Recent links from the tkbr pinboard collection:

 

• Impact of Social Sciences – Clickbait and impact: how academia has been hacked 7 hours ago
  More analysis of the TWQ clickbait debacle
• We Need Your Help | Room Magazine 2017/09/19
  Room magazine subscription drive, with some magazine economics exposed.
• An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership | Electronic Frontier Foundation 2017/09/18
  EFF resigns from W3C over DRM spec recommendation.
• W3C Publishes Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) as a W3C Recommendation 2017/09/18
  Web standards body recommends DRM layer as part of web specifications
• Current Affairs | Culture & Politics 2017/09/15
  Disturbingly necessary rebuttal to the "pro-colonial" article published in Third World Quarterly... Which also raises all sorts of questions about peer review, impact, and scholarly publishing
• Smartphones are driving all growth in web traffic - Recode 2017/09/13
  Interesting trends re: web vs app
• Innovative new services born from the bankruptcy of Douglas & McIntyre | Quill and Quire 2017/09/12
  About Figure 1, Page 2, and ZG
• What language do the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh speak? 2017/09/11
  Khelsilem's post on Halkomelem and Squamish languages
• Elbakyan pulls Sci-Hub from Russia | The Bookseller 2017/09/07
  Amusing bit about parasites
• bookcareers.com Salary Survey Results 2017 - Bookcareers 2017/09/06
  UK data on salaries in publishing
• Did This Book Buy Its Way Onto The New York Times Bestseller List? 2017/08/30
  A great guide to publicity strategies, except applied in an unethical way...
• Hymn: A New Poem by Sherman Alexie 2017/08/17
• Suzanne Sadedin's answer to What do scientists think about the biological claims made in the anti-diversity document written by a Google employee in August 2017? - Quora 2017/08/11
• Why the print vs ebook story is a bit more complicated than that, actually 2017/04/28
  Very brief and to-the-point commentary on UK Publisher's stats for 2016
• Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - The Atlantic 2017/04/21
  Interesting post-mortem on the late Google book scanning project.