Yesterday I wrote about why university bookstores should get out of the bookselling business, and Zach Whalen chimed in with some much needed details that I'd completely overlooked.

Tim Berners-Lee's TED Talk about Linked Data went up yesterday. Always a delight to hear him. The big message, at least for me, is:

Yesterday's announcement that Zotero 1.5 beta service is up is a good prompt to some more thinking about components of a Giant EduGraph.

In my recent Talking With Talis podcast about Dave Pattern's release of library data, I floated out the term "Giant EduGraph" to describe some of the kinds of aggregations of data we were talking about. The term has actually been bouncing around my head for a while, enough that I've included it in a few conference proposals.