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1. Facebook Beacon

Thoughts on Beacon (The Facebook Blog)

Facebook Is Always Watching You (Wired)

About Face(book) (Fortune)

Zuckerberg Caves In, Lets Facebook Users Turn Off Beacon (Wired)

Facebook's Beacon was illegal as well as dumb (Boing Boing)

Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy (New York Times)

2. On not winning the Nobel Prize (Nobelprize.org)

In Nobel Speech, Doris Lessing Blames the Internet for a Decline in Book Reading (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Do you agree with the assessment that there is a decline in reading? - conniec

3. House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites (CNET News.com)

Wi-Fi 'illegal images' politician defends legislation (CNET News.com)

4. A Librarian's Worst Nightmare (Slate) - bibliophile

5. Pooling Scholars’ Digital Resources (Inside Higher Ed)

Zotero Commons: Who Needs Libraries? (Library 2.0)

Should librarians be worried? Or should we be helping? - karindalziel

6. Max Planck Society terminates licensing contract with Springer publishing house (heise online) - annac

7. Book Talk Flap Followed by Librarian’s Dismissal (AL Online)

8. Some initial thoughts on library advertising in Facebook (The Distant Librarian)

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