Rowland Institute Library Blog

More on freely downloadable music, movies and other public domain media…. (Source; beSpacific)

David Bradley, a chemist who writes about science for a number of
publications, notably New Scientist and ChemWeb, has a blog announcing
his new writings, as well as a blog of scientific happenings in
general.   (Source: SciencePORT.org)

The 2004 MacArthur fellows were announced recently.  Each
recipient gets a “no strings attached” $500,000 grant over five
years.  Many are in academia, including scientists, a folklorist,
fiction writers, poets, a high school debate coach, a ragtime pianist,
a community health advocate and others.  See the press release.  (Source; Harvard in the News)

Gerry McKiernan gives an overview of RSS and how libraries use feeds to
deliver content (thanks for mentioning the RIH library blog). 
Subject-oriented feeds such as EEVL’s are profiled, as well as journal
TOC and search services.  (Source; beSpecific)

An Oak Ridge lab has reported considerable success with atomic-scale
resolution imaging in a silicon crystal.  (Source; George Porter)

is called Coolgov.  One of the things it points to is having to
explain bbq to the world.  It comes on the heals of Docuticker, a
ResourceShelf offshoot, which covers ngos and think tanks as well as
gov sites.  (Source; Boing Boing)

to include works that “are often out of print and considered no longer
commercially viable, but are still locked up under copyright.” A Wired
News article considers the Kahle v. Ashcroft case and how the
plaintiffs (esp. Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive) aim to get
clearance to digitize many such works.  (Source: Library Link of
the Day)

A news story reports that RSS readers place quite a demand on web
servers, and content providers are rethinking how to deal with them and
make the best use of resources.  (Source: Yahoo News)

Technology Review posts its annual listing of 100 wunderkinds (under 40
at least) in computing, nanotechnology and biotechnology. 

Technology Review posts its annual listing of 100 wunderkinds (under 40
at least) in computing, nanotechnology and related hot fields.