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Seeking to learn more about how research is conducted online, University of Chicago sociologist James A. Evans scoured a database of 34 million articles from science journals. He discovered a paradox: as journals begin publishing online, making it easier for researchers to find and search their contents, research tends to become more superficial.

Kindling is an idea management and collaboration tool that allows you and your group to: * Submit, collaborate and vote on ideas * Comment on ideas * View ideas by popularity * Invite users to join the discussion

To that end, the company now has a handful of hosted services, including the recently launched Exchange Online. Cloud computing can be considered a generalization of SaaS (or perhaps an underlying technology for SaaS); where SaaS offers services typically owned and managed by a single provider, cloud computing provides the infrastructure to develop SaaS applications that are scalable and robust.

The appeal of these services is obvious—they should be a reliable, scalable, cost-effective resource you can access from anywhere. But the recent disruptions show some of the risks of online services. What do you do when they go down?

Vernacular photography is my thing... Well, that and photos of plastic covered couches...

12seconds.tv allows friends and family to record and share short video updates about what they are doing or where they are. You can use a webcam or a cellphone. It's a FREE, easy, and fun way to stay in touch.

Doggyspace is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who love dogs. People use Doggyspace to keep up with friends, upload funny dog videos, and to give their dogs their own cyber place.

I am the Director of Library Services for a school district of approximately 35,000 students, K-12. I believe that school librarians are essential to learning in the 21st century.

Ninth-Grade English At Luther Burbank High School

Galileo's new web site launched today, updating both the technology used by faculty and staff to publish information and the visual appearance of the site. Technology is always moving forward, and our new web site is just one way to see that Galileo is a school that keeps up with the times. The new site is powered by the free, open-source software WordPress MU.

Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your network, restoring everything as normal.

Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your sel

The i-Rooms project of the Science Dissemination Unit of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, aims to establish dedicated links via Internet between ICTP and some Institutions world-wide to help fostering the exchange of knowledge and collaboration among scientists using state of the art and low cost technologies.

This book aims to guide the scientific community on the requirements of Open Access, and the plethora of low-cost solutions available. A compendium of selected literature on Open Access is presented to increase the awareness of the potential of open publishing in general.

The Lefora Team got fed up with the lack of features available in forums. We use them everyday, from art forums, to game forums, to tech forums - we couldn't get over just how old school they were. Something needed to be done! We've taken our development experiences and put them together to create what we believe is how discussions should happen on the web. Our forums are social, engaging, easy to use, and most importantly - fun to interact with

a journal of reflections on purpose, practice and policy in education, published twice yearly by the High Tech High Graduate School of Education.

a global community of educators passionate about teaching with digital media, sharing resources, collaborating, and networking.

I like the ampersand. I think it is often the most attractive character of them all. This blog is an attempt to give this humble ligature the respect it deserves.

we have a timeline of internet memes, including all your favourite ones. And if there are any missing, then you can go and add your own.

I'm not saying playing games is the same as reading. And I'm not saying that doing one in any way replaces doing the other. But there are stories in games.

a list with links of Australian universities' open access repositories.

a list with links of Australian universities' open access repositories.

Amazon's Simple Storage Service Went Down for 8 Hours - A Particulary Scary Situation for a Cloud-dependent Business

San Jose (Calif.)-based Sanmina and Google are at the forefront of a fundamental shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity.

San Jose (Calif.)-based Sanmina and Google are at the forefront of a fundamental shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity.

As community marketing continues to evolve, organizations can target “Generation Virtual” by providing socialization tools to customers and prospects depending on their purpose and the level of customer engagement, according to Gartner, Inc.

So what I'm proposing is that we hide all of the separate "disk drives" in an average home behind an even larger abstraction: "the cloud."