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It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.

Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook predicts that people will share more information naturally in the future.

Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don't even care about.

Facebook just made one of the biggest changes to the site's user experience since the introduction of the News Feed three years ago. How are companies dealing with the problem of Information Overload?

Abstract This paper argues that the evolution of e-book technology is related to the penetrating impact of networks and information technology on society. It defines the concept of e-book and describes some aspects of e-book technology. By focusing on book production processes, the paper examines what probable consequences the development of e-books and a global network economy will have for publishers and book industries. E-books, along with other electronic formats, will trigger major changes as the digital products and distribution channels will force the logic of the network economy on the book publishing industry.

The University acts as a renowned institution for disseminating information and knowledge. Should this role include an account for moral education?

This is a important step forward and that people are realizing that putting information and pics online is not always that helpful.

This article suggested that by developing open source software which adopt some features like in Google, would help library users finding information they need.

Read The seven ages of magazine readers & other Media Week news online. The seven ages of magazine readers from Media Week. Media Week magazine - news and information from the world of media

Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press. 'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'

The idea is that users will be able to anonymously upload material, and Wikileaks will verify it. A tool for journalists and bloggers to release information without their identity being compromised.

Some useful information about ebooks

A new report shows how researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about the channels they should use to communicate their research findings.

This is the reading I will Present this Thursday 5-7 Even though the reading is in the reader. The links are available from this page

"Content in and of itself doesn't matter. It's all about the package,"

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", however, there is always a copyright concern around Google Book Search project.