text Ain't Metadata

Text Ain’t Metadata

The headline text in that screen grab from the Seattle Times is trying really hard to be metadata and connect these two items based on shared topic coverage. Turns out, …

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Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitize 1.5 million …

Who will guard the guards?

Photo by rooReynolds News: Web privacy rules turn poachers into gamekeepers Views: The EU is demanding that users opt in to tracking, while the U.S. Congress seems to want people …

Literate distractability?

Photo from MiikaS on Flickr under Creative Commons BY-SA license Reuters tells us about a Pew survey of “technology insiders, critics and students” asking what skills young people will need …