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Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal. To build it, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and people who are willing to contribute their time, effort to building the catalog. To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.

"Over the past 20 years, how information is managed and shared has changed completely in the face of new and ever more powerful technologies. These lectures will show young college students like yourselves what changes in information management you can expect for the future-a great way to plan out a career or just to get a peek at what life will be like in the years to come."

Just like physicians, the best educators stay informed with the latest developments in their field. Luckily, it doesn't take anything more than time to have access to quality journals for educators. The following open access journals provide top-notch scholarly information available at no cost.

The rise of digital culture sparked a firestorm of debate about copyright, fair-use and creativity. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown debate about the open-source movement in the arts.

A lot of excitement has been building around a category of iPhone and Android apps, most of which have yet to be approved or released. They are known as augmented reality apps. These applications combine virtual data into the physical real world by utilizing the iPhone 3GS or an Android phone's compass, camera, and GPS system. The result is that you can see things like the location of Twitter users and local restaurants in the physical world, even if they are miles away.

Visuals are an important part of advertising, so it's not surprising that so many companies have jumped on the augmented reality bandwagon, offering tools that visualize their products in a magical and memorable way. Here we take a look at some pretty amazing promotional uses of this new tech that work with common webcams, giving everyone a chance to experience augmented reality - a trend that will be big in 2010.

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

On the campus of Penn State University, a rivalry between a rogue campus blog and the official newspaper has become a fascinating mirror of the strife between old and new media.

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