We’ll forgive you if you failed to take MIT up on its offer take its courses for free when it rolled out its MITx online learning platform last year. However, Harvard took notice of its efforts, and has joined MIT online to form the edX platform and offer courses and content for free on the web. There’s no word on the available subjects just yet, but video lessons, quizzes and online labs will all be a part of the curriculum, and those who comprehend the coursework can get a certificate of mastery upon completion.
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MIT and Harvard announce edX web education platform, make online learning cheap and easy
Two of the world’s most hallowed libraries are about to get even quieter, having been given $3 million to go with the flow and put some of their oldest collections online. The Vatican Library and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library will together offer up 1.5 million pages of hoary text, including Gutenberg’s Latin Bible from the 15th Century, a 1,200-year-old Hebrew codex called the “Sifra,” and enough Greek philosophy to make even Homer seem succinct. 
The New York Times just gave you more reason to consider making the jump to a paid online subscription — beginning in April, that free article allowance will see a 50-percent cut, from 20 monthly articles to just 10. This modification comes one year after NYTimes.com launched its infamous content paywall , and following an announcement that the publisher has signed up 454,000 digital subscribers. Paying readers will receive a 12-week subscription that they can gift to anyone on the fence about swiping for access, and smartphone and tablet app users will continue to have access to the “Top News” sections for free. 
As SOPA ‘s aftershocks continue to ripple across the US, a slightly different brand of techno-political drama is unfolding over in Europe, where the European Commission today announced a new set of online privacy regulations. The new legislation, unveiled this morning , was crafted with the intent of giving consumers more control over their online data, and places more pressure upon private companies to protect user information
