The Scholarly Kitchen
Archive for May 29, 2008
Howard Ratner — A New Cook in the Kitchen
Please join me in welcoming Howard Ratner, Chief Technology Officer and EVP for the Nature Publishing Group, as a new contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen. Howard will be writing occasionally. I’m personally thrilled to have the help, especially from such an excellent and knowledgeable source. There are plenty of raw ingredients to cook up here, … Continue reading
Live Entry 2: Green
An interesting session on “Green Publishing,” meaning more environmentally aware publishing choices. One observation from the audience is that there were two types of “green” being mentioned in the same breath — the type when choices are made solely based on the best interests of an environmental stance (so, green in the chlorophyll sense), and … Continue reading
Live Entry 1: Crowds
The SSP Annual Meeting is going on in Boston, and attendance is amazing on this beautiful spring day in Boston. Alex Wright, author of “Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages,” gave this morning’s keynote. He did a nice job of portraying the different ways our efforts to create a balance between information hierarchies and information … Continue reading
Watch Out, “Professionals”!
According to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle, a new publishing entity called 8020 Publishing is showing that the wall between amateurs and professionals sometimes collapses when tested. While creating travel and photography magazines named, respectively, Everywhere and JPG, 8020 Publishing has learned that user-generated photography and travel text is often very good. And … Continue reading
Interface Eye Candy
Two new visualization approaches have caught my eye, and though I typically loathe cute interface write-ups (the kinds of interfaces that generate write-ups are usually too trendy and ephemeral, and won’t stand the test of time), since today is a hard-hitting day at the SSP‘s Annual Meeting in Boston, I thought a little interface eye … Continue reading
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