tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582882273839196383.post7969969256144608427..comments2023-07-04T05:44:08.900-07:00Comments on Knowbodies: Kahle on Google Books and libraries. Disquiet, please!Petterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397935428853759685noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582882273839196383.post-35137172036846549222009-07-27T08:03:24.730-07:002009-07-27T08:03:24.730-07:00Petter: Sorry, I didn't follow the comments. N...Petter: Sorry, I didn't follow the comments. No, Kahle has never responded to my criticisms--for all I know, Kahle either doesn't know I exist or regards me as irrelevant. (OK, so I had lunch with him once, years ago. That doesn't negate either of these possibilities.) And, from Kahle's high-profile pundit perspective, I probably am irrelevant.waltchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582882273839196383.post-54907262049000185692009-05-22T14:22:29.559-07:002009-05-22T14:22:29.559-07:00Thanks for your comment, which prompted a little r...Thanks for your comment, which prompted a little research that was enlightening for me; I see you've thought (and written) hard about this, while I was perhaps taken in by Kahle's soundbites. But to take your book borrowing+digitization=privatization example from C&I jan08, you say "If Google negotiated exclusive contracts, maybe." My (uninformed) reading had Kahle saying that that is precisely what Google is doing. I also take him to mean the privatization not of "The information accessible through public institutions for centuries," which as you point out continues to be as available as ever, but the far more valuable digitized body of that information. I'm curious - Kahle persists in using "privatized" in this manner, even in major media like the Washington Post, and you have been persistent in criticizing him for it...has he responded to your criticism at all?Petterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12397935428853759685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8582882273839196383.post-7409072152711062412009-05-21T20:14:49.951-07:002009-05-21T20:14:49.951-07:00I may give up repeating this but: The information ...I may give up repeating this but: The information accessible through public institutions for centuries continues to be equally accessible through those public institution. That's simple fact. Nothing in Google's agreements in any way causes libraries to provide any less access than they ever did.<br /><br />Maybe "providing MORE access to public resources in a nonexclusive but privileged manner" constitutes "privatizing" in some new version of English, but it's not one I recognize.waltchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.com