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