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By jdupuis on August 11, 2012.
  • The Naked and the TED
  • The TED Takedown Everyone’s Talking About
  • Jonah Lehrer, TED, and the narrative dark arts
  • The New Republic gets Download-The-Universe-ish!
  • I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All.
  • The Trouble with TED
  • The End of the Twilight of Doom
  • What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs
  • Peter Thiel's College Dropouts: How's That Working Out?
  • The Banality of Textbooks
  • Digital Deadline and Following the Lead of McGraw-Hill's Brian Kibby
  • Why I'm not mad at Amazon
  • What do we do and why do we do it? (philosophy of librarianship)
  • Cord-cutting is no myth
  • An Incomplete Guide to Not Creeping
  • The Measure of a Library
  • 10 Ways School Reformers Get It Wrong
  • OCLC recommends Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY) for WorldCat data
  • Taking the Measure of Metrics: Interviews with Four ASIS&T Members
  • Social media and #highered: Where’s the ROI?
  • Occupy Wall Street and the myth of technological death of the library
  • It Was Never a Universal Library: Three Years of the Google Book Settlement
  • Leading universities adopt Mendeley data to accelerate research analytics by 3 years
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