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Kristen Reynolds

48 Hours on Wikipedia « The Scholarly Kitchen - 0 views

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corrections wikipedia

shared by Kristen Reynolds on 14 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Overall, 1/3 to 1/2 of the fibs were corrected within 48 hours
  • the median response time was 2 hours 15 minutes (it took about twice as long to correct a subset of articles that were not high-profile).
  • Kristen Reynolds on 14 Oct 08
     
    This is the article about a study done on response time in Wikipedia I mentioned in class last night. Very interesting stuff!
Ryan Holman

Leslie Harris: Deep Impact: Italy's Conviction of Google Execs Threatens Global Interne... - 0 views

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Italy Google Video defamation responsibility ethics social media

shared by Ryan Holman on 26 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ryan Holman on 26 Feb 10
     
    How much responsibility do services bear for the actions of their users?
arnie Grossblatt

Publishers Gild Books With 'Special Effects' to Compete With E-Books - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Design books ebooks

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 04 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 04 Dec 11
     
    Renewed interest in creating beautiful books as a response to ereaders.
arnie Grossblatt

The Newspaper of the Future - 0 views

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newspapers publishers

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 28 Oct 08 - Cached
  • It is now clear that it is as disruptive to today's newspapers as Gutenberg's invention of movable type was to the town criers, the journalists of the 15th century.
  • The Internet wrecks the old newspaper business model in two ways. It moves information with zero variable cost, which means it has no barriers to growth, unlike a newspaper, which has to pay for paper, ink and transportation in direct proportion to the number of copies produced.
  • And the Internet's entry costs are low.
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  • These cost advantages make it feasible to make a business out of highly specialized information, a trend that was under way well before the Internet.
  • specialized media had been enjoying more growth than general media.
  • A metropolitan newspaper became a mosaic of narrowly targeted content items. Few read the entire paper, but many read the parts that appealed to their specialized interests
  • Sending everything to everybody was a response to the Industrial Revolution, which rewarded economies of scale
  • Newspapers "keep offering an all-you-can-eat buffet of content, and keep diminishing the quality of that content because their budgets are continually thinner," he said. "This is an absurd choice because the audience least interested in news has already abandoned the newspaper."
  • The newspapers that survive will probably do so with some kind of hybrid content: analysis, interpretation and investigative reporting in a print product that appears less than daily, combined with constant updating and reader interaction on the Web.
  • But the time for launching this strategy is growing short if it has not already passed. The most powerful feature of the Internet is that it encourages low-cost innovation, and anyone can play
  • Clayton Christensen has noted, the very qualities that made companies succeed can be disabling when applied to disruptive innovation. Successful disruption requires risk taking and fresh thinking.
  • One of the rules of thumb for coping with substitute technology is to narrow your focus to the area that is the least vulnerable to substitution.
  • What service supplied by newspapers is the least vulnerable?
  • I still believe that a newspaper's most important product, the product least vulnerable to substitution, is community influence
  • The raw material for this processing is evidence-based journalism, something that bloggers are not good at originating.
  • Newspapers might have a chance if they can meet that need by holding on to the kind of content that gives them their natural community influence. To keep the resources for doing that, they will have to jettison the frivolous items in the content buffet.
  • But it won't be a worthwhile possibility unless the news-paper endgame concentrates on retaining newspapers' core of trust and responsibility
  • arnie Grossblatt on 28 Oct 08
     
    Argues that newspapers will need to get smaller and more focused on establishing trust-based influence. Interesting.
arnie Grossblatt

Elsevier - 0 views

Elsevier Statement on Publishing of Fake Journals

Elsevier ethics STM

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 04 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 04 Jun 09
     
    The corporate statement form Elsevier about the publication of 6 fake journals. Also links to Elsevier statement on corporate responsibility.
Allison Begezda

German publishers criticize new Google Books deal - Monsters and Critics - 0 views

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  • Allison Begezda on 19 Nov 09
     
    German publishers' response to the Google book settlement.
Elizabeth Ralls

Amazon backtracks, will offer $15 opt-out for ads on Kindle Fire tablets | Tablets - CN... - 1 views

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amazon ads ebook reader

shared by Elizabeth Ralls on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Ralls on 11 Sep 12
     
    Negative customer feedback prompts a speedy response by Amazon.
arnie Grossblatt

Ethical Responsibilities of Textbook Publishers - 2 views

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ethics textbooks

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 03 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 03 Oct 13
     
    In light of demands by the State of Texas for biology textbooks with "balanced"  treatment of evolution. "So here's the missing piece: what about the textbook companies? When this issue is discussed, the publishers are talked about as if they have no agency, no ability to affect the outcome of these events. But they're morally culpable for participating in these farces. If they wanted, they could stand up to the state of Texas. So how can the people who work at a publisher in good conscience agree to write a biology textbook that treats evolution as a wild, unsupported idea?
arnie Grossblatt

Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - 1 views

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google publishers libraries metadata search

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • that's what you'll get.
    • arnie Grossblatt
      arnie Grossblatt on 09 Sep 10
       
      and that's what you deserve.
  • you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.
  • Here, too, Google has blamed the errors on the libraries and publishers who provided the books. But the libraries can't be responsible for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those categories are drawn from the Book Industry Standards and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves, not from any of the classification systems used by libraries.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 09 Sep 10
     
    Powerful criticism of GBS and its mishandling of metadata.
Paul Riccardi

Have We Reached the End of Book Publishing As We Know It? -- New York Magazine - 0 views

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book publishing sales

shared by Paul Riccardi on 21 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Paul Riccardi on 21 Jan 09
     
    I realize this is a few months old, but it's still a great read, albeit lengthy, on the demise of traditional publishing.
  • Amanda Litvinov on 30 Jan 09
     
    That was a good article. I came across this interesting response to it from a media business blogger, who says pay attention to the part about HarperCollins' new efforts. http://industry.bnet.com/media/1000315/the-end-of-publishing-or-its-rebirth/
Michael Pogachar

Amazon CEO calls Apple storage model 'broken' - 0 views

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ebook reader Amazon iPad broken data storage

shared by Michael Pogachar on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Michael Pogachar on 29 Sep 11
     
    Because of the cloud-based storage of the Kindle Fire, no syncing is necessary. And Mr. Bezos goes on to take a swipe at Apple. "That model, that you are responsible for backing up your own content, is a broken model," he says. The most recently used items, no matter what the content is, will be stored in a task bar/carousel interface.
Ryan Reeh

Copyright War Pits Silicon Valley Against Hollywood - 0 views

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copyright O'Reilly DMCA

shared by Ryan Reeh on 30 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Ryan Reeh on 30 Jun 11
     
    Internet piracy versus rightsholders square off again in proposing a new addition to DMCA - the Protect IP act (PIPA), blacklisting "rogue sites" and holding Internet Service Providers responsible to block access to these sites. O'Reilly has stepped up in favor of Silicon Valley.
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