These are really off, need a better one..

"A group of white, mostly middle-class well-off kids who find imperfections in there life and create a ridiculous, depressing melodrama around each one. They often take anti-depressants, even though the majority don't need them. They need to wake up and deal with life like everyone else instead of wallowing in their imaginary quagmire of torment."

Urban Dictionary.com

Seems the iPad is not what it seems to be...

"“Carrier networks aren’t set to handle five million tablets sucking down 5 gigabytes of data each month,” Philip Cusick, an analyst at Macquarie Securities, said.

Wireless carriers have drastically underestimated the network demand by consumers, which has been driven largely by the iPhone and its applications, he said. “It’s only going to get worse as streaming video gets more prevalent.”

An hour of browsing the Web on a mobile phone consumes roughly 40 megabytes of data. Streaming tunes on an Internet radio station like Pandora draws down 60 megabytes each hour. Watching a grainy YouTube video for the same period of time causes the data consumption to nearly triple. And watching a live concert or a sports event will consume close to 300 megabytes an hour."

NYTimes

JSTOR now indexed in WorldCat.org

Why mix apples with oranges?
OCUL has scholar's portal. PQ has Summon. Worldcat, a union catalogue, tries to pretend to be similar.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Ego, Ego, Ego.

Mashable

Scholarly Kitchen reports:

It’s official: the most celebrated open access eprint repository — the arXiv – is moving to a “subscription-like” business model beginning this year.

Apparently it cost $500 000 a year to run the service. Cornell has been paying...

Scholarly Kitchen reports:

It’s official: the most celebrated open access eprint repository — the arXiv – is moving to a “subscription-like” business model beginning this year.

Apparently it cost $500 000 a year to run the service. Cornell has been paying...

Viola!

It is awesomely interactive!

Survey here

From DegreeDirectory.com

How to Destroy the Book (National Reading Summit held at the ROM - Nov. 13, 2009)
Cory Doctorow
The Varsity

Part 1
Part 2

Washington Post
Sunday, December 27, 2009
By Marion Maneker

"Readers want books that are plentiful and cheap, publishers want to preserve their profit, and authors want a larger share of revenue. The conflict has created a strident internecine battle inside the publishing industry. At issue are the price and timing of e-books, and who owns the rights to backlist titles."

By Matt Frisch, CNN, January 1, 2010


"When Dan Brown's blockbuster novel "The Lost Symbol" hit stores in
September, it may have offered a peek at the future of bookselling. On
Amazon.com, the book sold more digital copies for the Kindle e-reader in
its first few days than hardback editions. This was seen as something of
a paradigm shift in the publishing industry, but it also may have come
at a cost. Less than 24 hours after its release, pirated digital copies
of the novel were found on file-sharing sites such as Rapidshare and
BitTorrent. Within days, it had been downloaded for free more than
100,000 times."

Code{4}lib Journal
by Kim Griggs, Laurie M. Bridges, Hannah Gascho Rempel

Scholarly Kitchen
by Michael Clarke

More than you wanted to know...

Kent Anderson - Age of Systems

TopTrends.NowAndNext.com


Read the summary post here and print the PDF here.

University of New Mexico

UMaryland - Ryan Harris

"The figures come from the industry breakdown of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' new employment numbers [pdf]. Jobs in the print publishing category—that includes newspapers, magazines, and books as well as direct-mail shops and the like—have declined from 863,600 last November to 776,800 last month—a 10% drop (those are seasonably adjusted figures)."

Gawker.com

Is this the canary in our information economy coal mine?
Makes you think!