The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in support of the NFAIS 2018 Blockchain for Publishers Conference to be held May 15-16, 2018. The day-and-a-half conference is being held at the Embassy Suites, Old Town
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It has been said that rain on your wedding day is a sign of good luck. But, Caitlyn (Nelson) Hutzel, daughter of Drew and Caryn Nelson, wonders what kind of luck it is to have rain, hail, ice, a foot of snow and a blizzard on your wedding day! Is it really, really good luck? Caitlyn grew up in Madelia, but
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This spring I took a course on hypertextual writing called Designing/Writing Interactive texts. We use TiddlyWiki for our writing. It can be found here: Tiddlywiki. For one of my projects, I decided to add some 21st century flair to an old favorite of mine, the Tomb of Horrors module. The Tomb of Horrors is
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The second-best-selling single belonged to Bowie; it featured a full-length demo version of “Let's Dance.” Singles from U2, Jimi Hendrix and The Police also were popular RSD sellers. Thanks to Record Store Day, vinyl album sales spiked a whopping 190 percent between the week preceding the
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Zuckerberg dismissed a suggestion that's been floating around that Facebook pay news publishers an annual fee to run their content on its platform: “I'm not sure that makes sense,” he said. “People come to Facebook primarily not to consume news but to communicate with people. The way we can help
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Did you know that in addition to overseeing everything that goes on with the journals in their portfolios, BMC series Editors also give publishing workshops at local institutions? Editor Tovah Honor Aronin recently completed a two-city tour, leading three workshops at two different institutions. Here are
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Media protocol is a platform that seeks to bridge these intermediaries and redistribute powers subsisting in media owners to media creators, media publishers and consumers of media contents. This way, media creators, publishers and consumers alike are able to benefit from the exchange of media
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We knew people were going to love Hyperbolic Magnetism's Beat Saber, but the game already seems to be a sales hit too. Less than 24 hours after launching, Beat Saber is at the No. 4 spot on Steam's best sellers. And we don't mean just for VR; we mean on the entirety of Steam. In fact, according to
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