D'tjes en Datjes

Ik ben een informatiespecialist en noteer hier snippets van wat ik (vnl op mijn vakgebied) gelezen heb, en af en toe foto's of cartoons. En een enkel filmpje.


Weblog en Twitter
Sat Jun 27
LOL A Timetraveller Spotted in Twitter via thenextweb.com

LOL A Timetraveller Spotted in Twitter via thenextweb.com

“ 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 Many presenters are already cautious about revealing unpublished results at meetings for fear that rivals in the audience might note them down.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
Fri Jun 26
bible camp = dead end … via failblog.files.wordpress.com

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

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

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

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
Mon Jun 22
“ De bekende citatie-indexen die samen Web of Science uitmaken nemen tijdschriften in andere talen dan het Engels te weinig serieus. Dat is een vrijwel onbetwiste vaststelling. Vooral de geesteswetenschappen hebben er last van, plus delen van de gammawetenschappen.
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De initial lists zijn als pdf-files gepubliceerd, wat het wat lastig maakt om hun inhoud en dekking naar land en taal van publicatie in kaart te brengen. Daarom heb ik ze omgezet en samengevoegd in een grote spreadsheettabel, waarin je simpel kunt filteren op de verschillende gegevens. Weblog I&C » Naar een Europese citatie-index?
Sun Jun 21
“ The use of citations to determine the quality of academic work in the hard sciences is to be abandoned in favour of peer review in the new system being designed to replace the research assessment exercise. However, information about the number of citations a scholar’s work accrues could be provided to assessment panels to help “inform” their judgments in a range of subjects. Times Higher Education - Hefce backs off citations in favour of peer review in REF
Wed Jun 10
Evacuation plan via failblog.files.wordpress.com

Evacuation plan via failblog.files.wordpress.com

Wed Jun 3
“ Search is volatile and we’d be nuts to think that Google owned the last word in organising all human knowledge. Cory Doctorow: Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google | Technology | guardian.co.uk