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Patterns In and Across Aggregated Data — Is "Anonymous" Collaborative Filtering Really Safe?

New research demonstrates that there’s a decent likelihood that your data exhaust can be used to find out sensitive things about you.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jul 19, 2011
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Reconsidering the Abstract — Are the Unintended Consequences Mounting?

The abstract is an element of scientific papers we take for granted. Is that a good idea in a networked information environment gravitating to usage-based measures?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 20, 2011
  • 24 Comments

Cups, Buckets, Pools, and Puddles: When the Flood of Papers Won’t Abate, Which Do You Choose?

When most papers submitted ultimately get published, and in an age driven by pooled philosophies and practices, are we already participating in a “filter failure” of immense proportions?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jul 8, 2010
  • 28 Comments

Is OUP’s “Anti-Google” Just a Half-Million Words of Filter Failure?

The OUP has launched Oxford Bibliographies Online, hoping to filter major fields down to a high-quality, peer-reviewed reference kick-start. But does a wordy filter actually filter in the networked world?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 28, 2010
  • 1 Comment

How Networked Information Changes the Filter Metaphor for Journals

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 […]

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 2, 2010
  • 19 Comments

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