DSOM proceedings, Springer and Liquidpub

Springer asks me to put a link to the DSOM proceedings on my web page (which I had already done), but here is a nice picture of it.

This all made me think of Liquidpub. Liquidpub is a collaborative project sponsored by the European Commission and coordinated by the University of Trento. Liquidpub aims at changing the whole academic publishing industry, and quite cleverly Springer is a partner to it (if you can't beat them, eat them). I'm involved in Liquidpub through my connection with Fabio Casati's group at Trento, and quite excited to be part of it. One of the use cases we're working on is that of liquid journals, that will allow anyone to publish first, and gain acceptance later; embed and value liquid contributions, including contributions other than standard academic papers (blog entries, etc...). Quite promising and a lot of fun.