Monthly Archives: August 2011

Testing Caprét

I’ve been testing the alpha release of CaPRéT , a tool that aids attribution and tracking of openly licensed content from web sites. According to the Caprét website.
When a user cuts and pastes text from a CaPRéT-enabled site:

The user gets the text as originally cut, and if their application supports the pasted text will also [...]

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Amazon kindle and textbooks

Amazon are renting textbooks for the kindle. Over the last couple of months I’ve been using a Kindle. We bought it with the idea of seeing how it might be useful for educational content, eTextbooks at the most basic level, though I’ve already written about my misgivings on that score. Well, we quickly came to [...]

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