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By jdupuis on November 12, 2011.
  • Why Engineering Majors Change Their Minds
  • Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard)
  • Why The Internet of Things Will Be Open
  • Access or ownership: Which will be the default?
  • Designing for the phase change: Local communities and shared infrastructure
  • There is a pathetic lack of functionality in scholarly publishing. We must end for-profit publishing and allow libraries to make available the works of their scholars for all
  • Retaining the STEM Dropouts
  • Finding Scholarship and Scholarship Finding Us
  • Thoughts on 2011 Open Access Week
  • "We Don't Read That Way"
  • The Walled Garden
  • Evans and Cebula on Academic Blogging
  • Evolution, the death of librarians and the end of history
  • Libraries: Together or Apart
  • Designing for sharing and then for re-sharing
  • The Social Graph is Neither
  • designing an awesome total-impact api
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