Information wants to be free? Then why are expenditures for information skyrocketing? Maybe the pendulum has swung back to “information wants to be expensive.”
2Collab and Connotea are choking on spam, and they may not have the right scale or architecture to avoid a future defined by it.
How the US appears through Facebook. Do you live in Stayathomia or Socalistan?
So far, Web 2.0 tools for scientists have failed to gain much traction with researchers. Is this because they’re tools for talking about science rather than tools for doing science?
Geezers blog. Why? Because they have something to say and are willing to say it.
E-reading devices were shown off at the 2010 PSP Annual Meeting. Unfortunately, the iPad probably still dominated the setting, even in abstentia.
A Slideshare of the deck wrapping up the 2010 PSP Pre-conference on “The Culture of Free.” It will make the most sense to people who were there.
Experienced Open Data advocates realize that making data available costs money, making people aware of the data costs money, and creating a community of users costs money. And that data aren’t that easy to open.
Amazon and Google respond to competitive moves.
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?
Image via Wikipedia I think by the end of this post, you won’t think of your editorial filter in quite the way you did when you woke up this morning. The metaphor of a filter has informed our thinking about […]
OK, I’ve read enough — there are 5 things about the iPad that might just annoy me (and others).
Initial impressions of Apple’s new iPad device — how the tech press is missing the meaning, what it might mean for publishers, and a chance to tell us what you think.
Four different information industry executives’ perspectives seem to converge on customization. Customers want what they want, when and where they need it, and expect providers to anticipate those needs accurately.
The fact that scientific publishing hasn’t been disrupted may be a sign of a problem, not an advantage. A future choice may be disruption or irrelevance. Which will we choose?