PubTech Radar @PubtechR

PubTech Radar Scan is a free newsletter about publishing technology companies, innovations and initiatives by Helen King pubtechradar.substack.com London, England Joined May 2019

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PubTech Radar @PubtechR

6 days ago

Couple of quick and crude tests of Google's new Deep Review service (research.google/deepreview/). Mixed results. Details in the article: linkedin.com/pulse/quick-te…

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A few thoughts on the gaps in scholarly metadata from the 1990s and 2000s, and how they got there. Daniel Hook’s work made me wonder whether we can now do a better job of finding and fixing them with AI: linkedin.com/pulse/reflecti…

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7 months ago

A 52m student block is planned beside Bethnal Green Gardens. 11 storeys. 520 student rooms. Right by the gardens. We’ve put together a simple guide explaining what’s proposed and how to object: bethnal-green.london Please share.

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2 years ago

@aarontay *ad supported

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2 years ago

Playing around with #polymarkets In 2025, how many academic publishers will publicly state that their referral traffic from Google or Google Scholar has deceased because of a switch to other #AI services? Play with play money at: manifold.markets/PubTechRadar/h… ♥️Referral code: DEOKR

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2 years ago

@aarontay I’m not so sure. I’ve heard off the record comments about “if we were as supported the drops we’ve seen would be an existential crisis”. But I think these drops were due to algorithm changes in google search results not AI specifically.

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2 years ago

I’ve joined the stampede to Bluesky you can find me here bsky.app/profile/pubtec… and, eventually, here bsky.app/profile/innova…

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2 years ago

@aarontay That’s a really good point. I like the comparison to a human intern. It will make mistakes and it might badly misinterpret the data. It might do a great job but might not, so you need to check everything. Your instructions have a huge influence on the results you get…

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2 years ago

@aarontay A computing analogy might work, eg ugrads use coding frameworks, they learn how to get a working solution but it’s effectively painting by numbers. There’s little skill/knowledge involved. You would need to do/learn a lot more to become a skilled programmer.

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2 years ago

@aarontay Perhaps the craft of literature reviewing is better taught in masters or post grad courses? (Was trying to think of an analogy using slide rules rather than calculators but could quite make it work).

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2 years ago

PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 25 (NEC Annual Publishing Conference 2024), by @PubtechR open.substack.com/pub/pubtechrad…

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2 years ago

Loving the Midnight at the Casablanca podcast with Paul Peters: midnightatthecasablanca.com. Absolutely fascinating to hear more about people’s careers and backstory.

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2 years ago

New issue of PubTech Radar Scan, includes STORM, Proemial, Signals launch, The Conversations from Wiley, replacing purchased class readings with AI-generated readings & technology-enhanced peer review. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechrad…

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2 years ago

Great blog post by David Worlock: davidworlock.com/2024/10/ai-and….. Time for academic societies to take back ownership of parts of the publishing space to directly serve the needs of their researchers? Time to #partylikeits1999 & value community needs more than efficiency? 😉

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2 years ago

Co-intelligence/Co-pilot has been an excellent price of marketing but require work from the user. It seems inevitable (to me) that as more products are built on top of LLMs the more these products will do and the less control used will have. Ethan Mollick’s latest newsletter:

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2 years ago

Key takeaways from the FT Strategies session on GenAI trends. 1. Multimodal products, 2. Conversational experiences, 3. Agents. Fascinating session especially the brief insight into their #AI experimentation space. #FutureMediaTechConference

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2 years ago

Does anyone else find browsing other people’s backlogs strangely compelling ? Here’s a part of the FT’s #AI ideas backlog. #FutureMediaTechConference

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2 years ago

@TekTonic4 @MicrobiomDigest @19joho Piggy back on C2PA? blog.adobe.com/en/topics/cont… the scientific community should be able to work with manufacturers of key bits of equipment to implement this.