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Friday, January 30th, 2009
In keeping with the non-commercial nature of our service, we are informing the public that the financial figures for 2007-2008 years for PublicDomainReprints.org have been reviewed and the remaining profit of $33.13 has been donated to the Internet Archive.
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
I plan on upgrading the database for PublicDomainReprints.org over the next week to support new features coming early next year. Expect some downtime. All requests will not be processed until the upgrade has been completed.
Stay tuned.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
[This is a followup on an earlier post about the new and free Scan on Demand service from the Internet Archive]
The service is great and I really have no complaints. However, one thing that I ran into is that copyrights are not being checked properly. For example, this book was ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
For the past few weeks there were persistent processing issues with certain titles requested. We have resolved those issues and all pending requests have been done. The issue was due to one of the archives blocking our requests because we happened to have been sharing an IP address of some ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
From the announcement on the Open Library homepage:
Introducing Scan-On-Demand!
In partnership with the Internet Archive and OpenLibrary.org, the Boston Public Library is excited to announce a new program to allow users and patrons to "Scan-on-Demand". It's easy and free! Books are delivered to you, electronically, in 5-7 days
Quick inspection of this ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Some notes from my research on cloud computing - some common cloud services, what they do and common providers:
Storage - provides ability to store and serve files, usually unlimited and billed per GB of storage/bandwidth, no minimums. May or may not come with CDN functionality. Some examples:
Amazon S3 - the ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
One of the POD companies we experiment with, is changing their prices effective October 28th, 2008. Some sizes will get cheaper, some more expensive. Once the pricing goes into effect, I will post more details as to how it will affect this service. We are hoping to take advantage of ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
For the past few weeks, my RSS reader (Bloglines) has not been behaving. Now comes a post on Techncrunch that the founder of Bloglines is considering switching to Google Reader. I started exploring Google Reader to see if it would fit my needs (notice the new feed on the sidebar). ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
(This is a followup on an old post about a similar project using Amazon's API)
As I mentioned six months ago, one of the big things in the library world is FRBR which seeks to link all editions of the same book together. The OCLC offers their take on it as ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Over three years ago I wrote a small draft to define a format for reporting spam that is readable by machines as well as humans. Three years later (a few weeks ago), AOL announced that they will be switching their feedback loops to that format. I am hoping it will ...
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