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LOL A Timetraveller Spotted in Twitter via thenextweb.com

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:23:28 +0200

LOL A Timetraveller Spotted in Twitter via thenextweb.com

"Blogging can create much thornier issues for researchers. Many presenters are already cautious about..."

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:07:00 +0200

“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 Many presenters are already cautious about revealing unpublished results at meetings for fear that rivals in the audience might note them down.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

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

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:02:51 +0200

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..."

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:17:17 +0200

“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

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:10:36 +0200

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

"t’s a major strategic mistake to not offer this information to Google (and anyone else that..."

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:38:33 +0200

“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

"De bekende citatie-indexen die samen Web of Science uitmaken nemen tijdschriften in andere talen dan..."

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:38:00 +0200

“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?

"The use of citations to determine the quality of academic work in the hard sciences is to be..."

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:45:13 +0200

“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

Evacuation plan via failblog.files.wordpress.com

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:19:20 +0200

Evacuation plan via failblog.files.wordpress.com

"Search is volatile and we’d be nuts to think that Google owned the last word in organising all..."

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:43:58 +0200

“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

"‘Als je weet hoe een man ergens op reageert, kun je dan voorspellen hoe een vrouw erop zal reageren?..."

Thu, 28 May 2009 22:19:06 +0200

“‘Als je weet hoe een man ergens op reageert, kun je dan voorspellen hoe een vrouw erop zal reageren? Ja: precies omgekeerd.’ „Dat grapje maken wij soms op het lab,” zegt Gert ter Horst, hoogleraar neurobiologie bij het UMC Groningen, „maar zo is het dus wel. In elk geval wat betreft de hersenen. Mannenhersenen en vrouwenhersenen, dat zijn twee totaal verschillende werelden.””

- nrc.nl - Wetenschap - Het vrouwenbrein loopt eerder vol met stress

"Search engines are like reference librarians,” Grey explained. “Reference librarians are..."

Thu, 21 May 2009 08:12:41 +0200

““Search engines are like reference librarians,” Grey explained. “Reference librarians are good at finding the book you might need, but they’re useless at interpreting the information for you.””

- Wolfram Alpha Acts as a ‘computational Knowledge Engine’ - Business Center - PC World

"You can now search -imeem to display only non imeem songs on blip.fm. This serves to be a temporary..."

Wed, 20 May 2009 07:48:47 +0200

“You can now search -imeem to display only non imeem songs on blip.fm. This serves to be a temporary workaround to keep our international blip.fm users happy.”

- blip.fm Outrage over imeem changes (30 second clips, IMEEM streaming) « dion roys all things music blog.

"it does not matter how metadata is stored, as long as it is possible to get the data out of the..."

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:14:10 +0200

“it does not matter how metadata is stored, as long as it is possible to get the data out of the database in any format appropriate for the occasion.”

- CommonPlace.Net

"For me, this is a major issue. I need to know where the information has come from and a list of..."

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:43:03 +0200

“For me, this is a major issue. I need to know where the information has come from and a list of possible sources is not good enough. It is still very early days for WolframAlpha, so it may eventually live up to expectations. It has long way to go and there are major problems to address: 1. The types of query that it can handle are limited and this needs to be made more obvious to the average searcher 2. The way you phrase your search is important. For some of my test searches I had to try four or five variations before it came up with any results. The average searcher will give up after the first attempt and go back to Google. 3. Some of the information is seriously out of date. 4. Sources are not directly linked to the data. It is essential that one knows where the information has come from.”

- Karen Blakeman’s Blog » Blog Archive » Wolfram Alpha is out - hmmm…

"Information may be power, but it is also extremely fragile. —- Another format that is..."

Fri, 15 May 2009 11:41:48 +0200

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Information may be power, but it is also extremely fragile.

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Another format that is gaining popularity for digital document archiving is PDF/A, a subset of Adobe’s Portable Document Format that stores all the information needed to display the document within the file itself, eliminating reliance on outside programs that may not exist in the future. According to Trippe, AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) has already adopted this format.

“I think it’s a very good sort of low cost, low impact format,” he says. “I think it’s really attractive to be able to say, ‘OK, we’ve now collected all of this material. Let’s now have a workflow into PDF/A, and we know how to deal with PDF/A, and we have high confidence that PDF/A will work for the foreseeable future.’”

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- Securing Your Digital Future

Google Fail whale via www.adrants.com

Thu, 14 May 2009 22:25:00 +0200

Google Fail whale via www.adrants.com

"essence of Twitter is conversation. Libraries, however, tend to use it as a broadcast mechanism...."

Mon, 04 May 2009 22:49:44 +0200

“essence of Twitter is conversation. Libraries, however, tend to use it as a broadcast mechanism. Libraries on Twitter should encourage followers to interact with the library—ask questions, share links, re-Tweet interesting posts from others, and reply when people message you (those are prefaced with @ your account name). For professional development, look for conference coverage on Twitter.”

- Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians) (Searcher)

Reasons why people who work with computers seem to have a lot of...

Mon, 04 May 2009 09:50:13 +0200

Reasons why people who work with computers seem to have a lot of spare time www.eviljaymz.com

Technically it’s swine flu. But we call it H1N1 because...

Mon, 04 May 2009 09:13:00 +0200

Technically it’s swine flu. But we call it H1N1 because the hashtag’s shorter www.readwriteweb.com