...And All the Ships At Sea

One of our readers sent us an entrancing, if irrelevant here in the deep desert, ship-tracking website. Another sent a link to videos about the work of artist Julius Popp, an intersection of typography, electronic bits, and the Net on a very large scale.

China is blocking flickr. Privacy International has ranked the privacy practices of various internet service companies. (These two links come via Steve Cohen's LibraryStuff.) In another bit of loose thread from the techie world, on the Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries email list traffic has been heavy, verbose, and largely incomprehensible. Most messages at the moment are coming in under the subject line "Purposes of classification & Information imperialism." Can't read 'em, so can't give you a thumbnail sketch...

The 11 universities in the Big 10 Conference have signed an agreement with the Google Books Library Project. Publishers Weekly also reported on the development. Earlier, one of Google's own blogs gave a take on their several book projects.

For a last bit of fun, 'Research points the finger at PowerPoint' will warm the heart of conference attendees and students everywhere...