One advantage of flying to the US is the chance to do some reading. At Newark (EWR) I picked up Guy Kawasaki's "Reality Check", which is a fun read. You can get a flavour of the book from this presentation Guy gave in 2006. While at MIT for the Elsevier Challenge I was browsing in the MIT book shop and stumbled across "Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge" by Frenchman Jean-Noël Jeanneney. It's, um, very French.

Stata Center. MIT Originally uploaded by Roderic Page Quick post about the Elsevier Challenge, which took place yesterday in the wonderful Stata Center at MIT. It was a great experience.

Die Bibliothekare des Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) haben das Abonnement für das Online-Archiv der amerikanischen Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) zum 31. März 2007 gekündigt. Der Grund: die SAE will ein digitales Rechte-Management (DRM) für den Online-Zugang zu Fachinformationen einsetzen.