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Tag Archives: disruption

Google’s Similar Images and Art Research

22-Apr-09

Found via DigitalKoans, Google Labs has just released a “similar images” search engine.

Instructables Book Ripper

21-Apr-09

This Instructables set by Daniel Reetz is an exciting hack. He lays out a plan for building a two-camera book scanner with V-shaped platen.

Ithakas Key Stakeholders Study for Academic Libraries

24-Aug-08

Ithaka has released an interesting study it has been working with since 2000 on academic libraries and faculty perceptions. What I like most from this is a useful model of academic library services that they’ve broken into three aspects: purchaser, archive, and gateway. They describe these as: The purchaser role was described in the survey [...]

Is self-published fiction becoming fail-safe?

18-Aug-08

… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago: The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt A few key quotes: The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than [...]