Category Archives: Best_Practices

Crowd-sourcing cheaper textbooks

Posted on January 14, 2011 by edward michael lenert

Based on a recent study,  The Student Public Interest Research Group says “it’s no accident that textbooks are so expensive.  Publishing companies have been raking in huge profits while engaging in bad practices that drive up costs.” How best to … Continue reading →

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Investigative journalists are just “scraping” by …

Posted on January 2, 2011 by edward michael lenert

“There is no data on the Internet that is actually impossible to download.” Continue reading →

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How can voluntary micro-payments help fund the public good?

Posted on January 1, 2011 by edward michael lenert

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Jeffrey Tucker, a guest blogger writing for the Mises Economics Blog in the CS Monitor, wonders whether we are we beginning to see the emergence of a new culture of giving Continue reading →

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