Blogs Move Mainstream
A new Technorati report on the state of the blogosphere jibes with observations that blogs have become mainstream.
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?
Elsevier’s LHC Promise
The large hadron collider is broken, and perhaps the open access claims Elsevier is making are, as well.
Your Twitter Search
Is anyone Twittering about you or your brand? Now you can find out.
Go Away = Come Back
The link is the currency of the Web. Give users more to spend, and they’ll reward you with loyalty.
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.
The Myths of Texting
Text messaging and its social and linguistic effects are examined in a new book.
SSP TMR Rocks the House!
The SSP TMR has closed, but much of the meeting was captured. Here’s your guide, and insights on why the meeting will evolve next year.
Joining: The Binary Game-Changer
Six degrees of separation is now down to three. Will you join? We’ll be talking about such things at the SSP TMR in Philadelphia this week, as well.
George Orwell’s Blog
Image via Wikipedia The New York Times recently reported that George Orwell has started blogging. Or, rather, his diaries are being put online daily as part of a new blog. This is a fascinating blog to read. Each entry is […]
Apomediation: Word of the Day
Disintermediation presupposes the intermediation is the only choice. Maybe apomediation is the destination.
E-books: A Textbook Case
The Kindle is a textbook disruptive technology. And I mean, “textbook.”
Author-choice Open Access Publishing
A new study suggests that the open access citation advantage is small and diminishing with time.
Citing the Kindle
The Kindle takes hits, but seems on-course to become a major force in scholarship in the future.