Web 2.0 technologies enable more people to have access to creating their own online content. This results not only in blogs, wikis, websites, and social networking sites, but creative spin-offs, too. A mixture of tongue-in-cheek parodies and smart marketing exist, like the following: SecondLife is parodied by Geta(First)Life. Bloggers with a dark [...]
Vatican Library closure
Closed for renovations until 2010, the Vatican Library’s priceless books will not be directly accessible for research. Here are some extracts from the BCC report on technology in place there that tickled me.
“…the Vatican Library is in the vanguard of digital technology. Microchips have already been installed inside some valuable books, which [...]
