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Category Archives: Attention


Two small me.edu.au easter eggs: RSS and APML support

It’s Christmas tomorrow, which makes it the perfect time to mention two easter eggs [1] in me.edu.au.
Firstly, RSS output support for your activities. This lets someone else subscribe to what you are doing on me.edu.au. To see this go to your public profile (mine is http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian) and then append “/rss” to the address (eg, http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian/rss).
Secondly, […]

DEST Report on Research Communication Costs

Tom Worthington recently pointed at a new DEST report: RESEARCH COMMUNICATION COSTS IN AUSTRALIA: EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES AND BENEFITS.
It outlines some really interesting thinking about the importance of Open Access and the changing nature of scholarly publishing.
The whole report is worth reading, but the part that grabbed my attention is:
In the longer term, the evolution of […]

AttentionTrust: why not everything that seems like a good idea is

Jen recently blogged about AttentionTrust and made the same mistake that most people make when they decide that it must be a good idea.
While I agree that some of their goals are excellent, I have to take issue with some of the things they are saying.
Let’s look at the AttentionTrust principles and see where I […]