I will pause playing around with custom domains, https, etc, until Drummer completes its
hookup with GitHub. Both are excellent services and I expect the combination to be more than just additive.
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- "A media form which does this better than blogs is academic journals. Although it is possible to subscribe to a journal, it’s very uncommon to expect to read a journal entire. And the reason is that the form is designed so that each article finds its own audience. For instance: the title and abstract are designed to make it super-easy to not read a paper. They say “Oh, unless you have these interests and this background, you should ignore this”. They��re sometimes described as “marketing” for papers, but really they’re better thought of as anti-marketing. In particular: they set the right expectations, and help drive away the wrong kind of reader. That’s invaluable not just for the reader, but perhaps even more for the author." #
- This is from an essay by Michael Nielsen on personal websites. Do read the whole thing, but the paragraph above stands well on its own. Abstracts as anti-marketing is a good concept that more authors should follow when writing their own articles.#
- Alas, in much of life science abstracts are more of a tool for passing editorial pre-review. My favorite example is how deep you need to go to figure out whether the proclamation of the title refers to cell lines, animal models, ex vivo human cells, or humans themselves (or a combination thereof). More often than not the abstract doesn't reveal that one important nugget.#
- A good Note to Self though: think of the next abstract you write as anti-marketing.#