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 [...]
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 the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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the novel on the new arrivals table at the bookstore, I had not heard of Martin, who began writing the adventures of historical document hunter Peter Fallon in the 1970s.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 [...]
