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Attractive Models - Kieran Healy
"Now, if you write a paper describing negative results—a model where nothing is significant—then you may have a hard time getting it published. In the absence of some specific controversy, negative results are boring. For the same reason, though, if your results just barely cross the threshold of conventional significance, they may stand a disproportionately better chance of getting published than an otherwise quite similar paper where the results just failed to make the threshold. And this is what the graph above shows, for papers published in the American Political Science Review. It’s a histogram of p-values for coefficients in regressions reported in the journal. The dashed line is the conventional threshold for significance. The tall red bar to the right of the dashed line is the number of coefficients that just made it over the threshold, while the short red bar is the number of coefficients that just failed to do so. If there were no bias in the publication process, the shape of the histogram would approximate the right-hand side of a bell curve. The gap between the big and the small red bars is a consequence of two things: the unwillingness of journals to report negative results, and the efforts of authors to search for (and write up) results that cross the conventional threshold."
statistics  academic-culture  publishing  meta-analysis 
28 days ago by Vaguery
Omniscient Gentlemen of The Atlantic | | Notebook | The Baffler
"What mystified Grove was the assertion, voiced by the economist Alan Blinder and others, “that as long as ‘knowledge work’ stays in the U.S., it doesn’t matter what happens to factory jobs.” This was not only inhumane, Grove declared; it was idiotic."
via:cshalizi  corporatism  publishing  social-engineering  journalism  they-say-the-best-astroturf-has-no-color-at-all 
5 weeks ago by Vaguery
- How We Will Read: Laura Miller and Maud Newton
"LM: Literary people, when they talk about books, tend to think of fiction first. But most people, when they think about books, are thinking about nonfiction, which lends itself amazingly well to some kind of enhanced e-book experience. As a piece of that, I’m skeptical of enhancing fiction e-books. The essence of narrative is this sense of causality and meaning, and when you introduce a lot of arbitrary or random branching things into it, it actually loses it’s core pleasure. It’s a tricky issue."
publishing  ebooks  reading  editor 
6 weeks ago by Vaguery
Journal of Digital Humanities
"The Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter."
digital-humanities  journal  open-access  publishing 
6 weeks ago by Vaguery
- How We Will Read: Clay Shirky
"That is one of the potential shifts in social reading: Can I create value for other people by saying that I found this passage by Bruno LaTour striking — even if I never look at it again? That’s an amazing act of what I called “frozen sharing” in my last book. Being generous about things when you are offering it out to the public, without it being either in a specific time frame or for a specific target."
publishing  reading  social-capital  project  be-useful-to-one-another 
6 weeks ago by Vaguery
Beyond the Textbook
'Even if you have the most up-to-date edition of the very latest textbook, I think it's recognize that the textbook -- as an object, as instructional practice -- is still a relic. It is a relic of a time when information was scarce. It's a relic of the way in which we manufactured and scaled the industrial model of education -- a teacher at the front of the classroom, assigning the lessons and readings from an authoritative text. One that was bound by print. One that was distributed state and even nation-wide. One that was uniform. Somewhere along the way, "textbook" became "curriculum" -- and under today's testing regime, that all became wrapped up in "assessment."'
academia  academic-culture  publishing  textbooks  pedagogy  collaboration  adhocism  pragmatism 
9 weeks ago by Vaguery
» An efficient journal The Occasional Pamphlet
"Nonetheless, the success of JMLR does provide a clue that the cost of running a premier journal might be far less than publishers imply, if they were to rethink the process substantially — maybe not $10 per article, but surely far less than the $5,000 average revenue per article that scholarly publishers currently receive. This expectation is borne out by the several non-profit and commercial open-access journal publishers that are able to operate in the black with publication fees a fraction of that average."
disintermediation-in-action  academic-culture  publishing  there's-good-eatin-on-one-a-those 
11 weeks ago by Vaguery
A Way To Think About Online Courses (By Apple, For Example) | Easily Distracted
"One thing that struck me during the meeting, though, was that if you created a really rich body of materials that looked somewhat like an “online course”, what you really might be doing was crafting a completely novel form of publication. Imagine a work of historical scholarship that included video of the author giving an explanatory lecture at the beginning of a section of the reading; that had direct links to a huge body of archival pictures, audio recordings, maps, and other supporting materials; that extensively linked to relevant (or competing) analyses available in digital collections like JSTOR; and where the author would appear live once every week to take questions from students reading the book in a class."
media  academic-culture  pedagogy  publishing  a-new-tent-and-a-new-camel 
january 2012 by Vaguery
Using LaTeX to publish a novel on Lulu
LaTeX  Lulu  publishing  hoop-jumping 
december 2011 by Vaguery
How to put PDF properties in a LaTeX file — The Endeavour
"My previous post described how to put links in a PDF file generated from LaTeX. The hyperref package that lets you to include links also lets you to set PDF document properties. I’ve been using Adobe Acrobat to do this after creating my PDF file with pdflatex, but that’s unnecessary. Here’s how to put the PDF properties directly in the LaTeX file. Add something like this…"
LaTeX  tricks  publishing  typesetting  software 
december 2011 by Vaguery
Free Ride: Digital Parasites and the Fight for the Business of Culture | Brain Pickings
"For my part, I started Brain Pickings more than six years ago as what’s commonly referred to as a “passion project” (though I don’t like the fleeting noncommittal relationship this phrasing suggests) and didn’t have a business model — but I did have a crystal-clear editorial model, which remains the same today: get people interested in meaningful cross-disciplinary things they didn’t yet know they were interested in, and in the process empower their networked knowledge and combinatorial creativity; break out of the filter bubble, if you will, though conceived long before we had the very vocabulary to articulate it. So when an aggregator like the Huffington Post, a business-model wolf wearing an editorial-authenticity sheep’s skin, takes my (ad-free) content and regurgitates it on its (ad-plastered) site, it lives up to the term “parasite” at the heart of Levine’s argument, derived from the Greek parasitos and used to describe “someone who ate at someone else’s table without providing anything in return.”"
publishing  disintermediation  reintermediation  intellectual-property  creativity  collaboration  network-culture 
november 2011 by Vaguery
The Lean Publishing Manifesto - Leanpub
"A book or a startup is best created by 1 or 2 people, who are the authors or founders.

