Rowland Institute Library Blog

A recent issue of the ACM journal interaction
focuses on human-computer interaction. One piece that caught my eye was
Dan Gillmor’s column “Imaging Tomorrow’s News.”  But there’s a lot
to look at.  the above link will work for Harvard
affiliates.  (Source; Confessions of a Science Librarian)

The Globe has 11 RSS feeds, from front page to world to metro to sports
to ideas, among others. Pick and drop ’em in your aggregator. (Sources:
Scripting News, Library Stuff)

Lessig reflects on the Eldred vs. Ashcroft case, in which Eldred was
thwarted in his attempts to digitize public domain literature by the
Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act. (Source: Open Access News)

An interesting discussion of how researchers value full-text access to
book contents and how Amazon has enabled and even seen sales rise as a
result.  (Source: Open Access News)

A report advocates a balance between user’s rights and commercial interests in the digital environment. (Source: beSpacific)

Greg Notess’ column discusses what engines and syntax to employ when
trying to track down formats other than html, such as pdfs, word
documents, spreadsheets and other digitized phenomena from the
quotidian to the obscure. (Source: The Virtual Chase)

Science Next Wave’s Career Blog discusses the recent wave of
“outsourcing” of jobs in the technology sector and what it might mean
for scientists in the near future.

After years of studying the structure and function of the bacterial flagellar motor, Rowland’s bacterial motor works lab
just published new results on harnessing swarms of bacteria, with their
rotating flagella, to move fluids through microfluidic channels. 
These aggregates of bacteria have been dubbed “bacterial carpets”; the
work was also  commented on several months ago in Nature Science Update.