If you are looking for a job, you need to understand that the job market is highly digital now. In... 
What the basis of Buddhism has to do with Jack Kerouac, poverty in Italy and Alice in Wonderland. 
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"As Steve Lawson observes, publishers can get away with limiting access, so they limit it. As Kate Sheehan points out in a comment on her own post, publishers can cut us out of the conversation, so they cut us out. Though it has been proven time and again that library reading boosts individual book sales, that’s not good enough for for the publisher-industrial complex. They smell an opportunity, and their greed is overwhelming any vestige of decency or sense of social fairness. Deep down, the publishing-industrial complex will not be satisfied until they can do away with those pesky librarians, they who broker reading as a public good, champion the right to read, and advocate for equitable access. Penguin invoked the term “friction,” in reference to the ease of checking out books; but I see the real “friction” as the Bonus Army of librarians, authors, and readers who are speaking truth to power. How convenient it would be if we were starved out of the reading ecology. We’re also back to my ancient observation about Google: “don’t be evil” does not translate into “do be good.” What is to be done?" Via Buffy J. Hamilton |
On creative restlessness, the art of context, and the contagion of intellectual curiosity. 
Unpacking humanity's collective conscience through 'the last word in man's quest for perfect communications.' In 1964, legendary science... 
On making out the shape of our society through its gods of good and evil. 
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As society embraces all forms of digital entertainment, a latter-day Noah is looking the other way. Brewster Kahle, who runs the Internet Archive, a nonprofit, hopes to collect one copy of every book. In his new book, Charles Duhigg explores cutting-edge research into the neuroscience of habit formation — and how companies and advertisers are using it to their advantage. 
The publishing business is not known as a hot bed of experimentation and has been slow to embrace the transition from print to e-books. |
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