Interesting blog post over at Tame the Web on the idea of applying Cover Flow view from Itunes to digital collections.
Check out how Villanova University has put it too use.
Ok, this won't save the world or cure cancer, but I would much rather leaf through a digital image archive this way. DSpace, get to work on this for me.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Oh NOES! Authors may stop writing
From an interview in the Times (London), Tracy Chevalier says authors may stop writing because of an epidemic of internet book piracy. I have been riding the pirate ship for a heck of a long time and I have hardly ever seen a copied ebook online. Sure, they are out there, but to say they are obscure poetry books is pretty ridiculous.
People may actually buy her books if she just stopped writing the same damn story over and over and over.
People may actually buy her books if she just stopped writing the same damn story over and over and over.
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