Kathleen Fitzpatrick, author of the forthcoming book from NYU Press Planned Obsolescence, relates her experience with a new form of peer reviews she received in the online world. Take a look:
… The manuscript has been posted in CommentPress, a WordPress-based plugin that allows comments to be attached to whole pages or to individual paragraphs. The book also has a community blog, on which any registered user can post more extended commentary, or larger questions about the project that aren’t easily tied to a specific location.
All of this discussion will be extremely useful to me as I begin the process of revision, but it’s also helping to demonstrate what I firmly believe will be the future of peer review in networked environments — “peer-to-peer review,” as I’m fond of calling it. …
Thanks to Joe Gallagher for the link.
