Information Business

The Global Information Industry Center (GIIC)

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"The research program areas of the Center lie at the intersection of the global diffusion of information and communications technologies (ICT), the growth of information world-wide, and the evolving information practices in industry and government. GIIC’s three program areas cover first, the measurement of the diffusion of ICT, the build out of information and communications technologies worldwide.e research program areas of the Center lie at the intersection of the global diffusion of information and communications technologies (ICT), the growth of information world-wide, and the evolving information practices in industry and government. GIIC’s three program areas cover first, the measurement of the diffusion of ICT, the build out of information and communications technologies worldwide."

Tim Wu: The Master Switch - The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.

2011-01-27T00:08:00.000-08:00

Tim Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory. Here he talks about his latest book at Harvard.

Information, Communication & Society -publication

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Information, Communication & Society

Association of Internet Researchers

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Association of Internet Researchers

Top Three Internet Research Institutes

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1. Berkman Center for Internet and Society

2. Oxford Internet Institute

3. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute

Visualizing Information

2010-08-10T02:09:00.000-07:00

Information is Beautiful -blog

DocumentCloud: Cooperation between journalists, researchers and archivists

2010-04-16T06:09:00.000-07:00

DocumentCloud is an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web. Documents are contributed by journalists, researchers and archivists.

See more:

Journalism.co.uk: New York Times and ProPublicas documentcloud makes newspaper debut

Information is changing business

2010-03-04T04:57:00.000-08:00

The Economist: Data, data everywhere

* The way that information is managed touches all areas of life.
* The business of information management; industry is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion and growing at almost 10% a year.
* Hal Varian/Google: Data are widely available; what is scarce is the ability to extract wisdom from them.
* Chief information officers (CIOs) have become somewhat more prominent in the executive suite; a new kind of professional has emerged - the data scientist.

The Future of the Universities starts from the Library

2009-11-18T12:43:00.000-08:00

How many universities have realized that the future of their intellectual excellence is in their libraries.

For example, Harvard started from a library, and now it is renewing its world-leading research hub by its "digital-plus” -project. Provost, Steven E. Hyman, who chaired the Library Task Force said just recently that "Over time, a lack of coordination has led to a fragmented collection of collections that is not optimally positioned to respond to the 21st century information needs of faculty and students."

In similar vein, "Harvard West", Stanford realized the digital challenge already before the Milennium. Stanford Library started a project with the help of couple of computer science grad students. The project was so succesful that a company was later formed around its ideas. The name of the company is Google. Stanford's library and Google still cooperates.

See more about Harvard's Task Forces recommendations from its report.

Scientific Publishing: Breakthrough on "Open Access"

2009-09-19T01:21:00.000-07:00

Five leading American universities have agreed to join their forces to embrace "open access" publishing. The institutions that issued the pledge for journals that are published online and free are: Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, MIT, and the University of California at Berkeley. The universities involved are inviting others to join them.

Interestingly, for example Stanford, Princeton, and Yale are not participating the efforts yet. Furthermore, it would be important for the cause that also the leading European and Asian universities will join the initiative. Who will be the first to announce this, that's the question.

Of course, the reactions from the industry of scientific publishers would be good to hear too.

Sources: Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Library Journal.

EU Commission is for Digital Economy

2009-08-20T23:40:00.000-07:00

Digital economy can lift Europe out of crisis, says Commission report.

The Future of Information Business: Google vs. Book Publishers

2009-08-13T12:38:00.000-07:00

The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access is discussed in a conference at Berkeley, California August 28, 2009. Interesting to hear the latest about the future of information business. Sadly, due to space limitations, the conference is by invitation only.

Anyway, see the conference schedule here.

Free Online Textbooks

2009-08-10T02:42:00.000-07:00

Financially troubled California is among the firsts starting to use open source course material in schools instead of expensive textbooks, says the New York Times.

Instant Book Publishing - Extensions for the News

2009-03-30T01:36:00.000-07:00

News is good for marketing 'instant' books about - the latest topics of the news, of course. This piece of The New York Times tells that one month, or only three weeks, is the time gap nowadays between finishing the manuscript and the printed book.

