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By jdupuis on February 23, 2011.
  • The problem with online reputation
  • E-Book Piracy on the Rise
  • How to Use Social Media for Marketing
  • Another Lesson About Cognition And The Web: Lara Logan And Hate
  • Hawking contra Philosophy
  • The 'Triumph Of The City' May Be Greener
  • Email is Over
  • Early results: public data archiving increases scientific contribution by more than a third
  • Kobo: What Do eBook Customers Really, Really Want?
  • Optimism in reality-based reality
  • Does the web make experts dumb?
  • Bring on The Live Web
  • Social innovation: a simple model
  • Citation tools & Future of Publishing
  • About the preservation of databases
  • Things I Did and Did Not Learn in Library School
  • Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note
  • Students: Please Don't Take This Person's Advice (re: student science blogging)
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