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Berkun, S. 2007. The Myths of Innovation," O'Reilly Media. Amazon.com information at
. Note the “Look
Inside” feature. Chapter 4 (freely downloadable at ) deals with the
myth “People love new ideas.” Therein Berkun wrote:
Every great idea in history has the fat red stamp of rejection on its face. It's hard to see today because
once ideas gain acceptance, we gloss over the hard paths they took to get there. If you scratch any
innovation's surface, you'll find the scars: they've been roughed up and thrashed around-by both the
masses and leading minds - before they made it into your life. Paul C. Lauterbur, cowinner of the . .
. . [2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
for discoveries concerning
“magnetic resonance imaging,” whose seminal 1973 paper on magnetic resonance imaging was
originally rejected by Nature, is quoted by Davis (2007) as stating:
“You can write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by
Science or Nature. Big ideas in all fields endure dismissals, mockeries, and persecutions (for
them and their creators). . . . .”
BlogFlux. 2009. Online at . “Blogflux is designed to be a central
destination for the blogosphere, providing you everything you need to get your blog up and
running. . . . . Currently [16 March 2009] featuring 143, 505 blogs in our directory. Browse at
.”
Blogged. 2009. Blogged – find better blogs; online at .
Bollen, J., H. Van de Sompel, A. Hagberg, L. Bettencourt, R. Chute, M.A. Rodriquez, & L.
Balakireva. 2009. “Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science,” PLoS ONE
4(3); online at
:
“Intricate maps of science have been created from citation data to visualize the structure of scientific
activity. However, most scientific publications are now accessed online. Scholarly web portals
record detailed log data at a scale that exceeds the number of all existing citations combined. Such
log data is recorded immediately upon publication and keeps track of the sequences of user requests
(clickstreams) that are issued by a variety of users across many different domains. Given these
advantages of log datasets over citation data, we investigate whether they can produce highresolution,
more current maps of science. . . . Maps of science resulting from large-scale clickstream
data provide a detailed, contemporary view of scientific activity and correct the underrepresentation
of the social sciences and humanities that is commonly found in citation data.”
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