Google to give you knowledge at your fingertips

There are a lot of initiatives that are pointing the way toward an acceleration of the world’s knowledge repositories coming online. The first that hit my radar was MIT OpenCourseWare initiative that placed 500 courses in to open source. In theory this will facilitateĀ  development of courseware that other institutions can use and holds the promise of placing education intellectual property in to the public domain.

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I love PDF…Jakob Nielsen doesn’t

ALBUM_TEN_TOP_TRENDS_2004Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) has made a big difference in the publishing business of my bride’s company, Marketing Directions, Inc.. Her firm keeps companies a step ahead with a full line of print products, color forecasts and consulting services targeted specifically to the home furnishings industry and PDF has proved to be a material part of her published output.

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