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- Climate change, AI and ethical leadership in ‘big tech’, with Amazon principal UX design lead Maren Costa Tue, 25 Jun 19, 12:35am“I just want to be proud of the company that I work for,” Maren Costa told me recently. Costa is a Principal UX Design Lead at Amazon, for which she has worked since 2002. I was referred to her because of her leadership...
- Scientific peer review and publishing taking a turn for the better Wed, 25 Jul 12, 4:15pmA number of people have brought this recent article in the Economist to my attention. Some excerpts: There is a widespread feeling that the journal publishers who have mediated this exchange for the past century or more are...
- ReadyMade Magazine Closes its Doors for Good Fri, 17 Jun 11, 8:05amIt’s a sad day for publishing as ReadyMade, one of our favorite shelter mags, has closed its doors for good. The trailblazing DIY magazine was shuttered today by parent company Meredith Corporation as part of a $10...
- A new rapid review open source sci-journal from Nature Wed, 26 Jan 11, 10:01pmMaybe we won’t need the other new journal announced yesterday after all. From Slashdot.org: “Nature’s Publishing Group is launching a new journal, Scientific Reports, announced earlier this month. The press...
- New journal launched Wed, 26 Jan 11, 7:29amThis new journal doesn’t seem to have the haughtiness seen by some other journals. I hope they provide letters suitable for framing. I suggest everyone submit a paper here at least twice, because as we know, three’s...