Monthly Archives: May 2007

Copyright News

By Michael Becker | Published: May 31, 2007
On this day in 1790, the U.S. Congress enacted the fed­eral copy­right law, which at the time pro­tected works for 14 years with the chance for one renewal. The cur­rent copy­right term is now the life of the author plus 70 years. In other news, the Associated Press announced today a new part­ner­ship with Web firm [...]
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Hypertext Timeline

By Michael Becker | Published: May 31, 2007
Google Labs offers an inter­est­ing new fea­ture: time­line view. Users can now see their search results in the form of a time­line. From Google’s exper­i­ment descrip­tion page: See results on a time­line or map. With the time­line and map views, Google’s tech­nol­ogy extracts key dates and loca­tions from select search results so you can view [...]
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Reading List Updated

By Michael Becker | Published: May 30, 2007
I added a lit­tle more advanced ver­sion of the Reading List fea­ture today. It pulls links from my del.icio.us links in a spec­i­fied cat­e­gory and dis­plays them on the page. You can find the link to it in the right navbar. I’ll prob­a­bly dis­con­tinue the read­ing list that pop­u­lated the side­bar soon–as soon as I [...]
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Photoshoppery

By Michael Becker | Published: May 30, 2007
Men’s Fitness mag­a­zine seems to have altered an image of ten­nis player Andy Roddick that appears on the cover of the cur­rent issue. Several celebrity news sites picked up the story, which Roddick then mocked on his own blog, accord­ing to New York Times reporter Adam Newman. Roddick said the mag­a­zine increased the size of [...]
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Book Review

By Michael Becker | Published: May 29, 2007
I fin­ished William Martin’s The Lost Constitution (Forge Books, 2007) this after­noon, reluc­tantly. Up until last week, when I spot­ted the novel on the new arrivals table at the book­store, I had not heard of Martin, who began writ­ing the adven­tures of his­tor­i­cal doc­u­ment hunter Peter Fallon in the 1970s. The premise of the novel [...]
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