Data : Re-Use, Waste and Neglect
We live in fevered times . What happens at the top cascades . This must be the explanation for why revered colleagues like Richard Poynder and Kent Anderson are conducting Mueller – style enquiries...
View ArticleSimple Rules for New Years Blogging
Apologies to those kind readers who expected an earlier interjection in December . Truth to tell , I was speechless . Caught somewhere between astonishment at my fellow coununtrymen’s mania for...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Kent Anderson
Dear Kent. First of all this is a letter of admiration. I love your new journal, The Geyser, and I was an early subscriber. I admire your career and I love your writing. You display truly enviable...
View ArticleThe Network Effect and Scholarly Communications
First , an apology . I have started to write this piece every week in the past three . Then something happens …and then something else happens …and then I wait for the inevitable something else . And...
View ArticleBrexit meets Plan S
You must have noticed the similarities . Tortuous negotiations . Disagreement within the parties ranged on each side , as well as between the parties themselves . You go to meetings on these...
View ArticleScholarly Communications : the View from Fiesole
You can see a long way from Fiesole . John Milton , in Paradise Lost , remembered the red orb of the sun sinking over the Tuscan hills and likened it to the burnished shield on Satan’s back as he is...
View ArticleThe Gradually Shrinking World of B2B
There is an undesirable tendency amongst old consultants to want to write ‘Finis’ after everything, as if to say “after me, the Flood”. I try to resist, but there are mornings, and this is one, when...
View ArticleData and Analytics are now B2B Central
Sometimes you go to a conference that just crackles with the excited atmosphere that surrounds the moment that has come. When Houlihan Lokey were putting together their conference on data and...
View ArticleStarting Up in Scholarly Communications
There is a moment in the life of every start-up when the entrepreneur realises that what he is selling is not what people are buying. Over 35 years ago this thought stopped me in my tracks outside of...
View ArticleWoods and Trees ; Context and Accessibility
Two contrasted views of the future struggle against each other whenever we sit down to talk data strategy . One could be called the Syndication School . It says “ forget getting all the data in one...
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