"For generations the publishing industry has worked on a fairly standard schedule, taking nine months to a year after an author delivered a manuscript to put finished books in stores. Now, enabled in part by e-book technology and fueled by a convergence of spectacularly dramatic news events, publishers are hitting the fast-forward button."

MIT Center fo Future Civic Media

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About the Center for Future Civic Media

Civic Media Projects

MIT projects

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Information Ecology

MIT Communications Futures Program

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CFP PAPERS:

The Evolution of RFID Networks: The Potential for Disruptive Innovation

Value Chain Dynamics in the Communication Industry

Overlay Networks and the Future of the Internet

(Identity in an Information-centric Internet )

Stanford Law School: The Center for Internet and Society

2008-10-06T04:15:00.000-07:00

CYBERCRIME:

The Information Revolution in 10 years
by Tom Rubin

The revolution will be televised...on YouTube
by Larry Downes

FUTURE OF IDEAS:

Information Technology and Libraries
Tom Zillner, Editor
Book Review here

Nobel Predictions based on ISI Web of Knowledge

2008-10-05T07:47:00.000-07:00

How to predict Nobel laureates. The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters says it is the only organization to use quantitative data to make annual predictions of Nobel Prize winners. "A strong correlation exists between citations in literature and peer esteem. Professional awards, like the Nobel Prize, are a reflection of this peer esteem", it argues.

Thomson Reuters: THE SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OF THOMSON REUTERS PREDICTS NOBEL LAUREATES

See more: Nobel economics prize: time for a focus on finance?

News from the Berkman Center

2008-09-20T05:40:00.000-07:00

Digital Shadows
August 13, 2008
People leave behind digital dossiers all the time.

The Citizen Media Law Project on Understanding Your Legal Risks When You Blog or Publish Online
August 05, 2008

Citizen Media Law Project Completes Launch of Online Guide to Media Law
July 29, 2008
Cambridge, MA – The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) announced today that it has completed the launch of its Citizen Media Legal Guide, located at http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide. The free guide, which is intended for use by bloggers, website operators, and other citizen media creators, focuses on the legal issues that non-traditional and traditional journalists are likely to encounter as they gather information and publish their work online.

The Library in the New Age
June 05, 2008
Robert Darnton, head of the Harvard University library, who helped advocate for open access at the University, has written an essay for the New York Review of Books on "what it means to be a library in the digital age"

Projects in the Berkman Center for Internet and Society

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Berkman Center: Research

1. Center for Citizen Media

2. Publius Project

3. Media Re:public

Projects in the Cambridge-MIT Partnership Programme

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1. Communications Research Network

The Cambridge-MIT institute recognised the importance of the communications sector to the UK economy. Realising that there was no single organisation acting as a forum for the industry as a whole in the UK, CMI created the Communications Research Network to bring the industry together with a focus on research and how the industry might evolve in the future. The network's research had two main themes: to better understand the value chain of the industry and explore roadmaps to possible futures; and to conceive and demonstrate unexpected and disruptive visions of the future. CRN helped to inform industry about the barriers at which to focus innovation, and to inform academics about the research that would have the greatest impact on industry

2. Intelligent Book

In order to improve the teaching of complex material, and make that material available more widely, a collaborative "Intelligent Book" is being jointly developed by the University of Cambridge and MIT. The Intelligent Book collects data from large numbers of people who read it on the Web, and it uses that data in a modelling system to assess and predict reader progress and provide multimedia information tailored to a given reader’s needs. Educational materials designed for the Intelligent Book will be developed and used to teach introductory electronics at MIT and Discrete Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

3. Internet Security Group

In the digital knowledge economy, as the value of information increases so does the importance of maintaining the security of that information. Business is becoming ever more dependent on electronic information exchange such as email and the internet, but with that dependency comes the danger of complacency. It is vital therefore that Business recognises not only the efficiency and productivity that electronic communication can deliver, but also the potential risks. We must stay alert and ask – what about security?

4. Smart Media - The Flexible Media Prototype Research Experiment

The Flexible Media Prototype Research Experiment brought together teams from industrial R&D, Creative Media Production Research, Academia and Creative Education. Together they forged a new media content form, new presentation formats for projects, and new tools for creating and exhibiting digital media stories and programmes.

