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...digital world. The first is manned by the Library Digital Initiative (LDI), and the second by the Google Library Project.The Library Digital Initiative is a five-year effort funded internally by Harvard University. It was proposed in 1997 and since its inception, its focus has been to build tools necessary for further digitization. The LDI has divided its funding among a number of projects spanning Harvard’s incredibly large, decentralized library system. The money distributed by the LDI goes to funding both acquisitions and digitization of current holdings, which is an intricate and costly process.The Open Collections Program...
...home was a movie that made my father weep, it would be called “A Naked League of their Own.” And I would be Kit, except that I would never have played on the same team as my sister and my name would be Tool Kit, because I am the worst character...
...Though Negroponte and his project are not quite there yet, the 63-year-old professor is as busy as ever piling up the snow. Such was the case Monday in Rome, where he was utilizing the most important new tool in his stump speech: the lime green laptop with a toy-like design that Negroponte carries with him everywhere. Throughout the day, he spoke to three packed auditoriums, and met with officials at the U.N.'s Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Telecom Italia. In between, he taped an interview at Vatican...
...Phony Friendship Joel Stein's "You Are Not My Friend" was a hilarious and true portrait of "friendship" online [Oct. 15]. Facebook can be a fun diversion - it's a great procrastination tool - but it serves mainly to allow streams of self-important updates from people who are not true friends, and to make users more concerned with monitoring others' lives than with living their own. Elizabeth Findel, Steamboat Springs, Colorado...
...government becomes both referee and player,” he said, “the game changes rather dramatically for all participants.” Sovereign wealth funds allow states to invest their savings in private markets. “Unchecked, this could be the ultimate insider-trading tool,” Cox added. Before he became chairman of the SEC in 2005, Cox represented California’s 48th district in the House of Representatives, most recently chairing the Committee on Homeland Security. Before that, he served as senior associate counsel to the president from 1986 to 1988, representing...