Music Label Cashes in by Sharing
This is a very nice story about a music publisher, Magnatune, which has adopted the open publishing approach to selling its tunes. More...

Beyond "Efficient Dissemination of Timely Information"
It's a very short article, which is too bad, because it makes an important point worth elaborating upon. The point, specifically, is that knowledge management (and by extension, online learning) is about more than disseminating timely information to staff. More...

Parents Sue School Over Wireless Network
The complete lack of any medical evidence not being a barrier to their campaign, a group of parents has filed suit against a pioneering school districtdemanding that it remove wireless internet systems from its buildings. More...

Princeton Report Critical
Yesterday's parody has become today's news: SunnComm Technologies Inc., the developer of the DRM technology that can be bypassed with the use of the shift key, is suing the Princeton student who authored the paper, Alex Halderman, for significantly damaging the company's reputation and causing the stock to drop $10 million (though there may be more to that than meets the eye). More...

The Beginning of the End of the Internet?
The U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) warns that the internet "may be dying" because of changes in legislation that may allow major corporations "to control the internet's choke points" and dictate what innovations may be allowed, what content may flow. More...

Beta Release of OAI Static Repository Specification
From the press release: "A Static Repository is an XML file that is made accessible at a persistent HTTP URL. The XML file contains metadata records and repository information [a lot like an RSS file, in other words - SD]. A Static Repository provides a simple approach for exposing relatively static and small collections of metadata records through the OAI-PMH. More...