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Sen Jon Tester (D-MT) has proposed a law that would take something like FRPPA one step further, putting most public government documents (e.g., who lobbies the White House, not gov't personnel files) into a searchable database. This would be an improvement in granting access to the public as currently there is a fair amount of hard-copy red tape that must be gone through under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain these documents.

Interesting view of adapting reference publications to mobile platforms.  Should be on interest to students in PSPB 255!

Google adjusts an algorithm to to combat SEO gaming.  No longer true (at least on Google) that "All publicity is good publicity"

Timely news about Wikipedia considering new protocols for public editing of pages.

What's hot off the presses come Thursday? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain. Over the

Interesting mix of print and e-publication.

Public-domain books from before 1923 digitized for Google Book Search will be available for free to Sony Reader users

Update on the NIH public access story.

Accounting of what enters the public domain this new year's day, and a look at what could have been.

Interesting that several people on this list have 0 works.

Some publications are looking beyond the standard glossy format to experiment with ideas of what a magazine can be."

Article in Slate about POD and the ways in which it can help the yearbook business, which has some really interesting parameters to follow as a short-run publication....

"More than eight in ten Americans between the ages of 16 and 29 read a book in the past year, and six in ten used their local public library."

Media companies seeking to control public domain content

Nicholas Carr on the prospects for print publications.

'USA Today' Gets $50 iPad CPMs - 06/09/2010

Are Publishers Embracing The Post-iPad Age? - 06/17/2010

Americans Reject Newspaper Subsidies - 06/10/2010