Getting to be a recurring story: Pearson buys a language learning company this time Global English located in California. Pearson paid $90 million. From the press release:Founded in 1997 in California, GlobalEnglish is a leading provider of cloud-based, on-demand Business English learning, assessment and performance support software. It serves more than 450 corporate customers, including...
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Apparently some relatively standard fact checking of the 2007 book by Orlando Figes The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia which was being translated into Russian has thrown up some 'minor and major' errors. The project has been abandoned. (The Nation)In 2004 specialists at the Memorial Society, a widely respected Russian historical and human rights organization founded in 1988 on...
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The date is a bit of a guess since this is one of those images that wasn't date stamped. This would have been taken from a plane as we landed in Auckland on a return leg from Australia. In the old days most children would have been given a look into the cockpit and would have met the captain but of...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The BISG has released the second installment of their report on student attitudesNow available to purchase (and at significant discounts for BISG members), Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education, Volume Two, Final Survey Report explores trends and issues in the higher ed market during the 2011-2012 academic year.This report also integrates some data from BISG’s recent study of Faculty...
Sunday, May 20, 2012
In The Atlantic, Bill Davidow wonders whether like the sea, the internet will be 'over fished' (The Atlantic)Free markets are the most efficient and best mechanism for managing most economic activity. But when they operate in arenas in which they can exploit the commons, the logic of the free market dictates that they will destroy it. Virtual retailers, for instance, live off their bricks-and-mortar...
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
For those interested in how discussions are setting up around the Georgia State eReserves Case:Kevin Smith at Duke (perhaps the first to write in detail about the opinion):Overall there is good news for libraries in the decision issued late yesterday in the Georgia State University e-reserves copyright case. Most of the extreme positions advocated by the plaintiff publishers were rejected,...
Monday, May 14, 2012
In April 2008, three publishers Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Sage, filed suit against Georgia State University (GSU) for copyright infringement. The Publishers charged that university officials had facilitated and encouraged the posting of the publishers' works on university websites and, consequently, made this copyright material available for students without compensation...
Thursday, May 10, 2012
This image from September 1969 as the family was in the process of heading from Bangkok to new digs in Auckland, New Zealand.No trip to Hong Kong even now should be complete without at least one trip over the harbor on one of the famous Star ferries. Still ridiculously cheap, it's the only way to take in...
Apparently, my feedburner RSS feed went wonky about a month ago and since I don't use the feed I didn't notice. I wondered why a few people mentioned I had been lazy over the past few weeks. Now I know. So, if you are paying attention to this post you will probably also see a month's worth of 'new' blog posts.Here are the posts in summary:MediaWeek (V4, N19): HuffPo's Aggregation...
Monday, May 7, 2012
MediaWeek (V5, N19): HuffPo's Aggregation Model, Espresso Books, FT on the state of Publishing +More
From the Columbia Journalism Review a long review of how Huff Po came to define the news aggregation 'business' (CJR)Before its purchase by AOL in February 2011, HuffPost was not a property that had produced much in the way of revenue; it had posted a profit only in the year before the sale—the amount has never been disclosed—on a modest $30 million in revenue. Aside from scoops from its estimable...
Friday, May 4, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
There were several discussion points around data at today's BISG Making Information Pay session and I was reminded of a series of posts I published last September about the importance of having a data strategy. Here are is the first of those posts with links at the bottom for the other three articles in the series. Corporate Data Strategy and The Chief Data Officer Are you managing your data as a...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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