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The women science bloggers conversation is getting so long and elongated, I thought it would be interesting and, I hope, useful to put all the posts in rough chronological order. By rough I mean that I haven't attempted to order the posts within each day of publication. Perhaps I'll take another pass at the list later on for that. The original list of posts is here. 2011.01.18. Woman science bloggers discuss pros and cons of online exposure 2011.01.22.Science Online 2011: Even when we want something, we need to hide it. 2011.01.22. Women science bloggers: Some thoughts (er, sorry, felt I…
The Chicago Way: A respected style manual advises scholars against open access To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test Tenure and all that Arsenic, cold fusion and the legitimacy of online critique Teen's Bubble Ball game tops iTunes free app chart (used library book to learn programming) The Invisible Computer Lab Academic Boredom How I Think About E-Books 45% Of Students Don't Learn Much In College My Students Know Far Less Than I Ever Expected Blogging with the Invisible Community - and Why It Matters On building a better blogosphere The Cowbell of Communications Social Media,…
Growing Concern Over Digital Thesis Deposit An Open, Digital Professoriat 10 New Business Models in 2010 -- A Primer on Innovation Could chess-boxing defuse aggression in Arizona and beyond? What shops have to do when their products go digital A manifesto for the simple scribe - my 25 commandments for journalists What the powers-that-be think about DRM, and an explanation of the cloud Digital music sales: Growth is slowing, industry group says Heads they win, tales we lose: Discovery tools will never deliver on their promise and The games we play U.S. Department of Labor and Department of…
Research intelligence - Rip it up and start again David Thornburg on Open-Source Textbooks "Beginnings Are Always Messy": Thoughts on Transliteracy and Inquiry from a Learning Advocate Student Blogging about Physics Follow-up: Transliteracy, Theory, and Scholarly Language Lib-Value Website Now Available The Rise of 'Convergence' Science How Will Students Communicate? Study: Labour market outcomes of Canadian doctoral graduates Predictions 2010: The Growth of Intimacy 'Saturday Night Live,' Floor Wax, and the Life of the Mind 10 Things Facebook Won't Say Going beyond a single scientific…
Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die 7 Major Ways We're Digitizing Our World, And 3 Reasons We Still Want Hardcopies WIRED is dead. Long live the Internet Wikipedia References [in US patent documents] Increase 81 Percent in 2010 2011 Predictions: Top 12 Reasons Businesses Will Fail at Social Media Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force Wikileaks and the Long Haul and Half-formed thought on Wikileaks & Global Action 7 Library Predictions for 2011 Welcome to…
Commensurable Nonsense (Transliteracy) and Why Transliteracy? Bobbi's Two Cents (or less) http://arielneff.com/personal/weighing-in-on-the-ipad/ Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar's Resilience Against it Kno Tablets Shipping To Select Faculty and Students Publishers take note: the iPad is altering the very concept of a 'book' Research intelligence - Rip it up and start again A Curricular Innovation, Examined Scientific accuracy in art The line between science and journalism is getting blurry....again Some Lessons From Our Reactions to Wikileaks Mark Waid on Delivery, Content, and…
(Some) Principles of Computational Science The State of Open Source US Trade Wholesale Electronic Book Sales Strata Gems: Five data blogs you should read Science Bloggers: Diversifying the news The Four Sons of digital curation Lots of Markets, Lots of Business Models Copyright and Open Access for Academic Works Do You Want Fries with That Degree? The Future Is Not a Zero-Sum Game Does a PhD Student Need a Publication Strategy? A Curricular Innovation, Examined and A Curricular Innovation, Examined (Part 2) and A Curricular Innovation, Examined (Part 3) (commercial online course) "It's Not…
Powerpoint or Blackboard? (for presentations) Sharing Data on the Web The rise of scientific journalism Affirming Science's Place (in anthropology) Introductory Research Course: Replicate a Paper Publishers, don't pave that cow path: Lonely Planet's Gus Balbontin on agility in the digital age Comparing potatoes and truffles Why Teens Don't And Won't Tweet The role of trust in science Advice to the potential library school student Overview: The people who use Twitter The Hole in the Soul of our Culture: part 1 and part 2 Why your Facebook ID is marketers' Holy Grail The Truth Wears Off: Is…
Getting Rid of Books: A Heresy Arsenic-associated bacteria (NASA's claims) The Gatekeeper is Dead! Long live the Gatekeeper The Library: Three Jeremiads The Future of Advertising Web Developers Get Real (Time): The massive amount of real-time information available is leading to new programming approaches Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices Education and the social Web: Connective learning and the commercial imperative 7 game-changing mobile trends for 2011 Wikileaks and the Long Haul What Publishers, Authors & Journalists Can Learn from…
The mismeasurement of science Beyond the Impact Factor: Building a community for more diverse measurement of research Citizen science Eliminate the Computer Science major Should Profs Leave Unruly Classes? Untouchable Cyberbullies The economic case for open access in academic publishing The Men Who Stole the World (about early file-sharing software pioneers) Renewing Harvard's library system Paying by the Pound for Journals Would You Build a New 600 Seat Classroom? Academia 2.0: What it is all about? 12 Common Misperceptions About Book Publishing What role should homework play in the course…
