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October 22, 2008

The real Internet Archive

My attention was caught by this quote from Clay Shirky on the excellent ReadWriteWeb blog:
Back in 1974, when the Internet was a fraction of what it is now, the acorn to an oak, there were really only two applications,” said Shirky, “Telnet, and FTP.”
Surely he’s wrong, I thought.  Those protocols aren’t that old.
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October 22, 2008

Some ebooks are buggy — report them

Many ebooks aren’t going through the same kind of quality control that regular books do.  That’s been my experience and that of other ebook consumers. I’m not talking about technical problems here as much as basic editorial ones.
Sometimes the issues are minor: occasional spacing errors, missing or overzealous capitalization.  Other times they can be more [...]

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