From the Guardian: The issue, it seems, boils down to two things – does a reader own an ebook, or the licence to read an ebook? What answer makes the most sense for schools? Or does it simply come down to the dollars?
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4:30 am. (Stupid Brain).
I try and hit the sack between 10:00 and 10:30 every night. Around 4:00 or 4:30 my body starts to gear up for the wakeup alarm (indeed, it barely needs an alarm anymore). This means waking up a bit, turning over, falling back to sleep, grabbing a drink of water, kicking the dog off the [...]
Thoughtful Block Quote of the Day: The Web We Lost
From the very interesting post “The Web We Lost” by Anil Dash: This isn’t some standard polemic about “those stupid walled-garden networks are bad!” I know that Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest and LinkedIn and the rest are great sites, and they give their users a lot of value. They’re amazing achievements, from a pure software perspective. [...]
Letting Career Passion Follow You
The NYT features a great article by Cal Newport. The key takeaways: As I considered my options during my senior year of college, I knew all about this Cult of Passion and its demands. But I chose to ignore it. The alternative career philosophy that drove me is based on this simple premise: The traits [...]
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