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Entries in Internet (6)
How Different Are Your Blog's Copyright Interests from the Associated Press?
Given my longstanding interest in copyright, I’ve been following the AP anti-fair-use story with some interest (e.g., see this by Jason Kintzler, or this by Julian Baldwin; there’s also an interesting discussion thread ongoing at the Linkedin Bloggers group on Yahoo! Groups).
Dennis D. McDonald
in Copyright, Google, Publishing, Business Models, RSS, Advertising, Facebook, Squarespace, Fair Use, Internet
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Social Networking and Elsevier's "Grand Challenge" for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences
Netherlands-based mega-publisher (and former employer) Elsevier BV has issued a grand challenge:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Social Networking, Publishing, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Peer Review, Journals, Social Media, Content Management, Homeland Security, Emergency, Libraries, MySpace, DataPortability, R&D Management, Knowledge Transfer, Internet
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What Comes After Web Sites and Online Social Networks?
Today we use the web in many ways. Traditional web sites — “places we go” on the web to do things — still exist. But increasingly, web based transactions also depend on the nature of our online relationships with other people.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Google, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Standards, Tagging, Facebook, Twitter, Identity, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership, OpenSocial, Semantic Web, DataPortability, Internet
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Sometimes No Links are a Good Idea
My 5-year-old neighbor uncupped his hands to reveal the contents and asked, “Can you tell me what this is?”
Dennis D. McDonald
in Books, Internet, Science Education
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What Happens When 20-Somethings Settle Down?
We’ve all seen the lists of things that differentiate younger generations from older generations. Here’s my own:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Google, Social Networking, Video, Demographics, Social Media, Email, Facebook, Twitter, Avatar, Wikipedia, communications, YouTube, Wireless, Social Network Portability, Cell Phones, DataPortability, Internet, Curmudgeon
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Internet Use, Library Book Borrowing, and Book Review Podcasts
According to Lindsay Lorenz of “The Good 5 Cent Cigar,” the student newspaper at the University of Rhode Island, university students are relying more on electronic research than ever before. One quoted statistic, based on data reported at the University of Rhode Island, is that students twenty years ago borrowed more than twice as many books as they did in 2007.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Podcast, Libraries, Lists, Books, Internet
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