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Re: Two things your grandchildren will never read: Newspapers, and "Proceedings"
From: Robert Lemos <lists () robertlemos com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:34:13 -0400
On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:29 PM, dave wrote:
* PGP Signed by an unknown key It's when you need sleep the most that you can't sleep. But the following twitter does make it worth it: spendergrsec: "It's like 8 pages documenting a team of 6 people's first exploit": http://bit.ly/grcUz Go read and enjoy. There's many institutions the Internet is going to destroy. Of all of them, perhaps Academia is going the quietest. Every time someone posts about the "Proceedings" of something, or a "peer reviewed journal" or posts a bibliography of a paper-bound book, it's like hearing the rasping sighs of the last dieing brontosaurus.
Them's fighting words, Dave. I agree that neither will continue to exist in their current forms, but I would also argue that both are trying to bring some level of authentication/trust to the reporting of research -- a feature of peer review and newspapers that should survive, even when the monopoly does not. (In our own industry, Full-Disclosure versus Bugtraq is a good example of the options.) So I hope the end result is that we get the benefits of peer review without the drawbacks of monopoly (although, one could argue that peer review is inherently a monopoly-creating activity). There was an interesting interview on future of newspapers recently that covered some of this. I blogged about it yesterday: http://robertlemos.typepad.com/writingmachines/2009/08/journalism-is-an-artifact-of-the-printingpress-monopoly.html Cheers, -R robert lemos | mail () robertlemos com | skype: rob.lemos science & technology journalist | http://www.robertlemos.com _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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