An article in Time Magazine notes that Harvard now spends $3.75 million per year on subscriptions to research journals. The Guardian notes: "Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers,  Harvard University  has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls" Why a Hypocrite? In the same news release about the cost of journals, Harvard did not offer lower prices for the Harvard Business Review. MORE >>

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Karl Gude ( @karlgude ) has been creating news graphics since the late 70s and is one of the few visual journalists who has worked for newspapers, news magazines and wire services. Up until recently, Karl spent nearly a decade as the Director of Information Graphics at Newsweek magazine and also held that position at the The Associated Press and United Press International wire services. Karl left Newsweek in 2006 after accepting a position at Michigan State University's School of Journalism to create an information graphics program. Our panel of expert judges. MORE >>

The Week The Week is a printed current events magazine delivered, rather predictably, once per week. The magazine summarizes the news of the previous week by drawing on a variety of sources to present a short, but balanced, overview of issues. Shvoong The oddly named Shvoong is a user generated summary site on which users submit summaries (and short reviews) of everything — from books to blogs to movies to news articles. Far better than catching up with the news every day. The kids need to be fed and bundled off to school. The toast is burning. s ????s MORE >>

And what's more: What Wikipedia has done to reference books, bloggers do to traditional news media. Papers and magazines close down while broadcasters sell off radio and TV stations, as more people turn to podcasts and streamed videos. I've just been reading a review by John-Paul Flintoff in June 3rd's Sunday Times of Andrew Keen's new book, The Cult of the Amateur. Here's how the review begins: Thinking is so over. The web was going to be the great educator, but the cult of the amateur is now devaluing knowledge, says net entrepreneur Andrew Keen. True web 2.0 don't think so. MORE >>