@j_bettany - 23 Jun 2008
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I was interviewed for this article about social networks in Securities Industry News: http://tinyurl.com/6jsoop
Upending the economics of publishing: Kindle and the Expresso book machine – http://bit.ly/81Dhc
Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture – http://bit.ly/4EzFtI
Europe: Open Access Week 2009 – http://bit.ly/10AqUK
Climate change emails between scientists reveal flaws in peer review – http://bit.ly/9QV56Q
Live now. Sunday Times editor in debate with The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger, as Times newspapers prepare to charge http://bit.ly/aubfXu
The Times new paywall http://bit.ly/cexppi has apparently rendered it's Twitter Activity pointless. http://bit.ly/9DTfno
Pretty cool collection of classic magazine articles: http://bit.ly/cuSMmj
There is little, if anything, in peer-reviewed journals about the paradox of good parents with bad children – http://nyti.ms/9xzHrH
Peer review highly sensitive to poor refereeing, claim researchers – http://bit.ly/dp55Fu
Newspapers and Twitter Policy – http://on.mash.to/9T2ePv
I used to work on New Journal of Physics: Invisibility cloak closer with flexible 'metamaterial' http://bbc.in/coXDZf
What can you do with a degree in philosophy? http://bit.ly/ceyKU3 – Publishing, if you're me.
The economic case for open access in academic publishing – http://bit.ly/gSktE4
Project Gutenberg Improperly PD’d Copyrighted Works, according to one of my favourite authors, Greg Bear – http://bit.ly/fm4fJT
RT @FelixSalmon – Why banks don’t write in English | Analysis & Opinion | http://reut.rs/eIYZDW
A Reliability-Generalization Study of Journal Peer Reviews – http://bit.ly/h2sMw6
Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History. Hmmm. Sounds a bit like psychohistory in Asimov. http://bit.ly/eK0bQ4
Brilliant – The Journal of Universal Rejection http://bit.ly/gJoDk8
RT @a_yakovlev – Time Magazine Profile: Ray Kurzweil – http://bit.ly/gIkxFj
HarperCollins' attempt to ensure ebooks in libraries can only be loaned out 26 times is indefensible http://bit.ly/hscmNC
Press Release: MoneyScience Launches Next Generation Social Publishing Platform – http://bit.ly/jtlw6I
Press Release: MoneyScience Launches Next Generation Social Publishing Platform – http://bit.ly/lV9S8h
Updated social media guidance for BBC journalists – http://bbc.in/oIaaqM
A History of Behavioural Finance in Published Research: 1944 – 1988 – http://bit.ly/qVlDAc
Will Open Data Solve Peer Review Concerns? – http://bit.ly/q8Df7W
Apple, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster sued for alleged price fixing – http://t.co/RZaVIJq
Paul Ginsparg reflects on 20 years of arXiv – http://t.co/YGATc1W
Worth Revisiting – Financial Journalism: Ethics and Responsibility in a Time of Crisis http://t.co/XSiOTRR
@GeorgeMonbiot doesn't have anything nice to say about #AcademicPublishing – http://t.co/mU63266 #
And while I'm on the topic: The Future of #AcademicPublishing at the How Power Corrupts symposium – http://t.co/zrvwDT6
Wolfgang Wagner's Resignation Letter from the Journal 'Remote Sensing' – http://t.co/WqDAwnI
Johann Hari: A personal apology http://t.co/R9rzpFTA
Princeton will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers http://t.co/I3eBDRDX
Very interesting video 'Occupy Wall Street' and the Media coverage – http://t.co/JJFelUfP
Financial Journalism: Ethics and Responsibility in a Time of Crisis http://t.co/0hs20kfB
MT @ian_fraser – Wall Street Journal Stole From Advertisers via Circulation Scam – http://t.co/TT6AO8Gx or did it? http://t.co/jlA63b4C
Science journal Nature is being sued for Libel by a former editor of the journal Chaos, Solitons & Fractals http://t.co/107JRqWW
Have Academic publishers have become the enemies of science? The US Research Works Act – http://t.co/lU5cni0j
It's been a bit of a theme this week. Discontent with academic publishing is fostering disruptive solutions. http://t.co/JcjD2trz
Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source – http://t.co/sAkjaRdC
"a treasure trove of nasty details": WikiLeaks publishes Stratfor emails exposing the global trade in intelligence http://t.co/MneSKgdB #tcm
Great article from @FelixSalmon – Why journalists need to link – http://t.co/f297dQE7
