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The revolution is watching. That is to say, the revolution is watching us and we are watching the revolution. It is also to say that there has been a certain revolution in watching, although the casual use of “revolution” in such contexts is less convincing now. Nonetheless, despite all injunctions to the contrary, to watch is a form of action.... read more »

NETWORKED REVOLUTION: Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt after 30 days
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Over the course of last week, a huge number of friends and colleagues of mine posted links and notes on Twitter and around the blogosphere about Mike O’Malley’s post on The Aporetic about crowdsourcing peer review.

It probably goes without saying that I’m in great sympathy with the post overall. I’ve invested a lot of time over the last couple of years in testing open peer review, including the experiment that we conducted at MediaCommons on behalf of Shakespeare Quarterly, which has been written about extensively in both the Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times. And of course there was my prior experiment with the open review of my own book manuscript, whose first chapter focuses in great detail on this new model of peer review, and which has been available online for just over a year now.... read more »

For the next few days, my “Five Years Ago” block at right will be filled with post-Katrina posts.... read more »

From Ted Striphas comes news of an exciting project: the crowd-sourced production of a text-to-speech audiobook version of his fantastic book, The Late Age of Print. Ted has opened a wiki for the project, through which interested volunteers can help him clean up the text for audio conversion. Instructions and details are available on the wiki.... read more »

A quick note: I’m (at least in theory) participating in today’s ... read more »

A promo video produced by DK Books for a Penguin sales conference has gone something like viral in the last two days, getting a lot of attenti... read more »

Oh, hi! I’m sure it appears that I’ve forgotten about this blog thing.... read more »

I’ve just gotten the following email message from my friends at Time Warner Cable:... read more »

Um, yeah.... read more »