i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

I came across the following video: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/64111786/

This is 40-minute video exploring the history of Google and the company's current endeavors.  The video follows the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, from their first meeting at Stanford to the new media-company that collides with old media businesses of newspaper, books, movies and television.

Several weeks ago, the Oxford University Press conceded that because of the internet, there probably won't be a physical print version of the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7970391/Oxford-English-Dictionary-will-not-be-printed-again.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-health-update.html

The New York Times recently wrote this piece about PeopleSmart: a web-based company that offers searchable profiles for every citizen of the United States.