Are Our "Innovations" a Waste of Time?

By making users spend more time to find and trust information, we're wasting a most precious asset

Platforms vs. Trusted Intermediaries

A great example illustrates the different mindsets and senses of responsibility around science

Friday Song: "Mustang Sally"

A barroom staple, the song was almost lost, and Aretha Franklin helped name it properly

Revisit: The Subversion of Referees

A post from May which seems more relevant than ever, for your consideration

Consumers or Producers?

Who we serve matters, and publishers' financial choices are really about this

Will We Miss the Golden Age of Licensing?

Scholarly publishers aren't positioned well due to CC-BY demands around OA

Finding Our Moral Compass

Hypocrisy, spies, lies, bad choices, and a lack of accountability are eroding trust in media

A Heavy Twenty from Year One

Looking back, here are 20 essays that I think proved important and enduring

NLM to Pilot the Indexing of Preprints

It's a move that seems to further erode the importance of peer-review

Can a Preprint Claim a "Claim"?

The epistemological question is answered in other areas, and suggests not