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Here is an interesting post from O’Reilly Radar. This is a slightly different take on the down side of self-selected social media and the dangers in giving information consumers what they want. The consequence – a narrow and perhaps bias … Continue reading →

Mixed reactions to Apple iPad. It is interesting to carefully review the goals (see below). Listen to the presentation (now available as a link from the Apple site). Jobs attempts to make the case that the goal was to be … Continue reading →

We all should probably wait until tomorrow rather than speculate about the Apple tablet. However, it is difficult to resist. Check this post from AppleInsider that embeds a MSNBC video with CEO from McGraw-Hill. Hope our publisher is watching. 

You may remember a “science fiction” video from 1987 proposing a Knowledge Navigator. For many of us, this does not seem that long ago. Now, we can actually do many of the things only proposed at the time. Perhaps, later … Continue reading →

I have wondered about this issue for some time. Typically, when you write a book, the copyright does not reside solely with the publisher. Both the author and publisher retain rights. The Google process of scanning books is extremely questionable … Continue reading →

What kind of a blog title is “PlagiarismToday”? Anyway, this post from PlagiarismToday caught my attention. It proposes the concept of “reverse creative commons”. Instead of the author/developer offering others specific ways in which content can be used by others, … Continue reading →