Is the Kindle really a success? Do the vague and convoluted statements from Amazon about Kindle sales mean anything? The backlash against Amazon’s lack of transparency has apparently begun.
The shift to the Systems Age is happening so fast and completely that publishers are left with only one option — fight fire with fire. Will they? Can they? Some examples show the way.
Publishers and librarians are creatures of the Information Age. How can they cope with the coming Systems Age?
As 2009 ends, its trends will propel change into 2010 and beyond.
Innovations in scholarly communications often come about through bold and often reckless investments in new capacity, for which the utility is not always obvious.
The companies behind social networks and media are running into conflicts with their users as they try to generate revenue from their services. Recent moves by Google, Facebook and AT&T are all sparking controversy as each encounters opposition to their business models from their customers.
Social media is becoming the norm. Will laggards be viewed as anti-social in 2010?
Do stickers point to integrated data in the real-world? Or is augmented reality easier to accomplish? What could data integrated into the real world mean to science and research?
What early design compromises in building the Internet are still with us today? How does it add expense to running sites? Can we upgrade an entire planet?
The new Nook is over-packaged, and has design and technical issues that keep it from competing well with the Kindle. Too bad.
As Google adds real-time Web features to its search over the next few days, it may be the last nail in the coffin for publisher-centric commodity information.
In addition to print’s continuing decline, blogs in science are mature, profitable, and going local, as SEED, ScienceBlogs, and National Geographic show through their moves.
“Sports Illustrated” is showing off a new reading tablet for TIME properties. Is it also a preview of an Apple tablet?
A new initiative for a unifying online catalog of resources is underway. Can it provide a substrate for future innovation?
A three-year NSF grant will create new tools for arXiv e-print repository.