If you attended the keynote for the SSP’s 2008 Annual Meeting, you heard Alex Wright of the New York Times give a fascinating talk about Paul Otlet. Now, in an article in the Times, Alex drills down into some of […]
NPR report: The practice of allowing booksellers to return unsold books back to the publisher may be nearing an end.
An old Silicon Valley maxim exhorts technology firms to “eat their own dog food” (aka, use their own technology). Now they’ve realized they’re eating too much. And so are we.
In the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Nicholas Carr writes that the Internet is making us stupid. Could it actually make us smarter?
Thanks to a Twitter from Jill O’Neill, I was introduced to a very clever little gimmick that turns out to be more than a gimmick. Read at Work is a parody of Windows that buries poems, novels, and satires in […]
Over the last year, Microsoft has really engaged with the STM publishing community and has been maintaining a steady dialog on how they can help publishers start to use OOML and the OpenXML (DOCX) format. I had the honor of […]
Joe Esposito’s new article in the Journal of Electronic Publishing is not your typical Open Access diatribe loosely held together with non-sequiturs, nor is it a pronouncement of how-we-done-good in our company/library. It is a cogent argument based on the economic theory of attention.
One month ago, I wrote on this blog that I would begin using Twitter for a month, and see how it worked, both technically and practically. Now, one month later, here are some reflections: Overall, I liked it. I added […]
A nice article in EContent by Heather Hedden about the just-concluded Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing is worth a glance. It was a great meeting!
Futurists provide us with something we all want to hear, yet far enough into the future to avoid accountability.
Blogging is good for you, or so says a study from the Oncologist as described in Scientific American. Expressive writing promotes biochemical processes: besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves […]
Commenting is one option among many for measuring the success of a blog.
A design competition winner suggests we’ve scrolled back.
60% of book purchases now happen outside the traditional brick-and-mortar bookstore
Recently, Cambridge Economic Policy Associates completed an analysis trying to assess the “hidden” value of peer-review, according to a story in the Times Higher Education. They estimate the value to be £1.9 billion (or about US$3.8 billion), with the UK […]