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March 2014

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And I know that there's a heap of great scholarly thinking unpacking that logic, but it just struck me again today.

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Rhetoric from publishers that they serve authors makes sense in service model, but in commodity sale mode is strange. Authors are suppliers.

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I tried using Skype out/in when I was away in Germany last week. Awful. Any paid alternatives? Want VoIP to a real bidirectional phone no.

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The only thing I hope is that retrograde publishers don't take this as an opportunity to push embargos to maximum, or to remove deposit.

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Admittedly, justification that the journal was "best", but that it didn't allow deposit, is a loophole, but that wasn't "line"; was draft.

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THE piece calls HEFCE's policy a "softening on line" regarding OA. Considering they didn't have a policy before, I can't see that it is.

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MT @ChuckRybak: Anyone else out there pay for own work-related web hosting b/c campus policy too restrictive? < yes, have done

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Had an extreme day documenting needs, requirements, tech and process of a pure OA book press with @ahacker

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Oh joy, there's a new Facebook interface. Shame you can't block posts whinging about it. And the meta posts whinging about that. And the...

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Was reading and enjoying Dave Eggers' The Circle on my plane trip. Feel that while his writing improves, he remains an unsubtle allegorist.

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You know, there is a footnote function in all modern word processors, but why use that when you can just make text superscript & add a list?

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One thing I've been horrified by my recent dev work is the number of people who submit articles with footnotes just as superscripted numbers

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My friend has just reported on a taxi driver who thought lecturers earn £140k per year. Didn't understand why there were strikes.

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Doc Brown shades on: "Pathways to impact? Where we're going, we don't need 'pathways'".

"Actually, Martin, I'm afraid you do."

"Damn."

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Feeling a bit weird as Jennifer Egan has just thanked and congratulated me for my paper on Jennifer Egan.

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Next week is Lincoln and Frankfurt. But first I have @zara_dinnen's @jeganconference tomorrow! Hurrah!

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All news: So it seems that today's budget is going to be pretty grim and will hurt the most vulnera.... OOOH SHINY NEW £1 COIN!

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Government decries focus on research instead of teaching. Then cuts funding for teaching, which is already gone in humanities subjects.

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There was 4 mins and 30 seconds of user interaction to confirm that the typesetter's guesses were correct.

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Was using meTypeset in a real-world setup today (for @OrbitJournal). Excluding reference tagging, from Word to perfect XML took 5 minutes.

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Done my bit at #digifest14 -- @ellenscollins tweeted my talk if interested! Good to see @Graham_Stone, @brian_hole & @josswinn (briefly)

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If anyone is at #digifest14 and wants to hang out, I'm in... "The Hangout" in the exhibitors hall (3?)

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Feeling thoroughly nauseated now as a result of tilting train to Birmingham. Need to get it together for my talk!

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So tempted to click that "how much is my Twitter account worth" stuff to see how many mega-bucks it's worth. Except it isn't.

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Heading off to Birmingham today for the first time in 10 years to speak at the Jisc Digifest on my techy stuff.

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Breaking things key to curiosity in IT & telling people it's just a tool is not education. That said, has to be ltd for safety of others.

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Whenever I speak to IT teachers at schools I recount how much trouble I got into (sometimes w/ @harrylund99) & recommend they let kids crack

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If you visit that Scholarly Kitchen article about anti-privacy trackers on university press websites, you will encounter six trackers.

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I'd like to expressly extend my solidarity and support for International Woman's Day. Let us continue the march to equality for all. #IWD

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How exciting! There's to be an event at Leicester commemorating the 50th anniversary of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane.

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StackOverflow is wonderful. Can almost guarantee that if I need help, someone will have got back to me in half an hour.

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Text below article on high incidence of mental health problems in academia: "Looking for your next university role? Browse Guardian jobs..."

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Don't be fooled by Getty's embed programme; this is more dodgy tracking & you'd be better using MorgueFile & contributing to free culture.

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"the Author's Accepted Manuscript contains all of the academically important aspects of the research article..."

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Nick Clegg sets out Lib Dem plans to cut surveillance. Could we have some clarity though, Nick. Is this a "pledge", a "plan" or a "promise"?

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Most grandiose posts about Paul Scofield are improved if you accidentally read them as concerning Philip Schofield.