clock | April 28, 2010Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Hilary Maybaum from i.e.science to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is your (…
clock | April 28, 2010Don Lafferty (@donlafferty) - Writer, Story Teller, and Social media Marketing Consultant
Imal Wagner (@imalwagner) - PR for 140 conf & Jeff Pulver
John Kremer (@JohnKremer) - Author, 1,001 Ways to Market Your Books
Michael Tasner (@tazsolutions) - Author, Marketing in the Moment 3.0 Marketing
Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) - Author, The Four Hour Work Week
clock | April 27, 2010Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
- Dorothy Hamill
clock | April 27, 2010Four of seven PLoS journals published today. I think these, below, are the most interesting and bloggable. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Chikungunya: A Potentially Emerging Epidemic?:
Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne emerging pathogen that has a major health impact in humans…
clock | April 27, 2010This week, Dr.Bird answers questions about birds - the raptors, especially those living inside of big cities. Listen to the podcast and join the discussion in the forums:
Listen to an interview about city-dwelling raptors. Download MP3
David Bird is a wildlife biologist at McGill University in Montreal. He directs the university's Avian Science and Conservation Center.
Bird is editor of the the new book Birds of Canada. He also wrote The Bird Almanac: A Guide to Essential Facts and Figures of the World's Birds.
On our radio program, we aired a story about how raptors -- birds of prey -- are…
clock | April 27, 2010FakeJerry Paffendorf (@WELLO) - Artist, futurist, entrepreneur. joshua fouts (@josholalia) - Cultural relations futurist at the crossroads of emergent media, digital diplomacy, games, virtual worlds and storytelling.
Rita J. King (@RitaJKing) - Innovator-in-Residence, IBM Analytics Virtual Center, #SmarterWork project.
Tish Shute (@TishShute) - Transmedia Producer and enthusiast for our networked potential to make a better world.
clock | April 26, 2010Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.
- Dorothy DeBolt
clock | April 26, 2010There are 22 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Bee Threat Elicits Alarm Call in African Elephants:
Unlike the smaller and more vulnerable mammals, African elephants have relatively few predators that threaten their survival. The sound of disturbed…
clock | April 26, 2010I first saw Hashtag Art (on Twitter) at #140conf last week. These guys start with a picture, as a canvass. Then, as people tweet using a particular hashtag, their avatars become pieces of the mosaic, gradually building the image as event is happening. It took about two days, the duration of the meeting, to fill the entire image up.
The image, as it was slowly developing, was occasionally projected on the screen behind the speakers. The Hashtag Art guys were also set up in the side room (where coffee and power-strips were), projecting the image onto a screen.
When I approached them and they…
clock | April 26, 2010The Submission form is here so you can get started. Under the fold are entries so far, as well as buttons and the bookmarklet. The instructions for submitting are here.
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clock | April 25, 2010I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
- Don Marquis
clock | April 25, 2010WWW2010 is starting tonight. Interested to know more about it? Sure, here's the brief history:
The World Wide Web was first conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The first conference of the series, WWW1, was held at CERN in 1994 and organized by Robert Cailliau. The IW3C2 was founded by Joseph Hardin and Robert Cailliau later in 1994 and has been responsible for the conference series ever since. Except for 1994 and 1995 when two conferences were held each year, WWWn became an annual event held in late April or early May. The location of the conference rotates…
clock | April 25, 2010David Carr (@carr2n) - Writes Media Equation column, blogs @ Decoder & covers pop culture at NY Times:
clock | April 25, 2010Maggie Koerth-Baker, who I finally met in person at AAAS meeting, just designed an amazing feature on BoingBoing - the Antarctica:
It's about the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center, a group of researchers based at the University of Minnesota who do the information processing and visualization that makes other research on the Frozen Continent possible. The story features some great details about life in Antarctica and tons of photos taken by the AGIC crew.
Quick fun fact: Do you know how researchers use satellite images to find packs of penguins? Turns out, they look for huge smears of…
clock | April 25, 2010Ann Curry (@AnnCurry) News Anchor on NBC's Today Show and host of Dateline NBC
Also watch her backstage interview:
clock | April 24, 2010At this time of day, in the twilight, there is no wind. At this time there is only power.
- Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda
clock | April 24, 2010Andy Carvin (@acarvin) - Senior strategist at NPR;
Eric Kuhn (@CNN) - Audience Interaction Producer, CNN;
Jennifer Preston (@NYT_JenPreston) - Social-Media Editor of The New York Times;
Ryan Osborn (@todayshow) - Producer, NBC's TODAY: