Very active week for Nature. In addition to Charkin, CEO of Macmillan Nature Publishing Group, stealing Google laptops at the bookexpo in an odd protest of Google's efforts to put information online without asking (so he stole laptops without asking), they also launched a new preprint archive called Nature Precedings.
<br><br><a href="http://precedings.nature.com/">http://precedings.nature.com/</a><br><br>Here is lessig on teh Charkin affair:<br><a href="http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/cat_bad_code.shtml">http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/cat_bad_code.shtml
</a><br><br>Jason Bobe<br> <br> Charkin Besides stealing Google<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Kelly</b> <<a href="mailto:jasonk@mit.edu">jasonk@mit.edu</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">New offering from Nature. Not sure if it is any good -- looks very<br>"beta" at the moment:
<br><br><a href="http://scintilla.nature.com/">http://scintilla.nature.com/</a><br><br>Looks like they are trying to be part social network, part<br>recommendation engine?<br><br>thanks,<br>jason<br>_______________________________________________
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