Current projects in Oxford Internet Institute

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PUBLICATIONS:

Dutton, W.H. and Helsper, E. (2007) Oxford Internet Survey 2007 Report: The Internet in Britain (Oxford Internet Institute).

Guerra, G.A., Zizzo, D.J., Dutton. W.H. and Peltu, M. (2003) Economics of trust in the information economy: issues of identity, privacy and security OII Research Report No. 1 .

Noam, E., Hay, D., Baye, M.R. and Morgan, J. (2003) The Internet: still wide open and competitive? OII Internet Issue Brief No. 1 .

Caldas, A., David, P.A. and Ormanidhi, O. (2005) Digital information network technologies, organisational performance and productivity Report for Cisco-funded project: 'Internet and productivity in public services: innovative pathways for e-government' (Oxford Internet Institute).

Birmingham, P. and Davies, C. (2005) Implementing broadband Internet in the classroom: key issues for research and practice OII Research Report No. 6 .

Nash, V., Dutton, W.H. and Peltu, M. (2004) Innovative pathways to the next level of e-learning OII Forum Discussion Paper No. 2 .

Schroeder, R., Caldas, A., Mesch, G. and Dutton, W. (2005) The World Wide Web of Science: Reconfiguring Access to Information Paper on the 'World Wide Web of Science' project, presented at the annual conference of The National Centre for e-Social Science in 2005, in the session 'Social Shaping of e-Research' .

Schroeder, R., Fry, J. and Virkar, S. (2006) The World Wide Web of Science and Global Expertise: Democratizing Access to Knowledge? Paper presented at the World Wide Web of Science Workshop at the OII in February 2006 .

Yorick Wilks (2006) What is the Semantic Web and what will it do for eScience? OII Research Report No. 12 .

Dutton, W.H. (2004) Social transformation in the information society WSIS Publication Series (UNESCO: Paris).

1. COMPANIONS

COMPANIONS aims to change the way we think about the relationships of people to computers and the Internet by developing a virtual conversational 'Companion'.

PUBLICATIONS:

Benyon, D. and Mival, O. (2008) Landscaping Personification Technologies: from Interactions to Relationships.In: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008).

2. DIGITISED RESOURCES: A USAGE AND IMPACT STUDY

Are digital resources succeeding at reaching their intended users, or are they being missed because of poor information seeking skills among the target users? There are a number of challenges in assessing the use and impact of online digital resources: these include new methods, shifts in the way that people access resources, new audiences, and new forms of information-seeking behaviour among different audiences. The project combines quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure the impact of online scholarly resources.

3. NETWORKS FOR WEB SCIENCE

Web Science brings together computer scientists and engineers, social scientists and policy makers to study complex information systems as personified by the Web. In other words, Web Science is the study of decentralized information systems. Web Science encompasses science, engineering, social understanding and capacity building. The aim of this proposal is to establish networks of researchers from different technical and social science research disciplines to begin to develop a Web Science research agenda through the exchange of PhD students and collaborative workshops, the results of which will be disseminated through detailed review papers.

4. OXFORD INTERNET SURVEYS

Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) research is designed to offer detailed insights into the influence of the Internet on everyday life in Britain.

Launched in 2003 by the Oxford Internet Institute, OxIS is an authoritative source of information about Internet access, use and attitudes. Some of the areas covered include: digital and social inclusion and exclusion; regulation and governance of the Internet; privacy, trust and risk concerns; social networking and entertainment; and online education.

5. E-LEARNING RESEARCH GROUP

The e-Learning Research group is concerned with a wide range of issues concerning teaching and learning in the digital age. It focuses on the role of new technologies in developing and revolutionising educational theory and practice in a variety of educational contexts in the 21st century.

