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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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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
I am happy to announce that the infamous illustration problem in PublicDomainReprints.org has been fixed. Since the inception, our file conversion had issued with certain Internet Archive titles that had illustrations. That has been fixed as follows:
1. If a book has less than 6 illustrations, it will process in pure ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I did some minor interface updates:
1. A new section was added to the site listing titles that are pending in queue to be processed.
2. Pages for titles already processed were enhanced with cover images and metadata from the original archives, as well as enhanced listing of reprints and links to ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Over the weekend I coded up a new BETA search function for PublicDomainReprints.org which uses Google's AJAX Search API. This new search (which can be found here), lets people search for more public domain books and request reprints without leaving the site. The original search is still available on the ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Dan Cohen recently interviewed me for his podcast at DigitalCampus.tv. You can listed to it here, my interview starts at about 20 minutes in. It is focused mainly on PublicDomainReprints.org and surrounding issues.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Some regular updates:
1. Amazon EC2 image upgraded to Fedore Core 8.
2. The processed book lists and the 20 recent book RSS feed now point to a book details page.
3. Support for additional link formats has been added.
4. Store links have been removed since they were confusing people.
5. We are still ...
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