Howard's Pick for 2010: The Tablet Enters the Information Fray
Four days with the iPad became 8 months with it. Meanwhile, friends like the Android tablets joined in.
Four days with the iPad became 8 months with it. Meanwhile, friends like the Android tablets joined in.
Our ease with print makes inertia feel natural. But the winners will have facility with many more information technologies than just paper and ink.
The truth isn’t disintegrating, but perhaps weaker or ad hoc theoretical frameworks are dissolving more quickly these days.
Why hasn’t scientific publishing been disrupted? The question created one of the year’s most-read posts.
The publisher of Harper’s proves himself an anachronist, while O’Reilly scolds other publishers to wake up!
It’s been a reckless year marked by books becoming cannon fodder in the platform wars.
Should institutional open access repositories be run like journals?
A traffic phenomenon from a post about PLoS ONE may indicate that impact factors are more important to authors than PLoS believes.
Image via Wikipedia Rather than choosing a “best” of my own posts, I’ve taken a step back to examine what I’ve written this year, in search of an article or theme upon which to expand. Surveying my 2010 contributions, main […]
A problem in recruiting competent peer-reviewers may be the fault of email spam blockers, not the unwillingness of academics to review.
After wondering at the supposed burden of peer-review, more evidence emerged that it still works well, and is probably less taxing than other alternatives.
A week of picks from 2010, and gratitude to everyone involved.
The movement to publish more and more demands that we find ways to preserve the trust we’ve built while taking advantage of the sunlight public availability can provide.
Wikileaks teaches us a number of lessons, the most important being that the world will change, whether we like it or not.
The data-mining of the Google books database has great promise, but who owns the data-mining rights?