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Medium and message

27-Jul-10

Marshall McLuhan was right: the medium is, in part, the message. That, says Jan Swafford, is why ebooks will never completely replace print:
“E-books won’t destroy paper and ink. The Internet and e-books may set back print media for a while, and they may claim a larger audience in the end. But a lot [...]

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Noted 1

08-Sep-08

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has asked universities to provide information about their researchers’ publication records, so that it can test a suite of performance indicators. The aim, apparently, is to propose that the new performance indicators form part of the Commonwealth Government’s proposed Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) framework.
Peter Merholz observes that conferences [...]

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Aurora: a new way of web?

05-Aug-08

Adaptive Path and Mozilla have released the first in a series of concept videos describing Aurora, a concept for new ways to browse and communicate via the web.
For interaction designers and information architects, some of the interest is in the design process itself — see Jesse James Garrett’s comments on the Aurora web page about [...]

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