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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
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Category: Information Science
Anne Jefferson from Highly Allochthonous pointed me to a new essay from Geoscientist Online, the member magazine of the Geological Society (UK). That essay points both to the survey of women geobloggers (previously mentioned here) and a survey done by...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:29 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
Sometimes you have to just let go and release something to the wild. I have mentioned on a few occasions a qualitative study I did prior to the network study. To be honest, I think I actually did it in...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conferences
Dr Free-ride, Sheril Kirshenbaum, and Isis the Scientist SK – definition of civility at your site – if you want children to feel welcome, for example. You have to set the tone. Some topics seem more important to be civil...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 2:32 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
I've weighed in a few times on how to build online communities or support scientists online, but it's really worth paying attention to when you get an actual scientist who is also very involved in and interested in social software...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:15 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: online communities
Why Friendfeed's acquisition by Facebook concerns this user. The title is an imitation of Walt's Monday, old, and insufficiently paranoid. I love friendfeed. It's really the porous boundaries between the groups that really does it. You get to know people...
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Category: online communities
I've been fascinated by these projects, but I felt that I didn't have sufficient time to really do them justice here. Michael Nielsen has discussed them in several venues so it wasn't clear what I could add. Then I thought...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:58 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
Last set of comps readings, I talked about sense of community: belonging, having influence, fulfillment of needs, and emotional support. Now, let's talk about the physics version of "community" - cohesive subgroups. In a graph, these are groups of...
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Category: comps
Sunday morning I was all set to do another essay - just had to pick a question source and question - when my mother in law called to say she would be stopping by at about the same time I...
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