In web 2.0 learned societies could rule the Internet
Tags: anonymous, community, identification, Nature, science, secure, social mediaPosted in Web 2.0
The Internet is here to stay. Besides its many advantages two major drawbacks are daily visible: (i) abuse of
anonymity and (ii) lack of quality control of presented information. These two issues are related: if an onymous (pun intended) person with an impeccable reputation endorses an article on the web, chances are high that the paper is indeed of quality.
If the number of clients, customers, or members of not-for-profit or commercial enterprises runs in the thousands, the executives of these organizations would like to bind their clients. Issuing trading stamps is a strategy that is already older than a century. Another line of approach, more suitable for our times, is to build a virtual community, forum or network. Newspapers, scientific journals, and universiti
es have created their interactive web sites. Software companies do it. These communities will only blossom if the group of customers is not too much of a mixed bag and if the customers get something valuable in return when joining. A possible benefit for joining is the facilitation of communication with other members or with the officials of the organization.












Readers' comments
Thanks for the advice. It sounds almost too simple and like something people should come up by themselves. Unfortunately, most ...
19 Jul 2010 8:46, Julio E. Peironcely
Getting grants funded is a much less platonic enterprise than the science itself. I recently ran into a science professor ...
20 Jun 2010 19:32, Gijs
Hi, One question - where would you include correspondence? Some journals e.g. Nature publish "Letters" as full articles, whereas, correspondence elsewhere ...
11 Jun 2010 23:09, MH
I agree with what have been said above. Should the normalization be done against the total number of publications he/she authored/co-authored ...
8 Jun 2010 23:08, labuddy
I spent the spare time on the unfinished ideas,because the working time is controlled strictly by the boss and ...
7 Jun 2010 14:26, danxian