Recent data from the Guardian suggests that commenting remains a fringe activity, often dominated by a few voices. What might this mean for initiatives based on altmetrics and post-publication review?
Can you pay attention? Or will your attention deficits make you pay? This pickpocket knows the answer, and he’s helping people understand why their attention wanders, falters, or . . . squirrel!
Recent research into the risks of connected computing raise serious concerns — about personal safety, privacy, cyberwar, and cyberterror. We are at the early days of the Internet as part of the human condition.
The shootings in Connecticut last year can be, to some extent, blamed on research funding cuts and political intrusions into public health research.
The Kitchen continues to thrive — more than a million views in 2012, thousands of followers, and a lot of energy going into 2013. Here are some details.
Simple technologies plus creativity and hard work can create stunning results, as this 2010 video shows.
Unicode is a vast system for rendering the written word. Here’s a video of its scope and complexity.
A very funny sketch about apples, oranges, blackberries, and juice.
A low-priced tablet computer from India might have the potential to change the game for many. Are we ready for a potential rapid and system-wide disruption?
Making sense of non-events (citation, circulation, and publication) requires context and a tolerance for uncertainty.
The US government views data policy as an emerging area. A new National Academies report reveals the potential and the barriers, many of which are financial.
A manifesto urges publishers to make simple, functional, and practical tablet editions, and to avoid the tendency for bloat.
A new paper demonstrates how easy it is to game Google Scholar citations, and how the system resists correction.
Funders and governments are exerting their influence in scientific publishing through monetary and financial threats, and are willing to slow science in order to accomplish OA goals.
In a story of the modern age of fraud, spoofers find their way into peer-review rosters, reviewing their own papers or those of their friends/competitors.