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How Digital Hobbyists Are Changing Scholarship
By BROCK READ, Chronicle.com, September 5, 2003 Issue
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i02/02a03701.htm
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"Historians embrace personal Web projects, but are wary of amateur
postings
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Google roped into RIAA and KaZaA battle
By Alun Williams, Pcpro.com, September 2003
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=46825

"No one questions Google's power of retrieval these days, but legal
rulings can have an effect. The all-powerful search engine has now been
roped into the ongoing dispute between RIAA (Recording Industry
Association of America) and the makers of the KaZaA peer-to-peer
software."
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Cheating and "Common Knowledge"
Posted by info-commons, Commons-blog.com, September 01, 2003
http://www.info-commons.org/blog/archives/000117.htm

"A story in the Ottawa Citizen for August 30 reported that, in response
to a survey saying more university students are cheating, the University
of Ottawa is instituting an honour code to "encourage more ethical
behaviour among the growing number (of students) who cheat." According
to the study, one in five university students in North America admit
cheating on their academic work."
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