You can create a book with 3 or 4 authors, but essentially all the great books have been written by one author. In fact, if you have more than 4 authors, you're not even really producing a book–you're really producing an anthology of individual essays."
writing  publishing  lean  manifestos  advice 
october 2011 by Vaguery
Ecstatic Days » Blog Archive » ODD?! Odd Anthology, Odd Video, Odd Subscriptions
"You can subscribe now and be assured of receiving each volume at a reduced price. It’s a chance to support a cool new project that brings you fiction from writers from around the world."
publishing  business-model  subscription  self-publishing 
october 2011 by Vaguery
Everything We Think Can in Principle Be Thought By Someone Else: A Plea for Open Scholarship
"This is just to say that if we think keeping our scholarly work primarily out of public sight [except for the occasional conference presentation] until its penultimate moment of publication in a conventional venue such as the academic journal or book, at which point quite a few years of our lives [mainly spent in the solitude of studies and libraries or other semi-private spaces where we could manage a foothold] may have been devoted to that work whose “arrival” in print may even occur long after we have moved on to other projects, then we risk working too much in the dark, apart from the world which has bequeathed to us our objects and methods of study and reflection [I might also add here that this traditional way of doing things also keeps our work sequestered within the academy, and does not allow us to reach a more broadly public audience, which, in my mind, is a real perversion of the term "humanities"]. We also do our work largely apart from the very peers whom we hope will welcome and even love it when it is “finished.” Yes, for the kind of work we do, quiet is required, even long stretches of solitude [because this is when ideas often arrive to us that could never have arrived any other way and also because it's hard to translate medieval Latin when people are milling all around you], but you’ve got to get outside every now then. And maybe also reflect on the fact that even the supposed inside/outside divide is primarily an illusion."
academic-culture  openness  publishing  gatekeeping  coscience 
september 2011 by Vaguery
INTERVIEW - Suber: Leader of a Leaderless Revolution
"  Q: As your answer indicates, there is more to OA than green and gold alone; there is also gratis and libre OA. In 2008, you produced a grid demonstrating the four-way relationship among the different types of OA. Can you expand on this, and outline the relative merits of gratis and libre OA? 

A: Gratis OA is simply free of charge. But it’s not more free than that. Gratis literature may stand under all-rights-reserved copyrights and give users no more rights than they already had under fair use (or fair dealing).

Libre OA is free of charge and free of at least some copyright and licensing restrictions. Libre literature stands under some-rights-reserved copyrights, at most, and permits uses that exceed fair use. The advantage of libre OA is that researchers needn’t slow down to ask permission for legitimate scholarly uses that exceed fair use, needn’t take the risk of proceeding without permission, and needn’t err on the side of non-use. By the way, the grid you mentioned was merely a preview of a longer article, which explained the gratis/libre distinction in much more detail."
open-access  publishing  academic-culture  openness  heroes 
july 2011 by Vaguery
The Power of Open
"Below, the book is available for PDF download in a variety of languages. Check back soon, as more languages are on the way."
open-access  publishing  book  disintermediation-in-action  to-do 
july 2011 by Vaguery
Kindle Publishing Programs
"KindleGen is a command line tool used to build eBooks that can be sold through Amazon's Kindle platform. This tool is best for publishers and individuals who are familiar with HTML and want to convert their HTML, XHTML, XML (OPF/IDPF format), or ePub source into a Kindle Book."
Amazon  publishing  Kindle  ebooks  toolkit 
june 2011 by Vaguery
Prelim Finding the holdouts: Who is Required to publicly archive data but still doesn’t? « Research Remix
"So it seems the specific words in a journal policy that requires data archiving doesn’t matter much, though policies that include a general statement about data sharing and request the sharing of other datatypes have higher rates of data archiving.  The highest-impact journals that require data archiving have slightly higher archiving rates than those with impact factors between 4 and 7.  Mentioning exceptions in a journal policy may be associated with increased rates of archiving.  Core clinical journals tend toward high rates of data archiving (likely overlap with the high impact factor journals).

