Is the Facebook Platform Dead?
Once touted as Platform 2.0, Facebook is now suffocating its applications to make room for a new growth strategy every Web publisher should see coming.
Breaking News
News is breaking. How it’s breaking holds lessons for customer-centric scholarly publishers.
Is Science Being Distorted?
A recent PLoS Medicine article claims that information economics distort science. But maybe it’s an obsession with journals distorting the views of the authors.
The Fractured Brand
Is your brand truly one brand in the digital world? Or has the new media space fractured it?
Elsevier’s Article 2.0 Contest
Elsevier’s Article 2.0 experiment is a nice idea built on a faulty approach. It may even be cynical.
Autumn Watch!
Autumns dangers are upon us! Watch this report for a full appreciation of the risks!!
Renaissance II
Are we in the early days of a new Renaissance? One keen observer agrees, and trends point in that direction.
The Collapse of Peer Review
Is peer review in decline? Evidence from the field of economics suggests that top authors are bypassing the journal certification process and distributing their papers on their own. Will other authors follow?
Headlines 2.0
Editors still write headlines like they’re for print and people. With online, headlines shift to a new environment and have at least two more audiences.
Go Away = Come Back
The link is the currency of the Web. Give users more to spend, and they’ll reward you with loyalty.
The $1 Billion Apomediation
UAL loses $1 billion in value, thanks to the power of apomediation combined with a mess in the metadata.
Google Knols = Infomercials
Google Knol may be just author infomercials, not a vibrant reference work with accountability.
48 Hours on Wikipedia
Lies inserted into Wikipedia get corrected quickly, a small study finds.
Apomediation: Word of the Day
Disintermediation presupposes the intermediation is the only choice. Maybe apomediation is the destination.
The Importance of Being First
Position in a daily arXiv email report can determine future citations. A German physicist struggles to determine why.