Archive for the 'penguins' Category
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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
“Disney said it would pay $350 million for Club Penguin, a virtual community that has soared in popularity since its founding in late 2005. More than 700,000 users now pay $5.95 a month to customize penguin characters and then chat and play games with oth
Disney Acquires Club Penguin for $350M – Forbes.com
“Parents, for instance, can choose an “ultimate safe” mode, meaning chat messages sent and received are limited to prewritten phrases, such as “How are you today?”
