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Circulation at newspapers shrank at an accelerated pace in the past six months, driven in part by stiff price increases imposed by publishers scrambling to offset rapidly eroding advertising sales. Average daily circulation at 379 U.S. newspapers plunged 10.6 percent in the April-September period from the same six-month stretch last year, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

At the end of his keynote on Monday At Sharepoint 2009, an interviewer asked Steve Ballmer about social computing. He recounted a story about a friend of his, ...

AT&T dispute with Google regarding legal frameworks for communicATions, specifically Google's movements into telecommunicATions, which AT&T argue violATes net neutrality principles.

Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few. This study looks at articles in four disciplines at varying stages of adoption of open access-philosophy, political science, electrical and electronic engineering and mathematics-to see whether they have a greater im- pact as measured by citations in the ISI Web of Science database when their authors make them freely available on the Internet. The finding is that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do have a greater research impact. Shedding light on this category of open access reveals that scholars in diverse disciplines are adopting open-access practices and being rewarded for it.

Past Modern - The Singh Twins, at Walker Art Gallery. Exhibition pages for Past Modern: The Singh Twins, a major retrospective at Walker Art Gallery until 17 April 2005.

Why using google or bing?.Ask both!. Askboth.com is the ideal search engine, take the results from the Google Search Engine and from the Bing search engine at the same time!. Free to use. You will enjoy it! Useful tool in case anybody wants to compare results trying to search in both engines at the same time.

Google Book Search is offering a new service that lets customers print new physical copies of rare and out-of-print books from its ebook library. The books will be printed-to-order at local bookstores and sold for under $10.

Everybody's talking about content monetisation. David Howe looks at two proposals on the table from Google and Microsoft

"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.

Interesting that. And scary. Hail the era of scatterbrains. I'm definetely one of them.

European publishers join the rush to blame Google for the publishing industry's problems, but Google Europe Chief Philipp Schindler suggests that the industry needs to look at themselves.

The publisher of America's most-famous blog lashes out at the poll and political horse race-driven mainstream media, saying it'll be up to the bloggers to make coverage of the next presidential election interesting. Those same bloggers, she argues, could also spell trouble for Hillary Clinton.

There is a lot of hardware out there beyond our computers that helps us plug into social media as well. Let's takes a look at the top 10 options in the social hardware category.

Articles by Jean Burgess at QUT. Interesting researcher who has just co-authored a book with @joshgreen

Education that includes at least some online work is more effective than classroom-only teaching, according to a major research review done for the Department of Education.

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This morning, the Wall Street Journal features an article about professional blogging. Mark Penn, the article's author, even cites some of our own numbers, though the most astonishing number he arrives at is that America is now home to over 452,000 professional bloggers who use blogging as their primary source of income. If these numbers are indeed true, then that would mean that there are now almost as many bloggers in the U.S. as lawyers (550,000). We do, however, have our doubts.