Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Just when you think he couldn't get better...

Obama=Future of open access. Basically, the President endorses a looser definition of "copyright." Publishers, beware!

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If a google calendar fell in the forest...


Just in case you feel nervous about using Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader,and Picasa...here's an article about how to keep your nearest and dearest bits and bytes safe. And it's not that I don't understand the Great Eye potential of Google...I just like their cool tools. But the key here is that we shouldn't lose track of our personal information in the google clouds...

http://mashable.com/2009/02/02/google-backup