{"id":692,"date":"2006-12-06T22:27:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T22:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/692"},"modified":"2006-12-06T22:27:39","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T22:27:39","slug":"getting-attention-for-your-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/692","title":{"rendered":"Getting attention for your research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Finkelstein over at Infothought <a href=\"http:\/\/sethf.com\/infothought\/blog\/archives\/001109.html\">comments on the media attention<\/a> being given to <a href=\"http:\/\/psiphon.civisec.org\/\">Psyphon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for this project, but the activism lesson I draw from its prominent coverage is NOT necessarily a happy one. There&#8217;s been activists working on this sort of stuff for years and years. The critical variable here is not technology, since those reporters wouldn&#8217;t be able to tell a <a href=\"http:\/\/tor.eff.org\/\">Tor<\/a> from a <a href=\"http:\/\/freenetproject.org\/\">FreeNet<\/a>. What matters is *ATTENTION*. The backing from the various organizational sponsors is the reason for the widespread publicity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seth beats this drum pretty regularly (usually with lament) but echos what <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/000686.html\">Bill Buxton phrased as a battlecry at CSCW<\/a>, namely that making an impact in the world isn&#8217;t about having brand new ideas, it&#8217;s about understanding which ideas are ripe for exploitation and then <i>having the ability to marshal the right resources to get them into the world.<\/i> Buxton feels that the research community in general isn&#8217;t putting enough effort into that last bit, and believes in the overall philosophy so much that he&#8217;s essentially become a full-time evangelist and public speaker rather than doing his own research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Finkelstein over at Infothought <a href=\"http:\/\/sethf.com\/infothought\/blog\/archives\/001109.html\">comments on the media attention<\/a> being given to <a href=\"http:\/\/psiphon.civisec.org\/\">Psyphon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for this project, but the activism lesson I draw from its prominent coverage is NOT necessarily a happy one. There&#8217;s been activists working on this sort of stuff for years and years. The critical variable here is not technology, since those reporters wouldn&#8217;t be able to tell a <a href=\"http:\/\/tor.eff.org\/\">Tor<\/a> from a <a href=\"http:\/\/freenetproject.org\/\">FreeNet<\/a>. What matters is *ATTENTION*. The backing from the various organizational sponsors is the reason for the widespread publicity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seth beats this drum pretty regularly (usually with lament) but echos what <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/000686.html\">Bill Buxton phrased as a battlecry at CSCW<\/a>, namely that making an impact in the world isn&#8217;t about having brand new ideas, it&#8217;s about understanding which ideas are ripe for exploitation and then <i>having the ability to marshal the right resources to get them into the world.<\/i> Buxton feels that the research community in general isn&#8217;t putting enough effort into that last bit, and believes in the overall philosophy so much that he&#8217;s essentially become a full-time evangelist and public speaker rather than doing his own research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}