Is it the End of the Web as We Know it?
(daniweb.com): Content producers need to get creative. They can't simply repurpose the same content for different platforms. We all know by now that newspapers didn't succeed when they made the same content available on the web as in print. And newspapers are still struggling to find revenue-generating means of getting… Read More
Medical Residency Applicants and Plagiarism
(blogs.wsj.com): A team from Brigham & Women’s Hospital wanted to know about a different sort of copycatting — using plagiarized material in a medical or surgical residency program admissions essay. In a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers report finding ‘evidence of plagiarism’ in 5.2% of… Read More
E-book sales outstripping real books for first time, claims Amazon
(dailymail.co.uk): Sales of digital e-books have outstripped real books for the first time, according to Amazon. The firm said that it has sold 143 e-books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover books over the past three months. Read More
Scientists take on Web 2.0 cure claims
(fiercebiotechit.com): The virtual trial has barged into drug development, and social media have made both trials and trial "findings" accessible to all. PatientsLikeMe, Facebook and Twitter are all at once empowering patients and worrying doctors, says Scientific American. Drug development appears to be becoming "an open-source and collaborative effort." Read More
Left-handed Cancer, Box Springs, Scientific American, Branding, and Credibility
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): Credibility is key to scientific communication. It’s the flipside of trust. Journals have to trust authors, professionals have to trust journals, and the public has to be able to trust popular translations of information out of journals in addition to trusting that the entire process is solid. When trust… Read More
India’s Desire To Monitor Networks Poses Challenge For Google
(online.wsj.com): India's push to monitor communications networks raises questions as to how Google Inc. (GOOG) might satisfy the country's authorities. One approach that might work: installing servers in India that give officials access to network traffic, people familiar with the industry say. If Google chose that approach, the servers likely… Read More
Publishers should set e-book prices, says FutureBook survey
(thebookseller.com): More than three-quarters of people working in the book trade believe e-books should be priced at current street prices or less, according to early results of a FutureBook survey into digital thinking. The majority of respondents indicated that publishers are best placed to set this price, even though they… Read More
Japanese e-book industry to create common format
(tradingmarkets.com): A common e-book format will likely be available in Japan as early as April, making content viewable on any reader device. Sharp Corp and e-book software developer Voyager Japan Inc. will submit the specifications of their formats free of charge to the Electronic Book Publishers Association of Japan.. Read More
Rethinking scientific data management
(isgtw.org): Despite all the good that science has wrought over the years, the way we manage scientific data is fundamentally flawed. That means that they cannot ensure that they stand on solid ground by examining the data and doing their own analysis. They cannot analyze the data using alternative methods,… Read More
Global E-paper Market Worth US$ 5.73 Billion by 2015
(marketsandmarkets.com): There is an increase in the adoption of e-paper display by the designers of consumer electronic devices due to the performance benefits it offers. Many new e-paper technologies are lined up for commercialisation and will certainly help in increasing the adoption rate of the e-paper display. Existing studies and… Read More
