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Books Are Alive and Well!

Franklinb_writer Once upon a time there was a writer who was solitary at his desk. All his life had been dedicated to books. From dawn to twilight, his pen was chasing the right word, the definitive sentence. Days were passing by. Each new day was a step towards his Magnus Opus. Was he happy? Nobody knew, not even himself. Were King Arthur and his knights happy? They knew about one thing only: The Holy Grail was what their lives were all about. There was no place for sorrow or happiness. Pain for sure. Our writer believed in what they believed: Lonely perspiration will get you there, to your Magnus Opus. His publisher shared the same faith although, from times to times, he doubted the Magnus Opus would ever see the public light. The Magnus Opus seemed like a never ending story. No publisher, even the shrewdest, knew how not to lose money on a never ending Magnus Opus copyright.

Sometimes the publisher would hear some silly stories about books that were written online, crowdsourced, the product of multiple anonymous pens. How can it be? By what stretch of imagination could books end up as a collective knowledge factory, always at work, where you cannot distinguish between writers and readers. Why would the Magnus Opus be exposed to all eyes, to all brains while it should have been kept as a genuine secret until publishing time?

Are books dead? Should the writer give up his cherished solitary desk and strive for something else?

No, books are not dead. They are different. Why? Because we are different too. The Magnus Opus is not dead either: It will become even "more Magnus" simply because we are more and as a crowd we are able to transform perspiration into inspiration.

No, we won't pretend that each of us is a good as the solitary writer at his desk, only that we can make him or her even better should he or she and his or her publisher accept us in his or her writing cabinet. 

Writing and publishing should not remain solitary exercises. Otherwise they'll become a dry land of failed and lost opportunities, the opportunities many of us were willing to share thanks to the many digital tools our voices can embrace.

Life is not perspiration or inspiration, solitary or collaborative, closed or open, all rights reserved or no rights reserved. It is all of this. And, in all of this, books, writers and publishers have a bright future, the future of our collective collaborative wisdom.

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Podcasting in Cyberlibris

Apple's Ipods have almost become icons. Furthermore, it is amazing to see the many tools, softwares, objects that have been designed around the Ipod and its little brother the Ipod Mini.

Now a new trend is emerging fast: Podcasting. What is it? Well, this is about using your Ipod or any portable MP3 player to time-shift audio broadcasts. According to Podcasting News, "Podcasting lets users subscribe to an audio program and have it automatically downloaded to an MP3 player. Once it's on your portable audio player, you can listen to it whenever you like. The beauty of podcasting is that it takes care of keeping your MP3 player current automatically."

The implications of Podcasting are mind-boggling (not to say mind-blogging).

Assume you're a faculty member and you run a blog (alas, not many do these days...), you can can tape your class and make it available in your blog as an MP3 download.

Even better, you can make it available as an RSS feed easily downloadable and readable by a software like ippoderx. Not convinced? Well again read carefully what Podcasting News has to say about religions and priests who quickly embraced the Podcasting bandwagon. Podcasting News calls it Godcasting ! (Interestingly enough, religion seems to have been faster on this one than the Adult industry and in any case faster than business schools!).

Joking apart, Podcasting should be (along with Cyberlibris and faculty blogs of course!) the next killer app in business schools and in any place where people do care about pedagogy and message delivery. After all, when you think of it, is not it sad that knowledge that is disseminated in a classroom gets lost forever?

Podcasts have already been introduced in Cyberlibris. Just check Newswatch (finance radio news) and Blogwatch (books section: CEO Read podcasts).                                      Built_to_last
Here is a (small) sample of what you could expect. This is drawn from James C. Collins and  Jerry I. Porras best-selling Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. Just click on B-T-L Podcast.

And this is only the beginning! Soon, you'll see a lot more. Stay tune!

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Gary Becker and Richard Posner run a joint blog!

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Guess what, two of the most famous representatives of the Chicago School of economics have decided to run a joint blog. Somehow this is a blog-match made in heaven. Indeed, who would have expected a blog where law (Richard Posner is a judge and senior lecturer in law) and economics (Gary Becker is a Nobel Prize winner in economics) interact at the finest level you can dream of ?

You can bet that this blog is going to be part of the required readings of many economics and law classes.

Check it out regularly on Cyberlibris Blogwatch (economics section)!

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