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By jdupuis on November 3, 2011.
  • True scientists are irreverent
  • Bookshops, You Have Three Choices
  • The three biggest myths about women in tech
  • On thumb twiddling (how not to run your IR)
  • Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act'
  • Tightening the Net: Intellectual property micro-regimes and peer-to-peer practice in higher education networks
  • The Creepy Librarian Stalker Hypothesis
  • Students Push Their Facebook Use Further Into Course Work
  • Hacking (Higher) Education: An Intro
  • (Some) garbage in, gold out
  • Building the perfect data repository...or the one that might get used
  • Will digital scholarship ever keep up?
  • ACM opens another hole in the paywall
  • The promise of another open: Open impact tracking
  • What total-Impact brings to the party
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