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---
title: 'Faculty Lecture'
date: '2006-11-15T11:04:01-05:00'
permalink: /faculty-lecture/
tags:
- academia
- mediacommons
---
Ive discovered something today: either I was a whole lot braver eight years ago, or a whole lot dumber. Im giving a talk in our faculty lecture series in about an hour. The last time I did this was during my first year here at the college. And I dont remember being half so terrified as this.
The talk is entitled “Scholarly Publishing in the Age of the Internet,” and is a distillation of a bunch of the polemics and manifestoes Ive written about and around MediaCommons over the last year, laying out some of the causes of the crisis in humanities publishing today and suggesting, by looking at examples including [arXiv](http://www.arXiv.org), the [Nature open peer review trial](http://www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/index.html), and, of course, MediaCommons, <strike>to suggest</strike> some possible futures.
One of these days, Im planning to take the slides of the bajillion talks Ive given this semester and turn them, with voiceover of the talks themselves, into downloadable movies. Perhaps we could publish them on MediaCommons?