Are Web Ads Only for Oldsters? Yahoo’s Disturbing Study
(mediamemo.allthingsd.com): Brand advertising isn’t nearly as big on the Internet as the search ads dominated by Google (GOOG). But that’s got to change, as marketers realize that traditional advertising works on the Web, too. The above is an article of faith among a certain kind of Web publisher. And some… Read More
Apple to wrap digital books in FairPlay copy protection
(latimesblogs.latimes.com): When Apple launches its iBook store to sell titles for its new iPad device in March, many of its titles are expected to come with a set of handsome digital locks designed to deter piracy. Veteran iTunes customers will recognise the locks as FairPlay, a digital rights management software… Read More
Are e-books greener than paper books?
(sustainablecommunications.org): Environmentally concerned customers may continue reading paper books. A report by the Centre for Sustainable Communications shows that there are no good reasons to claim that e-books have a better eco performance. Only if you read more than 33 e-books during the lifetime of an electronic reading device it… Read More
Could the Kindle and iPad Kill Quality Content?
(gigaom.com): Amazon recently delivered a beta version of its free Kindle for BlackBerry e-book app, a quick download that provides access to more than 420,000 books. It marks just the latest example of how the publishing industry is facing seminal changes. Will the end result be the death of quality… Read More
Publishing industry enters new era as ‘e-books’ come of age
(mdn.mainichi.jp): The resistance readers have to e-books is really an expression of their attachment to print on paper, with which they are deeply familiar. The first and foremost concern of such apprehensive readers is the readability of e-books, but the Kindle 2 screen is comparable in size to printed books,… Read More
The battle of Britain’s libraries
(guardian.co.uk): Why should we save local libraries? It's because they do something cherishable yet utterly incomprehensible to the cost-cutters. Like public parks, libraries are particularly valuable in capitalist cityscapes, where you are incessantly encouraged to keep moving, keep spending – and don't even think about doing anything economically unproductive. (Figures… Read More
Science data scandals put spotlight on info practices
(iwr.co.uk): Research scientists are being urged to collaborate with information professionals in a bid to repair science's tarnished image following a series of data scandals. If the scientific information base is to escape the intense scrutiny it has been subject to recently, scientists must improve data management, hone information gathering… Read More
Online. Indexed. Catalogued. Free. But will users find it?
(ingentaconnect.com): ‘If it isn’t online, it doesn’t exist’ seems to be the accepted wisdom in scholarly publishing today. Access to content can be complex and difficult; even making it free does not ensure that users discover it, since free content may not be represented in library tools. Most publishers make… Read More
Mobile Learning Advances in K-12 with ACU’s Leadership of Digital Learning Program
(austin.dbusinessnews.com): Abilene Christian University continues to advance mobile learning as ACU Online and Embanet announce the launch of the Leadership of Digital Learning program, a graduate certificate designed to produce innovative K-12 leaders for the 21st century classroom. The graduate program begins May 3, 2010, with students able to able… Read More
When precision is required, content management delivers
(onlinetmd.com): Prior to implementing an ECM solution to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes, when a job order was received, that information was printed out and put into a folder, which employees walked from department to department throughout a 155,000ft2 plant. It was… Read More
