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White House: Computer hard drives tossed (AP)
via Yahoo! News: Most Emailed by (author unknown) on March 21, 2008
AP - Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005.
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How to categorize OA?
via Be openly accessible or be obscure by tillje on March 22, 2008
I’ve been browsing the Categories in WikiAnswers, looking for questions and answers about OA. So far, I haven’t found much. So, I’ve added some.One question that I added was: “What is Open Access to academic publications?“. The answer provided was taken from the first paragraph of the current entry in Wikipedia for “Open access“:Open access (OA) is free, immediate, permanent,...
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Top 10 most inaccurate movies.
via Digg by (author unknown) on March 22, 2008
Top 10 list of the most inaccurate movies including Gladiatior, Braveheart, 300, and more.
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Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours [Legalese]
via Gizmodo by matt buchanan on March 21, 2008
If you buy a regular old book, CD or DVD, you can turn around and loan it to a friend, or sell it again. The right to pass it along is called the "first sale" doctrine. Digital books, music and movies are a different story though. Four students at Columbia Law School's Science and Technology Law Review looked at the particular issue of reselling and copying e-books downloaded to Amazon's...
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Borders book stores may be sold (AP)
via Yahoo! News: Most Emailed by (author unknown) on March 20, 2008
AP - Borders, the nation's second-largest bookseller, said Thursday it may put itself up for sale and that it has lined up $42.5 million in financing to help the chain continue operations.
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Food Delivery Made Easier With GrubHub
via Bostonist by Caroline Roberts on March 11, 2008
Has that stack of takeout menus grown unmanageable? Did you forget which pizza place has the best pepperoni? GrubHub can solve that problem for you. All you need to do is type in your address, and you'll get a list of all the dining establishments that will deliver to your home, along with their menus.When you open an account with GrubHub, you can even keep a virtual menu drawer with Past...
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Media Scholar Sounds Alarm About Wikipedia
via The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog by Andrea Foster on March 11, 2008
The guardians of Wikipedia are locked in a battle over whether the online encyclopedia should be more selective in the articles it contains, according to a story last week in The Economist. The fight reportedly pits the “inclusionsists” against the “deletionists.” Andrew Lih, a Wikipedia administrator who helped start Columbia University’s new-media program, worries that the...
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Ryerson U. Student Faces Expulsion for Running a Facebook Group
via The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog by Hurley Goodall on March 07, 2008
... officials say that running such a group is in violation of the school’s academic policy, which says no student can undertake activity to gain academic advantage. Students argue, however, that the group was analogous to any in-person study group.Of course, this wouldn’t be the first Facebook-related expulsion hearing.The expulsion hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.—Hurley Goodall
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A Call for Slow Writing
via Inside Higher Ed by (author unknown) on March 10, 2008
It's time for journal essays to replace books as the dominant mode of scholarly communication, writes Lindsay Waters.
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