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By jdupuis on February 19, 2011.
  • Earn a Nobel Prize in your Lunch-Break! The Best "Citizen Science" Games Reviewed!
  • Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication and University Engagement
  • On Twitter and Machiavellian Intelligence
  • Who Needs a Netbook?
  • Tech Tools for Scholars - The Sequel
  • From the Archives: On Blogging
  • Letter Re Software and Scientific Publications - Nature
  • The urgency for change
  • In Defense of Science Blogs (yes again)
  • Want to succeed in online content? Get small, be open, go free
  • Science Dogme: a manifesto for science, technology and medicine exhibitions and here for the article.
  • Citation tools & Future of Publishing
  • Things I Did and Did Not Learn in Library School
  • Are Mathematicians In Jeopardy?
  • Discourses of the Digital Native: Use, non-use, and perceptions of use in BBC Blast
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