Tweet This excellent post covers why academic publishing is obsolete. TL;DR: 1. The time lag is huge; it’s measured in months, or even years. 2. Most academic publications are inaccessible outside universities. 3. Virtually no one reads most academic publications. 4. It’s very unusual to make successful philosophical arguments in paper form. 5. Papers don’t have prestige [...]
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June 21, 2012
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Academic papers today are not meant to be discussion forums
By jose in Blog, e-Science, Opinion, Writing
January 30, 2012
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To RSS subscribers: sorry, last post was not intended for ap.com
By jose in Announcements, BlogTweet The explanation below may only make sense to you if you read this from an RSS reader. If you don’t please skip it. Have you ever sent an email to the wrong person? Did wish you could pull it back? I just did this, but for our blog (!). I was feeding a WP [...]
April 17, 2009
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“Do it for love” and other fallacies to motivate grad students and junior faculty
By jose in Blog, JobsTweet In a supremely honest piece, (part II) T. H. Benton says that basically, it makes no sense to get a PhD in the humanities right now. His predictions are gloomy (and I think this applies to other disciplines): We are entering a period in which large numbers of tenured faculty members will be released [...]
September 14, 2008
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Merlin Mann (43Folders) declares moral bankruptcy of the ‘productivity Pr0n’ cult
By jose in Announcements, Blog, Time managementTweet Image via Wikipedia In an impressive display on coherence, Merlin Mann (43Folders) declares moral bankruptcy of the ‘productivity Pr0n’ cult. This is something I have discussed before on ap.com (post: rethinking life hacks). Merlin has declared he wants a new direction for 43Folders; it was harming people more than helping, since the time readers [...]