Mobile Devices and Privacy — Why It’s So Easy to Swap Personal Information to Satisfy an Itch
Mobile computing is the norm, but it also creates easy trading ground for our privacy. Is this just the new normal?
Mobile computing is the norm, but it also creates easy trading ground for our privacy. Is this just the new normal?
A quick overview of how to vote for the Scholarly Kitchen’s Webby Award nomination. Help shine a light on scholarly communications around the world.
Twitter creates an ad model, modest in scope and cautious in implementation. It’s a good first step, and certainly not their last.
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Publishers’ brands matter very much to consumers, but sometimes people are unaware of the role brands play in purchasing decisions.
As science publishers, we hear a lot about the potential for new technologies. Often this comes in the form of a pitch from someone looking to sell you on either the technology they’re offering or on their expertise. In trying to see through the salesmanship, it’s important to have some general rules of thumb for approaching the integration of social media as tools for the research science community.
When customers get angry, they’ll resort to all sorts of tricks to be heard. Is it wise for a publisher to take a hard line over the inevitable?
As more books are sold in electronic form, they will increasingly be marketed on a direct-to-consumer basis.
Interview with Kent Anderson on various issues concerning scholarly publishing and the life of the writer.
Is this a watershed moment for independent publishing?
Magazines spend millions promoting print advertising but leave Web editorial underfunded. Is this the right move in the month of the iPad?
Technological platform wars have taken control of the book business, and publishers are now collateral damage in the fight.
A new social search engine comes onto the scene, sporting some moves borrowed from Google’s playbook. It’s an interesting approach. But will Aardvark just put ants in Google’s pants?
More people are using social networks, but different ones at different ages, but mostly by choice. Will professional usage of social networks ever be worthwhile enough to drive adoption?
Publishing can’t attract the best and brightest until it markets itself correctly — as being about more than the containers of the past, and being all about the ideas and communication approaches of the future.