links for 2009-09-25

Embargoes in the age of Twitter: "Embargoes do have their uses and sometimes ignoring them can have consequences. I know of one university official who received death threats because of an embargo breaking story. But in these days of a global, 24-hour news media the process appears to be broken. You can't shut up bloggers and you can't shut down Twitter. The only thing that can go is the embargo system itself.