Disheartening to see again that studies about cancer are least likely to publicly archive data, even when required.  Some disciplinary trends:  studies on bacteria more likely to follow journal mandates.  Perhaps related:  studies that archived other types of data were more likely to also archive gene expression microarray data."
open-access  data-access  raw-data-now  academic-culture  publishing 
june 2011 by Vaguery
The Philosophy Smoker: Crowd sourcing peer review? Free open access?
"The idea is to create an open-access online philosophy journal (and then journals in other disciplines), with the peer review process crowd sourced. As many reviewers as want to read a paper can vote to accept/reject, with brief comments. Accepted papers will immediately be published online.

From what I can see, the open access will be free for authors. They are now recruiting reviewers.

Interesting idea."
academic-culture  publishing  peer-review  open-access  disintermediation-in-action 
june 2011 by Vaguery
The Ann Arbor Chronicle | Monthly Milestone: A Different Beast
"At The Chronicle, we’re committed to proving there’s another way to approach the business of reporting – one that assumes readers can be intelligent, with a sufficient attention span to digest more than a sound bite. It’s an approach that treats the work of individuals and institutions we cover as worthy of our sustained attention – for longer than just the time it takes to collect a few quotes and pound out a few paragraphs.

I believe it’s possible to breed something other than a media beast. That’s why, against some daunting odds, we’re working hard to make The Ann Arbor Chronicle a different kind of creature."
journalism  publishing  transparency  commentary  community 
june 2011 by Vaguery
digital digs: digital authorship, computers and writing #cwcon
"What should be amazingingly clear is that books--trade publishers, self-publishers, ebooks, etc--are doing fine, but scholarly books are bankrupt. The old style academic blogs that many of my colleagues used to keep may be fading but blogging is shifting and proliferating. Writing is alive and growing. I imagine it has little concern for the humans that hitch a ride to it. Stop trying to save the monograph and instead try to answer the question that the monograph was originally developed to answer: how can I communicate with the world?"
academic-culture  publishing  disintermediation-in-action  driving-each-other-into-a-ditch 
may 2011 by Vaguery
The perils of filter-then-publish
"When I privately asked them why they had used R*-trees, while it was easy to check experimentally that they did not help, the answer was “it was the only way to get our paper in a major conference”. So my work has been made more complicated for the sole purpose of impressing the reviewers: “look, I know about R*-trees too!”"
peer-review  cultural-dynamics  publishing  academic-culture  journals  disintermediation-in-action 
may 2011 by Vaguery
apenwarr - Business is Programming
"Whether because they're Canadian or because they're engineers, or both, they are unusual among aid organizations because they focus on understanding what didn't work. For the last three years, they've published Failure Reports detailing their specific failures. The reports make an interesting read, not just for aid organizations, but for anyone trying to manage engineering teams."
learning-by-doing  publishing  engineering-design  social-norms  explain-your-mistakes 
may 2011 by Vaguery
LaTeX Poster Template
"A LaTeX template to efficently design pretty posters for scientific conferences. Posters are composited of blocks with headings, which can be positioned easily on the page, using absolute or relative positioning. A number of predefined styles can be composed to generate new color schemes and ornaments."
LaTeX  publishing  typesetting  templates  from delicious
february 2011 by Vaguery
Kickstartup — Successful fundraising with Kickstarter & the (re)making of Art Space Tokyo — Craig Mod
"I want to share with you a story about books, publishing, fundraising and seed capital. It's a story that I hope will change how you think about all of these topics. And it's a story that I hope will serve as a template."
publishing  kickstarter  fundraising  startups  patronage 
september 2010 by Vaguery
Nigel Hawkes: Peer-reviewed journals aren't worth the paper they're written on - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
via:phnk  peer-review  academic-culture  publishing  academic-publishing  quality-control  cultural-norms 
august 2010 by Vaguery
The Monkey Cage: The Perils of Guessing the Identity of Anonymous Reviewers
"Guessing the identity of anonymous referees just seems like an activity with very little upside. If you guess wrong (which you are likely to do despite your convictions to the contrary), you may wrongly believe that someone is “against you.” You will never know whether you have guessed right and even if you have, how useful is that information really? Obviously, people will continue to do it anyway. All I can say is that you should leave open the possibility that you are wrong even if your identification of the referee seems obvious given your working assumptions about how referees write their reports."
peer-review  academic-culture  publishing  cultural-norms  anonymity  reputation  scholarship 
may 2010 by Vaguery
Writers write because we must, and other untruths - Coyote Crossing
"What makes you think that once we write that text we “simply have to write because we’re writers,” that we’ll be compelled to put it somewhere where you can read it?"
writing  worklife  publishing  self-definition  mythology  also-probably-true-about-academics 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Closing the Gap Between Publishers and Readers | Digital Book World
"Maybe depressed isn’t quite the right word. “Cognizant of absurdity” captures it better (I’m sure the Germans have a good word for this). What I’m seeing on the Javitz Center floor plan is an effort by publishers to remove themselves once and for all from the people they perceive to be their customers–librarians and booksellers. And the people who actually buy the products…you know, actual readers? Of course, they continue to be completely shut out. Not invited to the party."
publishing  disintermediation-in-action  books  reading  trade-shows  business-model-failure 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Computational Complexity: What Does It Meant to be Published?
"So what is the point of publication? Certainly you want your paper easily read and cited. But also you want a careful peer review leading to a polished version that has the stamp of approval by appearing in some respectable conference or journal. Publishing also acts as a filter, allowing the reader to get some idea of the level of quality of the paper before reading it. Almost any paper can appear on an archive site but it takes more to be published."
publishing  academic-culture  citation  credentials  access  research 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Content wants to be paid for – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
"Go there, read it, and understand why (just like newspaper reporting and books) web content costs money and must be paid for or subsidized. Either that or it must serve some secondary benefit that brings in the bucks: for instance, a free web design blog might lead to paying web design gigs for its author, or so they say.

