Morning Linkage (Apr 7)

For play. Using a “rub­ber band” inter­face to explore words and their
connections:
http://www.visuwords.com/
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Reporting on Reading Rights and the National Federations of the
Blind’s protest of Amazon’s cav­ing to the Author’s Guild over the
text-to-speech fea­ture of the kin­dle. Show some love. Write a letter.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/06/reading-rights-coali.html

Best round up of the report­ing on the Google books set­tle­ment. I’m
still work­ing my way through the links here.
http://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/the-controversy-over-google
‑book-search/

more tomor­row,