Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Power Law of Participation
Social software brings groups together to discover and create value. The problem is, users only have so much time for social software. The vast majority of users with not have a high level of engagement with a given group, and...
FinePrint Literary Management: The New Ethics of Publishing?
Blog post about the ethics of downloading pirated e-books when the original book is out of print.
Digital Publishing - Windows Live
Blog post with list of sources about digital publishing and copyright laws
The higher education and professional environments have been transformed for the last 20 years by the digital publishing revolution. Electronic resources and open access repositories are now part of research and professional tools. Herein the writer describes his experience with institutional open access repositories, and some implications in terms of research, impact and quality in civil engineering. It is critical to appreciate that civil engineering is not a "virtual" science, and that the digital "band-aids" do not replace scholarship, personal experience and smart thinking.
Newspaper librarians have been dealing with digital archiving for some time now, with Web news archives the latest wrinkle. And in a fast-moving environment like digital publishing, ethics issues must constantly be addressed.
Murdoch Calls Google, Yahoo Copyright Thieves — Is He Right? | Threat Level from Wired.com
Rupert Murdoch, the owner of News Corp. and The Wall Street Journal, says Google and Yahoo are giant copyright scofflaws that steal the news. The question is, should we be
Posted from Diigo. The rest of ARIN6912 2009 Digital Research and Publishing group favorite links are here.
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