news and notes

From Ars Technica: The makers of the commercial reference management application EndNote have sued an open source alternative called Zotero, claiming that its ability to import EndNote files violated its creators’ software license. That case has now been dismissed, leaving Zotero in the clear. [I've been playing with Zotero, and it looks good.:]

From The New York Times Bits Blog: Aneesh Chopra, tell us what the nation’s CTO really does. “My job is to serve as the innovation platform champion in ad