Stanford Internet Study Details Most Common Online Activities

December 31, 2004Commerce, Dave's Muse, Information, Politics, Science, Security, Services, Software, Technicalactivities, banking, business-to-consumer, e-mail, email, internet, online, patterns, society, stanford university, tanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, useTodd Cochrane

A report of Internet-related activities, published by Stanford University in 2000, asked 4,000 respondents to select among a list of 17 online activities. The results were not surprising. An updated report is forthcoming next week.

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Google Becomes a Library. Digitizing the World’s Books?

December 14, 2004Commerce, Dave's Muse, Information, Science, Services, Software, Technicalacademic research, books, digitalization, google, google print, Google Scholar, harvard university, holdings, libraries, library, online research, oxford university, scanning, stanford university, the new york public libary, university of michiganTodd Cochrane

Google Becomes a Library. Digitizing the World’s Books?
Google, Inc., flush from a solid IPO, is serving five of the leading libraries by offering to pick up the tab for scanning the hallowed collections and making the resulting texts available online, in many cases, at no charge to the reader. The new project, Google Print, offers an entirely new way of conducting library research.

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