LIS :: Michael Habib

• Justifying a Bill of Rights for Online Communities – Part 1: Facebook and Shopping Malls

  2009 Jul 04

  A little while back Facebook got a lot of slack for refusing to ban some particularly reprehensible hate speech groups. While Facebook’s representative employed the cause of free speech in their defense, many commentators have pointed out that, as a private company, Facebook has complete control of the speech on their site. (I wrote [...]

• links for 2009-07-03

  2009 Jul 04

  Do We Need a Scientific Literature? – Deep Thoughts and Silliness – Bob O'Hara's blog on Nature Network Insightful post on scientific literature. "This got me wondering – why do we consider peer reviewed research to be important? I’d actually suggest that peer review is of secondary importance, so I’ll discuss that later (if I remember). [...]

• links for 2009-07-02

  2009 Jul 03

  Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? An interesting essay on disruption and some lessons to be learned from newspapers. I don’t entirely agree with the prescription Michael offers though. (tags: science science2.0 scholarlypublishing scholarlycommunication stm journalism publishing evolution disruption newspapers michaelnielsen)

• links for 2009-06-29

  2009 Jun 30

  All 2.0 feed portal (tags: science20)

• links for 2009-06-26

  2009 Jun 27

  arXiv.org help – Author Identifiers (tags: identity) Science Online London 2009 Less than 50 spots left…. “The Web is rapidly changing the communication, practice and culture of science. Science online London 2009 will explore the latest trends in science online. How is the Web affecting the work of researchers, science communicators, journalists, librarians, educators, students? What can you [...]