Monthly Archive for May, 2009
Awesome presentation on distributed citizen science.
An alternative metric. It get’s pretty complicated pretty fast, making it tough to add a coherant snippet.
Sandeep Guatam’s thoughts on the Patil and Siegel article: “However, while they believe that all the tools for online collaboration are already in place, I on the other hand think we need a more formalized one-stop system for scientists, where all their sharing, networking and collaborating needs are met…”
Inspiring article fantasizing about the potential of more collaborative science – “What if everyone in the world were in your lab – a ‘hive mind’ of sorts, but composed of countless creative intellects rather than mindless worker ants, and one in which resources, reagents and effort could be shared, along with ideas, in a manner not dictated by institutional and geographical constraints? by Chris Patil and Vivian Siegel* via Chris’ FF
