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1. Amazon.com to Acquire Audible.com (Amazon.com)

2. Libraries: Kick DRM out! (DefectiveByDesign.com) - Sauers

3. Microsoft Offers $44.6B for Yahoo (TIME)

Yahoo! and the future of the Internet (Official Google Blog)

Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer (New York Times)

Report: Yahoo may buy AOL (San Jose Mercury News)

4. New Bedford mayor wants barcoded ID cards for city libraries (Boston Globe)

5. Syracuse Researchers Link Higher Test Scores with Certified Librarians in Schools (Rochester Regional Library Council) - Sauers

Is this really about librarians or about the bigger socioeconomic picture that allows these schools to afford certified librarians?

6. Web-Based Homework - What Do Teens & Tweens Really Want (NYPL Labs) - egyarnetsky

Does this conflict with the message that teens don't want us in their social spaces?

7. Research and Morals (Enquiring Minds Want to Know) - Connie

8. Is "Traditional Reference" Dead? (Pegasus Librarian)

9. Online petition asks Wikipedia to remove pictures of Muhammad (International Herald Tribune) - Chris Z.

Submissions that probably won't get to:

Libraries sound death knell for books on cassette (The Salem News)

Are books "broken" on the web? (Rachel Kramer Bussel "Lusty Lady"'s Amazon Blog)

MPAA, Kindle and Downloading (Stephen's Lighthouse)

Swastika arrangement of library desks draws fire (newsday.com)

Parent objects to library policy (The Republican)

Glittering future for... librarians (BusinessWeek) - Connie

Is Ombudsman Already in Jeopardy? (Washington Post)

Senator says White House is trying to undermine FOIA law (GovernmentExecutive.com) - Chris Z.

WorldCat (The Cunning Realist)

EXPECTATION ECONOMY (trendwatching.com) - D. Cornwall

Evolution of Security - Chris Z.

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