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By jdupuis on May 4, 2011.
  • Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too
  • It's Time to Realize Our Location Concerns Aren't Dumb
  • The REAL Death Of The Music Industry
  • What is the Future of Books? Kindle Lending Library, Piracy, and More!
  • Achievement P o r n
  • Should Teaching Be Outsourced?
  • No Room for Books
  • Libraries, IT, Reference, the Future...and Learning?
  • Is reference service dead?
  • Not With A Bang: The First Wave of Science 2.0 Slowly Whimpers to an End
  • The purpose of gamification: A look at gamification's applications and limitations. (Great comment stream too, with input by Kathy Sierra and others)
  • reference is dead! long live reference!: a (very) personal rant
  • Learning, Research and Collaboration in the Future
  • E-Readers Fail At Education
  • What Humanities Researchers (and everyone else) Want
  • A big question: Why did the world shatter at the touch of a hyperlink?
  • Getting Your Students To Read
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