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Predators and Prey — The Plot Thickens

The Predator from Predator filming site (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) On Monday of this week, I posted a brief piece about a threatening letter sent to University of Colorado-De… more →

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Predators and Prey -- The Plot Thickens — 17 comments

Rick Anderson wrote 9 hours ago: The Predator from Predator filming site (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) On Mond … more →

Tags: Authority, Authors, Business models, Commerce, controversial topics, Economics 2, ethics, Research, social role

Talking Sense -- The Myth of "Job Creators," and Why Taxing the Rich Helps Everyone, Including the Rich — 9 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 6 days ago: In the talk below, Nick Hanauer — an entrepreneur who was one of the first investors in Amazon … more →

Tags: Commerce, controversial topics, Economics 2, ethics, Metrics and Analytics, social role, austerity, entrepreneur, Investment

Review - Greycoats – World of Tomorrow

riftyrich wrote 1 week ago: By Nick Habisch It’s weird, after one thorough listening of Greycoats newest album entitled Wo … more →

Tags: Music Review, greycoats, Muse, Rift Magazine

Are We In a Rut? Explaining the Increasing Homogenization of Scholarly and Scientific Publishing — 10 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 week ago: Speed limit sign on the Chicago elevated. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When the Internet stormed onto t … more →

Tags: Authors, experimentation, Reading, Research, social role, technology, academic publishing, Author, Business

Announcing the Scholarly Kitchen Podcast — 3 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 week ago: Today, the menu of the Scholarly Kitchen is expanding with the launch of our podcast, which is being … more →

Tags: advertising, Authors, experimentation, Housekeeping, Marketing, technology, Tools, academic publishing, iTunes

The Limits of Crowdsourcing in the Scientific Disciplines — 22 comments

David Crotty wrote 1 week ago: Richard Feynman at Fermilab (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As we move further into a socially networked w … more →

Tags: Authority, controversial topics, experimentation, Metrics and Analytics, Peer Review, Research, Social Media, Sociology, technology

Holden wrote 2 weeks ago: Jetpack dream pleasure swirling paper fragments Are blowing out of winged convertibles Hitting potho … more →

Tags: Poetry, Googie, jetsons, Poem

Businessman Closes Product, Community Enraged! The Death of Tools of Change — 22 comments

David Smith wrote 2 weeks ago: I was there, man. There, right at the very start. I was there when Manolis Kelaidis, a designer from … more →

Tags: technology, Research, experimentation, Business models, Nostalgia, Publishing, Web 2.0, O'Reilly Tools of Change, Business Model

It's Not 1995 Again -- Why the Threats from the New Big Players May Be Much More Significant This Time — 10 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 2 weeks ago: Pirate Highwire Trickey (Photo credit: frozenhaddock) Back in the mid-1990s, when the Web heralded a … more →

Tags: Authority, Authors, Business models, Commerce, controversial topics, Copyright, Economics 2, ethics, Peer Review

OSTP Public Access Memo Deadlines Loom Over Us — 3 comments

David Wojick wrote 2 weeks ago: OSTP FY 2014 Budget Briefing (201304100027HQ) (Photo credit: nasa hq photo) This is just a quick not … more →

Tags: Authority, Business models, controversial topics, experimentation, Research, social role, Sociology, technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Leo and Moshimo in Love? A Mother Describes The Matrix

Kent Anderson wrote 2 weeks ago: Today, we have a double-feature of Friday Fun. This one comes courtesy of a friend on Twitter (thank … more →

Tags: ethics, experimentation, Nostalgia, Research, Social Media, technology, Matrix, Morpheus, Neo

Fighting on Three Fronts -- A Presentation to the Council of Scientific Society Presidents — 4 comments

Joseph Esposito wrote 3 weeks ago: Risk (Photo credit: avyfain) Recently, I was asked to participate in a panel for the Council of Scie … more →

Tags: Authority, Business models, Commerce, Economics 2, social role, technology, Business, cssp, governance

New York World's Fair Opens - April 30, 1939

gordonskene wrote 3 weeks ago: The World of Tomorrow in 1939 – All That promise – all that wonderment. Click on the lin … more →

Tags: History, Day in History, Vintage Recordings, Broadcast Journalism, New Deal, FDR, 1930s, Popular Culture, Society

The Law of Unintended Consequences Pays a Visit to the OSTP — 16 comments

Joseph Esposito wrote 3 weeks ago: Moses with the tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt (1659) (Photo credit: Wikipedi … more →

Tags: Authors, Books, Business models, controversial topics, Economics 2, Peer Review, Research, AcademicPub, deepdyve

The Digital Public Library of America Has Arrived — 19 comments

Joseph Esposito wrote 1 month ago: English: Illustration of the final chase of Moby-Dick. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Digital Public … more →

Tags: Authors, Books, controversial topics, Copyright, Reading, Research, technology, archive.org, Brewster Kahle

Interesting Findings from Ithaka S&R's Latest Faculty Survey — 6 comments

Rick Anderson wrote 1 month ago: First floor plan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ithaka S&R recently announced the release of its late … more →

Tags: Authority, Authors, Business models, Education, Metrics and Analytics, Research, technology, Tools, academic publishing

Gold for Gold -- Royal Society of Chemistry Uses OA as Incentive to Sell "Big Deal" Site Licenses — 4 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Gold Mine (board game) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There is a fair amount of uncertainty about what mi … more →

Tags: Business models, Commerce, Economics 2, experimentation, Marketing, Tools, Big Deal, Business Model, Open Access Journal

A Matter of Perspective -- Elsevier Acquires Mendeley . . . or, Mendeley Sells Itself to Elsevier — 33 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Mendeley (Photo credit: AJC1) Confirming earlier speculation, Elsevier has acquired the reference ma … more →

Tags: Business models, Commerce, Economics 2, Social Media, technology, Tools, Usability, elsevier, HTML

SSP Board Decides to Reinstate Removed Posts — 19 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: (Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Carol Anne Meyer, President, Society for Scholarly Pub … more →

Tags: Authority, Authors, controversial topics, Education, ethics, Housekeeping, Peer Review, Reading, social role


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