Guardian – “Rupert Murdoch’s biographer Michael Wolff has called on “literate people” to boycott books until publishers stop bringing out ghostwritten memoirs by the likes of Sarah Palin.”

Very sad.

New York Review of Books – “Google has by now digitized some ten million books. On what terms will it make those texts available to readers? That is the question before Judge Chin. If he construes the case narrowly, according to precedents in...

CNET – “When an open-source project is working optimally, can proprietary-software companies hope to compete? Greg Kroah-Hartman, a prominent Linux kernel developer and Novell fellow, suggests that the answer is no. Speaking to the How Software Is...

AP – ” An Italian prosecutor demanded jail time Wednesday for four Google executives charged in absentia with defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused. Prosecutor Alfredo Robledo...