6. Virtual communities of practice: the open source software community

This is developing and applying new automated data extraction techniques, quantitative methods of analysis and empirical findings about the organisation, governance and performance of the large Internet-connected communities that develop free and open source software, such as the Linux kernel, the Mozilla browser and the Apache Webserver. It is being undertaken by teams at Stanford University and partner institutions in the UK, France and the Netherlands

7. World Internet Project

The World Internet Project (WIP) is a major, international, collaborative project looking at the social, political and economic impact of the Internet and other new technologies. Conceived as the study of the Internet that should have been conducted of television in its early days, the WIP believes that the Internet's influence will ultimately be far greater than television.

8. World Wide Web of Humanities

The World Wide Web is enormous and is in constant flux, with more web content lost to time than is currently accessible via the live Web. The growing body of archived web material available to researchers is immensely valuable as a record of important aspects of modern society, but there is little, if any, supporting infrastructure, processes and trusted methods available to facilitate domain specific Internet research. Humanities researchers are expected to individually assemble research data and e-Research tools needed for analysis. This can be cost-prohibitive in terms of resources and time.

This project aims to begin to address this gap by establishing a framework for e-Humanities (also called Digital Humanities) research using available open source tools and technologies and archived web content to create novel research interfaces to the first of many, scholarly, e-Humanities web collections

News from the Wall Street Journal

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[The Wall Street Journal, August 25 2008] Privacy? We Got Over It.
There is no privacy in the internet.

News from the Economist

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[The Economist, August 21 2008] If you build it… Lively, Google’s virtual world, has been a flop

[The Economist, August 14 2008] Flickring here, twittering there
Politicians use the internet in their campains and try to control the new media.

[The Economist, August 5 2008] The computer says no
Digital image processing could help to authenticate works of art.

[The Economist, July 24 2008] The brave new world of e-hatred
Internet can enhance hatred between people and nations.

[The Economist, July 17 2008] Great minds think (too much) alike
Accordig to research the more journals there are online, fewer articles are being cited in the reference list.

[The Economist, July 3 2008] Valete
Electronic media replaces yearbooks.

[The Economist, June 26 2008] Blog standard
Bloggers are hard to control.

News from DMW: Law

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[Digital Media Wire, Law, August 18 2008] Publishers Likely to Target Free Magazine-Trading Site

[Digital Media Wire, Law, July 25 2008] Facing Lawsuit, Redlasso Suspends Web Video Clip Service

[Digital Media Wire, Law, July 24 2008] NBC Universal, Fox Sue Web Video Clip Service Redlasso

[Digital Media Wire, Law, July 9 2008] Lulu Partners with Carnegie Mellon's ETC Press

[Digital Media Wire, Law, June 20 2008] AP Settles Dispute with Blogger; "Fair Use" Guidelines in Works

[Digital Media Wire, Law, June 16 2008] Associated Press Looks to Corral Use of Content on Blogs

[Digital Media Wire, Law, June 13 2008] Big Redlasso Clients Depart in Wake of Network Demands

News from DMW: Mobile

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Digital Media Conference

[Digital Media Wire, Mobile, August 22 2008] WSJ: Verizon Nearing Mobile Search Deal With Google

[Digital Media Wire, Mobile, August 21 2008] Mobile Web Publishing Firm MoFuse Raises Funding

[Digital Media Wire, Mobile, July 15 2008] Mobile News Aggregator Mobispine Acquires NewsAlloy

News from DMW: Video

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News from DMW: Mobile

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[Digital Media Wire, Mobile, June 18 2008] Sprint Nextel to Launch WiMax Service in Baltimore in September

[Digital Media Wire, Mobile, June 23 2008] Nokia Acquires Location-based Mobile Social Network Plazes

[Digital Media Wire, Mobile, June 24 2008] Kodak Details Plans to Enter Mobile Device Photo Market

News from the Financial Times

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[The Financiel Times, Technology, June 17 2008] Mobile internet is taking off

News from The Economist

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[The Economist, June 13 2008] Ripe for picking
Apple's iPhone is developing.

[The Economist, June 5 2008] Rummaging through the internet
Three-dimensional web browsing (3b rooms, cities and stores).

[The Economist, June 5 2008] Watching while you surf
On-line advertisers are monitoring what websites internet users visit so that they can target advertisements individually and more accurately (behavioural-targeting).

