1870 at Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England. He was married to Catherine Thomson Hogarth on April 2, 1836 and they had ten children together. The children's names were Charles Dickens, Jr. , Mary Dickens, Kate Perugini, Walter Landor Dickens,...

Some other interesting court decisions this year: * Author's Guild v. Google. The court rejected the Google Book Search settlement agreement for good reasons, but it sent the parties back to square 1. Why the parties haven't been able to broker a...

Consider Google Blog Search, Google Book Search, Google Checkout, Google Health, Google Images, Google Maps, Google News, Google Realtime, Google Shopping, and Google Video. Some have developed into solid products with loyal users. Others are far weaker.

His argument: By embedding Google+ into search, Google is essentially prodding people to join its social network out of SEO fear. I’ve found more than a dozen Google services receiving favored placement in Google search results. Consider Google Blog...

Robert Darnton answers in an interview on Rhys Tranter’s A Piece of Monologue. Among the subjects for the acclaimed Harvard historian are Open Access, e-publishing, the “threat” of Google Book Search, the promise of the Digital Public Library of...

That’s the kind of luck this blog has had, mirroring the luck of the Cowboys…. Every Christmas, those videos show up on various blogs, including this one. I finally found my CD containing the original files. Here is the first of four clips from the...