The Scholarly Presidency
While the election of Barack Obama was a breakthrough in race relations, it also marks a breakthrough in the scholarly world.
Obama.com & Military.com
Obama.com and Military.com settle any differences by focusing on the people.
Big News, Small Newspaper
The Christian Science Monitor drops daily print. The big news may be that it still exists at all.
OpenID Goes Mainstream
Microsoft adopts OpenID in its Windows Live environment. Dick Hardt’s argument seems poised to win the day.
The Article Download Game
The Usage Factor may come with unanticipated consequences: article spam and malfeasance.
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.