A simple rule

Back from vacation and few of the stuff that is going
around work reminds me of a scholar who said "What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn"

Challenges and "mismeasurements" in scientific publishing and ideas on how to reinvent academic publishing

Yahoo SearchMonkey continues to improve, these guys know what they are doing

Share your web trails with MIT's eyebrowse

KISTI team continues their experiment with OntoFrame

Bringing citability to the government

Powering the deck with beer

Preparing (power point) decks,

The big shift sounds very familiar

Need open data (with proper privacy terms) to enable better discovery

Great summary of bibliographic management solutions by Martin Fenner

Two of the Google alternatives were purchased by Microsoft, is SiloBreaker next?

Totally confused on our priorities, David Winer links this to "Harvard Outrage" (no punt intended to my harvard colleagues). Growing up in Turkey one quick advise "don't mess with a cop or soldier"

John always makes you think





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Research community developing kick-ass applications

bibapp is a great "collaboration" example by two universities' "researchers" in developing an useful "application" for the "research community".
BibApp is a simple and good implementation of many concepts that are being discussed probably within some STM product development teams. Here is a "small team" using "open source software", and voila....

Nice "embedding" from ChemSpider