Ray CHOW

Search Engine: copyright infringement anyway !

The Google Print project is now facing strong opposition from all the conservative copyright defenders, in particular from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) but there should be many other similar spoilsports around the world who represent the pillars of a frozen society and who fight only to preserve old and dust-covered granted rights, yet their unique value proposition.

To calm down passions, can Google say that all digitized contents are held by the libraries themselves and Google would only index the content just as for any WEB content which usually never belongs to the SEO provider?

My feeling is that most people didn't really realize - over the lastest 10 years - that Internet Search Engine Technology (indexation) was by definition the start of regular copyright infringement anyway !

plug into RSS reader

• English version

Smarter way to subscribe to RSS content (such as blog) from any of your favorite reader will soon be available, in the meantime just copy manually the following url into your aggregator subscription field: iblog.typepad.com/iblog_eng/index.rdf

• Version Française

Des méthodes plus confortables voire transparentes seront prochainement disponibles pour s'abonner à tout type de contenu RSS (y compris les blogs) depuis n'importe lequel de vos outils de lecture favoris, en attendant veuillez copier manuellement l'url suivante dans le champ souscription de votre aggrégateur de lecture: iblog.typepad.com/iblog/index.rdf

No Left Turn

It's getting hard to turn on left in Geneva certainly because the strong will to secure the road traffic as in the united states comes into conflict with the small size of the city. It's definitively dangerous to cut across the opposite lane in general but if space is missing to build dedicated left turn lane then it takes quite long to find one's way on left as around the lake. 

Simply FIRED

Mark Jen, famous Blogger fired by Google (his ex-employer) is promoting www.simplyfired.com the amazing idea to build up a site (company) based on the most extravagant fired stories.   

The icing on the cake is undoubtely their simply fired contest …