Then read Part Two: Paying For It, where Kissane considers each of these methods of subsidizing content “and how they relate to our work as content and editorial strategists.”"
content  publishing  economics  design  cultural-norms  cultural-assumptions  pricing 
march 2010 by Vaguery
[1003.4131] Interdisciplinary patterns of a university: Investigating collaboration using co-publication network analysis
"We investigate collaborative and interdisciplinary research features of University College Dublin, using methods from social network analysis to analyze and visualize (co-)publications covered by the Web of Science from 1998 through 2007. We account for the extent of interdisciplinarity in collaborations, distinguishing collaborations between schools within one college ("small interdisciplinarity") from collaborations between schools in different colleges ("big interdisciplinarity"). Based on the interdisciplinary nature, we compare the types of collaboration to a model of random matching across units, observing several marked differences. During the period of consideration, collaborations within UC Dublin nearly doubled, almost entirely due to the increasing level of intra-school collaborations."
collaboration  interdisciplinarity  academic-culture  publishing  citation-etiquette  interdisciplinarians-are-called-shallow-in-two-ways-at-once 
march 2010 by Vaguery
BaRf: Bioinformatics aggregated RSS feeds
"BaRf stands for "Bioinformatics aggregated RSS feeds". It provides RSS feeds of titles and abstracts of the most recent papers published by journals that may be of relevance for people involved in Bioinformatics. We don't claim this list is complete - if you have suggestions for journals that should be added (and appear in PubMed) please let us know. The list of currently available journals along with the RSS feed XML links can be found on the right of the page."
rss  science  academic-culture  publishing  journals  aggregation 
march 2010 by Vaguery
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | iPad Programming
"It’s not an iPhone and it’s not a laptop: the iPad is a groundbreaking new device. You need to create true iPad apps to take advantage of all that is possible with the iPad. If you’re an experienced iPhone developer, iPad Programming will show you how to write these outstanding new apps while completely fitting your users’ expectation for this device.

Available in Beta April, 2010"
iPad  iPda  Apple  programming  publishing  pragmatic-press  want 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Media Curation Is Now Consumer-Generated
"…each time you log a return visit to an establishment, you're registering a de-facto vote in favor of that good or service (an endorsement). Chances are you're not checking in at a restaurant that served you undercooked chicken last week. So establishments with the highest ratio of return visits by the same person are being collectively curated as well liked."
curation  publishing  social-networks  social-media  advertising  credentialing  marketing-as-dangerous-contagious-failure  crowdsourcing 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Viewpoint: Time for computer science to grow up | August 2009 | Communications of the ACM
"Our conference system forces researchers to focus too heavily on quick, technical, and safe papers instead of considering broader and newer ideas. Meanwhile, we have devoted much of our time and money to conferences where we can present our research that we can rarely attend conferences and workshops to work and socialize with our colleagues.

Computer science has grown to become a mature field where no major university can survive without a strong CS department. It is time for computer science to grow up and publish in a way that represents the major discipline it has become."
computer-science  academia  academic-culture  publishing  peer-review  conferences  credentialing 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Let’s End Anonymous Peer Review :: net critique by Geert Lovink
"I am sorry but I do not participate in this dead ritual of anonymous ‘peer review’. This dishonest procedure brings out the worst in people. By now we all know that it does not improve quality but merely (re)produces mediocre standards and language. IMHO this format is out of sync with the open access aspects of today’s publishing tools and the debate-focused tools such as blogs, lists and forums, in particular when an article like this aims to contribute to the emerging research on online video. Criticism in the Internet context is a lively entity, not to be dealt with in such a grumpy backroom manner."
peer-review  academic-culture  publishing  disintermediation-in-action  whuffie-culture 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Three-Toed Sloth
"[W]hy didn't prints displace paintings the same way that printed books displaced manuscript codices? Why didn't it become expected that visual artists, like writers, would primarily produce works for reproduction?"
art  media  disintermediation  history  publishing  painting  prints  intellectual-property  craftsmanship  social-norms  sociology  self-definition 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Rules for Anchorites - The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
"Funny thing is, if this future came to pass and the market were nothing but self-published autonomous authors either writing without editorial or paying out of pocket for it, if we were flooded with good product mixed with bad like gold in a stream, it would be about five seconds before someone came along and said: hey, what if I started a company where we took on all the risk, hired an editorial staff and a marketing staff to make the product better and get it noticed, and paid the author some money up front and a percentage of the profits in exchange for taking on the risk and the initial cost? So writers could, you know, just write?

