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.