I always appreciate how Geoffrey Bilder can manage to talk about the Social Semantic Web and the early modern print in (nearly) the same breath. See for yourself in the presentation he gave to scholarly publishers at the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors last month.
Geoff’s presentation is outlined, to a large extent, in an interview Geoff gave 18 months ago (search “key messages” to find the good bits). I hope to blog further about these, because Geoff has so many good things to say, which deserve unpacking!
Social Media and Scholarly Communication
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I especially love the timeline from slide 159, which shows that we’re just past the incunabula age of the Internet:
We're still in the Early Modern era of the Internet. Compare to the history of print.