View Full Version : Short lifetime for posts
mogurnda
05-27-2005, 3:50 PM
These guys looked at the lifetime of articles posted online. Basically, even in a journal with an archive, an article has a lifetime of about 36 hours. I guess it may still be worth publishing on paper if you want it to stick around.
arxiv (http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505087)
Dangerdoll
05-27-2005, 4:16 PM
ooh la la, love the avatar Mogurnda!
mogurnda
05-27-2005, 4:33 PM
Sexier than the last one? No way!
SnakeIce
05-27-2005, 8:22 PM
my guess is that they didn't look at the krib in those examples of online journals. Makes me wonder where the article I've written for here supposedly has gone :D
Dangerdoll
05-31-2005, 9:47 AM
I'll admit mo, I was pretty partial to the last one and I wasn't so attached to the one you replaced it with.... was glad that the old one came back and I must say, for replacements.... this is definitely one I like ;)
Hmm... I just checked, the two articles that I did for AC back in '99 are still there. Not here on the forums, but on the home site. That is not too short-lived.
mogurnda
05-31-2005, 4:28 PM
I guess I wasn't clear. The issue is whether anyone looks at them, not whether they're still there.
Well, I checked AquaSource, my oldest article there has had 46 reads since February of this year (URLs were changed then, which re-set the counters), and it pre-dates the AC articles. So I guess it varies.
mogurnda
06-01-2005, 9:58 AM
Yeah, it does vary. The article was really about online news. Seems like your articles are more parallel to a magazine. Also, they specifically chose a well-trafficked Hungarian news site so they could:
1. Get a lot of hits to have a big sample.
2. Not complicate things with a lot of international hits.
Doll,
Would you be even happier if I could find a photo of Don Ameche holding a cluster lizard?
Dangerdoll
06-01-2005, 10:12 AM
hehehe, he could be holding "anything" Mo..... and I would be a happy Doll ;)