Saturday, November 22, 2014

ChrryBlstr Sends This In. There Has to Be Better Uses for $150.

The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, a predatory open-access journal, has accepted for publication the marvelously titled paper "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List."

According to Scholarly Open Access, researchers David Mazières and Eddie Kohler first prepared the manuscript in 2005, to protest spam conference invitations. The paper – which can be read in its entirety here – is superbly summarized by its title, although its two figures do help reify some of its more abstract points.

THE REST

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 22, 2014 at 11:12 AM

    That would look great on my CV.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Contingent CassandraNovember 22, 2014 at 1:29 PM

    Cogently argued, but I think they could have condensed it a bit -- maybe 10% -- without loss of meaning.

    ReplyDelete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.