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Open Question: What needs to happen for tablets to replace laptops?
In his blog for O’Reilly Radar, Mac Slocum raises a question that our more tech savvy readers may be wondering about themselves. Mac admits that he carries “a tablet and a laptop and a smartphone” and wonders how “the dream of one device to rule them all has [...]
Read More... →Will the E-Book Kill the Footnote?
In this recent article in the New York Times Book Review, Alexandra Horowitz worries that her beloved footnotes will be “shunted off to the end of the text, relegated to being mere endnotes” as ebooks continue their impressive growth in popularity. Of course, the real worry is that [...]
Read More... →What’s New (and Old) at Amazon
Christopher Harris raises some interesting questions about the recent Amazon/Overdrive deal. Aside from being somewhat cumbersome (ebooks are being lent using the proprietary Amazon .amz file type), Harris notes other concerns. Bloggers like InfoDocket’s Gary Price are voicing “some alarming questions about privacy under the [...]
Read More... →According to this post on Reppler, an online reputation company, “69% of Hiring Managers Have Rejected Candidates Based on Social Networking Presence.” The folks at Reppler surveyed some 300 hiring professionals to test the impact of social networks in screening applicants. They also learned that 91% of those surveyed checked social networking sites to [...]
Read More... →ATG just learned about this attention-grabbing report from ITHAKA, the not-for-profit organization that assists the academic community take advantage of rapidly advancing technologies. ITHAKA has updated its 2009 investigation of sustainability strategies for twelve digital content projects. This new study, Revenue, Recession, Reliance: Revisiting the SCA/Ithaka S+R Case Studies in Sustainability, is required reading for [...]
Read More... →The movement to make research freely available got a high-profile boost this week with the news that Princeton University’s faculty has unanimously adopted an open-access policy. “The principle of open access is consistent with the fundamental purposes of scholarship,” said the faculty advisory committee that proposed the resolution.
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