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Mon Jan 25

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‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web

But we are solving the problem, through our aggregation. We’ve reduced the fear of missing something important because we share “controlled serendipity” with others and they with us. And without this collective discovery online, I couldn’t imagine trying to cull the tens of thousands of new links and stories that appear in the looking glass on a daily basis. We are all human aggregators now.

‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

via @Jantweepuntnul

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“ NoBrandSearch is an experiment to compare the core competencies of the search engines in the market. (…) Each time you enter a query, each side of the screen is randomly selected from the search engines in the market. Their brands and special features are screened out. All you have to do is to decide which set of results are better.”
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Pandianews» Test the search engines up against each other

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Thu Jan 21

5 Reasons Science [Hearts] Google | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine via @DrShock

Google’s strength is not that it introduces new information but rather that it helps researchers find and communicate what is already out there. To scientists who are routinely drowning in data, that is incredibly valuable. Google has made access to data as simple as a conventional Web search—and that, in its own small way, is a scientific revolution.

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Fri Jan 1

URL http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2009/12/22/twitter-pyramid-shit/

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Sat Jun 27

LOL A Timetraveller Spotted in Twitter via thenextweb.com

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“ Blogging can create much thornier issues for researchers. Many presenters are already cautious about revealing unpublished results at meetings for fear that rivals in the audience might note them down. Now that the note-taking is taking place live and on the web, the speed and distance that information spreads has jumped to a new level. “With the set-up I have now, I would be able to sit in a conference, take pictures of every slide that is being shown, and it would be on the Internet within seconds, while the talk is still going on,” says Jensen. This kind of direct-to-web exposure creates problems for many industrial and applied researchers.
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“In many fields, competition is so intense that you must conceal to survive,”
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“At future meetings, anyone communicating information to third parties, whether by news story, blog or ‘tweet’, will now be required to ask presenters beforehand. Science journalism: Breaking the convention? : Nature News

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Fri Jun 26

bible camp = dead end … via failblog.files.wordpress.com

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“ These 11 rules about how you can influence decision-makers to adopt your ideas will benefit your career—and the organization you work for Effectively Influencing Decision-Makers - BusinessWeek

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The art of bugfixing chp 1 via geekandpoke.typepad.com

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Tue Jun 23

“ t’s a major strategic mistake to not offer this information to Google (and anyone else that wants to crawl it.) In fact, I’d argue that the right thing to do is to make just about everything possible available to Google to crawl, then sit back and watch while Google struggles with whether or not to “organize it and make it universally available.” A regular damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario, that…. Google v. Facebook? What We Learn from Twitter. - John Battelle’s Searchblog