After Michael Clarke's coverage of Sci Foo Camp on the Scholarly Kitchen, I thought there was nothing left to say. Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 I was wrong. NatureVideo just posted a Science Foo Camp 2009 video on YouTube. From DNA, to skulls, to puzzles, it seems like Sci Foo had it all. It… Read More
Attending SSP IN! Here's a post I wrote on the Scholarly Kitchen: Fifteen years ago would anyone have imagined that Apple, a dying computer company, would come back to life by gaining control of the music business?Ann Michael under, The Scholarly Kitchen, Sep 2009 Read all the coverage of the Society for Scholarly Publishing IN… Read More
Aside from the topic, which is interesting, I love the idea that Silicon Alley Insider is facilitating the proliferation of their content. Embedding text. Why wasn’t this done years ago? Related articles by Zemanta Google boosts book digitization by capturing reCAPTCHA (arstechnica.com)… Read More
Why haven’t I been blogging regularly? One big reason is the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) IN Meeting. Richard Newman, from the American Medical Society, and I are the co-chairs of the SSP IN meeting. SSP IN will take over the entire Hotel Providence from September 23rd – 25th. I could tell you all about IN… Read More
Image via CrunchBase I found this fascinating quote today: Earlier this week, I wrote about the management trap that occurs in industries undergoing disruptive innovation. David Smith from CABI forwarded this presentation from Netflix to me. It’s excellent, and deserves to be shared widely.Kent Anderson under, The Scholarly Kitchen, Aug 2009 Culture View more presentations… Read More
Earlier in the spring, while attending the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) NetGain conference, I was asked to answer a question as part of a series for the SIIA Content Division. As the result of sheer coincidence, Chris Anderson was a keynote at the conference and was also asked the same question. Several people were… Read More
Image via CrunchBase As many of you know, there has been an interesting and spirited debate going on around Chris Anderson's (pictured) new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Malcolm Gladwell's review of that book, and Seth Godin's rebuttal to Gladwell's review. Those arguments speak for themselves and you can see them on… Read More
Kent Anderson from the Scholarly Kitchen linked to this Clay Shirky video filmed at the State Department by TED. It's 17:03 minutes of insight! "What matters here isn't technological capital, it's social capital. These tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring…when everybody is able to take them for granted." "They had understood… Read More