And writers would line up at their door."
editing  business-model  publishing  reintermediation-is-what-we-need 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Information, Freedom, Flame-bait - Charlie's Diary
"Next time you hear someone invoke "information wants to be free" as a justification for demanding free-as-in-no-payment-expected content, ask them: precisely what content have you released for free lately?"
reciprocity  information-wants-to-be-free  publishing  drm  community  commons  common-misconceptions  copyright 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Digital Humanities and the case for Critical Commons
"How can we control quality on the Internet?"
academic-culture  disintermediation-in-action  disintermediation-jokes  publishing  academia-doesn't-guarantee-acuity 
january 2010 by Vaguery
Go To Hellman: Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion
"Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher's Weekly that "publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy" comes a sudden realization of a much larger threat to the viability of the book industry. Apparently, over 2 billion books were "loaned" last year by a cabal of organizations found in nearly every American city and town. Using the same advanced projective mathematics used in the study cited by Publishers Weekly, Go To Hellman has computed that publishers could be losing sales opportunities totaling over $100 Billion per year, losses which extend back to at least the year 2000. These lost sales dwarf the online piracy reported yesterday, and indeed, even the global book publishing business itself."
publishing  libraries  copyright  business  intellectual-property  satire  business-culture  property  disintermediation-jokes 
january 2010 by Vaguery
Eurozine - Are newspapers still relevant? - Heribert Prantl Journalism at the dawn of a new age
"The system in which they are relevant is not called the market economy, not the financial system or capitalism, but democracy. Democracy is about a community shaping its future together. And the media, in all its forms – print, broadcast and digital – is one of its most important creative forces. The proof of the relevance of the press is 177 years old, begins in 1832 and continues right up to the present day. It arises out of the entire history of German democracy."
newspapers  disintermediation-in-action  media  publishing  democracy  transparency  history 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Peter Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 11/2/09
"It makes a huge difference who can say "take it or leave it" in a negotiation. Right now publishers tend to hold that privileged position. But as prices and cancellations keep rising, the positions are reversing. Even apart from the average balance of bargaining power, slowly shifting to universities, there is the bargaining power over specific titles. The desirability of journals is a matter of degree, despite the binary sound of "must-have". Some high-demand journals may be unthreatened by all recent developments. But the set of unthreatened journals is shrinking, and set for which universities could modify basic terms to better serve research and researchers is growing. For a growing number of journals overall, universities could cancel, threaten to cancel, or bargain effectively, if they wanted to. "
publishing  academic-culture  open-access  universities  negotiation  law  public-policy  via:hrheingold  copyright  commons  public-good  economics  disintermediation-in-action 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Stitching science together : Article : Nature
"Solving the current problems in science communication requires the intervention of strong companies such as Google. But it will take more than technical advances to provoke scientists into taking full advantage of the web. We need pressure, and perhaps compulsion, from journals and funders to raise publishing standards to the new level made possible by such tools. Google Wave may not be, indeed is probably not, the whole answer. But it points the way to tools that build records and reproducibility into every step. And that has to be good for science."
communication  scientific-computing  google-wave  collaboration  science  tools  science2.0  academic-culture  publishing 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Edge: THE END OF UNIVERSAL RATIONALITY: A Talk with Yochai Benkler
"Where we are now, and we already know that we are there, is in a much more permeable and fluid society and a much more permeable cultural environment where the difference between producers and consumers is much more blurred. Where this category of users has become absolutely central to everything we do. So when we talk about newspapers, we have to think about the users who communicate with a commercial organization like TPM, the users who basically get together and make their own new party presses, like DailyKos or Townhall, like the users who make up YouTube, like the users who make up Wikipedia. Suddenly you have radically decentralized practical capacity to act. And what do people do? They act."
panarchy  economics  collaboration  intellectual-property  disintermediation-targets  disintermediation-in-action  publishing  business  philosophy  sustainability  activism  networks  behavior  rationality 
august 2009 by Vaguery
"Should Copyright Of Academic Works Be Abolished?" | Berkman Center
"The conventional rationale for copyright of written works, that copyright is needed to foster their creation, is seemingly of limited applicability to the academic domain. For in a world without copyright of academic writing, academics would still benefit from publishing in the major way that they do now, namely, from gaining scholarly esteem. Yet publishers would presumably have to impose fees on authors, because publishers would not be able to profit from reader charges. If these publication fees would be borne by academics, their incentives to publish would be reduced. But if the publication fees would usually be paid by universities or grantors, the motive of academics to publish would be unlikely to decrease (and could actually increase) – suggesting that ending academic copyright would be socially desirable in view of the broad benefits of a copyright-free world. "
copyright  academic-culture  publishing  disintermediation  openness  open-access  education  pedagogy  reputation  publishers 
july 2009 by Vaguery
Computational Complexity: Time for Computer Science to Grow Up
"Our conference systems forces researchers to focus too heavily on quick, technical
and safe papers instead of considering broader and newer ideas. Meanwhile we
have focused much of our time and money on conferences where we can present
our research that we can rarely attend conferences and workshops to work and
