There's been lots of talk and work around publishing data to go with articles, but most of it has been stick-focused. Just ran across a paper published in July describing "overlay journals," which is more carrot-focused. Seems like it would work with ICPSR or repositories designed for individual authors to deposit their works.

Musicians may get their content back from labels soon.

Made some progress this week on a project I've been working on since I came back to Penn:
http://thedp.com/article/katherine-rea-accessing-medication

Turns out it's not the end of the world as we know it after all:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/business/media/02ratings.html