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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
This was originally posted 1/9/2009 on my old blog. Due to popular demand (well 3 requests :) ), this is a commentary and additional information for my conference paper and presentation: Pikas, C. K. (2008). Detecting Communities in Science Blogs....
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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...
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Category: Conferences
Anil Dash (first employee at SixApart (movabletype), long time blogger). Milestone – there’s a blog on the White House website. Made statement that federal gov’t interest and use of new media – most interesting startup 2009. So then he set...
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Category: Conferences
part deux (actually this is the regular conference session) This is the session on Saturday morning at 9. Moderated by Deepak Singh (coast to coast bio) and Kiki Sanford. What is podcasting? audio or video plus subscription plus portability. Some...
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Category: Conferences
PalMD taught this workshop Friday, January 15. These are my quick notes. use an external mic – doesn’t have to be that expensive, if you have multiple people in the room, you might want a 2 channel mic use audacity...
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Category: social computing technologies
Here are some ways to define the format/genre/communication channel... etc. I usually go back to Mortensen, Torill and Walker, Jill. (2002). Blogging thoughts: Personal publication as an online research tool. In A. Morrison ed. (Ed.), Researching ICTs in context (1...
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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...
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Category: Information Science
NB: this blog post is not about cold fusion! .... and is that a good or bad or both thing? Upon reading something I'd written on scholarly communication in science and blogs, a reviewer suggested I read stuff by Lewenstein. ...
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Category: Conferences
I wasn't complete sure what to expect with this conference. There were some old acquaintances from the society publishers who spend a lot of time with the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division at the Special Libraries Association (Hi Tony! Hi Terry!). I also...
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