http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/03/17/do-you-want-lies/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:16:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/03/17/do-you-want-lies/#comment-2595 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:13:07 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=3308#comment-2595 the problem has shifted from ‘making something available to the public’ to ‘getting the public to look at *your* thing’. i suspect the two problems have been related since the printing press was first invented; but the first problem has effectively been replaced by the second. i wonder what this will mean for what information survives and spreads, and what information stagnates and then disappears. or perhaps no information will ever disappear again?

]]> http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/03/17/do-you-want-lies/#comment-2593 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:36:30 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=3308#comment-2593 This is the best kind of article: educational, thought provoking and entertaining at the same time. Thanks for pointing it out, Kent. For scholarly publishers, Shirky’s explanation for the success of Consumer Reports (with no ad revenue) is significant. On the Internet people will pay for the “unimpeachability” of unbiased expert opinion. Those feeling pressure from Web 2.0-driven and other “innovative” Internet business models need to remember that.

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