Science in the Web Age: Joint Efforts

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Declan Butler: Science in the Web Age: Joint Efforts, Nature December 6, 2005

Writing in Nature, Declan Butler wonders why more scientists don't blog. "many researchers still see publications in the formal scientific literature as 'the' means of scientific communication... for most scientists and academics, blogs and wikis remain unattractive distractions from their real work. Many consider them an online version of coffee-room chatter, background noise that goes against the very ethos of heavily filtered scholarly information". More...