Category Archives: Intellectual Property

I Endorse These Messages

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Timothy Burke

Remember when people used to use blogs mostly just for shout-outs to other bloggers? Ok, they’re often still for that purpose, but it seems to me that Twitter serves that function far more efficiently. Also, with my own bloggorhea, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Lead On

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Timothy Burke

Princeton University restrains its faculty from giving away copyright on journal articles to academic publishers.

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Adaptation

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Timothy Burke

I really love the idea of courses which combine trying to apply a body of knowledge to a practical problem with exploring why said practical problem actually poses intellectually challenging questions with no clear answer. I’ve mentioned before at the … Continue reading →

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History Swallowed Whole

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Timothy Burke

Last week was a busy time, so I got behind in my blogging. As is often the case, by the time I can get around to finishing a piece, the point I intended to make has been made. As is … Continue reading →

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The Emperor’s New Interface

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Timothy Burke

A beginning-of-the-semester raft of posts is on the way. Let me start off with a little appetizer of outrage before I get on to the long-winded equivocating, though. It seems like most librarians are willing to kiss and make up … Continue reading →

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Customer Dissatisfaction

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Timothy Burke

I made a few comments on a thread at Inside Higher Education concerning UCLA’s recent decision to stop the streaming of video materials for classes behind password-protected course management systems, in response to pressure from the Association for Information and … Continue reading →

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Everybody Out of the Pool

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Timothy Burke

Modest proposal: not just Google, but every single multinational company offering online products and services should get out of China. Not as an embargo designed to force improvements in human rights, but out of self-interest. Why operate in a country … Continue reading →

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Digital Search II: A User Perspective on Database Design

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Timothy Burke

If I’m anxious about Google becoming a database vendor, it’s partly because the user experience with existing databases has been so dismal to date. On the other hand, Google’s understanding of and commitment to usability is head and shoulders above … Continue reading →

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Digital Search I: Google Poisons the Well

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Timothy Burke

I am apparently not the only person who feels a bit bait-and-switched by the state of Google’s digitization projects after the settlement. So much so that Sergey Brin himself has sallied forth to defend the current terms in the New … Continue reading →

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Course Zero

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Timothy Burke

There’s an interesting article at Inside Higher Education about the new breed of peer-to-peer style sites for collecting student notes and course materials, officially for the purposes of providing study aids. In reality, at least some of the sites in … Continue reading →

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