socialize with our colleagues."
computer-science  academia  publishing  academic-culture 
july 2009 by Vaguery
Journalistic narcissism « BuzzMachine
"The press has become journalism’s curse, not only because it now brings a crushing cost burden but also because it led to all these myths: that we journalists own the news, that we’re necessary to it, that we decide what’s reported and what’s important, that we can package the world for you every day in a box with a bow on it, that what we do is perfect (with rare, we think, exceptions), that the world should come to us to be informed, that we deserve to be paid for this service, that the world needs us."
publishing  received-wisdom  mythology  journalism  MSM  disintermediation  cultural-norms  marketing  editing  presumption 
july 2009 by Vaguery
Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
"It’s true that stupidity and malevolence do sometimes play a role in the disruption of industries. But in the first part of this essay I’ll argue that even smart and good organizations can fail in the face of disruptive change, and that there are common underlying structural reasons why that’s the case. That’s a much scarier story. If you think the newspapers and record companies are stupid or malevolent, then you can reassure yourself that provided you’re smart and good, you don’t have anything to worry about. But if disruption can destroy even the smart and the good, then it can destroy anybody. In the second part of the essay, I’ll argue that scientific publishing is in the early days of a major disruption, with similar underlying causes, and will change radically over the next few years."
economics  disintermediation  publishing  future  academic-culture  business-model  journalism  music  MSM 
july 2009 by Vaguery
Academic Evolution: Scholarly Inquiry Optimization (SIO) - Overview
"We need more than the passive ideal of easy access to published knowledge; we need the active ideal of improved methodologies for advancing knowledge. In the Enlightenment Francis Bacon had the boldness to call for a Novum Organum, a "new instrument" of knowledge (in contrast to Aristotle's old Organum); similarly, we must devise new instruments of knowledge to match our cyber environment. Ours is a knowledge revolution on par with the introduction of empirical research itself or even the codification of the scientific method. But are we conceptualizing and establishing the new methodologies to the same degree that we are fighting for the free circulation of traditional materials? We are not. That's why we need Scholarly Inquiry Optimization."
publishing  academic-culture  findability  open-access  scholarship  academia 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Why I write for free - Emily Magazine
"I write for free because there seems to me to be no meaningful relationship between whether a publication pays me and whether it’s worthwhile for me to write for them. I’ve been skillfully edited and I’ve been allowed to babble on painfully unchecked by paying and non-paying publications alike. I’ve garnered indirect material benefit from paying and non-paying publications alike. I’m not suggesting that anyone follow my example or positing that I know what The Future of Journalism entails, but I do know, barring catastrophe, what my particular future is: I am going to keep getting paid to write when I can and writing for free when I can’t. If/when this situation becomes untenable for me as a way of actually making my living, I’ll start making more of my money with my non-writing endeavors. People have been doing exactly that, and writing sad essays about the injustice of having to do exactly that, for much longer than the Internet has been around."
worklife  Internet-threat-or-menace  publishing  media  blogging  free  journalism  social-norms  economics  expectations  Workantile 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Snarkmarket: Virginia Woolf on the Future of the Book
"Books ought to be so cheap that we can throw them away if we do not like them, or give them away if we do. Moreover, it is absurd to print every book as if it were fated to last a hundred years. The life of the average book is perhaps three months. Why not face this fact? Why not print the first edition on some perishable material which would crumble to a little heap of perfectly clean dust in about six months time? If a second edition were needed, this could be printed on good paper and well bound. Thus by far the greater number of books would die a natural death in three months or so. No space would be wasted and no dirt would be collected."
Virginia-Woolf  books  publishing  selection  everything-old-is-still-new 
may 2009 by Vaguery
PersonaNonData: A Digital Concierge: Publishing Strategy
"The job of digital concierge grows in significance as more and more material is introduced to the market via the web. As mentioned above, the web community around an author almost becomes their studio where new material is introduced, discussed and ‘published’. The author will require a digital concierge who will marry and blend the appropriate technology tools so they are not a distraction to the content producer and they compliment the experience of the consumer. There is much to ponder here as trade book content moves to the web and the role of the publisher changes. While the job description for the digital concierge may not be written yet, I see this position as potentially critical to the successful migration from a trade print world to one dominated by social communities."
publishing  social-media  business-model  disintermediation  editing  editor 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Ernie's 3D Pancakes: Yet another reason to hate Elsevier
"Now tell me again: Why do we submit papers to, referee papers for, and buy journals from these people? Some sort of misplaced sense of loyalty? Or some sad combination of apathy and inertia? What will it take for the research community to cut Elsevier loose?"
publishing  Elsevier  academia  academic-culture  journals  bad-decision  bad-faith  bad-business  disintermediation-targets 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Mogadonia
"The duplicability of recordings has had another unexpected effect. The pressure is on to develop content that isn’t easily copyable—so now everything other than the recorded music is becoming the valuable part of what artists sell."
marketing  media  publishing  premium-trumps-discount  piracy-not-a-problem  Brian-Eno  business-model  Vague-Press  agalmics 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Public Domain Sherpa - your guide to finding copyright-free works
"The US public domain is filled with creative works you can use any way you want to. No need to ask anyone’s permission. No fees necessary.

