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Hi, this is Scott Jacques talking. Well, not talking, but you know what I mean. This website is public but it’s not done. It won’t be done for a long time, if ever. The more I work on it, the harder it becomes to make. I’ve already changed my mind on how to do it, several times. I’ve reorganized the pages, Collections, and Pubs, several times. I’ve thought about giving up, and I reserve the right (lol). But unlike my metaverse experiment of 2023, I still think this experiment has good ROI in the near-term, not just the long-term (the metaverse is coming). In other words, what I’m trying to do with Bentham Fox is hard, and not all hard things are worth doing, but once you figure out some hard things, they prove valuable. Maybe this won’t. But rather than hide what I’m doing until it’s final-enough to be publishable, I’m rejecting that idea—the notion that it’s best to be secretive—by doing this experiment in the open.
Bentham Fox
Utilitarian Learning & Science
An experiment in
open criminology &
computational publishing
We increase the quality and quantity of open access criminology outputs—for the greatest good. To advance our mission, we’re pushing ourselves to try new things. We’re explorers. Who are we? Bentham Fox, a company with personhood. What’s our website? You’re on it, benthamfox.pubpub.org. Its purpose? To freely share Utilitarian Learning & Science: The Company-Website-Book. It’s already published and citable—you’re lookin at it1—with forthcoming peer-review, so it must be legit. Peruse the contents below, organized by theme.
Introductions
Describe this section of the book.
Scott Jacques is founder and CEO at Utilitarian Learning & Science (ULS), founder and associate director for sustainability of CrimRxiv, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Georgia State University (GSU), and associate director of its Evidence-Based Cybersecurity ...
Open access with CC-BY 4.0 license, except where stated otherwise
To everyone, especially Willa and Gray
The company-website-book's key terms with definitions. This Pub will always be under construction and incomplete. Terms without a definition will be given one soon.
Instructions
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To increase our ROI, we will decrease our content’s labor costs. To achieve our goal, we will provide a guide to format Collections. To enact our process, what's the best format? ...
To increase our ROI, we will increase our content’s impact by increasing its visibility. To achieve our goal, we will automate the creation and distribution of an RSS-based “digest email,” sent at a regular interval, to subscribers. To enact our process, what's the best tool? ...
Unresolved: To increase our ROI, we will increase our content’s impact by increasing its visibility. To achieve our goal, we will automate posts on BlueSky. To enact our process, what’s the best tool?
