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November 8, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
The podcast of the radio show is now online You can listen to the Friday episode of Skeptically Speaking here. I am at the beginning, first 10 minutes or so, explaining what ScienceOnline2010 is all about. But the rest of the show with Paul Ingraham is very interesting as...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - Program highlights As you know, the Program is fully set now. There is a lot of stuff there! So, to help you out, I will post an occasional sample of sessions, organized by time - when they will occur during the...
Mike the Mad Biologist
Reprints: An Interesting Way of Looking at Sharing Science-Related PDFs UR STEALIN TEH SCIENTISMZ!!
Greg Laden's Blog
Vilification Ping Pong: Open Source vs. Proprietary Solutions in the Library Setting Fight! Fight! The librarians are fighting about software!...
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Ask Dr. Isis Week - What Reference Software Do You Use? Before I get down to business, I wanted to make some remarks about a post I a couple of days ago on having children and being exhausted. I really appreciate the frankness of the comments people left, but I suppose...
Christina's LIS Rant
COTS software are not off the shelf or turn-key There's a nice rebuttal of the Sirsi Dynix anti-open source white paper done by Mark Leggott that just came out (I found it via Jason Griffey). More thoughtful than some. There are so many misconceptions on both sides of this....
November 7, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Ignite talks at ScienceOnline2010 Ignite-style talks are very, very energetic. They last 5 minutes each and the slideshow is set to automatically change slides every 15 seconds. Thus, one cannot be slow or go over time. These kinds of talks can be very...
November 6, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Tweetlinks, 11-06-09 Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Best Science Books 2009: Amazon Amazon has come out with their Editor's Picks for 2009. There are three categories that have books that are relevant to us here. ScienceThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard...
The Primate Diaries
Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Carnival is Up If you're interested in anthropology on the net (or you write on the topic yourself) you're not going to want to miss this monthly carnival. Go check out this months edition at Anthropology.net. Consider submitting a post to next months...
Uncertain Principles
Poll: The Computers of the Future Today's Quantum Optics lecture is about quantum computing experiments, and how different types of systems stack up. Quantum computing, as you probably know if you're reading this blog, is based on building a computer whose "bits" can not only take...
November 5, 2009
bioephemera
xkcd channels Tolkein and Tufte at the same time In case you didn't see it, the latest xkcd is a visual shout-out to data visualization guru Edward Tufte's favorite map, this 1861 depiction of Napoleon's march on Moscow, by Charles Joseph Minard. Yay! Movie Narrative Charts Charles Minard's 1869...
A Blog Around The Clock
Tweetlinks, 11-05-09 Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my...
Page 3.14
The Buzz: Social Media Revolution In the past five years, technology has played a major part in influencing the way we functions, even in the least mechanical of human behaviors--like socializing. Today, ScienceBloggers are taking a close look at how the social media explosion...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants: parents and children As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...
November 4, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Tweetlinks, 11-04-09 Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants: SciBlings As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Library people at Science Online 2010 (updated) Following along in the tradition of Bora's introductions of the various attendees for the upcoming Science Online 2010 conference, I thought I'd list all the library people that are attended. I'm not going to try and introduce each of the...
A Blog Around The Clock
Tweetlinks, 11-03-09 Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Best Science Books 2009: Publisher's Weekly Every year for the past 3 or 4 years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best books" lists that appear in various media outlets and highlighting the science books that are mentioned. From the beginning it's...
November 3, 2009
Christina's LIS Rant
Free IS and CS books online One of the great things about my interests overlapping computer science is that computer scientists believe in self archiving and making their work freely available on the web. The scientometric parts of IS are that way, too, but the L...
November 2, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Tweetlinks, 11-02-09 Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook...
The Book of Trogool
Making standards that work One phenomenon that will be—indeed, already is—utterly unavoidable in the data-curation space is the creation of standards. I once heard Andrew Pace say that standards are like toothbrushes: everybody thinks they're great, but nobody wants to use anybody else's. Be...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so...
Neurotopia
An Open Letter: Journal References Dearest High and Mighty Journal to Whom I Wish to Submit My Manuscript and Thereby Become Famous: Greetings, from your most humble supplicant. Verily, I have polished my manuscript. It is a thing of beauty. It is within your rather...
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