VloggerCon to happen in Second Life, too:
Thanks to Spin Martin, the video blog conference under the name of vloggercon held in San Francisco at June 10 & 11 will also take place in Second Life.
Location will be the hipcast conference center at the Shalida sim.
And because it will happen I will be there and thus I did some promo for it!
Watch the video
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for the vloggers….

Plagiarism review recommends faculty dismissals , by…:
There can never be a time or reason at an academic institution, such as our Ohio University, when plagiarism can be justified. Equally, there can not be any tolerance of the individuals who participate in this serious misconduct.
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it looks like ohio is having some issues. i’d like to bring up the point though that ‘novelty’ is not the issue. theses and dissertations, properly done, will not be really novel, they will contribute. the problem is when the rest of the contributions that went into the thesis and dissertation are not attributed to their sources.

E-Book Project To Give Free Access To 300,000 Volumes:
Two nonprofits are preparing to provide free access to 300,000 texts online. Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library plan to make the e-books available free for a month at the first World eBook Fair. Downloads will be available at the fair’s Web site from July 4, the 35th anniversary of Project Gutenberg’s founding, through Aug. 4.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14727375.htm
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i’ve been supporting project gutenberg for years. 300k volumes is not a small amount and keep in mind that some of them have computer generated audio-book versions. (i can’t stand the computer voices, but some people might like them)

New World Notes:
buridan Simon helps with the mash-up by unleashing some storm effects from his inventory

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ooo, i made the papers…..