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Some thoughts in a bulleted list:

These days, if I'm assigned a paper on intellectual property and copyright, it practically writes itself. This is a good thing this week.
After cursing a bit about some oversights in its online documentation, I'm actually quite impressed with Greenstone as a digital library platform. I have nearly finished my final project for my Digital Libraries class using it - I just need to tweak its appearance with some CSS - and I have had very few issues.
I recently joined Twitter. It seems to take the most useless aspect of Facebook - the status updates - and base an entire online application around them. The result is that I find it to be a total wank-fest ("Ooooh! A new Follower!"). There are people on there who do cool things in real life but I would rather engage them on a mailing list, through comments on their blog, in a Facebook group, or at a conference. I don't care if they lost their luggage, fed their cat, or got stuck in traffic this morning. A random example is Nicole C. Engard. On her Open Sesame blog, I read about her take on the use of open source software in libraries, which can be quite useful for me. On her Twitter account, I can read her complain if she doesn't have wireless access in her hotel, or if she can't find eggplant at the supermarket. Brilliant.
Cuil (pronounced "cool"), a new search engine, is being launched. The name reminds me of Koules, the computer game with THE DARK APPLEPOLISHER as the boss!

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