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The Associated Press recently decided that they were going to refuse to be quoted on blogs anymore, insisting that even some 35 word or less quotes were copyright violations. It’s wrong and illegal, they say, to quote them directly without paying them $2.50 per word.

As conversations about current events move online, what the AP seems likely to have done is to just cut themselves out of the link economy. Jeff Jarvis suggests that this could be the end of them.

It’s easy to say that they have every right to control their content as strictly as they want to, fair use be hanged. Though in this information age, that might not be the most ultimately self-interested way to look at the question. Consider the Recording Industry Association of America, the RIAA.

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What are the edubloggers talking about today, I wonder …

Janet Clarey: Being a workplace ethnographer, systematically gathering information about how people interact with their environment with fresh eyes, can generate new insights into the needs of learners.

Jay Deragon: Looking towards the next step in the relationship economy, some musings on what the new generation of social networking would look like.

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The learning and information industry world pre-surfed for your reading entertainment.

Learning Circuits Blog: The big question for February is when, if and how much your project needs instructional design, and what do we mean by that, anyway?

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Xyleme explores the challenges training organizations face to effectively leverage their learning content management system during the first session of Learning 2007, Business Case for Reusability 2.0: the Proof is in the ROI.

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