Hiawatha Bray reports on a Harvard Business School study that suggests
people are likely to buy CDs even after downloading files off the
internet. (Source; Harvard in the News)
Archive for March, 2004
Study reports record sales not harmed by file-sharing
Wednesday, March 31st, 2004Politics in the internet age
Friday, March 26th, 2004Library and advocacy organizations organize website for government information
Friday, March 26th, 2004With the slogan, “Americans for less secrecy, more democracy,” a number
of organizations and individuals, among them the American Library
Association, launched OpenTheGovernment.org. The first challenge:
help identify the ten most sought pieces of government
information. “The public’s right to know promotes equal and
equitable access to
government, encourages integrity in official conduct, and prevents
undisclosed and undue influence from special interests.
OpenTheGovernment.org seeks to advance the public’s right to know and
to reduce secrecy in government.” (Source; beSpacific)
How bacterial chemoreceptors work together
Wednesday, March 24th, 2004Howard Berg (of Rowland’s Bacterial Motor Works and Harvard’s MCB) and
Victor Sourjik have studied bacterial signalling networks using
fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Recent papers, including
their latest in Nature (Harvard affiliates enter here) demonstrate the interactions and cooperativity of the proteins that make up these networks.
The “Digital information librarian”
Wednesday, March 24th, 2004Proceedings from a conference: “trends in nanotechnology”
Friday, March 19th, 2004Enhanced news search from Yahoo
Friday, March 19th, 2004includes over 7000 sources. (Thanks to beSpacific)
Conference on National Nanotechnology Initiative
Friday, March 19th, 2004A conference scheduled for March 31 – April 2, National Nanotechnology
Initiative: From Vision to Commercialization, will be held in
Washington, DC, featuring a number of legislators and federal agency
representatives who have participated in the program. An extensive list of speakers draws from universities and corporations. (Source: NSF Custom News)
Salon reviews “programmers at work” panel
Friday, March 19th, 2004Physics mug shots
Thursday, March 18th, 2004351 physicists are represented in this picture gallery collected from multiple sources. (thanks to the NSDL Scout Report for Physical Sciences)