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Dow Jones announced an online venture that combines The Wall Street Journal's Web site with Dow Jones's business-to-business news service and databases." />

Barnes & Noble's new e-book reader, the Nook, has officially been unveiled. With an impressive feature set and price tag that matches the Kindle's, Amazon should be worried. Read this blog post by David Carnoy on Crave.

Found this interesting, if for no other reason than as proof that the world at large is thinking about the implications of moving even past Web 2.0 and on to Web 3.0 (My apologies -- while I have referenced the article as translated by Babelfish, the original article is in French so the English may be a bit choppy; the ideas seem to remain intact, however, and the author's speculations about the future of the Web are interesting). Original link, for those who read French: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/506930/que-nous-prepare-le-web-3-0/

Speculation on the future of journalism and the possibility of user-generated content to gain local news stories.

What comes after Facebook? Another social netowrkign site, or a whole new animal? How will we as publishers adjust our marketing?

Possible generation-gap-type issues for digital educational publishing for colleges: "Today, the college assumes all students not only have computer skills but a plethora of high-tech devices and services. The class schedule and registration procedure is entirely online-even if you're in the registrar's office....In the first class, the professor handed out her e-mail address and the URL where the syllabus could be found--instead of her office phone number and a copy of the syllabus. Unfortunately, the college sites are full of graphics and animations and download very slowly on my dial-up connection. (Even if I could afford a broadband connection, my ISP doesn't provide it in my area.)" "At least one exercise in each chapter requires accessing the publisher's textbook Web site. Many of these exercises could just as easily be put on the computer disk also sold-at an increased profit (I used to work for a textbook-preparation company)-with the text....Again, a dial-up connection won't download the videos. The audio files are .mp3; I can't open them, don't have the skill to know what program I need, and have no access to free technical support....So once every chapter I head for either the heavily used public library or the equally heavily used computer lab in the college's suburban learning center (branch campus)--and hope that a computer is available."

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Post is introducing a larger typeface and more graphics in its bid to make the print edition easier to read and navigate.

Herald publisher predicts near-term industry shift to paid online model

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For all my infrastructure buddies, I just thought this was kind of funny.

Money continues to rain down on "real-time" start-ups. The latest example: a fledgling two-person company called DailyBooth.

A ringtone is not a public performance.

2009 will go down in history as the year e-books went mainstream.