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The second Gowers report on copyright was published yesterday (11 Dec 2009) by the Intellectual Property Office (UK). Makes very interesting and reflects the exceptions that are being recommended, taking into account libraries pleas for the ability to legally achive material in danger of disintegration or loss! The full report is here in pdf format:
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/consult-gowers2.pdf
Makes essential reading.

I find hashtags on Twitter useful ways of pulling all the information about a particular discussion together. However, sometimes I see a hashtag that is attached to an interesting tweet, but I haven't got a clue what the background of the hashtag is. If I've not been involved in the thread/discussion/conversation from the beginning it can be difficult to back-track to where it was first used. Sometimes keywords are used as hashtags, which can give you a clue (but not always), but in some cases a… Continue

While this blog post may not be directly Library 2.0 related, I think it will strike a chord with most librarians, Blog post summarizes an ASEE ELD listserv discussion about ASME Digital Library journal access being cut off prior to 2000. Discusses journal archive subscription vs. purchase and librarian’s fear of losing access to online journals once print subscriptions have been dropped.… Continue

Research report in Sociology of Law (Nov 2009):
Social Norms and Intellectual Property – Online norms and the European legal development.
By Måns Svensson and Stefan Larsson

The study empirically examined, or rather examined the lack of, social norms opposing illegal file sharing. A total of over 1,000 respondents have answered the questionnaire. Along with the social nor… Continue

In this blog post, I describe 3 different ways to zoom in and out of presentations to increase visibility, and to create a bit of action. The three tools are Zoomit, Prezi and… Continue