- Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
- Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives
- The OA Interviews: Harvard’s Stuart Shieber (Pay special note to the comment by Sandy Thatcher and the devastating fisking of it by Stuart Shieber. And by devastating, I mean dev. a. sta. ting.)
- Questioning Clay Shirky
- Shirky, Bady and For-Profit Higher Ed
- Unlikely Pairing? (liberal arts schools get into moocs)
- A New (Kind of) Scholarly Press (An open access university press)
- Can researchers protect their open data?
- Visualizing the Uniqueness, and Conformity, of Libraries (cool charts on how monograph collections overlap)
- Flight of the bloggers: Despite recent departures, Discover is rebuilding fast
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog: Scale, Workflow, Attention
- Moving Scholarly Society Members Online-Only – Are We Reaching The Tipping Point?
- Academics and Venture Capitalists: Not close vs open, but evidence vs speculation
- A letter to the TEDx community on TEDx and bad science
- You knew it was coming. Google Scholar cites can be manipulated
- Open Ethos Publishing at Code4Lib Journal and In the Library with the Lead Pipe
- The Gender/Resource Gap (funding for women in STEM fields)
- The Bias Against Creatives as Leaders
- Are scientists obligated to call out the bad work of other scientists? (A thought experiment)
- Full Text Of The Grim Meathook Future Thing
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