crowdsourcing

Thursday Midday Links: Kindle Too Restrictive for Library Use

Jul 28 2011

Thursday Midday Links: Kindle Too Restrictive for Library Use

Amazon announced its second quarter results on July 26, 2011.  Sales were up 51% but net income was down 8%. This is consistent with Q1 where sales were up (38%) and net income was down 33%.  Amazon predicts that there will be an even greater reduction in operating income in Q3. Amazon hasn’t said what [...]

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Feb 16 2010

Tuesday Midday Links: Crowd Based Patronage

This is a quite hilarious ad by Verizon mocking AT&T’s pathetic coverage (I am an AT&T customer via my move to the iPhone). Watch until the end. Guardian asks whether crowdsourcing author advances is legitimate. Deanna Zandt wanted to write a book on using social networking for social change and action, specializing in often marginalised [...]

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