Planned Obsolescence brings together three important links to essays on electronic academic publishing. Go read all three.

I’m reminded of Closing the Set, and the online annotation stuff I suggest in The Annotated Everything.

How will academic contributors to distributed shared works—conversations, really—get the credit they want? Will job candidates’ biographies get thousands of times longer? Will the snail’s pace of academic conversation have to be acknowledged?

Cultural “issues” ahead.