I'm starting to catch up with reading - here's some of the news to hit recently (ish!):
- Microsoft buys up Powerset, in its attempt to take on Google
- HEFCE announces 22 pilot institutions to test the new REF (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402609)
- NHS Choices selects Capita as preferred bidder
- Google is experimenting with a Digg-like interface
- Amazon S3 experienced service outage on 20 July - one of the risks of relying on the cloud, I guess
- Encyclopaedia Britannica goes wiki
- Proquest to acquire Dialog business from Thomson Reuters
Some interesting articles came my way too...
- Information : lifeblood or pollution? has some interesting thoughts about when information has value and when there is so much information it loses its value. Jakob Nielsen is quoted: 'Information pollution is information overload taken to the extreme. It is where it stops being a burden and becomes an impediment to your ability to get your work done.' Possible solutions are rating the integrity of information and clearer provenance.
- International initiative licenses resources across 4 European countries about a deal negotiated via the Knowledge Exchange with Multi-Science, ALPSP, BioOne, ScientificWorldJournal, and Wiley-Blackwell.
- A fun way of describing the amount of data Google handles
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