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Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter.

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Re: Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter.

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Could someone make all scientific journals free to read, I'm super fucked off stealing access through various student friends accounts.

I definitely value the fact that approving the content of journals is a costly business, it's just a frustration of mine. I apologise for the tone.

Re: Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter.

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Could someone make all scientific journals free to read, I'm super fucked off stealing access through various student friends accounts.

I definitely value the fact that approving the content of journals is a costly business, it's just a frustration of mine. I apologise for the tone.

It's a costly business for the people doing the actual reviewing, ie the scholars who essentially work for free. Academic publishing is, I hope, the next industry to be reformed by open access web archives, although I'll be the first to admit that it's a long way away. So I think it's perfectly fine for you to be "fucked off".

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google may eventually buy twitter, but they'll wait for the valuation to drop. twitter is an awesome technology, but i'm not sure how well and how long someone can monetize it.

Delayed tweets could make money. http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/09/30/a-real-business-mode...

Re: Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter.

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google may eventually buy twitter, but they'll wait for the valuation to drop. twitter is an awesome technology, but i'm not sure how well and how long someone can monetize it.

Delayed tweets could make money. http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/09/30/a-real-business-mode...

I stopped reading here, when numbers started being pulled out of orifices:

> Out of those 200,000 followers, you’d easily get 10,000 to pay $1 to get the premium app to stay “in the first circle of friends” of their idol

Re: Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I definitely value the fact that approving the content of journals is a costly business, it's just a frustration of mine. I apologise for the tone.

It's a costly business for the people doing the actual reviewing, ie the scholars who essentially work for free. Academic publishing is, I hope, the next industry to be reformed by open access web archives, although I'll be the first to admit that it's a long way away. So I think it's perfectly fine for you to be "fucked off".

Despite accepting basically everything that is valid science (typically a much lower bar than is required to publish in most journals), PLOS One has had a consistently increasing impact factor. In other words, the open access approach is getting some respect from scientists who produce the original material.

Re: Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I definitely value the fact that approving the content of journals is a costly business, it's just a frustration of mine. I apologise for the tone.

It's a costly business for the people doing the actual reviewing, ie the scholars who essentially work for free. Academic publishing is, I hope, the next industry to be reformed by open access web archives, although I'll be the first to admit that it's a long way away. So I think it's perfectly fine for you to be "fucked off".

One of the best things about working in machine learning and natural language processing is that the best conference and journal archives are already open access ( books.nips.cc , usually ICML publishes the papers online, there's the ACL anthology, JMLR and JAIR are fully open access, etc).

Re: Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter.

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google may eventually buy twitter, but they'll wait for the valuation to drop. twitter is an awesome technology, but i'm not sure how well and how long someone can monetize it.

Delayed tweets could make money. http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/09/30/a-real-business-mode...

Failure of similar idea -

Diggnation used to have a tiered system - subscribe and get everything early, don't subscribe and wait a day or two. This worked until someone thoughtfully [and illegally] created a mirror that provided subscriber time access to non subscribers.

I believe that Diggnation no longer has a subscription service.