In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks
(nytimes.com): Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students weaned on technology appears to be holding fast to traditional textbooks. That loyalty comes at a price. Textbooks are expensive — a year’s worth can cost… Read More
New model to trace the origins of information
(alphagalileo.org): The first community model capable of tracing the origins of computer-generated information is now available. University of Southampton researcher, Professor Luc Moreau, says that the new model will lead to better degrees of trust online. The new paper entitled The open provenance model core specification, by Professor Luc Moreau… Read More
New search method tracks down influential ideas
(princeton.edu): Princeton computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the origins and spread of ideas, a technique that could make it easier to gauge the influence of notable scholarly papers, buzz-generating news stories and other information sources. The method relies on computer algorithms to analyze how language morphs… Read More
The Printing Industry transformed
(technorati.com): The printing industry is just one example of an entire industry movement that is changing while keeping up with the development of new technologies. The printing revolution is centered on the trend away from hard-copy publications towards digital media mainly because of its inherent convenience. Newspaper circulation has decreased… Read More
Microsoft Researchers Propose Privacy Sensor ‘Widget’
(darkreading.com): Researchers from Microsoft have come up with a sensor widget concept that provides alerts and lets users control and monitor exactly what other users see from their webcams, microphones, and other live data streams. The tool they envision is basically a graphical user interface sensor that sits within the… Read More
Google to Give Governments Street View Data
(nytimes.com): Google is bowing to the demands of three European governments and says it will begin surrendering the data it improperly collected over unsecured wireless networks. Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, told The Financial Times in an interview in London that within the next two days, the company would… Read More
In Search of Sustainability: Business Models in Publishing
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): While library budgets have remained flat, article output is increasing at 3% per year. Librarians like to be able to predict their budget for the next year, but they are not fond of running out of tokens mid-year, or knowing that the same article may be downloaded several times… Read More
Be nimble with that publishing brand
(brand-e.biz): A publisher’s business is not a newspaper, a magazine, or a TV network. And it’s not tied to a particular format or flavor of media. So says Razorfish in its new Nimble report on publishing in the digital age. The business is a brand, and it has an audience.… Read More
Ebooks to overtake print within five years
(telegraph.co.uk): There will be more digital content sold than physical content within five years. This is according to Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading business division. He said the same patterns that Sony had seen in the digitisation of music and photography were now being repeated in the books… Read More
Conflicts of Interest, Transparency and the Media
(citybeat.com): When is disclosure of potential or real conflicts of interest sufficient? This question of transparency provoked an attack on the World Health Organization’s recommendations on how governments should cope with the then-impending H1N1 pandemic. Read More
