Information needs to be free
Danah Boyd has had it with closed source peer reviewed journals and scholarship.
I think that this needs to change. I’d be sad to see some of the academic publishers go,but if they can’t evolve to figure out new market options,I have no interest in supporting their silencing practices. I think that scholars have a responsibility to make their work available as a public good. I believe that scholars should be valued for publishing influential material that is consumed by anyone who might find it relevant to their interests. I do not believe that scholars should be encouraged to follow stupid rules for the sake of maintaining norms. Given that we do the bulk of the labor behind journals,I think that we can do it without academic publishers (provided that we can find hosting).
open-access is the future:boycott locked-down academic journals
Tom Matrullo has been banging the same drum for a while now.
Firefly fans
Steven Brust has written a fan novel
Dangers of Cell Phones
Dr. Peter Rost alerts folks with testicles that all may not be well.
Heavy cell phone users have poor sperm quality.