Interview with Jason Roberts from the ISMTE Annual Conference
An audio interview with Jason Roberts, founder of the ISMTE, recorded after a keynote in Baltimore Tuesday.
An audio interview with Jason Roberts, founder of the ISMTE, recorded after a keynote in Baltimore Tuesday.
Feudalism was a necessary step in social organization, but is it the end-state for academic organization? A number of related events this past weekend make me think not.
A video tribute to randomness, with a beat you can dance to. What better for a Friday?!
A study of social citation reveals diversion, invention, and distortion, and provides a cautionary tale about how socialization of knowledge in medicine can have downsides.
How much work is it to run a blog? After 18 months, I think I finally have enough experience to share some insights.
The more arguments I hear about service vs. content, the clearer it seems that this is a false choice.
Elsevier’s “Article of the Future” prototypes appear, and only spotlight the underlying conceptual problems for a traditional, article-centric publisher.
Amateurs with similar machines as professionals have emerged before. Instead of travel, this time, it’s information.
If publishers of all types don’t invest in the next thing, they’re the only ones who will suffer. But the barriers are high, and new competitors may be better positioned to fulfill the future.
When a teenager is allowed to publish a report under the name of Morgan Stanley, the results show that an important gate-keeping function failed.