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As part of its mission to make the world’s books searchable and discoverable, Google has digitized over five hundred ancient Greek and Latin books. We present them here downloadable as zip files of images and plain text, and as links to Google Books web pages where you can read them online in full or download PDFs. This collection was selected by Prof. Greg Crane and Alison Babeu of Tufts University, and compiled by Will Brockman and Jon Orwant of Google.

✖ Via Google Books

Read more about it over at Inside Google Books: “Google releases 500 scans of Ancient Greek and Latin texts for research” by Will Brockman, Software Engineer, June 25, 2010

• Aug 08, 2010 link notes tagged: technology communication book ancient Greek Latin classic Google Google Books ressource archive Internet online digital

✖ Via Saikat Biswas: The Holga D Project

Holga D is a digital camera inspired from the extremely popular cult of Holga and other toy cameras of its kind. (much more)

About Saikat Biswas:

In the ever growing field of design I am a highly passionate and creative individual. By profession, I am an industrial designer.

I was born and raised in India. I studied industrial design with the specialization in product design at National Institute of Design, India and Pforzheim University of Applied Science, Germany.

In past five years, as a professional industrial designer, I have worked for some of the largest consumer electronics companies across the world and worked on countless number of projects of varied spectrum, from creating mobile phones to designing trains. (more)

Take a look at Biswas’ other projects.

• Aug 03, 2010 link notes tagged: technology photography Holga design still camera vintage digital simplicity open source

An Argentinean judge’s recent decision to drop charges against a philosophy professor for alleged copyright infringement is being seen as a stepping stone to drawing attention to copyright issues in Latin America, according to advocates.
Professor Horacio Potel created open source websites to post foreign philosophers’ work in Spanish. The websites were named “Nietzsche in Spanish,” “Heidegger in Spanish,” and “Derrida in Spanish.

✖ Via IP-Watch : “Restoration Of French Philosopher’s Work Online In Argentina Seen As An Opening” by Catherine Saez, December 14, 2009

Horacio Potel’s site are working again : http://www.jacquesderrida.com.ar/ and http://www.heideggeriana.com.ar/

This story first began in March 2009. Read more about it HERE and HERE.

• Dec 17, 2009 link notes tagged: communication philosophy book copyright Internet digital intellectual property Derrida technology

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✖ Via The New York Times: “Stations Turn Off Analog Signals as Digital TV Deadline Arrives” (photo by Darryl Bush/AP)

“Across the United States today, television stations will power down the analog signals that have sent TV shows into homes for six decades. Friday represents the deadline for the country’s transition to fully digital television broadcasting. Throughout the day, TV stations are switching off analog and in many cases moving to new positions on the channel dial.

• Jun 12, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: television news technology communication analog digital innovation evolution history

It’s funny lately, how I’m reading these articles again about the joys of film, versus the clinical-clean digital files that everyone is now shooting. It’s almost like memories of an old girlfriend, where all you remember are the good parts about the relationship. It’s almost like some kind of Harmonic Convergence of a recoil against digital, when, for so long, it was such an uphill battle to get digital accepted.

✖ Via Mark Tucker : Overheard in Ad Agency offices — from film to digital (and back?)

• Jan 19, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: technology photo digital analogic