The Science Blogging Bubble Ends? (4)
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Uncertain Principles (7)
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Over at Nature Networks, Timo Hannay has posted a conference talk in which he questions the future of science blogging: "Science blogging is growing" I confidently wrote in an essay a few months ago. Then, like any good scientist, I went in search of evidence to support my prejudice. But I couldn't find any beyond the anecdotal. For a year or more, estimates of the number of blogs by scientists about science seem to have ...
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Ian Mulvany said:
now we have saturated the early adopters we must wait for the young to follow
Bank Robber Hires Accomplices on Craigslist (28)
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Now this is clever: "I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour," said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe. He said he inquired and was e-mailed back with instructions to meet near the Bank of America in Monroe at 11 a.m. Tuesday. He also was told to wear certain work clothing. "Yellow vest, safety goggles, ...
SocialText Becomes Really Social (3)
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Socialtext, the enterprise wiki company is no more… a wiki company, that is. Not since Socialtext 3.0, the new release announced today. Founder and Chairman Ross Mayfield calls his new baby a Connected Collaboration Platform, that’s modular, built on a widget framework, and consists of: Socialtext Dashboard – your Communication Central Socialtext People – Facebook for the Enterprise Socialtext Workspace – originally known as the wiki A fourth piece, Socialtext Signals is in the works, ...
freebase ED and sparql (1)
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So what do you do when the two papers you would like to finish and submit are sitting in the hands of co-authors? Kayaking? Sleeping? Surfing? today, no. Hacking? today, yes.While I wait, I decided to finally start working on bridges between freebase and our semantic tagging repository for ED for use after the data is collected. To get started, I wrote the code to answer this question: "what URIs have been tagged with the ...
Portable Contacts API Starts to Get Real (17)
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This evening Joseph and John of Plaxo and I have been hosting a hackathon at Six Apart for the Portable Contacts API (video about PorC). The Portable Contacts API is designed "to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web." We originally expected a handful of people to show up and hack on implementing bits ...
QOTD: Books on the web (1)
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An interesting story about an academic imprint from Bloomsbury with a different business model .... The imprint will use Creative Commons licences to allow non-commercial use of all its titles on publication. Pinter described it as "a major commitment to spreading knowledge more easily throughout the world, with a sustainable business model". She said it was the first time a major publishing company had devoted a whole imprint to this model. "We think it will ...
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Ian Mulvany said:
my sense is that this is both a timely and important move from the main stream publishing media.
Really one box (1)
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Some time ago I was going to look at something on the web with my son. He looked on incredulously as I began to type in a (medium-sized) URL. "What are you doing?" he asked "why don't you use the other box?". I hadn't realized until then that his preferred entry point for everything was the search box. Most 'known' thing he is looking for have a name or some other obvious handle with which ...
The independent research institute will drive biomedical innovation (1)
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The Broad Institute just got a donation of $400 million from Eli and Edyth Broad. The donation is the formal start of an endowment, making the Broad Institute a permanent, standalone biomedical institution. I have bemoaned the death of such bastions of innovation like Bell Labs in the past. But there is a trend in the biomedical sciences that is encouraging. Non-profit institutes and research centers like the Broad, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Janelia ...
No. It’s not an OS. (1)
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Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Gain full keyboard and mouse control in 10.5’s screen sharing (3)
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Do you use 10.5’s screen sharing feature? Have you been frustrated by the inability to send, for instance, Command-Tab to the remote Mac? Here’'s a simple way to solve that, and other, problems.
World Bank data now available through APIs (18)
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By way of David Stephenson I’ve learned that the World Bank now offers an API for several of its data sets on development, governance, and business conditions, plus a collection of photos. Here are the indicators you can explore, for many countries, going back to about 1960 (though the data are sparse in some cases): Agricultural land (% of land area) Forest area (% of land area) Surface area (sq. km) Foreign direct investment, net ...
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mndoci said:
We want more data ... never enough :)
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b said:
I wonder if this could be made into an overlay or many?
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Cameron Neylon said:
From Jon Udell - a lot of data now freely available from the World Bank through its API. The possibilities for map based mashups alone look like fun
Google Chrome and a shiny new default environment (1)
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Google Chrome is the next step in what I have termed "the assault on defaults"The problem is the Tyranny of the Defaults. Most people get their computer, turn it on, plug it in, and that's it. Comes with IE by default - then IE is the Internet. Comes with security off by default - then security will never be enabled.Google Pack and the assault on defaults - January 13, 2006 Google Chrome is mostly a ...
Home (Chromium Developer Documentation) (12)
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Developer documentation for Google’s new Chrome browser. Most interesting to me is the User Experience section: In the long term, we think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and Microsoft would avoid putting things into the standard window frames of applications on their operating systems. ★
Activating the web: One programming language or many? (4)
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Google’s newly-announced browser, which bakes in a JavaScript-specific virtual machine, reminds me of an earlier era in which the Netscape browser baked in support for the Java VM. It makes perfect sense for Google under the circumstances, but also serves as a reminder that language-specific runtimes aren’t the only game in town. From that perspective, it’s worth recalling that Silverlight is based on the .NET Common Language Runtime, a multilingual engine that can accommodate languages ...
Specifying exceptions to recurring calendar events (3)
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Thanks to my calendar syndication project, I’ve gotten intimately familiar with how various calendar programs — including Outlook, Google Calendar, and Apple iCal — handle the entry of recurring events. They all make the task reasonably straightforward, but there’s one vexing problem. There isn’t a way to specify exceptions. My local YMCA, for example, is closed for maintenance during the last week of August. You could enter a “YMCA closed” event for that week, and ...
The sound of a bouncing basketball (2)
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“A basketball bounced on a stiff surface produces a characteristic loud thump, followed by high pitched ringing,” says Joanthan Katz at Washington University in St Louis. The question is why and, conveniently, Katz provides the answer on the arXiv today. He assumes first that a basketball is an inextensible but perfectly flexible hollow sphere. From this, he calculates that the thump is the result of the change of shape of the ball as it deforms ...
Panamaps: A Multi-Layered Map - O'Reilly Radar (14)
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A map is valuable for its ability to convey information. Too much and its illeligible; too little and the map isn't very useful. Layers are used by cartographers to make maps more usable. Layers are easy to turn on and off on digital maps, but it's difficult to have multiple ones on a physical map. The recently-released Panamaps are able to have three layers on a single map. You can get Panamaps for Chicago and ...
The 4+1 Architecture (1)
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In an earlier post on the Scrum development process, I outlined why I felt a lightweight agile process was a good choice for the IngentaConnect engineering team. This set me thinking that the way we express our architecture is similarly minimal, with many of the same desirable features, such as ease of adoption and consideration of needs outside the engineering team. However, while Scrum is very much in the public eye and receives ample press, ...
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