It's good to blog for scientists

Nature's editorial on blogging

Open Publishing opens minds

Tim O'Reilly's insights on the beauty of "opening up" via Andrew Savikas


Tim O'Reilly makes the argument for Open Publishing @ TOC 2009 from Open Publishing Lab @ RIT on Vimeo.

Headache and Math

Here is a question from a second grade math homework:
"Number Sense: To solve 39-27, Anika changed it to (40-27)-1. Is this a simpler problem? Explain.

and my son's answer
"She did 40-27 so she would not get a headache" Ilan Marco Sidi

What can I say, I love my son...

Boston University goes with Open Access

BU "University Council voted to support an open access system that would make scholarly work of the faculty and staff available online to anyone, for free, as long as the authors are credited and the scholarship is not used for profit" via FF

Linked Data and scientific publishing

As Tim Berners Lee states at TED 2009 we need to figure out a way to let our raw data out and linked to others.

Times continues opening up their platform

New York Times introduces article search API and is considering to bring subscription model back.

Plenty of lessons for STM publishers here....

Yahoo [re]Search Pad

Yahoo Search team takes another great step to improve, search, research and collaboration. Search Pad is currently in beta

Meaningful connections with semantic web

"semantic-aware applications hold the potential to organize and display information embedded in our data in meaningful ways that make it easier to draw connections"

2009 Horizon Report puts "Semantic-Aware Applications" under technologies to watch.s

Easy access to world class education

Academic Earth's goal is to give "everyone on earth access to a world class education."

Invest in SMS (publishing)

"From the Japan Today story, which notes that according to a recent survey, 86% of high school, 75% of middle school and 23% of grade school girls in Japan read cell phone novels" via futurismic

For a directory of cell phone novels check textnovel














picture by kokeshi

Science conferences on FriendFeed

"Microbloging platforms and other tools for videos, podcasts, and virtual environments provide an untapped potential for science conferences."

"A new appraoch to conference reporting" by Neil Saunders, Pedro Beltrão, Lars Jensen, Daniel Jurczak, Roland Krause, Michael Kuhn,
Shirley Wu