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clock | October 1, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Why newspapers fold - a case study: Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News - Text and video of speech delivered at UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit at Google in Silicon Valley - thinking like a newspaper, not like a media org.
UK teenager killed by tumour not Glaxo vaccine
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: September 30, 2009
What sort of 'trigger' are they waiting for?
It's DonorsChoose time and Win a ScienceBlogs Swag Bag when you participate in the Donors Choose 2009 Challenge and ScienceBlogs has overtaken…
clock | September 30, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Interplanetary paleontology?
Policy change before peer review: OA needed?
A Sick T. rex
Peter Lawrence's Kafta tale of research grant funding
Ensuring Integrity in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Accentuate the Negative
Obama announces $5 bln for new medical research
Conference travel fellowship for best evolution-themed blog in 2009
Write a blogpost about evolution, compete, get famous and win a ticket to an interesting conference!
The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief
Coming to Twitter:…
clock | September 29, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: PLoS article-level metrics: substantial value add for authors
Is 'Good Enough' Good Enough for You?
Almost time for PLoS ONE Blog Pick Of The Month: Hurry up!
This is actually kind of serious: 'Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research'
How to provide safe, quality hospital care by increasing transparency
Adventures in Academia: On open access, Stanford's leadership falters
Mark Patterson's (PLoS) talk 'Re-Engineering the Scientific Journal' from the…
clock | September 28, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Gordon Conference - Pineal Cell Biology: Mechanisms Of Circadian Rhythmicity And Melatonin Action
Nixon's prepared speech if Apollo 11 astronauts got stranded on the moon
Free-market idolatry: Government not the only power to resist - "we need to rethink the common belief that says government is always the problem"
500+ science types on Twitter
David Bradley's brilliant flow chart 'To Follow or Not To Follow' on Twitter
Why metaphors:Thinking literally
Understanding the Psychology of Twitter and More on the…
clock | September 27, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Washington Post needs social media conversation, not restrictions and WaPo's Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner; Full Text of Guidelines.
Ukraine's Got Talent winner brings nation to tears (see video here).
On the inaugural Long Table - A splendid start
Feedback needed for Drupal workshop at #scio10
Charles Darwin Lecture Sept 29th at 6:30 Dale Russell: "Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land" NC Museum of Natural Sciences
New lecture series by Harvard's Michael Sandel:Justice:…
clock | September 26, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
How would Einstein use e-mail?
College students are not as intelligent and Smarter people go to college, so average university students less intelligent?
How blogging has augmented my career
More crappy flu journalism, this time Alternet [rant alert!]
@TrixieTracker @chillnc I remember as a blog is now a very useful phone App
The Secrets of Time Square's Ridiculous Billboards
Friday Weird Science: The Hyena Mating Game
RT @thegarbagegirl: We've reached the garbage patch! [20 minutes ago from web] //the amazing…
clock | September 25, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Embargo? Embargo? The case of the missing flu paper - An open-and-shut case for open science?
Blogging geoscience meetings
Congrats to Cary, NC for being named as one of America's "Next Cities" by Next Generation Consulting: Where Are the Next Cities?
RTP: To understand the history of science/technology parks read the NRC report, for future read ours - Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty Years of Technology-Led Economic Development
News, Medical Students, Social Network Analysis: Digital Histories can't…
clock | September 24, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
An Ontology for Biological Similarities
Open Access Publishing Is Not Perfect, Yet
Misunderstanding Dawkins: The Role of Metaphor in Science
Which scientists can you trust? (also discussed on FriendFeed) - something I'd like to see discussed at ScienceOnline2010
Page links to newspapers avail 2 UNC folks, including several versions of @dailytarheel
Michael Nielsen & Clay Shirky: Futurologists 'R Us
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
Happy to announce I got on the Editorial Board of the Journal of…
clock | September 23, 200947 institutions in 14 German Federal States will take part in the Open Access Week 2009.
Prevention of Winter Depression
Iran's science minister does science the easy way: by plagiarizing [updated]
Glenn Beck and left-right confusion
Getting a jump on journalism bootstrapping
'You and Your Research' (PDF), or how to become the ultimate Ivory Tower insider.
Elaine Marshall is running for Senate.
Raleigh News & Observer has a new website - what do you think? Improvement, but is it going far enough?
Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind
Frameworks and Lessons from…
clock | September 22, 2009Triangle is first stop in U.S. global health revamp
CNN's New Journalism Strategy: Out-Dumbass The Internet (video)
Why Fall Colors Are Different in U.S. and Europe
Cartooning Evolution Home, 1861-1925 - awesome evolution-themed cartoons from old newspapers.
UNC pharmacy prof Stephen Frye on Ernie Hood's Radio In Vivo today at noon EDT on WCOM-FM
Survey of Healthcare in America and an Argument for Change
The once-quiet scientist - A former animal researcher decides to speak out.
The Obama Roadblock: Why He's Sagging Online
The wrong way to do it - Graphing data on healthcare on TV - inept or…
clock | September 22, 2009Celebrity, blogging and the role of the academic
Journalism FAIL on climate change: Vital signs weak for climate bill (via @jayrosen_nyu: "For a perfect example of "will it work?" outranking "is it true?" see The Politico's savvy")
Rebooting the News #26 (podcast)
Canadian Health Care, Even With Queues, Bests U.S.
Deadline Sept. 28 for DuraSpace/SPARC Open Access Week Contest Entries
Open Access Week has a FriendFeed room - join in.
Melatonin Promotes Oligodendroglial Maturation of Injured White Matter in Neonatal Rats
Novak Djokovic imitates then plays against John McEnroe (video)
Making the…