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Gladwell & Nielsen: The Fixed Costs of Fixed Ideas4 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 2 days ago: Image via Wikipedia Two articles popped up recently that I think are related in a subtle way. … more →

Tags: Books, Business models, Research, technology, World of Tomorrow, Chris Anderson, Clayton Christensen, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Nielsen

Chaos Still Publishing Former Editor's Work5 comments

Philip Davis wrote 2 days ago: Wood Fractal by Skepsis via Flickr The August 30th issue of the journal Chaos, Solitons & … more →

Tags: Authority, Authors, Peer Review, El Naschie, elsevier, Mathematical Physics

Open Access on a "Level Playing Field"2 comments

Philip Davis wrote 3 days ago: 1892 Cornell varsity football team via Wikipedia Sports are often used as metaphors for busin … more →

Tags: Business models, author processing charges, BioMed Central, Cornell University Library, Harvard University, Metaphors, open access, University of Nottingham

Gay Marriage

melindasuzyq wrote 3 weeks ago: Let me start by the definition of Marriage.  The following insert is courtesy of Wikipedia and it st … more →

Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars39 comments

Philip Davis wrote 3 weeks ago: Image by Roby© via Flickr Would a publisher accept a completely nonsensical manuscript if the … more →

Tags: Business models, experimentation, author processing charges, Bentham Science, Journal publishing, open access, Peer Review, Sokal affair, United Arab Emirates

The Tip of an Iceberg?6 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 3 weeks ago: Image by Gideon Burton via Flickr Today’s post by Phil Davis outlines a small experimen … more →

Tags: Authority, social role, Reading, Research, Authors, Peer Review, academic publishing, Author, journals

The Pseudo-Mathematics of Attention2 comments

Ann Michael wrote 3 weeks ago: Last year, Joe Esposito published an article in the Journal of Electronic Publishing that still reso … more →

Tags: Authority, Marketing, experimentation, Business models, Publishing, attention, Relevance, focus?

Chaos Journal Preparing to Close Shop?

Philip Davis wrote 4 weeks ago: Image by SantaRosa via Flickr It appears that the embattled journal, Chaos, Solitons and Frac … more →

Tags: social role, Authors, Peer Review, academic publishing, elsevier, El Naschie, Journal

Lending Credibility to Fake Journals1 comment

Philip Davis wrote 1 month ago: Image by Mike Licht via Flickr The Elsevier-Merck publication scandal made this week’s … more →

Tags: Marketing, Education, Business models, on the media, elsevier, Merck, Pharmaceutical Industry, npr

Recharging the Batteries3 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Image via Wikipedia Geoff Bilder and I spoke together at a session about the brave new world … more →

Tags: Business models, experimentation, social role, Society for Scholarly Publishing, technology, Tools, World of Tomorrow, iPhone, Online Communities

Publishing for the Google Generation7 comments

Ann Michael wrote 1 month ago: Image via CrunchBase Immediately following Adam Bly’s keynote, Joy Moore, also from See … more →

Tags: Social Media, World of Tomorrow, Education, experimentation, Society for Scholarly Publishing, Google, Ryan Jones, twitter, YouTube

Adam Bly's Keynote6 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Image bywww.dld-conference.com via CrunchBase Adam Bly of SEED Media just concluded his keyn … more →

Tags: experimentation, Research, social role, Society for Scholarly Publishing, technology, World of Tomorrow, academic publishing, Adam Bly, Publishing

Cornell's Open Access Author Fund3 comments

Philip Davis wrote 1 month ago: Image via Wikipedia High above Cayuga’s waters, the Cornell Library Board is deliberati … more →

Tags: Authors, Education, experimentation, author processing charges, Budgets, Cornell University Library, faculty senate, Libraries, open access

"Star Trek" Bashed as "Fun, Watchable"

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: The Onion was recently praised in the Economist as the one source of comedy that has figured out how … more →

Tags: Business models, Reading, social role, Barack Obama, onion, Science Fiction, Star Trek

Bike to Work Week -- Fun for Everyone!1 comment

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Today marks the end of Bike to Work Week in the United States. Personally, the week wasn’t tha … more →

Tags: technology, Sociology, Cycling, bicycles and bicycling, Autos, Driving

Dark Secrets: Open Access and Author Processing Charges14 comments

Philip Davis wrote 1 month ago: Image by stukinha via Flickr You would have thought I was requesting a field manual for inter … more →

Tags: Education, Authors, Accountability, open access, Libraries, public access policy, open government, author processing charges, Transparency

The WSJ's Payment Curbstop10 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Image by Enrico Fuente via Flickr In the midst of a national debate over the future of newspa … more →

Tags: World of Tomorrow, Marketing, Reading, technology, Newspapers, Business models, Web 2.0, social network, Newspaper

Chaos Plays Catch-up

Philip Davis wrote 1 month ago: Mandelbrot set via Wikipedia Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, the controversial Elsevier journ … more →

Tags: Authors, Peer Review, social role, El Naschie, elsevier, Journal, Mathematical Physics

USPS = Spam in Meatspace2 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 2 months ago: Image via Wikipedia I recall reading an article years ago in which Jeff Bezos was quoted as d … more →

Tags: World of Tomorrow, social role, Tools, Reading, technology, Business models, United States Postal Service, FedEx, UPS


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