Category Archives: School

Google Book Settlement

This is old news now since it happened over a week ago, however, the continued discussion of this settlement is needed and hopefully welcomed.
I have been silent on this settlement on this site due to a few reasons (full disclosure):

I was at the Open Content Alliance’s (OCA) yearly meeting in the Presidio of San Francisco [...]

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Since it hasn’t been talked about enough already…

So, why should LaunchPad (Malone) be open sourced?*
I’m not going to say because other groups need to use the bug tracking/code hosting/question answering/multi-project-resource unifying features. No, I do believe that it wouldn’t make much sense for there to be multiple Launchpads out there dealing with bugs/code/etc (maybe a little of sense, but not much).
That [...]

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I’m going to D.C.

The school I attend, the University of Michigan’s School of Information, has a neat little program called “Alternative Spring Break.”
Alternative Spring Break, or ASB to the “in people,” is an opportunity for students to work with organizations for a week; basically a mini-internship.  The positions range from usability testing of a website to archive managing [...]

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My daily backup "script"

So, I am having harddrive issues right now. Luckily I have a backup script run daily that keeps everything important backed up on an external harddrive (which seems to be doing ok right now). I also have any documents for grad school on 3 separate harddrives at any one time (I have learned [...]

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Updates Updates

New to this blogging thing, so I usually forget I even have one, or when I remember and think of a good topic, I don’t write it down and never write it.
Well… Here is a run down of some updates.
1) Ubuntu Michigan LoCo Team is APPROVED! Check out the announcement: We’re Approved! The [...]

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