Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember... First Figuring out how to do and he trust in the age of the attention economy is really, really hard: Ben Thompson: The FTC’s Google Documents, the Staff Memo, the Economists Memo: ‘The fundamental premise of the Politico article, along with much of the antitrust chatter in Washington, misses the point: Google is dominant because consumers like it. That doesn’t mean the company didn’t act anticompetitively, or that we shouldn’t think seriously about acquisitions or contracts or advertising. Such thinking, though, has to start with a certain degree of humility about the fundamentally different nature of the Internet and how it is leading to these Aggregator-type outcomes. It really might be different this time.…
Elsevier - I decided some time ago to do no refereeing for any of their journals. I was interested to see a figure for the cost mentioned. My understanding was that normally these are covered by non-disclosure agreements. Elsevier has published some very odd things - lately, an article on the medical efficacy of amulets - and have employed notoriously corrupt editors. The fact that they also have excellent journals makes them particularly problematic. There are plenty of others these days with similar practices that one can simply ignore. (Some of them send out spam inviting people like me to edit an issue of a journal in an area I know nothing about - that at least I do not get from Elsevier.)
Elsevier - I decided some time ago to do no refereeing for any of their journals. I was interested to see a figure for the cost mentioned. My understanding was that normally these are covered by non-disclosure agreements. Elsevier has published some very odd things - lately, an article on the medical efficacy of amulets - and have employed notoriously corrupt editors. The fact that they also have excellent journals makes them particularly problematic. There are plenty of others these days with similar practices that one can simply ignore. (Some of them send out spam inviting people like me to edit an issue of a journal in an area I know nothing about - that at least I do not get from Elsevier.)