Academe Links June 4, 2007

I am beginning flex time this week so with the exceptions of the weeks ending June 22 and July 6 you will not see me on Fridays until flex ends mid-August.

Tool: Booksearch X Three

http://kokogiak.com/booksearch/

How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci http://wanderingink.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/how-to-prevent-another-leonardo-da-vinci/

Once formal schooling ends, learning rates drop, report finds http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070530.LEARNING30/TPStory/National

The Ignorance of Crowds

http://www.strategy-business.com/press/enewsarticle/enews053107

Resource: Unofficial Web Applications List http://www.webapplist.com/

Eduserv and Second Life

http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001364.html

Smithsonian & copyright

http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2007/05/smithsonian-copyright.html

Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060102671.html?sub=AR

Virtual Property, Real Litigation: Second Life Cannot Prevent User From Suing In Court

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5419

O’Reilly on free downloads vs sales

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7518

Google Zooms Too Close for Some

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/technology/01private.html?ex=1338436800&en=dcf03c92d90d9c0c&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Google Maps in China

http://www.ogleearth.com/2007/06/chinese_edition.html

A Completely Off-Topic Resource

http://cinematreasures.org/theater/

Tool: Google Gears (beta)

http://gears.google.com/

Tool: NetRender

http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/

Resource: OpenSecrets

http://www.opensecrets.org/index.asp

Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=?view=XXX_09NNN

Tool: Photosynth

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

We Googled You (HBS case)

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/flatmm/ics/index.html

International News and Problems with the News Media’s RSS Feeds http://www.icmpa.umd.edu/pages/studies/rss_study_details/rss_study.html

Second Thoughts on Second Life: Lessons from Woodbury University http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian/2007/06/second_thoughts.html

How to Teach Business Ethics

http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/06/04/price

Top 10 IT Issues in Higher Education

http://tatler.typepad.com/nose/2007/06/top_ten_it_issu.html

R. C. Rybnikar

Babson College Archives

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http://www.babson.edu/archives