Friday Song: “The Last DJ”
With RadioGPT — an AI DJ bot — coming, have we seen the last DJ, as foretold in this 2002 song?
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Wiley Eats Hindawi Crow
Wiley divulges problems with Hindawi's special issues programs, and shuts it down, causing its stock to plummet
Algorithms as Bureaucracy
A paper exploring how machine leaning algorithms impose new bureaucratic, market, and surveillance effects is worth a read
This Time, I Agree with PLOS
Exasperated at ethics problems, PLOS comes out with strong language that it might not actually abide by
Bold Boasting at eLife
Why the use of bold, meaningless intensifiers in its assessments of reviewed preprints?
Song: “Mary On a Cross”
Another song from a surprisingly popular band — and a bonus feature about missing key changes in modern music
Service Strife and Table Stakes
From Twitter to Facebook to Springer Nature, weak service offerings reveal a lack of customer alignment
The Biggest Opportunity
Producing content is no longer a challenge, but how to cultivate consumption? That's where we can think big.
Review: “How to Stand Up to a Dictator”
An excellent book is a history, biography, and warning — about power, lies, and authoritarianism
Friday Song: “So What”
A #1 hit, a singer who flies, and a risque tale of a relationship hitting the rocks — what's not to like?