[OWW-SC] interview with Nature web publishing / add to the feature list

[John Cumbers]

hatching a plan to turn scientific communication upside down ...

shit.. they are onto us... :-)

John


On 7/6/07, Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Interesting interview with Timo Hannay, head of web publishing at Nature:
>
> http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2007/07/interview-with-timo-hannay-head-of-web.html
>
> I liked this part:
> "But to answer your question, I think our biggest competitor is the
> unknown grad student in his (or her) dorm room hatching a plan to turn
> scientific communication upside down in the same way that Napster,
> Google and Wikipedia disrupted other industries. Such people are a
> threat precisely because of their obscurity and lack of any historical
> baggage. You no longer need a lot of money, or even necessarily a
> strong brand, to succeed online. Good ideas and implementation are
> much more important. That drives almost everything we do. I hope that
> we'll come up with the best ideas and implementations first, not
> mainly because of a commercial desire to out-compete others, but
> because that's how we can best support scientific discovery."
>
> i.e. all of us ;-)
>
> Also, at the next SC meeting we'll be talking about prioritizing new
> features for the full time developer who will be coming online in the
> next week or two.  I started making a laundry list here:
>
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Feature_list
>
> Please add any new ideas or just move over stuff from the other ideas
> areas on OWW.
>
> thanks,
> jason
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