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Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules - New York Times - 0 views

  • that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable
  • Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable.
  • For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers, however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
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  • For many authors, the question of how technology will shape book publishing inevitably leads to the question of how writers will be paid.
  • books themselves are a relatively new construct, inheritors of a longstanding oral storytelling culture. Mass-produced books are an even newer phenomenon, enabled by the invention of the printing press that likely put legions of calligraphers and bookbinders out of business.
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    Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
Nicole Webb

A Pair of Ragged Claws ALR Blog | The Australian - 0 views

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

Google's Latest Ambition: A Universal Commenting System For The Web | paidContent - 0 views

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    A new feature on the Google toolbar-which is installed on millions of computers around the world-lets users comment about the content of any web page they visit; the comments are then visible to other toolbar owners when they visit that site (see screenshot to the left).
Sandra Rivera

Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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    "We wanted to ask a different question," said Clifford Nass, a Stanford University cognitive scientist. "What happens to people who multitasking all the time?" In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nass and Stanford psychologists Anthony Wagner and Eyal Ophir surveyed 262 students on their media consumption habits. The 19 students who multitasked the most and 22 who multitasked least then took two computer-based tests, each completed while concentrating only on the task at hand.
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    Interesting that. And scary. Hail the era of scatterbrains. I'm definetely one of them.
Adriana Delgado

Teaching Students to Sift Mountains of Data - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Google and IBM to donate computing wares to universities with the "hope of training a new breed of engineers and scientists to think in Internet scale".
Yichen Zhu

www.ecdl2009.eu. - 0 views

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    The Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University kindly organized the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, which was held in the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece from September 27 to October 2, 2009. The general theme of the conference was "Digital Societies".
Yana Nahriah Hajar

After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software - Technology - Th... - 0 views

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

Google's digital-book future hangs in the balance - 1 views

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    "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.
Huang Jing

New E-Book Company to Focus on Older Titles - 0 views

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    Electronic is going to be the center of the universe, so HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide decided to publish old books into digital form.
Yana Nahriah Hajar

Say hello to .كوم as domain names go truly global - Ars Technica - 0 views

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    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has developed a new system that allows non-Latin characters to be used in domain name extensions. This is an interesting progress as it will be beneficial for non-English users. But it surely will face many challenges.
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