- “Bootleg video of the Fringe Frivolous Unconference, 21 August 2009: On the evening of Friday, 21st August 2009, about 40 bloggers and interested hangers-on gathered on a rooftop terrace in Farringdon, for the Science Online London FringeFrivolous Unconference.”
Monthly Archive for August, 2009
- “BLOG YOUR WAY TO ANTARCTICA
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for Free!Quark Expeditions is searching for an Official Blogger to join a voyage to Antarctica. Do you have a passion for the polar regions? A commitment to the environment? An insatiable urge to photograph penguins?” - RedCiencia – Red de Colaboración Científica“Welcome to RedCiencia, the largest web-based platform for scientific collaboration in Latin America. This initiative belongs to the Chilean Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) and is consolidated as a network that is home to Spanish-speaking researchers of all disciplines in several countries.”
- Igor is a robot for Google Wave written in Java and running on Google App Engine.It allows users to pull in references from PubMed & personal libraries on Connotea or CiteULike by querying services with keywords that they supply inline with the article you’re writing.
- I knew libel laws in the UK were harsh, but had’t realized the extent of it.
- First installment of Joe’s notes, including discussions on Author IDs and the future of scholarly publishing.
- “Fwd: Breakout 3: Author identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online: Duncan Hull, Geoffrey Bilder, Michael Habib, Reynold Guida (via http://ff.im/6ZvTT)”
- Allyson Lister’s notes on our Author ID session.
- Eva on Science Online London 2009
- Martin Fenner’s summary of the conference with links to blog coverage
- Links
- “Despite being extremely busy with final preparations for Science Online London, Victor Henning, Founder & Director of the company behind the popular academic research management tool Mendeley was kind enough to take a little time over the weekend to address a few questions I’d posed to him.”
- “The circadian rhythms generated by our internal biological clocks vary from individual to individual; most clocks run slightly longer than 24 hours, while some run slightly shorter.”
- Bruised. : i tell stories“I’m not usually one to step in and try and stop a fight, but there came a time — after one of the fighting men had knocked over a child on the subway and the other had inadvertently knocked off a young woman’s glasses”
- Why bother publishing the book? I can’t get my head around this one. Yale Press?
- “AMICAL is an international consortium of American-model, liberal arts institutions of higher learning. Our mission is to advance learning, teaching and research through the collaborative development of library and information services and curricular resources at member institutions. “
- Session announcement: Author identity – Science Online London Blog – August 22, 2009 — Royal Institution of Great Britain“Duncan Hull, Geoffrey Bilder, Michael Habib, Reynold Guida: ResearcherID, Contributor ID, Scopus Author ID, etc. help to connect your scientific record. How do these tools connect to your online identity, and how can OpenID and other tools be integrated? How can we build an online reputation and when should we worry about our privacy?”
