[Web4lib] Cites & Insights 5:14 available

[Walt.Crawford at rlg.org]

Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large 5:14 (December 2005) is now
available for downloading at
http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ5i14.pdf

This 28-page issue (PDF as always, with HTML essays separately available
at http://cites.boisestate.edu/) is a post-Thanksgiving digital feast
with two big related helpings of scanning goodness, a story involving a
DRM turkey, a small side dish of crow, and a dessert of old/odd flicks.

With that strained metaphor out of the way, here's what's in the issue:

* Perspective: OCA and GLP 1: Ebooks, Etext, Libraries and the Commons -
the first of two stories on the Open Content Alliance and Google Library
Project. This one is entirely my perspectives and implications.

* Following Up: Mea Culpa - a little bit of crow, following up on
"Analogies, Gatekeepers and Blogging."

* (C)3 Perspective: Sony BMG: DRM Gone Bad - what happens when a fine
consumer electronics corporation turns into a Big Media turkey

* Perspective: OCA and GLP 2: Steps on the Digitization Road - the
second (and much larger) of two related perspectives, with an early set
of notes on OCA and a lengthy set of quotes and comments on Google Book
Search, the Google Library Project, the suits, and related matters.

* Offtopic Perspective: SciFi Classics 50 Movie Pack, Part 1 - from
Hercules and Gamera to the Wasp Woman and Pia Zadora, notes on 26
strange movies, half of what's now a $20 megapack, a few of which
actually deserve the "SciFi" label.

A note in closing: While this is the last issue of volume 5, it is *not*
the end of the volume. For those who bind C&I volumes (if anyone else
does), the volume index and title sheet will come out in the reasonably
near future.