Briefs #2: UC Press and Portico Announce Digital Preservation Deal; Yahoo Local; YouTube Issues in Brazil; Zoho Adds New Table of Contents Feature
+ University of California Press Signs Deal with Portico to Preserve Digital Content
See Also: “Portico: An Electronic Archiving Service”
Presentation by Eileen Fenton, Portico Executive Director
October 2006 at International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
23 pages/slides; PDF.
+ Brazil court orders YouTube shut on celeb sex video (via Reuters)
+ Add Table of Contents to your Zoho Writer docs
Zoho Writer is a web-based word processor. Part of the Zoho suite of products (almost all free and more than impressive)
+ Yahoo Local Wants Your Help Adding Content to Local Listings
Fill out the form and according to the blog, the change (for example, a new store or restaurant) will be added to the Yahoo Local database in 24 hours. However, the form on the web site itself says it “may take some time to appear on the site.” It will be interesting to see long it actually takes. Also, what type of verification will take place for each entry versus spam that could potentially fill the database.