Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution.

Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution. Castolari writes "Here is an interesting interview of Arthur C. Clarke and his views on regulating communications, as well as what he sees as the past, ... [Slashdot]

 Insight and perspective from one of my favorite authors. Here's my favorite comment:

We are now faced with the responsibility of discernment. Just as our ancestors quickly realised that no one was going to force them to read the entire library of a thousand books, we are now overcoming the initial alarm at the sheer weight of available information – and coming to understand that it is not the information itself that determines our future, only the use we can make of it.

It comes down to exercising judgment. Clarke has it and thinking about what he has to say is worth the time.

[McGee's Musings]

6:12:16 PM    

10,000 Ebooks.

10,000 Ebooks.

Here's something highly cool - a new site (new enough to still be in beta) called 10,000 eBooks has collected together the Project Gutenberg text files of public domain books and converted them to Palm, HTML, PDF, Rocket eBook, iSilo, Doc, Plucker and zTXT formats. iSilo is my format of choice for everything I buy from Fictionwise, so being able to download PG that way is a big plus for me. Since King Lear is on my list of books to read anyway, I'll download it from here in iSilo format, rather than suffering through the typical ASCII formatted Gutenberg file. I had been considering an ongoing project to read Edward Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire volumes, and I can get all them formatted nicely and read them comfortably on my Handspring in my favorite format. Very nice.

Link found via TeleRead.

[Evil Genius Chronicles]

For those of you who, like me, are ever fearful of being caught with time on your hands and bereft of reading material.

[McGee's Musings]

6:11:11 PM    

ACRL/ALA Instruction Section updated.... The ACRL/ALA Instruction Section website has been updated with new material, including new Resources for Instructors. For those unfamiliar with the site, the mission of the Instruction Section is to enhance "the ability of academic and research librarians to advance... [Information Literacy Weblog]

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