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Self-Publishing Reinvents the Novel

The novel is about novelty. Self-publishing is just the latest option for authors. Some argue that it’s reinventing literature.

Wikipedia is a reference that is accurate but incomplete. How does it fare as a drug resource? A recent study finds an interesting trend.

Text still dominates, but is finding new purposes in an increasingly hybridized media ecosystem.

Seth Godin wonders if we’ll miss newspapers. For a growing proportion of the population, it’s already a moot point.

A journal begins requiring authors to submit peer-reviewed pages to Wikipedia. Is this a great idea?

Has the iPhone put the Kindle in the corner? Or will users be predictably irrational and complicate things for publishers?

The Blackberry Storm looks to be a weak clipper system rather than a hurricane. Meanwhile, the iPhone may be poised to control the weather.

YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world. Will digital natives be more video-centric than text-centric?

Content from yesteryear no longer works in the modern world. We have to re-imagine.

Amazon’s new iPhone app leverages camera phones and humans in a new way. Can science education take a similar approach?

Google’s new SearchWiki implementation has grabbed some attention, but will it actually make a difference to users?

Bragging about downloads is akin to saying your site doesn’t work well. Authors will soon start to notice.

Obama is to Roosevelt as YouTube is to radio = a major moment in communications.

The Usage Factor may come with unanticipated consequences: article spam and malfeasance.

Socially networked data visualization becomes a reality with Many Eyes.