There is a lot of machine-readable data coming from the federal government, as a result of the Obama Administration’s open-data initiatives. Open data was a platform initiative of the President’s first presidential campaign and, in his second term, he has reinvigorated this policy with a new spate of policy initiatives, executive orders and community outreach.The result of the outreach program was...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
I have compiled all my annual predictions posts and a selection of more thoughtful posts that have appeared here since 2006 when I started PND. Here is the slideshare link to the book.If you would like a pdf file of the book directly from me just send me a note. Here is a link to all the other presentations I have placed on slideshare.net which have been viewed 35,000 times! Personanondata...
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Steven Colbert interviewed Anant Agarwal the President of edX, who explains the reason for offering free university courses online. Steven proclaimed ignorance of the free MOOC model and compared the model to a shoe store.And at the Chronicle of Higher Education a more serious opinion piece about who's driving the MOOC locomotive:I understand that politicians have a duty to be good stewards of public...
Friday, July 26, 2013
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
It is hard not to find the humor in this announcement from the American Historical Association which in a recent policy statement suggests that universities seek up to a six year embargo on publishing digital dissertations. Windowing hasn't proven effective in trade publishing and it is just as less likely to work here. The nub of their argument is that digital content can be so widely...
Monday, July 22, 2013
The Economist on MOOC'sThe industry has similar network economics to Amazon, eBay and Google, says Ms Koller, in that “content producers go to where most consumers are, and consumers go to where the most content is.” Simon Nelson, the chief executive of FutureLearn, disagrees. “Anyone who thinks the rules of engagement have already been written by the existing players is massively underestimating...
Friday, July 19, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Gene Schwartz writing in Book Business magazine about Scott Turow's advocacy for the lowly author (Book Business):Copyright protection has now become a two edged sword. Not requiring registration, ownership is vested from the moment of the first scribble. Large corporate copyright holders who can afford policing these provisions, are now benefiting a few authors at the expense of the many, by constraining...
Friday, July 12, 2013
These guys could whip up a nice piece of wood carving in less than a day and here, he's finishing up something that's been sitting in PND Abbey for forty years now. It's days may be numbered as the PND aristocracy is forced to downsize due to events entirely within their control and it could get tossed...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
In a decision which will undoubtedly be appealed but which opens the possibility of hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and restitution, Apple was found guilty of conspiring with publishers to raise eBook prices. Personnally, I thought Apple had a good case but Judge Denise Cote noted that Apple facilitated the conspiracy, took advantage of the publishers paranoia regarding Amazon and...
Sunday, July 7, 2013
The Atlantic magazine goes along to the New York Public library to review an exhibit there on Children's books (Atlantic): The exhibit also reveals that the books that matter to children are not always the same as the ones adults think should matter. Marcus cites Edward Stratemeyer, the turn-of-the-century author and entrepreneur who launched The Bobbsey Twins, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and other...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Cengage has submitted a per-arranged bankruptcy filing which will wipe $4Billion in debt off its balance sheet and in the process enable them to "better position the company for long term growth" according to their press release. The wipe-out leaves the company with approximately $1.8Billion in debt but it will be the crippling debt payments, loan requirements and covenants that will do most...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Judge Denny Chin doesn't move so fast. His current colleagues on the second circuit, of which one is considered a fair use scholar, may have forced him to push the Google Books case a long a little quicker than he has in the past.As you may have heard by now, the second circuit has determined that it was premature of Judge Chin (now a colleague) to confirm class status to the case The Author's Guild...
Monday, July 1, 2013
Developing the Digg Reader replacement for Google Reader (Wired)McLaughlin saw a blog post in the Fall of 2012 speculating that Google Reader, choked of resources, was shutting down. He sent a teasing note to a friend at Google offering to “take it off their hands.” To his surprise, he got a serious reply. Google, his friend replied, had concluded that it couldn’t sell the name, user data, or code...
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