Comments on: Been Avoiding Social Media? It Just Kicked In Your Door

By: Get a Whiff of Google’s Augmented Reality Stickers « The Scholarly Kitchen

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:57:46 +0000

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By: David Crotty

David Crotty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:03:41 +0000

As a follow-up here, it gets odder. There are now no Sidewiki comments on the home page of The Scholarly Kitchen. There are several comments on this posting when viewed as a separate page. It’s odd how things have moved and disappeared. It also points out how annoying it is to have the conversation about the blog articles bifurcated into two separate conversations that will never be integrated.

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Bench Top Roundup: Nobel Edition — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:57:26 +0000

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By: David Smith

David Smith — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:08:42 +0000

Richard, what are you thoughts about unsolicited comments appearing next to an article you have written?

Would you want publishers to monitor this or would you be happy to do it yourself?

I guess most comments are coming at this from the point of view of publishing so your thoughts would be a most welcome perspective.

By: Richard Jacob

Richard Jacob — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:59:14 +0000

The last 5 points in the blog entry (monitor, participate, etc) add up to money, money, and more money. The costs that the journals will have to bear will surely be passed along to the researcher in the form of page charges. I don’t mind paying page charges because I think they’re generally a good value, but I also think they’re high enough already. I don’t want the publication fees to play a role in deciding which journal I should submit my work to.

By: Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:25:51 +0000

Your Sidewiki comment is still there as is Kent’s. It is on the home page of the Scholarly Kitchen, not on this post’s page.

Another confusing aspect of Sidewiki use with blogs.

By: ann michael

ann michael — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:26:25 +0000

Not only is that interesting – but I just went back to see if there were other comments there and I don’t even see mine anymore! Looks like there are still a few bugs in the process.

By: David Crotty

David Crotty — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:13:52 +0000

@David, you’ve hit the nail on the head here. Google is creating a massive timesink for anyone who runs a website. The journal I run has thousands of articles (abstract and full text versions), and hundreds of supporting pages. Now I’m supposed to constantly monitor every one of those pages to see if someone is spamming them in the Sidewiki so I can report it to Google? Well, there goes my whole day. At the very least, Google needs a tool to notify webmasters when comments are added to a Sidewiki. Even with that, if this catches on, the best option may just be blocking access to users of the Google Toolbar. I don’t have time to act as a spam filter on every single page in my journal.

By: Google calls It Sidewiki

Google calls It Sidewiki — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:58:39 +0000

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