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By jdupuis on December 8, 2010.
  • Getting Rid of Books: A Heresy
  • Arsenic-associated bacteria (NASA's claims)
  • The Gatekeeper is Dead! Long live the Gatekeeper
  • The Library: Three Jeremiads
  • The Future of Advertising
  • Web Developers Get Real (Time): The massive amount of real-time information available is leading to new programming approaches
  • Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices
  • Education and the social Web: Connective learning and the commercial imperative
  • 7 game-changing mobile trends for 2011
  • Wikileaks and the Long Haul
  • What Publishers, Authors & Journalists Can Learn from Indie Rock and Music Blogs
  • NASA can't have it both ways and Arsenic Bacteria link-dump
  • A look at an iPad in the operating room
  • The size distribution of open access publishers: A problem for open access?
  • Sharing music files: Tactics of a challenge to the industry
  • Education and the social Web: Connective learning and the commercial imperative
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