On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Bryan Lepore wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Kevin Jin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Here is way I have used for [...] > > I hate to be a curmudgeon, but can a list member please explain why > this is not specifically blogspam or spam - or whatever it is exactly?
It's not really "spam", but there are better channels to communicate these type of updates. Twitter is probably the best known channel. People get to subscribe and authors can push their contributions to willful and interested subscribers. The author posts a summary of what's behind the link and then posts the link, just as Jin is doing with his ad-hoc feed here. For example, a few days ago I created the @amyloids twitter feed (https://twitter.com/#!/amyloids) that features recent publications I have read and that I also think are of interest to amyloid researchers. Instead of being to critical, let's just direct authors to use the proper channels. Social media has moved fast in recent years, and we should be understanding as the scientific community plays catch-up. If Jin created a twitter feed for tips, it would probably get some subscribers from this board--as long as we don't begrudge the Jin an opportunity to send out an advertisement for the feed itself. James