RT @sclopit Mathematicians take a stand. http://t.co/Wosw3p4I survey of the reasons for the ongoing boycott of publisher Elsevier #tcm
"Science must be liberated from the paywalls of publishers" – http://t.co/vma9dpOP
RT @PaulHulbert: 20 out of 56 journalist jobs to be cut as Bristol Evening Post drops Saturday edition – can't be good for local news ht …
This is a terrible article Chris. Pure clickbait from BI: Android Is Suddenly In A Lot Of Trouble: http://t.co/IMwnmGBF @Chris_Skinner:
RT @freakonometrics "Understanding errors, biases that can affect journalists" http://t.co/s7hlzz47
There's one to tick off the bucket list. Finally got an article on slashdot: http://t.co/GheuJv4L
#OpenAccess venture, PeerJ asks for a one-off fee to secure free lifetime publishing of peer-reviewed research #tcm http://t.co/mTTlHVXm
“…a vague, slow evolution toward the gold model of open access publishing, at the publishers' pace and price.." #tcm http://t.co/UB2kKXw5
Imagine a future where the role of a journal editor is to curate a comment stream for each paper… http://t.co/rzHQpO3S
Crumbs. The International Journal of Machine Consciousness has a Special Issue on Mind Uploading #scifi http://t.co/17N3Okwb
Actually @AquilaRift u might like this: International Journal of Machine Consciousness Special Issue on Mind Uploading http://t.co/17N3Okwb
Your E-Book Is Reading You: Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before. http://t.co/qoG97w72
UK plan for open access to research is a golden opportunity, not a cost – Professor Stephen Curry http://t.co/XgJR10RB #tcm
UK government earmarks £10m for open access publishing
If ignorance was an Olympic event, the heats would be held in the comment sections of national newspapers http://t.co/wHa0QxHG
Twitter, peer review and altmetrics: the future of research impact assessment http://t.co/rcTPS8bu
Thanks @annareitman: Math Paper Hoax recalls Sokal, and make some uncomfortable points about Peer Review.
Faintly depressing analysis for those of us in Web Publishing http://t.co/661PGz7q
Why is Science Behind a Paywall?
Open Access inaction http://t.co/WlcPyTytdQ
“The most important work of political economy to be published in decades…”? http://t.co/RY6EXEp9K8
RT @robintransition: New twist in BBC/Lawson #climate controversy. Head of Editorial Complaints upholds our complaints! See final comment: …
RT @TrevorABranch: The best scientific erratum ever published http://t.co/oQSejhH0hb
Cool. A couple of my #fractals on the cover of a new interdisciplinary journal from University of Keele. https://t.co/4BQZ3FfAhL
Climate deniers agree their key messages for journalists (with a journalist in the room)
RT @neilhimself: https://t.co/jJj4LA9TOP a remarkable piece of long-form journalism by @PennyRed. You should read it. #MeetTheGoblins
@GillianRedfearn Hi Gillian, I have a slightly unusual ? abt an editor from Gollancz who died in the 90s. Wld u mind following so I can PM?
RT @paulmasonnews: Brit "quality" journalists: still proud to be working for Rupert Murdoch? https://t.co/NbSi16rpxe
RT @j_bettany: @GillianRedfearn Hi Gillian, I have a slightly unusual ? abt an editor from Gollancz who died in the 90s. Wld u mind followi…
Niche Online Publishers Bank on Subscriptions Over Advertising https://t.co/7rtsKxFXi3
@normonics @ThouArtThat You're setting up a straw man. No one is saying the climate isn't complex, but as you know science is built on verifiable, repeatable observations and evidence. If you disagree with 97% of the published climate science community, the onus on you to explain why.
RT @bectu: The highly respected @TheIFS has published a report looking at gaps in support for the self-employed. We have been raising these…
The UK’s biological security strategy, published in 2018 to address the threat of pandemics, was not properly implemented. https://t.co/FhWVB7hDGf
RT @undarkmag: Because preprints aren’t peer reviewed, it can be difficult for non-experts - including journalists, policymakers, and scien…
Amazon generously donates 30.84 seconds of revenue to struggling booksellers (at today's exchange rates).
RT @TimHarford: 1/ Time for an apology and a correction. Seems that every newspaper in the UK is (correctly) reporting that I said the risk…
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