It takes a wealth of links and supporting data to get to this conclusion, but get there David Crotty does, with a logic that is irrefutable. "The clear trends are:
- moving away from corporate-backed social networking tools for scientists
- abandoning expensive efforts with little hope of monetization
- moving toward smaller, user-created and controlled networks
Web 2.0 hasn't failed for science - it has merely failed to live up to the initial hype and failed as a get-rich-quick scheme."
The evidence, I think, is significant. Here's just part of it:
- Elsevier's 2collab closed April 15
- Connotea is being overrun with link-farm spam
- Nature's flagship blog Nautilus closed April19 after most of the bloggers left last December
- National Geographic is taking over Scienceblogs, which never recovered from the Pepsi scandal
See also Geoff Livingston, 5 epic social (media) failures, via Kristina Schneider.
- moving away from corporate-backed social networking tools for scientists
- abandoning expensive efforts with little hope of monetization
- moving toward smaller, user-created and controlled networks
Web 2.0 hasn't failed for science - it has merely failed to live up to the initial hype and failed as a get-rich-quick scheme."
The evidence, I think, is significant. Here's just part of it:
- Elsevier's 2collab closed April 15
- Connotea is being overrun with link-farm spam
- Nature's flagship blog Nautilus closed April19 after most of the bloggers left last December
- National Geographic is taking over Scienceblogs, which never recovered from the Pepsi scandal
See also Geoff Livingston, 5 epic social (media) failures, via Kristina Schneider.
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