How long till someone marries up the PGP Web-of-Trust and LinkedIn and ISI impact factors / JCR and some other social media data to vet conferences as reputable or not? Imagine cryptographically signing that you were at a conference and found it viable as a real academic interaction - or not. And being able to mark as trusted/invalidating other people's evaluations of events. And imagine how little time it would take for people to start trying to game such a system. ;-) best, --e On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-o...
"The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading professional association of scientists who study insects. But they found out the hard way that they were wrong...."
This has been a problem for a while, but now it's big enough to be a newspaper story.
------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/
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