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By jdupuis on January 6, 2011.
  • Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web
  • Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die
  • 7 Major Ways We're Digitizing Our World, And 3 Reasons We Still Want Hardcopies
  • WIRED is dead. Long live the Internet
  • Wikipedia References [in US patent documents] Increase 81 Percent in 2010
  • 2011 Predictions: Top 12 Reasons Businesses Will Fail at Social Media
  • Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force
  • Wikileaks and the Long Haul and Half-formed thought on Wikileaks & Global Action
  • 7 Library Predictions for 2011
  • Welcome to Social Disruption
  • A Study of Hudson River Sturgeon Earns Student Young Naturalist Award
  • AskOn Addict
  • Traffic and eBook checkout records SMASHED over Christmas holiday
  • Can Your Data Come Out to Play?
  • Academic Library Autopsy Report, 2050
  • An Introduction to Net Neutrality: What It Is, What It Means for You, and What You Can Do About It
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