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		<title>2010 Hugo Winners Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . . and here they are: Best Novel: TIE: The City &#038; The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK); The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) Best Novella: “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace, Orbit) Best Novelette: “The Island”, Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos) Best Short Story: “Bridesicle”, Will McIntosh (Asimov’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon &amp; Macmillan: Dumb &amp; Dumber</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I decided to buy a copy of Cherie Priest&#8217;s Boneshaker, a novel that received praise  from Publishers Weekly and several other sources. I logged into my amazon account, hoping that I could pick up a digital copy, something I normally buy first, and then if I like the book, I buy the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inherent Vice: It&#8217;s All about the Lagan, Dude&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pynchon&#8217;s latest novel probably got as much press for its unpynchonesque brevity (it clocks in at under 400 pages) as anything else. Considering that Against the Day and Mason &#38; Dixon are nearly 2,000 pages combined, I guess it&#8217;s worth a nod that his latest is easily manageable in a week for even a casual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Bag: Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After finishing Pynchon&#8217;s latest, Inherent Vice, I went back to Nabokov. I took a trip to Chicago to see Bad Religion, who played with Pearl Jam, and put the latest Asimov&#8217;s in the bag. I read a decent story, called &#8220;Camera Obscured,&#8221; the first night. It&#8217;s a piece by Ferrett Steinmetz that comments on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Shows Online Instruction Beats Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT writes: A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.” The report examined the comparative research on online versus traditional classroom teaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Books Adds Creative Commons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google books has announced that they are going to accept and distribute creative commons books via their library: Today, we&#8217;re launching an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they&#8217;ve made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sims Used in CS Classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chronicle of Higher Education writes, Alice, the software program he created to entice students, is now being used at about 15 percent of colleges and universities nationwide. This month, a beta version of Alice 3.0 will be released, letting students create animated movies and games with new characters from The Sims video games and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Textbooks on Your iPhone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The San Francisco Chronicle reports: CourseSmart of San Mateo, California, already makes more than 7000 college textbooks from 12 publishers available to its subscribers online via their computers, but now the company has added &#8220;eTextbooks for the iPhone,&#8221; allowing students to free themselves from even having to lug around their heavy laptop computers. Read more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Bag: Spring Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what I put in my luggage to read on a recent trip to Spring Green to see Henry V, at American Players Theater. Inherent Vice is Pynchon&#8217;s latest novel, a detective story that is, like most Pynchon, filled with lots of characters doing lots of drugs, filled with  paranoia, and quests for the sake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Textbooks, Flexbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the office of the Govenator: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today released the first report of California’s free digital textbook initiative &#8211; which outlines how high school math and science textbooks submitted under the first phase of the initiative measure up against the state’s rigorous academic content standards. Of the 16 free digital textbooks for high [...]]]></description>
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