Sci – Bar – Foo etc. Part II – SciFoo – Engaging with the world
Last Friday afternoon (was it really only a week ago?) about 200 people made their way to the Googleplex in Mountain View for the fourth SciFoo. There are many people who got their blog posts out well...
View ArticleThe trouble with business models (Facebook buys Friendfeed)
…is that someone needs to make money out of them. It was inevitable at some point that Friendfeed would take a route that lead it towards mass adoption and away from the needs of the (rather small)...
View ArticleWhere is the best place in the Research Stack for the human API?
Interesting conversation yesterday on Twitter with Evgeniy Meyke of EarthCape prompted in part by my last post. We started talking about what a Friendfeed replacement might look like and how it might...
View ArticleA question of trust
I have long being sceptical of the costs and value delivered by our traditional methods of peer review. This is really on two fronts, firstly that the costs, where they have been estimated are...
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Reflections on Science 2.0 from a distance – Part I
Some months ago now I gave a talk at very exciting symposium organized by Greg Wilson as a closer for the Software Carpentry course he was running at Toronto University. It was exciting because...
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