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Textbook disclaimer stickers This post is for people tracking the bizarre ethical slide of The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc. (CPBR). As you probably know from my earlier posts, CPBR sends out a yearly invitation to plant biotechnology researchers to submit grant proposals. Because I happen to have an official copyright registration on my poster design page, the PDF is in violation of U.S. copyright law. So here’s what I’ve done. I’ve asked every member university to delete the PDF when received from CPBR. All of the above could have been avoided if CPBR simply linked to my Designing Conference Posters page. “Yet the politics of shipwreck can be avoided, I think, if we can construct a theory of feminist criticism within the framework of a general theory of the critical process that is neither purely objective nor purely intuitive; in that way, its processes can be examined beside, compared with, and contrasted to other branches of criticism with some degree of dispassionate distance.”

Coudal Partners 100,000 Google Wave Preview Invites: Everything You Need to Know Google just officially announced that it will send out 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave tomorrow. These accounts will go to developers who are already in the developers preview and users who signed up for accounts at wave.google.com on a first-come, first-served basis. A select number of Google Apps users will also get access to Wave. What is Google Wave? Even after using Google Wave for a few months now, it is still hard to describe exactly what it is. We got a chance to talk to the core Wave team, including Lars and Jens Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon, last night. Highlights We will look at the details of the launch below, but here are some of the highlights: Wave.Google.com While the early Wave testers were on a wavesandbox.com account, starting tomorrow, all of these accounts and all the new users will move over to the wave.google.com domain. Nominate 8 of Your Friends Google Contacts Invite a Robot to Your Wave Chrome Frame Still Some Kinks to Work Out Missing Features

This Blog Rules | Why go elsewhere? CoffeeGhost Blog Google Wave's Best Use Cases - Wave - Lifehacker @arekkusu82: Realistically, Wave is just a new implementation of an old idea. You can acheive much the same thing with SharePoint Discussion boards, or Microsoft Groove (which was developed by a different company before being gobbled up my Microsoft), or ShareFlow by zenbe. Wave is extensible, but so is SharePoint. @arekkusu82: Given that Wave protocol is an open standard, not long. @Bill Clark: Yeah, it first looked to me like a fancy IRC client. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to try it.

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