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Recently, I bought the complete works of Brahms . Of course, I was faced with the by-now common problem of whether to buy nostalgic CDs, or...

Here's an interesting analysis of the Google Book Search settlement. This, you will recall, resolved the suit that authors and publish...

You're probably not big into antedating - the academic game of finding earlier citations of words and phrases. But here's an intere...

Further to yesterday's post about a call to respect free use of copyrighted material, here's an interesting point about Google'...

One of the problems with the otherwise laudable Google Book Project is that it's not actually providing access to the texts, just adding...

WoW - or rather World of Warcraft - real search for a virtual world: The Armory is a vast searchable database of information for World of W...

I've touched on the subject of lifelogging - recording every moment of your waking day - before, but this feature is by far the best ex...

There's plenty of noise in the press (and blogs) about the Google Book project, or the Million Book Project . These are all interestin...

Search lies at the heart of modern desktop computing (just ask Google). So if free software wants to make a breakthrough on the desktop, co...

I've not really been paying much attention to the Google Book Search saga. Essentially, I'm totally in favour or what they're ...

With all the brouhaha over the Google Book Search Library Project , it is easy to overlook other efforts directed along similar lines. I...

Another day, another Google launch. As the official Google blog announced , the company is launching a pilot programme to digitise national...

The wilful misunderstanding of Google Books by traditional publishers is truly sad to see. They continue to propagate the idea that Google...