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A few days ago I wrote a post about how I found Gyorgy Faludy’s Learn By Heart This Poem Of Mine. I’d been looking for the poem for a very long time, without knowing author, title or first line. Yet it happened. Because of the blogosphere.
Now I want to be able to do something else. [...]

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Just an experiment. Dave La Morte asks if we can find the Homer Price live action video he saw while at grammar school. Most of the “usual suspects” show everything that is Homer Price and VHS as “out of print”.
I have found something that may work, but I can’t tell because I’ve never seen any [...]

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After nearly ten years at Dresdner Kleinwort, I shall be leaving the bank at
the end of this week. It’s been a wonderful time: I’ve had the opportunity
to work with many truly talented people, been given the freedom to
experiment with real innovation in technology and its application,
experienced being part of a close and resilient culture [...]

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Here’s a story by Mark Frauenfelder showing how he found a set of books he was looking for via his blog. Once again it is a case of the conversational richness that a blog community represents, how natural-language amorphous requests and queries resolve themselves beautifully “given enough eyeballs”.
Of course I appreciate the skill, talent and [...]

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The British Library launched a new IP manifesto sometime Monday at a “fringe” event forming part of the annual Labour Party conference in the UK. You can also find further information on all this via this story on BBC News.
Here’s an extract from the IP manifesto:
As the Library prepares for legal deposit of digital
items [...]

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