U Michigan Unveils Master’s Degree in ‘Social Computing’:
The University of Michigan’s School of Information (SI) announced a graduate-degree specialization in “social computing” through a Master of Science in Information. The university said the program is the first in the country to focus on social computing, the term describing the wave of open technologies that enable masses of people to interact and exchange and sort information.

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Wow this is an interesting event. I wonder where it will lead.

Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history:
The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America’s history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats.

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The sloan foundation has funded this development. It uses scribe, which is a bookscanning system.

Online Degrees vs. Brick-and-Morter. The $100K Interview | SummitLearners – Education Online:
I hit the proverbial “glass ceiling” about 2 months ago. After working at my company for the last 3 years and steadily moving up from programming lacky to project manager, I had finally hit the point at which my bachelors degree just was not going to justify the pay raise. I suppose this happens to a lot of people, but I really had no idea what to do

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so he sends out 51 resumes with varying degrees and finds no significant differences based in hiring practice for online vs offline degrees.