You can find photos, books, music, software — and more — that you’re free to recast, remix, and build upon. But how do you find these works? And how can you be sure they really are copyright-free?

Copyright law is complex (as complex as the tax code, some say) and there’s a lot of misinformation and hype out there about what is and what isn’t “public domain.” It can get confusing."
public-domain  publishing  intellectual-property  copyright  reference  law  public-policy  rights 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Wikipedia:Public domain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Actually quite a bit of interesting meta-info here
public-domain  intellectual-property  law  international  publishing  rights  copyright  reference  policy 
april 2009 by Vaguery
In This Issue
"Can you blame us for being a defensive lot, we lovers of early American literature, when all about us we see America's political Founding Fathers (and sometimes Mothers) celebrated like rock stars, on t-shirts, in miniseries, and, most enviably, with best-selling biographical tomes? What about our literary Founding Fathers (and Mothers)? Anne Bradstreet? Edward Taylor? Charles Brockden Brown? Don't they too deserve a little name recognition: at least a spot on CSPAN or a line-drawing portrait on a bookbag? We who cherish early American books and writers come by our defensiveness honestly. It is a long-standing American intellectual tradition, pioneered by fine American literary minds like William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, each of whom in his own way responded to that stinging question posed by Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review in January 1820: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?""
history  books  publishing  Americana  magazines 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Google's Love For Newspapers & How Little They Appreciate It
"As for being legal, let's talk now about the dirty secret of how newspapers operate. They misappropriate content all the time.

Look, I was in a newsroom for years. A newspaper graphic needed doing? You found a book with a drawing, used that without asking the author for explicit permission because shoving in a mention in the "source" line was good enough. Following on a story that a rival paper wrote? You damn well read that other story, which got you up to speed, but heaven forbid you ever mentioned that the other publication came out with the news first. If you did, that was only if you could do a story that suggested you had the "real" scoop that the other publication had wrong."
newspapers  publishing  business  media  journalism  internet  business-model  protectionism  stupidity  pot-calls-the-kettle-grabby 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Journals To Which I Won’t Be Submitting « The Edge of the American West
"We discourage any lengthy-frequent-repetitive contacts with this journal."
academic-culture  publishing  management  marketing-FAIL  self-importance  circlejerk 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Magazines2.0 - does print-on-demand spell doom for the news-stand? | Blog | Futurismic
"I’ll go one step further - there are server-side software engines that can be used to stitch together PDFs from HTML files, so you could allow your reader to custom-build a magazine to their own specifications from your stock of stories and articles, and then buy a unique printed version. If nothing else, it would mean you could avoid paying for a magazine which contained a story by an author whose work you just don’t enjoy."
publishing  editing  business-model  POD  print-on-demand  magazines  subscriptions  mass-customization  disintermediation 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Luis von Blog: Academic Publications 2.0
"Can a combination of a wiki, karma, and a voting method like reddit or digg substitute the current system of academic publication?"

[A: yes]
academia  academic-culture  credentials  citation  publishing  collaboration  science  research  writing  web2.0 
april 2009 by Vaguery
The Rubyist - February 2009 by The Rubyist (Book) in Computers & Internet
[noting this in particular for the publishing business model it shadows]
Rails  Ruby  magazines  publishing  POD  print-on-demand  free  PDF 
april 2009 by Vaguery
HgWebDirStepByStep - Mercurial
"This page explains how to make a bunch of repositories accessible through CGI using the hgwebdir.cgi-script and a webserver (apache or lighttpd). Once the script is set up, it is very easy to open new repositories."
Mercurial  Hg  publishing  sysadmin  Apache  repository  howto 
march 2009 by Vaguery
dense outliers
"After a bit of work we believe we have solved most of the practical problems that have to be taken care of before starting a free journal. This is probably the easy part. Now we have to decide if it is a good idea or not.

