Friday, April 04, 2008

Innovation and Journalism

The Economist is the world's leading quality journalistic magazine, often ahead of the other ones like emphasizing the importance of innovations. This is the seventh time the British magaziner is seeking the best innovations in seven different categories.

The Economist: The Economist Innovation Awards and Summit

Friday, February 15, 2008

Scientific Publishing

So, Harvard did it. Being more precise - Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted for open access scientific publishing.

Ars Technica tells this and the short history of democratization of knowledge.


Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Future has come to Journalism

Normally, news, and journalism is about very recent developments in our societies. Accelerating competition has transfered the focus of journalistic work more into future. The world´s leading journalistic magazine, The Economist was among the first to figure out this with its next years special numbers. Now it is The New Yorkers turn. As we all so called media industry insiders know, it is more profitable for media companies to organize thematic conferences than publish, let´s say magazines. After paying $ 2000, it is somewhat possible to see into the future, or is it. Anyways, here are the previous year´s predictions - for free, of course. You´re under the influence of Internet effect.

Silicon Valley Reporting

Finally, one of the news media giants got it. The future of many businesses is created in the Valley, but the corps of the foreign correspondents still work only in the East Coast, or Hollywood.

The Guardian: BBC appoints US tech reporter

Scientific Publishing

Can the world´s leading research university, Harvard, change the way scholars publish their research. That is the question.

Under a new proposal Harvard would deposit finished papers in an open-access repository run by the library that would instantly make them available free on the Internet. So, no more long waiting times, and costly payments for the commercial scientific niche publishers.

The New York Times:
At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web

Open, free access for all instead of closed, expensive monopolies, is the way Internet has changed media businesses. As Google, and others, has showed, quality can be defined through algorithms and wisdom of crowds. Interesting to see, if the intelligentsia is ready for this kind of rankings, too.