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Liberal arts college library directors ask publishers to ease ebook licensing restrictions | Inside Higher Ed
Library directors at 66 liberal arts colleges on Friday called for academic libraries to reject licensing agreements with publishers that impose restrictions on how ebooks can be accessed and shared. In a statement released by the Oberlin Group, a consortium of 80 liberal arts college libraries, the directors point to the “ecosystem of sharing” that […]
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The Anatomy of a Forgotten Social Network | MIT Technology Review
“Approximately 3/4 of the first reblogs occur within the first hour and 95.84 percent appear within one day,” they say. By contrast, on twitter about half of retweeting occurs within an hour and 75 percent within a day, they say. “Tumblr is more vibrant and faster,” say the Yahoo researchers.This work provides a useful snapshot […]
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Free Libraries For Every Soul: Dreaming of the online library
Public Library provides a proposal for how we might design a library for the digital age, and there is much that sceptics of digital reading will find to criticise. To them, I say that it is perhaps better to understand Public Library as an artwork rather than an answer. David Garcia suggests that Public Library substitutes Joseph Beuys’s […]
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24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed
“…there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space. There are a few real problems with the audio quality and ‘experience’ of digitally distributed music today. 24/192 solves none of them. While everyone fixates on 24/192 […]
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Memento
Memento specifies a technical framework aimed at a better integration of the current and the past Web. The Memento protocol adds a time dimension to the HTTP protocol. Inspired by HTTP content negotiation, the protocol introduces the notion of datetime negotiation that allows a client to request the version of a resource as it existed […]
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Fixing the Broken Textbook Market | U.S. PIRG
The cost of college textbooks has skyrocketed in recent years. To students and families already struggling to afford high tuition and fees, an additional $1,200 per year on books and supplies can be the breaking point.As publishers keep costs high by pumping out new editions and selling books bundled with software, students are forced to […]