Re: A proposal for a decentralized, peer-reviewed academic journal system for the Web

John Wilbanks is another name I ran accross when looking at the
p2pfoundation site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilbanks

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Brent Shambaugh
<brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>wrote:

> I just downloaded most of the payswarm documentation. I'm ready to get
> reading :).
>
> Steven's story suggests that greatness comes from passionately pursuing
> something. I think we would all be better off if this was possible for more
> people.
>
> -Brent
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Brent Shambaugh <
> brent.shambaugh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Reference 13 refers to the Berlin Open Access Conference <
>> http://berlin10.org/about.html>.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Brent Shambaugh <
>> brent.shambaugh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Manu Sporny,
>>>
>>> Here is my take. I believe that creating a decentralized, peer-reviewed
>>> academic journal system could be a good idea, but only if access is
>>> carefully thought out.
>>> It could be a boon to citizen scientists and the developing world since
>>> they generally prefer open access, but doing so would require low cost. I
>>> believe that a system
>>> should allow payment now or later and donations now and later. Payment
>>> could occur after a certain period of time, or after a certain event such
>>> as revenue from
>>> a project.
>>>
>>> Only designing for payment could be a tricky thing. A situation as
>>> described in Richard A. Stallman's right to read <1> could evolve. Access
>>> to literature
>>> could become even more limited than it is today. Some, such as Eben
>>> Moglen, seem to favor support from those with the ability <2>. However,
>>> regardless
>>> what happens I believe people would try to subvert it. Sometimes the
>>> results could be hard to interpret <3>. I do believe that people who have
>>> the
>>> ability would want to help out, maybe even more so if they are given the
>>> freedom to choose.
>>>
>>> I'm not certain if people will use it. I know the economy is in a slump
>>> <4>, public universities are financially challenged <5>, highly educated
>>> people are unemployed <6>, women
>>> are increasingly getting PhDs <7> but are facing challenges <8> <9>, and
>>> young academics <10> <11>, biohackers <12>, and those in the developing
>>> world are looking for solutions <13>.
>>> Some say that collaboration online is creating a new economic form <14>
>>> and may replace institutions <15>. Innovation may largely also come from
>>> the outside, in the case of manufacturers <16>.
>>> Similar technologies have been around for awhile though <17>, and
>>> innovation may be a geographic thing <18>. The web seems to be widely
>>> adopted, why?
>>>
>>> For me personally, access to journal articles and books has helped a
>>> lot. I had a bit of an obsession for almost everything in graduate school,
>>> and I felt I had a clear advantage over those who were less privileged.
>>> Learning about practically anything I was interested in, and comparing
>>> various resources was amazing. How much are books and countless journal
>>> articles worth anyway?
>>>
>>> -Brent
>>>
>>>
>>> <1> Richard M. Stallman, The Right to Read.
>>> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read
>>> <2> Eben Moglen on Facebook, Google and Government Surveillance
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJCczbSF-B8 Jun. 1, 2012
>>> <3> Canadian Study: Piracy Boosts CD Sales.
>>> http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-boosts-cd-sales-071103/ Nov. 3, 2007
>>> <4> Stoller, Matt. Modern American Economic History in a Few Charts.
>>> http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/10/modern-american-economic-history-in-a-few-charts.html,
>>> Oct. 13, 2012
>>> <5> Public Universities In Peril.
>>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i27/Public-Universities-Peril.html, Jul.
>>> 12, 2012
>>> <6> Barely Hanging On.
>>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i45/Barely-Hanging.html Nov. 5, 2012
>>> <7> For the first time, more women than men earn PhD.
>>> http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-09-15-womenphd14_st_N.htmSept. 14, 2010
>>> <8> Women Dropping Out of Science Careers.
>>> http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5227334&page=1 June 24, 2008
>>> <9> Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, but Only if They're Male.
>>>
>>> http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/being-married-helps-professors-get-ahead-but-only-if-theyre-male/267289/Jan. 17, 2013
>>> <10> Young Researchers in Europe Launch Lobby Group.
>>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/12/Young-Researchers-Europe-Launch-Lobby.htmlDec. 27, 2012
>>> <11> Ethan Perlstien.
>>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i49/Ethan-Perlstein.html Dec. 3, 2012
>>> <12> A Biopunk Manifesto - Meridith Patterson.
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thn7d7-jywU Jan. 10, 2011
>>> <13> Scaling Up Science in South Africa.
>>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i51/Scaling-Science-South-Africa.htmlDec. 17. 2012
>>> <14> Howard Rhiengold: Way-new collaboration.
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5s3Z0iesRM Feb. 12. 2008
>>> <15> Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw Jul. 14, 2008
>>> <16> Eric Von Hippel. Democratizing Innovation.
>>> http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm 2005
>>> <17> Parsaye, Kamran. Intelligent Databases: Object-Oriented, Deductive
>>> Hypermedia Technologies, Wiley, New York, 1989
>>> <18> How the Crash Will Reshape America.
>>> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/how-the-crash-will-reshape-america/307293/6/Mar. 2009
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 01/14/2013 03:58 PM, Steven Rowat wrote:
>>>> > If, as you say Manu, PaySwarm already has this available in its core
>>>> >  architecture, then I think the time is right to start it.
>>>>
>>>> More food for thought:
>>>>
>>>> Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nature.com/news/mathematicians-aim-to-take-publishers-out-of-publishing-1.12243
>>>>
>>>> I've sent an e-mail to Jean-Pierre Demailly, just to reach out and offer
>>>> our help.
>>>>
>>>> -- manu
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
>>>> President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>>>> blog: Aaron Swartz, PaySwarm, and Academic Journals
>>>> http://manu.sporny.org/2013/payswarm-journals/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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