Rowland Institute Library Blog

A BBC News column argues for file sharing news to get around
censorship.  Peter Suber pointed to this and mentioned, however,
that it would make getting usage data, among other things,
difficult.  Interesting concept, at any rate. (Sources: Edupage,
Open Access News)

A page aggregates public weblogs of Sun employees… (source: Library Stuff)

“Evicting Einstein”: “
A new concept for an experiment to test the predictions of Einstein’s
relativity more precisely than ever before is being developed by scientists
at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Their mission, which effectively
uses our solar system as a giant laboratory, would help narrow the
field of vying theories and bring us one step closer to the next revolution
in physics.” (Source: Lockergnome Bytes)

CNet’s Declan McCullagh takes a close look at what Google’s new mail
service offers (evidently it’s not just an April Fool’s joke) and
suggests alternatives more respectful of user privacy.

A New York Times article tries to document and sort out marketing and
hype from research and applications with actual potential. 
(Source: Science in the News)

A recent NAS colloquium on mapping domains in science has gotten a lot
of press.  A collection of papers show how supposedly disparate
disciplines can be related through citations and try to model some of
these connections through database searching and linking. 
(Sources: Open Access News, Library Link of the Day, Boing Boing, LIS
News)

A step-bystep overview that includes sections on self-assessment,
networking, resume/CVs and interviewing. Restricted to
subscribers.  Harvard users follow this link.

Hiawatha Bray reports on a Harvard Business School study that suggests
people are likely to buy CDs even after downloading files off the
internet.  (Source; Harvard in the News)

A Business Week article makes the lofty claim “the internet can make or break a candidate.”