In the pre-Internet days, one of the standby reference books on the desks of most Canadian journalists was a book called Sources.... Sources is still published but I suspect most newsrooms and most journalists might use the electronic version.... A journalist would e-mail a query to ProfNet and then the query would get circulated to the PR shops at universities and colleges across the continent (but mostly in the U.S.).
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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Tuesday, July 29
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on Tue 29 Jul 2008 07:03 PM EDT
Thursday, July 3
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on Thu 03 Jul 2008 08:48 PM EDT
Gene Spafford is no Luddite (though he worries, below, he might sound like one with this rant he mailed in to Dave Farber's list) but he is a smart guy and a digital pioneer who worries about the implications of generations of students hooked up to Bittorrent never having to pay for a textbook: As noted, the whole mechanism of textbooks (and books in general) is changing.... I know all the arguments about the cyber revolution making knowledge quickly available, at how we can avoid cabals and politics by publishing new results quickly, about how scarce funds can be spent on items other than books, and how even 3rd world scholars can have instant access.... Yet, as a scholar and educator, i worry how to ensure that all our students get the best, most correct materials, that our researchers use correct and commonly-available results, and that we document our progress in correct and archival formats for generations to come. more » |
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