[The Economist, June 5 2008] Telemedicine comes home
Telecommunications and medicine are being combined: long distance medical treatment is possible. Furhter, technology is moving from telemedicine to telehealth and teleprevention.

[The Economist, June 5 2008] From blueprint to database
Digital models are being used to design buildings.

[The Economist, June 25 2008] Speak up
Translating languaes with the help of devices and programs.

Paper is no longer needed:

[The Economist, June 5 2008] Who needs paper?
Transportation tickets in digital form.

[The Economist, June 5 2008] Unbound
Books on the verge of going digital (Amazon's Kindle e-books and Print on Demand, POD-system).

News from DMW: Mobile and Video

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News from The Economist

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[The Economist, April 22 2008] Finding the right picture

[The Economist, May 14 2008] Cores of the problem

[The Economist, April 10 2008] Nomads at last

[The Economist, April 9 2008] Start making sense

[The Economist, April 24 2008] Pain in the aaS

[The Economist, May 16 2008] From literacy to digiracy

[The Economist, May 15 2008] Doctor on call

[The Economist, May 15 2008] The final chapter?

[The Economist, May 22 2008] Dial I for internet

[The Economist, February 14 2008] The electronic bureaucrat

Sources

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7. The Economist

6. Stanford Center for Internet and Society

In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.

5. Lessig Blog

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

Massachussets Institute of Technology

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Cambridge- MIT Partnership Programme (see before)

Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)/ MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems

Comparative Media Studies

MIT Center for Digital Business

MIT Media Lab News

MIT Media Lab

Projects in Media Lab MIT Center for Future Civic Media , MIT Communications Futures Program , Digital Life (plus related research groups) , Next Billion Network etc.

Cars as Media Centers

2008-05-13T15:56:00.000-07:00

Stanford professor Clifford Nash is creating the future of communication, once again, with his research. This time it is not only about computer-human relationships, but also cars as media centers.

Stanford Report: Professor studies what cars can learn from drivers’ words

See the clip: Stanford's Nass simulates crashes, sees the car as a media center

By Turo Uskali @ Stanford

Open Access Publishing/Harvard

2008-05-10T07:04:00.000-07:00

Once again, Harvard is leading the way.

Harvard Law School, is the next in the line of transforming the old, and almost sacred principles of academic publishing: peer-reviewing, long-waiting-times, and expensive. Now on, Harvard Law's papers are delivered fast, and - free on the web. To be sure, this will create new pressures to traditional academic publishing houses, but also, and happily, this will clearly boost scholarly communication among the best researchers in the world.

"The Harvard Law School faculty produces some of the most exciting, groundbreaking scholarship in the world," said Dean Elena Kagan in Harvard Law School's website. And, she is right.

In addition, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is celebrating already its first 10 years. This fine institution is creating the future for media, and journalism as well. You can participate the seminars online by webcasts, and live videoblogging, May 15, and 16, from here.

By Turo Uskali

The Cambridge-MIT Partnership Programme

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Interesting projects in the Cambridge-MIT Partnership Programme

Communications Research Network

Intelligent Book

Internet Security Group

Smart Media - The Flexible Media Prototype Research Experiment

Understanding the Development and Commercialisation of Digital
Technologies

Sources

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3. Oxford:

Internet Institute , an academic centre for the study of the societal implications of the Internet.

e-Horizons Project is focused on critically assessing competing visions of the future of media, information and communication technologies and their societal implications. The project’s key strategy is to examine leading-edge developments in the use of information and communication technologies in the sciences and humanities as a window on the future of technology in everyday life.

4. Cambridge:

Communications Research Network: The Cambridge- MIT Institute (Partnership Programme). The communications revolution has engulfed the developed world in the last 20 years. We have moved from a world where communications was dominated by fixed voice communications to a world of mobile communications and widespread data communications for business and leisure use. The pace of change in communications has been breath-taking and shows no signs of letting up.

Interesting News from Korea

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[Korea.net News, Society, April 13 2008] Seoul to host 2009 assembly on news dissemination technology

Korea will host next year's annual assembly of the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) on technical standards for the dissemination of news by news organizations, the Korea NewsML Forum said Sunday (Apr. 13).

