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University to Give iPhones (or iPods) to All Incoming Freshmen
via The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog by Jeff Young on February 26, 2008
Abilene Christian University says it will be the first university in the country to give iPhones or iPods to all freshmen. Today the university unveiled an elaborate news-media blitz on its Web site, including an online video showing a fictionalized account of how the university plans to use the devices for various services on campus.The 900 students who will start at the university this fall...
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Browse Your Digital Photos in 3D Stacks with PicMe [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 26, 2008
Windows only: Freeware application PicMe scans your digital photo library and displays your pics in a flashy 3D-ish stacked interface. PicMe is primarily an image browser, and that's what it's best at, but you can also use it to share photos, either with photo sharing webapps like Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, or Facebook, or with PicMe contacts. The free version allows you to share 200...
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Brief books are in style (AP)
via Yahoo! News: Top Stories by (author unknown) on February 29, 2008
AP - As he prepared a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, author Peter Ackroyd read through more than 20 volumes of Poe's work and filled two file cabinet drawers with notes more information than the most devoted fan could absorb in a lifetime.
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Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books
via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News by Blake on March 02, 2008
The NYTimes Reports Some of the largest book publishers in the world are stripping away the anticopying software on digital downloads of audio books.The trend will allow consumers who download audio books to freely transfer these digital files between devices like their computers, iPods and cellphones — and conceivably share them with others. Dropping copying restrictions could also allow a...
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Calling All Grammar Snobs
via mental_floss Blog by Jason on March 03, 2008
As a small percentage of you know, we have a weekly newsletter. Wednesday’s issue will (belatedly) celebrate National Grammar Day, a holiday created by the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, or SPOGG. And if good grammar is important to you, I need your help.I’m looking for grammar snobs not too high-and-mighty to realize there’s room for improvement. Let’s come together to make...
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Google Plans to Expand Book-Scanning Partnerships
via The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog by Jeff Young on March 03, 2008
Marissa Mayer, vice president for search products and user experience at Google, says the company will expand its Book Search project, which has scanned more than a million books in conjunction with several college libraries, among other institutions. Ms. Mayer talked about the future of the project, and responded to criticisms of it, in a recent Chronicle podcast. Some authors and publishers...
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Why E-Book Readers Fail
via The Googlization of Everything by Siva Vaidhyanathan on March 05, 2008
Check out Cory Doctorow's new article, "Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers."
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A Call for Slow Writing
via Inside Higher Ed by (author unknown) on March 09, 2008
It's time for journal essays to replace books as the dominant mode of scholarly communication, writes Lindsay Waters.
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Elsevier Agrees to Let MIT Use Bits of Journal Articles Online
via The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog by Jeff Young on March 09, 2008
A major challenge for colleges that want to post lecture materials on the Web involves making sure they have permission to use the copyrighted images from journals and other sources that professors have put in their slides. Today the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that it has reached a deal with Elsevier, one of the largest journal publishers, to allow a limited amount of...
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Upgrading Elsevier
via iterating toward openness by david on March 09, 2008
... have agreed to make available figures and text selections from any of Elsevier’s more than 2,000 journal titles for use on OCW. As a result of this landmark agreement, select Elsevier content can now be included within the open access OCW course materials - to be freely downloaded, used and shared under a Creative Commons license.And while you would expect Elsevier to choose CC By-NC-ND as ...
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