad was an electrician. We didn’t look up stuff like this. It wasn’t part of what we did. When I was growing up we didn’t debate the finer points of what the word “furlough” meant."
Yudof has subsequently said that the report was "zany" so his responses were also "zany." Disappointing for the chief executive of a major university system to be less than earnest.
Questions for Mark Yudof: Big Man on Campus
Thursday, September 10, 2009
President Obamas speech to a joint session of Congress on Healthcare [CNN]
Obama gives health reform speech 55:00
President Obama delivers an address to Congress to present the most detailed description of his idea of health reform.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
President Obama's speech to America's school children [CNN]
Obama urges staying in school 13:57
President Obama delivers a hotly debated back-to-school speech to students across the country.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Librarian roller girl [CNN]
Librarian roller girl 3:38
As a 53-year-old librarian by day and roller derby player by night, Beth Hollis smashes stereotypes and opponents on and off the track.
Source: CNN | Added August 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Bibliographic Management meets Web 2.0
Bibliographic Management meets Web 2.0
Posting on Nature Network. Gobbledygook by Martin Fenner (01 August 2009)
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Posting on Nature Network. Gobbledygook by Martin Fenner (01 August 2009)
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