Garrett's working blog

Garrett's working blog

      ( 10:38 AM ) Garrett
Volume Discounts An article on OHIOlink describes how professors and students at small colleges and large universities alike can access essential research resources through their desktops and interlibrary lending thanks to the consortium's networking and buying power. #

      ( 10:18 AM ) Garrett
MIT World » : The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies: Taking Nanotechnology from the Laboratory to the Soldier Video on the "soldier of the future" #

      ( 9:44 AM ) Garrett
Nat'l Academies Press, Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy (2003) A new NAS report ... #

      ( 5:03 PM ) Garrett
Copying is theft - and other legal myths (source: LIS News) #

      ( 4:47 PM ) Garrett
Salon.com Technology | Prowling the ruins of ancient software (Source: Slashdot) #

      ( 11:39 AM ) Garrett
Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination on the Internet A paper by Andrew Odlyzko argues that commerical entities have increasing desire and ability for price discrimination. Differential pricing has been an issue in the library/serials world. The idea that discrimination could be practiced at increasingly granular levels is somewhat dispiriting. (Source: LIBLICENSE-L, author's post) #

      ( 10:32 AM ) Garrett
Wired News: Federal Data Searches on Hit List Yesterday's story about terrorism futures (project was eventually cancelled) has a sequel. The same senator from Oregon, Sen. Ron Wyden, introduced legislation under which federal agencies would have to document their mining of personal data through commercial databases. It's called "Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act and a number of citizen groups, including the EFF, collaborated on it. Roll back the PATRIOT ACT and other infringements of civil liberties. (Source: The Virtual Chase)
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      ( 10:18 AM ) Garrett
Listserv Tips and Other Research Tips A discussion of the various kinds of listservs, protocols and techniques for searching them are discussed. (Source: The Virtual Chase #

      ( 11:20 AM ) Garrett
Library Trends 51, 4, has a couple of interesting articles; also 51, 3, has several on economics of scholarly publishing and print versus electronic collections ... (Source: New Technologies in Libraries via SOAN) #

      ( 10:55 AM ) Garrett
Library Hi-Tech issue on Open Archives Initiative protocols (Source: New Technologies in Libraries, via Sparc Open Access News) #

      ( 10:09 AM ) Garrett
Foreign Affairs - The Protean Enemy - Jessica Stern An essay points out ways in which Al Qaeda has reorganized and forged more dangerous alliances (specifically with Hezbollah) ... (Source: Chronicle of Higher Education Daily Update) #

( 10:52 AM ) Garrett
A LAWYER'S JUDGMENT WILL NEVER BE AUTOMATED Interesting article on whether lawyers are ethically bound to keep up with all the wireless and internet whatnot. (Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly) #

( 10:42 AM ) Garrett
InfoGrid What's this ... Seems like a mega search service, toolbar, etc etc .... Calls itself "Master Internet Map Index"... (Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly) #