The world is changing. Is academic culture an artificial and unhelpful cap on inevitable and productive innovation in communication potentialities? Or is there a failure of leadership?
Following users across the Web is an increasingly common way to expand ad inventory. But can scholarly publishers expect users to accept it?
Dissemination may be necessary but not sufficient as an element of an information mission in today’s world.
What happens to your online persona after you die? A surprising number of people are thinking about this.
A bizarre evolutionary scenario gave us the most powerful tool nature has ever created.
The attention economy gets a theatrical/thriller treatment. Time is money.
Patterns drawn by a man on his stomach. Only by seeing and listening did I realize how inspired his approach truly is.
An experiment in agile book publishing reveals some interesting divisions between process and form.
Smaller animals, smaller planets, smaller elements, and fewer effective drugs — is science becoming lower-yield, even at the paradigm level?
Google and Apple have different cultures. One is thriving while one has chosen a different path. That choice may prove significant.
NASA makes us look up and inspires young children to pursue science, all for 1/2 a cent on the tax dollar. Why are we letting it slip into oblivion?
Rebuttals are cited less, don’t change citation patterns for original papers, and generally fall flat. And you thought science was self-correcting?
The price of typos exists, but the price of not seeing solutions that are right in front of you could be higher.
An Internet activist hacks MIT to hack JSTOR, even though he had access through Harvard. Now, he’s facing federal charges.
New research demonstrates that there’s a decent likelihood that your data exhaust can be used to find out sensitive things about you.