The decision was made at a meeting Saturday of executives of the IPTC secretariat based in Windsor, United Kingdom. The IPTC is a consortium of 68 news media across the world organized for the development of news-related technology, the forum said.

Korea will be the second Asian country to host the assembly after Japan.

The forum hoped that the Seoul assembly would help boost the information technology of Korea in the world's news industry.

[The Hankyoreh, May 2 2008] U.S. scholar urges Korean media to diversify, and quickly

Korean media can’t keep up with rapidly changing media environment, professor says

Randy Covington, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of South Carolina in the United States, speaking at a recent seminar in Korea, remarked that changes in the South Korean media are slow compared with changes in its rapidly-developing IT industry. He was in Korea on April 30 at the invitation of The Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute.

Professor Covington observed that the Korean media was unable to keep up with the demands of the general public. Traditional media, including newspapers and television, should change their newsrooms to survive in today’s rapidly changing media environment, the professor added.

[The Chosun Ilbo, April 18 2008] FCC Approves Cell Phone Alert System

Federal regulators in Washington have approved plans to upgrade the nation's Emergency Alert System to include text messages to cellphones and other mobile devices. VOA's Paul Sisco has more in this Searching for Solutions report.

When disaster strikes, the Federal Communications Commission wants to make sure that as many Americans as possible know about it. The Emergency Alert System just approved by the FCC would send out warnings to cell phones about terrorist threats and imminent natural disasters. Law enforcement agencies could also use the system to help find missing children.

Book Publishing Business

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With the help of algorithms one can create easily, let´s say 200 000 books. No kidding, Philip M. Parker just did that. As The New York Times argues, it is better to call Mr. Parker compiler than an author.

YouTube: Patent on "Long Tail" for automated content authorship

Sources

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1. Digital Media Wire (Mobile): http://www.dmwmedia.com
A daily briefing of the most important news stories about the business of digital media & entertainment.

2. Nicholas Carr's blog on technology, business and culture: http://roughtype.com
A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His 2004 book Does IT Matter?, published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. His widely acclaimed new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the rise of "cloud computing" and its implications for business, media and society. (http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/info.shtml)

World's Best Universities

2008-04-04T13:27:00.000-07:00

The U.S. is the world's leading higher education super power, and the U.K. follows. This Anglo-American dominance is clear. However, nowadays all the other countries want to build their own harvards, and oxfords, but the task is not that easy. Oxford has its over 800 years of tradition to educate the world´s leaders, and its tutorial system; Harvard has $ 37 billion extra money to invest new initiatives, and scholars.

Here is more about different ranking systems, and their problems:

Wikipedia: Academic Rankings of World's Universities'

The Times: The Top 200 World's Universities

The Economist: Measuring mortarboards

The newest ranking system

By Katja Heinonen & Turo Uskali

Online Newspapers

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The Economist, http://www.economist.com/
The Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/home/europe
The Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/public/us

University Publications

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Oxford, http://www.ox.ac.uk
Cambridge, http://www.cam.ac.uk/
Stanford, http://www.stanford.edu/
Harvard, http://www.harvard.edu/
MIT, http://web.mit.edu/

Oxford Internet Institute:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/

Berkman Center for Internet and Society:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

Stanford Center for Internet and Society
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/

The Future of the Information: "Free?"

2008-02-26T03:38:00.000-08:00

Interestingly, the author of the best seller, The Long Tail, is now writing a new, updated version about the economics of the digitalized world.

The conclusion: If it's free, it sells the best.

Anderson, Chris: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

The further question: Should we next start charging, when consuming media, because the time is our most valuable asset.

by Turo Uskali

Some books to start from

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* Anderson, Chris: The Long Tail

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Tail-Future-Business-Selling/dp/1401302378

http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/01/what-does-the-m.html

http://leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=373

See discussion about long tail phenomenon:

Elberse, Anita. "A Taste For Obscurity: An Individual-Level Examination of 'Long Tail' Consumption." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-008, August 2007

Elberse, Anita, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Superstars and Underdogs: An Examination of the Long Tail Phenomenon in Video Sales." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-015, 2006.

* Hamilton, James T. All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7604.html

Information Business

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So let´s start exploring...