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Footnote has posted the 1860 Census with its usual array of tools and goodies, some of which require a free membership. But the basic browsing and viewing is open to all. Footnote does a nice job with this stuff, including annotation tools and other

I've taken the title of Sharon Richardson's post at JoiningDots because it's so apt. She writes:What's weird from an information and context perspective is how remote this disaster feels, compared to other events such as the Tsunami, Hurrican Katrina

Moveon.org is recommending that we donate to the International Burmese Monks Organization, which already has a network of local people in place. Moveon.org thinks that money donated to the monks via Avaaz.org is more likely to do good quickly there.

The Harvard Law faculty has voted unanimously for an Open Access policy based on the one that the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed a few months ago. Yay! John Palfrey, Harvard Law's new vice dean for library and information resources (and

That's the apt title of a post by ZA3038 that provides an interesting overview of the Open Archives Initiative, about which I know, um, let's see, carry the one...embarrassingly nothing: At its core, the OAI promotes interoperability between differe

Flyp, an online mag, is in beta but it's already gorgeous.[Tags: flyp ]

David Ardia is giving a Berkman lunch talk on the Citizen Media Law Project. David begins by acknowledging his colleagues on the project, which has been student-driven to a large degree. [Caution Live-Blogging: I'm missing things, getting them wrong,

The latest version of Keynote exports files in Powerpoint format that the latest version of Popwerpoint can't read. Charming.A discussion board pointed out, however, that if you strip out all the presenter notes from your Keynote file, the exported K

I wanted to find out what Microsoft Expression Media — or, as Microsoft puts it, Microsoft® Expression® Media — is, so I did what any red-blooded Netizen would do: I googled it. The top hit is Microsoft's home page for it. It wants to show me videos

Best of luck to Ethan Zuckerman, he of the big heart and huge brain, as he undergoes eye surgery...[Tags: ethan_zuckerman ]