It was a wild week out there…

• PIPA and SOPA are currently on hold, but there was a lot of activity this week…some thoughts on the dynamics behind SOPA from Harvard Business Review (via @SteveLoGiudice), Eagledawg’s post on 2012…”the era of evil congressional acronyms” and some clever open science supporters over in the UK have created this post about SOPA and RWA.
• Over at the Scientific American blog network, a publishing scientist asks how realistic calls for a boycott of closed/for-profit publishers are
• NY Times Science Tuesday featured a piece on the open science movement
• One of many items on Apple’s new textbooks plan to move textbook usage further into the digital era