8 Months On: Ukraine Still Needs Our Support
We are into the 8th month of Russia’s war against Ukraine. How has the scholarly publishing sector continued to respond?
Revisiting — Journalism, Preprint Servers, and the Truth: Allocating Accountability
[…] then report on these studies as if they represented vetted science. How bad is this problem? A recent search of newspapers of record like the New York Times and the Washington Post suggests that these generally do a good job […]
Journalism, Preprint Servers, and the Truth: Allocating Accountability
[…] then report on these studies as if they represented vetted science. How bad is this problem? A recent search of newspapers of record like the New York Times and the Washington Post suggests that these generally do a good job […]
Ask The Chefs: New Normal Part 1
[…] doing certain things more, like reading articles on topics of my interest and writing opinions and articles on them for newspapers and blogs. One thing has been a challenge though — avoiding social media, which is full of corona news, […]
Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2019 Part 2
[…] design of a technology but the reverse is also true. Technology shapes social norms, such as the acceptability of reading newspapers and books in a crowded subway car. This book’s narrative (and even its layout) is designed to startle readers; […]
The Price of Silicon Valley’s "Disruption" — Is It Possible to Now Have Responsible Information Economics?
[…] which was born inside the first Internet bubble economy. As in other parts of the information economy (books, television, movies, newspapers), OA has disrupted the middle of our market, while feeding the trends outlined above — consolidation, conservatism, and stagnation. The Internet once […]
Divided We Fall — How a Fragmented Media Space Affects Academia and Scholarly Publishing
[…] was known for broadcasts ending in a phrase that suggested one story — “And that’s the way it is” — and newspapers trusted to hold “all the news that’s fit to print.” Each of those signatures suggested a unified cultural story. Now, […]
Ask The Chefs: What Is The Biggest Misconception People Have About Scholarly Publishing?
What is the biggest misconception people have about scholarly publishing? That’s what we asked the Chefs this month. Now we’re asking you. What did we miss?
If a Monkey Takes a Photograph, Who Has The Copyright?
Monkey Copyright… of all the juxtapositions of words; I never thought I’d be entering that particular two word combination into Google. This particular search combo was prompted by (what else) a selection of updates in my twitter feed about a […]
Author vs. Author: The Authors Guild and the Authors Alliance Set to Duke It Out?
The emergence of the Authors Alliance is causing consternation among some members of the traditional publishing community, most notably the Authors Guild, which has already issued a sharply-worded critique. But what is the Alliance actually going to do? They’re not really saying.
A New Science Blogging Scandal: Deja Vu All Over Again
[…] That purchase gives a clue as to what really happened to science blogging–it was co-opted and absorbed by traditional media. Newspapers and magazines have been under intense pressure for years (decades?) to cut corners and reduce costs. Among the first […]
New Literacy = New Books
[…] as e-books — the medium will celebrate creativity, shorter titles, more frequent updates, and other format innovations The demise of newspapers — blogs on dead trees no longer make sense These may not be the exact trends (I’d add something […]
The Morphing of Magazines
Serialized print publishing has a frequency problem eating at its core. Can journal publishers anticipate and adjust?
Peer-Review Scandal Shakes French Geologists
The abuse of editorial power and favoritism leads to a national scandal in France.
Radical Reinvention — Wii!!
[…] publishers have mistaken loss of revenues from delivery mechanisms as loss of interest in content. So, if you’re not selling newspapers, you think people don’t care about the news. For publishers, if you’re not selling journal subscriptions, you might think […]