Stimulus funding to help search engines learn on the job
(cornell.edu): New research by Thorsten Joachims and Robert Kleinberg, associate and assistant professors of computer science, respectively, aims to create search-engine software that can learn from users by noticing which links they click on in a list of search responses, and how they reformulate their queries when the first results… Read More
Privacy no longer a social norm
The rise of social networking online means that people no longer have an expectation of privacy, according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Talking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend, the 25-year-old chief executive of the world's most popular social network said that he rise of social media… Read More
Copyright exemption for Search Engines in the UK?
(guardian.co.uk): Search engines would be exempted in UK law from any liability for copyright infringement, under a remarkable amendment (292) proposed to the Digital Economy Bill. This could throw the cat amongst the pigeons on practices like aggregating MP3 deep links (for which Yahoo has been penalised even in China)… Read More
Why Even the Most Pirated E-Books of 2010 Won’t Bring Down Publishing
(bnet.com): e-book sales could be the next barometer to measure the strength — or weakness — of publishing. This is because e-book sales accounted for $46.5 million at the end of Q3 last year, according to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), which noted that retail sales could be double… Read More
EBook Publishing Growth – Myth or Reality!
(technology-toolkit.com): eBook publishing is set to become one of the largest industries in cyberspace. You can find an eBook on just about any subject. It’s fast becoming a huge industry. One of the biggest reasons readers are turning to eBooks is technology. The ability to offer an eBook online and… Read More
Top Psychoanalytic Journals Lack Rigorous Research
(medpagetoday.com): The top three psychoanalytic journals are short on original research on psychoanalysis, researchers have said. Combined, the journals produced fewer than 10 original research articles annually over a seven-year period. Calls for rigorous psychoanalytic research studies have become more common in the past decade, as an increasing number of… Read More
Researchers unleash crawlers into Deep Web data
(theaustralian.com): STRUCTURED data on the web presents a number of difficult technical challenges because it is hard to extract, and often disorganised and messy, according to a visiting Google engineer. The range of structured data on the web is vast, including product, financial, public records, scientific and government data. Unlike… Read More
Lifelines and Funeral Rites in the Publishing World
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): The publishing world is going through life and death experiences (with plenty of deaths recorded with grim glee at the Magazine Death Pool). It’s certainly not because there isn’t a lot to learn about publishing. It’s probably due to a few changes that mirror shifts in the publishing landscape.… Read More
A Treatise On The Future of Publishing
(schneiderism.com): The publishing industry has had 500 years to focus on the production of the printed piece. How is it that 500 years of industry could be in such crisis? Print as a distribution platform has had a good run, but, as it disrupted the status quo of the 15th… Read More
Science publications suffer
(yaledailynews.com): Despite Yale’s push to expand the sciences, student and University publications in the field are feeling the bite of the recession. Funding cutbacks from Master’s Offices and departments, as well as decreased advertisement revenue, are making it difficult for several science magazines to meet their goals of expanding coverage.… Read More
