Garrett's working blog

Garrett's working blog

      ( 12:29 PM ) Garrett
Alchemist article on nanotechnology, fears, politics, good quotes, good links #

      ( 12:23 PM ) Garrett
Doomsday A Wired article by Greg Easterbrook speculates on our chances .... #

      ( 11:36 AM ) Garrett
An article arguing that alltheweb trumps Google #

      ( 10:56 AM ) Garrett
Interesting looking article in FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin on USA PATRIOT act. (Source: beSpacific) (All together now: United and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
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( 2:42 PM ) Garrett
Interesting NYT op-ed piece by William Gibson comparing and contrasting the Orwellian view with today's information, reporting and surveillance technologies #

( 10:06 AM ) Garrett
Senator presses Pentagon on spy plan good for the gentleman from Oregon, taking TIA to task ... (Source: cNet, via beSpacific)
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      ( 1:18 PM ) Garrett
Microsoft challenges Google with something called MSNbot sounds kind of like the mechanical dog in Fahrenheit 451 (Source: Cnet) #

      ( 11:45 AM ) Garrett
Aesthetic blast furnace Great story about how Harvard got access to a major art collection (Source: Harvard in the News) #

      ( 11:12 AM ) Garrett
Information Glut and Information Creation Just discovered the biologist Richard Gayle's blog (via Vivisimo), which led me to this interesting-looking essay; also referred me to hundreds of excellent feeds. (Maybe I should also go to feedster and newsisfree. Maybe another day ...) #

      ( 2:51 PM ) Garrett
Roy Tennant in Library Journal on Federated Search Tools (Courtesy of Darci Chapman: Infomage in Training #

      ( 1:17 PM ) Garrett
Article in the Shifted Librarian on blogs in the classroom #

      ( 10:58 AM ) Garrett
Rocket News Company Search Engine #

      ( 10:46 AM ) Garrett
a Chronicle article describes quite concisely the campaign to support the Public Domain and how laws like the Bono copyright extension act make difficulties for archivists and preservationists - you can't track down the copyright owners and meanwhile old films crumble into dust .,... #

      ( 10:34 AM ) Garrett
Register article on new legistlation that would engage FBI in tracking down those who swap copyrighted materials through file-sharing systems #

      ( 10:30 AM ) Garrett
American Libraries reports on Ashcroft's response to criticisms of the USA PATRIOT act See also: Related coverage in NYT (thanks to BeSpacific) #

( 5:18 PM ) Garrett
Advanced search - is it worth it An essay from "tbray" offers some speculation on what works and making it work better (Thanks, Library Stuff) #

( 3:07 PM ) Garrett
The Corporate Blog is Catching On #