The aim is to have a high quality journal for the CG community that is run by the CG community and free to everyone (really free, no cost to publish and no cost to access). Obviously such a journal needs the support of the CG community to be successful. The work should be shared among the community, i.e., the editorial board and editorial manager(s) should be replaced regularly. "
mathematics  academia  journals  publishing  open-access  disintermediation  discrete-mathematics 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Computational Complexity: How much does it cost to produce an online Journal? Do I hear $0.00?
publishing  journals  academic  cost  business-model  disintermediation  mathematics  credentials 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Earning My Turns: Scaling up intellectual authority
"What Dave Winer says here about the news applies as well to scientific publishing. The arguments about open access and about review quality are but a sideline to a much more fundamental one: how to create sustainable mechanisms that will increasingly open up the process of writing up new ideas, reviewing them, and publicly building a consensus for or against their scientific soundness and importance."
openness  open-access  publishing  academia  academic-culture  credentials 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Gene Expression: Will information criteria replace p-values in common use? Some trends
"It's promising that both are increasing over the past 30-odd years, since that means more people are bothering to be quantitative. Still, less than 5% of articles mention p-values or information criteria -- some of that is due to the presence of arts and humanities journals, but there's still a big slice of the hard and soft sciences that needs to be converted. Also encouraging is the steady decline in the dominance of p-values to the AIC: they're still about 4.5 times as commonly used in academia at large, but that's down from about 15.5 times as common in the mid-1970s, a 71% decline. Graduate students and young professors -- the writing is on the wall. Aside from being intellectually superior, information criteria will give you a competitive edge in the job market, at least in the near future. After that, they will be required."
AIC  statistics  p-values  habits  cultural-norms  academia  publishing  credentials  trends 
march 2009 by Vaguery
MediaShift . 5 Great Services for Self-Publishing Your Book | PBS
"Even things that you might expect to come standard -- like an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), without which a book won't be offered for sale by many professional booksellers -- are often only available at extra cost, so authors should always read the fine print to know what they're getting into. While you're shopping around, here's a quick look at five good possibilities for POD publishing:"
POD  print-on-demand  publishing  self-publishing  books  media  authors  printing  resources 
march 2009 by Vaguery
6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book
publishing  self-publishing  books  writing  media  productivity  DIY  review 
march 2009 by Vaguery
i d e o m a n c e r
speculative-fiction  publishing  online  science-fiction  genre-fiction 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Clarkesworld Magazine — Issue 30
science-fiction  genre-fiction  publishing  business-model  writing  authors  online  fiction 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Fear of Free | Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary
"I’m continually amazed at the number of people that fear free digital content, believing that free digital content now will ultimately lead people to believe that all content is without value, that all consumers of books will somehow refuse to pay for digital content. The conflation of free and digital is one that is tossed around frequently, often based on the decreasing revenues of print newspapers and their inability to leverage or monetize their digital content. However, I don’t believe that the format defines whether content has value. The format might change the amount of the value expressed in monetary terms but I don’t necessarily believe that the digital form of content equals free. "
disintermediation  publishing  business-model  copyright  distribution 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship | Berkman Center
"Call to Action: We therefore urge every U.S. law school to commit to ending print publication of its journals and to making definitive versions of journals and other scholarship produced at the school immediately available upon publication in stable, open, digital formats, rather than in print."
open-access  academia  law  publishing  public-good  collaboration  intellectual-property  business-model-failure 
february 2009 by Vaguery
The costing of ebooks | Blog | Futurismic
"Now, I’m in no position to refute those figures, but I don’t think it takes an economics expert to look at them and realise why the publishers are struggling at the moment; if their analysis people can only shave off $2 per unit by removing the printing, shipping, warehousing and remaindering from the equation, then there’s a business model that was on shaky ground before the ebook entered the picture. I suspect the bits I’ve bolded are where the haemorrhaging could be stemmed most effectively."
publishing  business-model  ebooks  management  blindness  disintermediation 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Of books and unbooks « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
"Well. As Dave Gray points out, “An unbook’s community is a very real part of the unbook’s development team.” I wouldn’t necessarily have used the phrase “development team,” for the obvious reasons, but the point stands. Your voice is a part of this book we’re writing, and not the least significant. What do you think?"
via:britta  collaboration  media  books  publis  publishing  community  ebooks  example 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Brave New World: Digitisation - It's Not About 'Books'
"Now we would ask the average book publisher what they see themselves as? We would guess that 'rights manager and owner' wouldn’t be on the tip of most tongues. Some would say that publishing isn’t about books it’s simply about content and rights and understanding the market and channel to it. If we were to look at the trade as a rights trade what would that mean moving forward?

Why do we presume that the physical content will merely morph into the digital. History has surely taught us that media survives but has to adapt to new forms. Fiction is not about books of 75,000 words or 250 pages, its more about telling a good story that captivates, engages and stimulates readers. Why does this have to be any specific length? "
publishing  business-model  books  digitization  MSM  disintermediation  futurism 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Derek Powazek - Making The Bloody Thing Up
pranks  publishing  humor  magazines  design  acrostic 
january 2009 by Vaguery
languagehat.com
"I won't even get into what she has to say about the hell that is commercial publishing, with its ignorant editors and unkept promises, and the terrible financial pressure that makes writers stifle current work they're excited about to try and sell long-finished work they're bored or nauseated by, because it gets me too upset. Why do zillionaires give zillions to museums and operas and never think of, as she says, sponsoring an admired writer's travel expenses or offering them six months' writing time at a vacation home? If I were a zillionaire, that's the kind of thing I'd want to do... but of course to become a zillionaire I'd have to care about money and the making of same in large quantities, and then I'd be a different person and probably never think about the problems of writers. It's a conundrum."
publishing  books  design  transparency  reference  awareness  contract  law  copyright  recordkeeping 
january 2009 by Vaguery
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