January 2008 I posted an entry on Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s experiment with peer review of his upcoming book. The online version utilized the WordPress CommentPress text commenting plug-in (the new 2.x version is out). Well the experiment is over and he posts his reactions on his Grandtextauto site. In short he finds benefits both from the traditional process and the blog-driven process. Reading the text in serial form online was a problem for some readers. But the conversations that formed around peoples comments were very valuable. I think another benefit is the transparency that comes from having the discussion easily available and in the open. It will be interesting to see if he feels book sales benefited from the process as Cory Doctorow often claims with his books.
Grand Text Auto » Blog-Based Peer Review: Four Surprises
Last year we undertook an experiment here: simultaneously sending the manuscript for Expressive Processing out for traditional, press-solicited peer review and posting the same manuscript, in sections, as part of the daily flow of posts on Grand Text Auto. As far as I know, it became the first experiment in what I call “blog-based peer review.”
Wired Campus: Blog vs. Peer Review Final Report: Lessons Learned – Chronicle.com
The book’s publisher, MIT Press, administered a traditional peer review of the book, and Mr. Wardrip-Fruin was able to compare the two approaches.
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