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Caravan Books Home:
The Caravan Project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is an innovative partnership of non-profit publishers, booksellers and libraries

Together, we help bring serious non-fiction, in traditional as well as a variety of digital
formats, to the eyes and ears of discerning readers.

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This looks like a great project. It provides non-fiction books to the digital world.

Report: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship:
The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship link

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From craigbellamy.net

Omeka :

The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) is partnering with the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) to develop Omeka as a next-generation web publishing platform for museums, historical societies, scholars, collectors, and educators.
Omeka is currently in private beta. If you are interested in getting on the invitation list to download and test Omeka, please email us and we will notify you when there are additional spaces for this testing period.

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Omeka is what we use for april16archive.org at the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture

How to pay for a free press, by André Schiffrin:
How to pay for a free press

In a media world with one eye on the bottom line and the other on the official line, it’s getting harder to publish or broadcast anything that doesn’t promise huge sales and attendant profits, and that doesn’t say or show what is approved. But it’s still possible

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perhaps it is time to start a universal trust to support the free press?

Deep Litter: March 2007:
Litter Sorters: A Personal Evaluation of Mac Organizer Software

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i use devonthink pro with 16000 documents, scrivener and bookends and mellel for writing and process 2 and omnioutliner pro for other things... that reminds me i need to get back to process....

i do all of my class outlines in ominioutliner

Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections — Koninklijke Bibliotheek:
This database contains descriptions of all medieval western manuscripts written in Latin script and produced up to c. 1550 now preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands. These include the collections of libraries, museums and archives, as well as the collections of monastic orders and some other private institutions that are open to researchers.

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this is really handy for a wide variety of scholars. it has quite a few things by erasmus, which is one of those people that i like to read.

The argument against Creative Commons is apparently that the poster of the picture of the teenage girl was not adequately informed that he could be impinging on the rights of others based on the information provided by creative commons.

Larry and Joi both comment on the suit but neither can comment on its merits given their respective positions. What they both bring up is the question as to whether Creative Commons should address questions of privacy. This comes up in this current case because the poster to Flickr posted allowing commercial usage, much like I do (and I had my first commercial use last week).

I don't think that CC needs to head down that road. What they do need to say is that their work only applies in the realm of property and copyrightable materials. I think any judge worth their salt will see that immediately. Rights of the subject of photography are not really dealt with under this license and other laws cover those rights.

She's Geeky - HomePage
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What is She's Geeky?
The She's Geeky (un)conference will provide an agenda-free and friendly environment for women who not only care about building technology that is useful for people, but who also want to encourage more women to get involved.
It is designed to provide women who self-identify as geeky and who are engaged in various technology-focused disciplines with a gathering space in which they can exchange skills and discuss ideas and form community across and within disciplines.
Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to:

Exchange skills and learning from women from diverse fields of technology.
Discuss topics about women and technology.
Connect the diverse range of women in technology, computing, entrepreneurship, funding, hardware, open source, nonprofit and any other technical geeky field.

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I think this is an interesting idea.

Index: if-archive:

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Eric Rice, creator of what I think is one of the most powerful learning environments in second life (and also one very interesting experiments in fiction), points us to this handy archive of interactive fiction.

http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/softwareandculture-tmttlt.com is the url for the software and culture list