DRP 2010

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A proposal from the Democratic Leadership Council calls for investigating ways to give electronic reading devices to every student in the United States.

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.

A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, supporters said Thursday.

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.

Two million out-of-copyright books that have been scanned by Google could come back into limited printed form after the search giant signed a deal with On Demand Books, the company that makes the Espresso…

Emmett Rensin and Alexander Aciman distil more than 60 literary classics into fewer than 20 tweets a book

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.

Dan Brown's latest selling novel "The Lost Symbol' has become available in its entirity online just days after it hits shelves in bookstores globally.

As Twitter matures, the people who use it must follow or get left behind. How Twitter made the transition from novelty to an inseparable part of current social media.

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.

It is quite interesting that we can free access the state salaries databases. however, is that imformation really accuracy and reliable?

Lily Allen criticised the stance taken by 'rich and successful artists' on file-sharing.

Google's latest application Sidewiki is subverting the roles of users and allowing them to partake in the creative process by posting comments in the sidelines of webpages.

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