Coyle's InFormation
Comments on the digital age, which, as we all know, is 42.
Friday, October 13, 2023
Words
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In 1949, George Kingsley Zipf published the book "Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort" in which he develops what beca...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
The Real Bard, Tis a Pity
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There are many things that bother me about the recently released chatbots, one of which is their a-historical nature. This lack of attentio...
Thursday, April 13, 2023
What is Controlled Digital Lending? The Origin Story
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The bulk of the reporting on the lawsuit between publishers (four of them, led by Hachette) and the Internet Archive's version of Cont...
Friday, April 07, 2023
Libraries, the law, and equality
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In the spirit of "everyone is equal under the law", it is equally illegal for both a starving man and a billionaire to steal a l...
Thursday, April 06, 2023
Judge's Decision on Internet Archive's Controlled Digital Lending
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The story is long and complex, so here's about the shortest Q&A summary that I can manage. Remember IANAL (I am not a lawyer), IAAL ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
KO is KO'd
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A library is intended to be a place of organized knowledge. Knowledge organization (KO) takes place in two areas: the shelf and the catalog....
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Saturday, November 05, 2022
Cautions on ISBN and a bit on DOI
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I have been reading through the documents relating to the court case that Hachette has brought against the Internet Archives "controll...
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