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≡ Category: Books, e-books | ≅ 8 Comments
The rise of e-books opens up new horizons for readers, and also the possibility that books will be “Napsterized,” as The New York Times explains. The Times article begins: You can buy “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com. Or you can don a pirate’s cap and snatch a [...]
≡ Category: History, Life | ≅ 3 Comments
There’s no sound, and the clip only runs 20 seconds. But this is the only known footage of Anne Frank, and it’s now online. The Anne Frank House does a good job of setting the scene for the video taken on July 22, 1941. “The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning [...]
≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society | ≅ Leave a Comment
Yesterday, YouTube EDU went international, and FORA.TV went mobile. FORA is an excellent resource for smart video (you’ll find it in our collection of Top Intelligent Video Sites), and now it has launched its new mobile web site. Just point your mobile browser to m.fora.tv, and you can start watching smart video on the move. The [...]
≡ Category: Education, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick bit of breaking news. YouTube.EDU has released Version 2.0 today and has gone international. The site, launched six months ago, now features academic content from the UK, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Israel. As part of this global effort, the YouTube team has brought 45 new universities into the fold, including Cambridge University, [...]
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