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By jdupuis on December 27, 2010.
  • Commensurable Nonsense (Transliteracy) and Why Transliteracy? Bobbi's Two Cents (or less)
  • http://arielneff.com/personal/weighing-in-on-the-ipad/
  • Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar's Resilience Against it
  • Kno Tablets Shipping To Select Faculty and Students
  • Publishers take note: the iPad is altering the very concept of a 'book'
  • Research intelligence - Rip it up and start again
  • A Curricular Innovation, Examined
  • Scientific accuracy in art
  • The line between science and journalism is getting blurry....again
  • Some Lessons From Our Reactions to Wikileaks
  • Mark Waid on Delivery, Content, and the Gulf Between and Digital December: Mark Waid Goes Deep on Digital and the Future of Comics
  • Defining "Born Digital"
  • The Durable Internet: Preserving Network Neutrality without Regulation and Designed for Change: End-to-End Arguments, Internet Innovation, and the Net Neutrality Debate
  • For the Love of Culture: Google, copyright, and our future
  • The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet
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