[WikiEN-l] How Last.fm inspired a scientific breakthrough | Victor Keegan | Technology | The Guardian

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Surreptitiousness wrote:
>> Don't fully pretend to understand this, but given there was stuff about
>> a WikiJournal on the list recently, I thought this article might be of
>> use to some of the participants:
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/sep/16/last-fm-mendeley-victor-keegan
>>
>>
> Concerns [[Mendeley]], and our article is a little clearer, but not
> much. This service aggregates academic papers in some cloudy sense: but
> in what sense, exactly?

I think it is this bit:

"You can recommend other people's papers and see how many people are
reading yours, which you can't do in Nature and Science"

Carcharoth