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By jdupuis on September 9, 2010.
  • Has the Future of the Internet come about?
  • A virtual counter-revolution: The internet has been a great unifier of people, companies and online networks. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it
  • How a watch works (via)
  • On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography (via)
  • Institutional repositories and digital preservation
  • The decline of studying: How university students are spending less time hitting the books while earning better grades than ever
  • Science publishing: the humorous side
  • Obsolescence in the CS literature and Confronting the Myth of Rapid Obsolescence in Computing Research
  • The Smartphone Is the Computer -- Or It Will Be
  • Why Peer Review Matters
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