Monday, August 23, 2004

The US Department of Education supports RSS. Bing! [Scripting News] 7:33:22 PM      Google It!.

Information Preservation and Data Havens? [Slashdot:] 4:42:06 PM      Google It!.

Cheating Made Easy [Slashdot:] 2:01:30 PM      Google It!.

$1bn to build unmanned fighter. A US company has received more than $1bn in funding to build prototype unmanned fighter aircraft for the American military. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 1:42:10 PM      Google It!.

Disruptive technologies in scholarly communication. Susan Lafferty and Jenny Edwards, Disruptive technologies: what future universities and their libraries? Library Management, 26, 6 (2004) pp. 252-58. Only this abstract is free online: "Christensen's Theory of Disruptive Technologies predicts that mainstream organisations and industries can be made obsolete by new technologies that change the whole paradigm of the industries in which they operate. This paper demonstrates the relevance of the theory of disruptive technologies to academic libraries, higher education and the academic publishing industry. The way universities are organised and how they operate could change radically; scholarly communication could be transformed, placing academic publishers at risk; academic libraries may become irrelevant as new business models emerge. There are strategies that these organisations might adopt to limit the effect of such technologies and/or preferably transform them into sustaining technologies." [Open Access News] 1:40:51 PM      Google It!.