Archive for January 30th, 2007
For the Record . . .
Scott Jaschik hasa spooky article in Inside Higher Ed today – reporting that, when Linda Bilmes, a Havard economist, wrote an analysis that said the administration had underestimated the cost of rehabilitation for soldiers injured in Iraq, the Pentagon challenged her findings. When she pointed out the data she used was from a government Website, [...]
Posted: 30 January, 2007 in Information Ethics, Worth Reading.
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Toobin on Google’s Library Project
Jeffrey Toobin, in The New Yorker, provides an overview of the lawsuit against Google’s library project and predicts that Google will become impatient with the time it takes for the suit to work its way through the courts and will settle with publishers and the Author’s Guild. Like most federal lawsuits, these cases appear likely [...]
Posted: 30 January, 2007 in Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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