The Scholarly Kitchen
What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing – from the Society for Scholarly Publishing
Archive for Mar 17, 2008
CrossRef and Blogs
CrossRef recently announced a plugin for WordPress, the popular blogging platform (and the one this blog uses), showing yet again that citations are not vestiges from a bygone print age but are part and parcel of the permanent Web. CrossRef announced this through their own blog, CrossTech.
Infomania and Loss of Productivity
It’s from August 2007, but a paper in the online peer-reviewed journal First Monday caught my attention just now. It’s about the phenomenon the authors term “Infomania,” but which can also be called Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). ADT was first hypothesized by Edward Hallowell. He asserts that “the cognitive impact of Infomania causes people to … Continue reading
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