Technology:
I think I have a profile on Friendster - I don't know, I haven't checked since 2003. I have bare-bones profiles on MySpace, LinkedIn and Change.Org and I will get an e-mail if you "friend" me (and will friend you...
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Posted on April 22, 2008 4:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am having a blast in Trieste - FEST is fantastic, people friendly, program interesting, the smell of Adriatic evokes nostalgia (I learned to swim in the northern Adriatic), but I am really pissed with the Jolly Hotel I...
Posted on April 17, 2008 7:25 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A May 9, 2007 post, wondering to telecommute or not. I will be offline for a couple of days so I will not be able to post at my usual frantic pace. Instead, I decided to write something that will...
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Posted on April 9, 2008 4:51 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A post from December 5, 2007: Communication Communication of any kind, including communication of empirical information about the world (which includes scientific information), is constrained by three factors: technology, social factors, and, as a special case of social factors -...
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Posted on April 8, 2008 4:59 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bee and Michael and Chad and Eva and Timo and Cameron will be there. And so will I. And many other interesting people. Where? At the Science in the 21st Century conference at the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Ontario) on Sep....
Posted on April 7, 2008 11:04 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Obligatory Reading of the day: Why I feel so strongly about redundant digitization...
Posted on April 6, 2008 10:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There have recently been several articles in the media about brain enhancers, so-called Nootropics, or "smart drugs". They have been abused by college students for many years now, but they are now seeping into other places where long periods of...
Posted on April 1, 2008 11:47 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Words of wisdom (via): The internet isn't a decoration on contemporary society, it's a challenge to it. A society that has an internet is a different kind of society than a society that doesn't. I agree. And people, regardless of...
Posted on March 31, 2008 8:32 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Henry Cate is liveblogging the Space Access 2008 meeting. Tourists in space? Of course! And the trip will be liveblogged as well....
Posted on March 28, 2008 7:43 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In one of those "if you like this you may also like this" e-mails from Amazon.com, I got a suggestion I may like a book called Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers. So, I took a...
Posted on March 18, 2008 11:51 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sir Arthur C. Clark has died at the age of 90....
Posted on March 18, 2008 9:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The OpenOffice challenge: can you do what needs to be done? Exploring OpenOffice: what did we learn?, part I Exploring Open Office: part II, can we have our pie and eat it too?...
Posted on March 16, 2008 11:48 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The early orders of the XO laptop arrived quickly. My wife and daughter have been enjoying them for three months now. But the late orders got pretty much stuck - they were overwhelmed with the numbers. We got a couple...
Posted on March 15, 2008 7:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Of course, I got this video on Facebook as someone put it on my FunWall (and yes, I ignore 99% of invitations to do stuff, get new apps, etc.):...
Posted on March 14, 2008 8:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Title: Manager of Web and Publications Reports to: Director of Operations Project Exploration Background: Cofounded in 1999 by paleontologist Paul Sereno and educator Gabrielle Lyon, Project Exploration is a nonprofit science education organization that works to make science...
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Watch to the end to see how just huge this thing is! From Frischer Wind, via Page 3.14...
Posted on February 29, 2008 7:15 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
We have already covered, in quite some detail the problems of passing gas in space. Not so much a problem inside a spaceship, but potentially a problem on a space walk, especially if the said activity, if particularly powerful, produces...
Posted on February 14, 2008 4:22 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There were already two Science Foo Camps (in summers of 2006 and 2007) and two Science Blogging Conferences (in winters of 2007 and 2008). But the hunger for such meetings is far from satiated. So, if you have time and...
Posted on February 5, 2008 5:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From Russ Williams, director of the N.C. Zoo Society....
Posted on January 30, 2008 8:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom, this initiative is really exciting: Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education, Call for Free, Adaptable Learning Materials Online Cape Town,...
Posted on January 22, 2008 11:19 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Science Communication Consortium presents: DISCUSSION ON THE ROLES OF EMERGING MEDIA OUTLETS IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE Thursday, JAN 31st, 7-8:30pm Mount Sinai School of Medicine, East Building Seminar Room (1425 Madison Ave at 98th St, NYC) A discussion of how...
Posted on January 22, 2008 7:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On Friday morning, there was a bang on the door and the UPS guy shoved a little cardboard box into our hands. Yeay! Our first XO laptop arrived. It is my wife's, and she named it Svetlana, after the character...
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Posted on December 23, 2007 6:44 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And the next generation cannot think in any other way. Because it is a natural way to think. We need to re-think our own outdated notions of intellectual property: The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality Recently, however, I spoke at...
Posted on December 21, 2007 9:35 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Attila had the idea for a contest for a best designed, prettiest and most functional laboratory website. I picked up on it and posted about it on my blog. The idea took off and the contest was hosted by The...
Posted on December 19, 2007 7:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Attila and Anna got their XO laptop in the mail yesterday and recorded the first day: unwrapping and getting it started: Ours should be getting here soon.......
Posted on December 19, 2007 6:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My son is working on a paper for school and he picked the topic of video games and how they affect behavior. He primed himself by playing Assassin's Creed for a couple of days, so he could aggressively look for...
Posted on December 8, 2007 4:24 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Subscription-supported journals are like the qwerty keyboard: Are there solutions? One reason for optimism is that changing how we pay the costs of disseminating research is not an all-or-nothing change like switching from qwerty to Dvorak keyboards. Some new open-access...
Posted on December 8, 2007 1:26 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David writes: Community is no longer a dirty or scary word. Sciam, Seed, in the US, Germany and all over the world. Online communities are becoming understood and a valued commodity. When Google bought YouTube I said the price they...
Posted on December 4, 2007 11:48 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Call me traditional, but I love books. I have about 5000 of them. If I see a long blog post or a scientific paper or an article that is longer than a page or two, I print it out and...
Posted on November 24, 2007 3:44 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...the computers and the Web: If you are not clear about the difference between the Net (aka Internet), the Web (aka World Wide Web) and the Graph (aka Social Graph), then this post is a must read (via Ed). He...
Posted on November 23, 2007 8:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's been a while since I came back from Boston, but the big dinosaur story kept me busy all last week so I never managed to find time and energy to write my own recap of the Harvard Conference. Anna...
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Posted on November 21, 2007 11:47 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Position Description: Communications Assistant Chicago-area communications firm seeks communications/journalism/PR undergrad or grad student for part-time position, 10-15 hours per week at $20/hour. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that is building a cutting-edge new-media communications...
Posted on November 19, 2007 9:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is such a cool and novel idea - to let the public have a say in what gets patented and what not! Check out the Peer-To-Patent homepage, download and read this paper by Beth Noveck (another SciFoo camper) which...
Posted on November 12, 2007 4:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Back at ConvergeSouth, Leonard Witt did several short video interviews with cool participants. Among others, you should definitely see brief interviews with Anton Zuiker, Kirk Ross and Ruby Sinreich....
Posted on October 28, 2007 1:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Not that it's a good thing.......
Posted on October 28, 2007 12:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Paul announced it and I will try my best to be there on Tuesday: Who: Bob Young, founder of Lulu.com, Lulu.tv and Red Hat Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm Location: Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Room 103...
Posted on October 27, 2007 9:42 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
