Funding UK Research
The Research Assessment Exercise is slow and expensive. Abandoning peer-review for quantitative assessment may lead to excessive gaming and corrupt the indicators of quality.
Peer-Review Scandal Shakes French Geologists
The abuse of editorial power and favoritism leads to a national scandal in France.
No Money in Printed Flickr?
Image via CrunchBase Back in May 2008, I wrote about a new publishing venture, 8020 Publishing, and their magazines, Everywhere and JPG. They had an intriguing idea — magazines based on user-submitted (amateur) content. And they had plenty of content, […]
A Self-Publishing Adventure Begins
When you have to walk the talk, you end up self-publishing. Can it succeed for a work of fiction?
Will the iPhone Kill the Kindle?
Has the iPhone put the Kindle in the corner? Or will users be predictably irrational and complicate things for publishers?
Banking on Peer Review
Scholarly publishers risk following the newspaper industry if they don’t value peer-review.
The iPhone Will Survive the Storm
The Blackberry Storm looks to be a weak clipper system rather than a hurricane. Meanwhile, the iPhone may be poised to control the weather.