Knowledge Bridge: Academic Publishing inhibits the Free Flow of Knowledge
Olaf Brugman asks, In other words: why do authors create costly dependencies on publishers, chain-ball themselves, give up their rights? And shut up, and believe it’s ‘normal practice’? Spells like exploitation..
See also Richard Gayle’s blog on the boycott of leading academic publisher Elsevier and this coverage of the same thing.
Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is
The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.
Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
At the NGO conference (blogged yeserday and the day before) I met Martin Roell a German blogger and e-business guru. He’s blogged the event in
I’ve finally started paying attention to RSS and all this stuff about “Blog Aggregators”. The final shove was wanting to get Martin Roell’s English feed.
This is another extract from Viv’s and my new book, Nothing Is Written (free to download). In Monty Python’s Life of Brian the eponymous antihero is fleeing a brigade of
While we’re thinking about not falling in love with our schtick, I thought this was a good read: The Myth and Milleniallism of Disruptive Innovation. I think this is a
I just watched the online vid styled as a public service announcement for the advertsing creative skills of Marc and Tom. Thousands of advertising creatives are out of work… they
I m enjoying the wikipedia entry on cognitive biases. I generally dislike jargon but right now I like the idea of hyperbolic discounting. The Von Restorff effect really jumps off
