As a reader of science, I like the idea of a "curated discussion" but I also
want space explicitly provided where the researchers themselves have the
opportunity to say what they think their research accomplished or how it
fits into the bigger picture. As writers of science, my students are often
dismayed when they get to the Discussion as a writing object b/c it is much
more limited in scope than they were hoping -- I think this idea of a
dynamic paper addresses this problem nicely b/c it "detaches" each part of
the paper, meaning that a discussion can exist with criteria attached AND
there is still room for the looser, more interesting speculation that any
piece of research also provokes (the stuff I tell my students happens in
hallways and at conferences, especially at the bar). Also, just want to say
that I really like the diagram -- it's taken most of the last year for me to
finally "get" this approach. Would love to see the figure animated, a la
the kind of stuff Thinkmap puts together for the visual thesaurus and other
data-heavy projects (www.thinkmap.com).