Daily Thoughts 1/8/2011

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Daily Thoughts 1/8/2011

I watched some early Houdini episodes today. I really didn't do much reading. It was kind of relaxing.


Web Bits

Naughty Novels, a cartoon. http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/nate-beelers-toons/2011/01/naughty-novels


Playing Catch Up In a Digital Library Race.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09stream.html?_r=1&ref=technology

I think we should have a national digital library.  It would be interesting to see.  I also think we should have a national digital library where every downloadable item that was not under copyright was sharable, easy to edit and reuse, annotatable, and easy to find.

 http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/01/07/132744291/for-promotional-use-only-not-for-resale-oh-yes-it-is?ft=1&f=1039

This could have big implications. I can see the doctrine of first sale affecting galleys for books. It might be a reason for more companies to start using electronic galleys which could be considered software and have different end user license agreements. Services like Netgalley could have a spike in use because of this.