New Models for University Presses What do we want copyright to do? Price of tap water x 2000 + plastic bottles + manufactured demand = The Story of Bottled Water Thursday Threads: Google Scholar Coverage, Effective Meetings, Librarians as Obstacles, Cable TV Gender Bias, Sexism, and the Science Cheerleaders Academia.edu Launches A Directory Of 12,500 Academic Journals Using QR Codes in the Library The idea of open A very simple suggestion for scientists to increase their interactions w/ people in the humanities The Problem of the Humanities The Half-Life of Digital Formats On Gratitude in…
The Story of Electronics: Food for Thought for Gadget Geeks (Story of Electronics video here) Reclaim our Scientific Scholarship (Beyond the PDF) The future of libraries is what we create in the present In praise of scholarships for foreign students Science communication: Scientist as star Cheating and the Generational Divide Is Higher Ed Ready to Change? Beyond the Digital Divide By Indirections Find Directions Out What We Don't Know We Don't Know The way we communicate, Facebook, libraries, and life What does open bibliographic metadata mean for academic libraries? Developing a scientific…
The Future and/of the Research Library The real reason (climate) scientists don't want to release their code Scientific Data Consulting Group Preserving science: what to do with raw research material? What are libraries for and are they worth it? An Open Letter to Wired Magazine (Criticism of recent "Boobs" cover.) Puzzled by Patron-Driven Acquisitions Do Students Really Prefer Print Books to E-Books? Digital ILL breaks my brain Souls for Sale (marketing in higher ed) Do Students Really Prefer Print Books to E-Books? Analytics for Class Lectures Faculty Focusing on Research, Study Finds (…
Selling ourselves (short) (attracting students to CS) Online Behavior Tracking and Privacy: 7 Worst Case Scenarios Feedback loops in eBook success Is Twitter Killing You? The Rise of the 'Edupunk' When Social Media Is Irrelevant The Digital Natives / Digital Immigrants Distinction Is Dead, Or At Least Dying All I needed to know about, well, everything, I learned in CS? Decoding the Value of Computer Science A Gresham's Law for Software Do conference build community? (Computer Science) arXiv Business Model White Paper Undergraduates in the Library, Trying Not to Drown Quote for Today: "…
Self-motivated vs. mandated archiving Why the Simple "Me" Beats the Royal "We" Why Are We Assessing? Digital Solution for Sacramento 5 Things Netflix Streaming Can Teach Higher Ed How to Write a Research Poster A trip through the peer review sausage grinder What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space Headline: Traditional librarians and information scientists start to talk to one another! Publisher sells DRM-free ebooks to libraries Publishers should be stirred, but not shaken by Bond move Facebook & helicopter parenting How Unique Are Our Users?…
Slice and Scan After Launching Search and Discovery, Who Is Mission Control? The smart scholar's publication-venue heuristics; or, how to use open access to advance your career Piracy trumps obscurity again Open to All: Preserving Library Values in a Digital World Proposing a Taxonomy of Social Reading How Should Peer Review Evolve? Why Peer Review Matters Mutations of citations: Just like genetic information, citations can accumulate heritable mutations Bookstores: dead or alive? Over It Yet? Privacy, That Is An Amazon Digital Book Rental Plan? In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to…
The False Security of Technology? What Might We Be Missing? Reading Instrumentally Why blogging still matters Outsourcing Plus (Partnering to provide more online ed choices) Long Road to Open Access The Down-side of Technology? On Class Time Wikimedia: Power, Leadership, and Movement Roles Gaming as Teaching Tool Blogs in higher education - some ideas about their benefits and downsides Portrait of the Scholar as Blogger 7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College Principles for Open Bibliographic Data The Web Parenthesis: Is the "open Web" closing? Rebuilding an Academic Law Library Part…
STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers When an imploring librarian is not enough Investments in the Term Economy Reference Management with the iPad Reference Management meets Web 2.0 Library mobile apps vs web apps - Some analysis Conversing in a Cyberspace Community: The Growth of HPS (History and Philosophy of Science) Blogging Oxford University: A Look at the Bodleian Library's New Book Storage Facility "Blogging, empowerment, and the "adjacent possible" End of bookstores? That's fine by me. The Librarian IS the Rockstar (Go ahead, the post isn't as cringe-worthy as the title would…
The Genius of the Tinkerer: The secret to innovation is combining odds and ends A Call for Open Textbooks Self-archiving diary by Peter Suber So what does a science librarian DO? Book Futures: A Crowdsourced Thought Experiment Frontiers, F1000, PLoS One, Mendeley et al., brace yourselves Social Media & Library Advocacy The 9 Worst Ways to Use Twitter for Business Resource Sharing and the Republic of Letters The Mission of Research Libraries The Future of Social-Media Archiving The Age of Big Access The real cost of free From e-books to no books Places of Learning
Ebooks Don't Cannibalize Print, People Do The Why, When, Where, How of publishing data Libraries Make it Personal Make The Revolution (Anil Dash on social media & social movements) Searching For Better Research Habits Digitizing the Personal Library Good Freely Available Textbooks on Machine Learning Faculty, librarians and student research skills: are we on parallel paths? The blog-broadcast barrier and the reach-responsibility ratio: How our media system crashes, and what to do about it Dramatic Growth of Open Access: September 30, 2010 The Great Disconnect: Scholars Without Libraries…