September 3, 2026
I missed this fascinating 2022 post on the history of PostScript (and, by extension, the PDF)—by David Brock for the Computer History Museum: From the start of Adobe Systems Incorporated (now Adobe, Inc.) exactly forty years ago in December 1982, the firm’s cofounders...
June 22, 2026
I’ve had some interesting comments on the “Matthew Effect in AI Summary” piece I published last month at LSE Impact, and thought to share a couple. One was posted by Nicola Willand: It absolutely happened to me! In 2023 I (female) took the doi of my most cited paper,...
June 18, 2026
I missed this short Sam Moore piece from the fall: Even though open access was motivated partly by the desire to rein in commercial publishers’ profiteering, it has in many ways simply reinforced their dominance. The article is a taut overview of the good work Sam and...
June 17, 2026
Jonny Saunders (he of the Institute of Pirate Technology), continues to amaze: The world is Big Data, and The Cloud is its landlord. It is our responsibility to ferret it out of its primitive unknown, mine it, harvest it, dump it by the tanker-truckful into great Data...
May 29, 2026
Invest in Open Infrastructure’s Lauren Collister, in a January post based on an interview with Knowledge Commons’ Kathleen Fitzpatrick: The core of that difference is that Knowledge Commons is committed to remaining free and open, to never selling user data, to never...
May 19, 2026
Just published in LSE Impact, on the “deep research” summary-and-citation tools from both the AI giants and the likes of Elsevier: At the core of all these tools is a series of verbs: to surface, to rank, to summarise, and to recommend. In this sense the AI products...
