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Posts from ‘September, 2008’

Digitization of books speeded up

I just ran across a video in which an automatic book scanner was presented. It was amazing to see how fast this machine works. Digitization of libraries will sure be faster with such a machine. Furthermore, I think the automatic page turning is less invasive than a person turning the page because there won’t be [...]

YAP for the MOOC CCK08

I love abbreviations. They allow to say a very long title etc. in just a few seconds. The heading in full reads as follows:
Yet Another Participant for the Massive Open Online Course “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008”
Fellow participants of the course know what will follow in the next lines: my introduction. As there are over [...]

Extending the scope of this blog

I have started this blog back in 2006 (using a different blog software) to end my email “curiousity letter” as I kept adding friends to it who were then not able to read previous mails. Though not many of my friends were and are avid blog readers, I hope they do stop by now and [...]