• Library 2.0 and the Problem of Hate Speech - Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
  via ALDirect - It frustrates me when I can't leave comments. See post: on Democracy, Trust, and Libraries. I also discuss this issue in my Maspter's Paper.
  (tags: democracy intellectualfreedom academiclibraries academiclibrary20 academiclibrary2.0)
• Bench Marks » Blog Archive » Digital intimacy
  ""There’s something important in there for the science community, creating an online identity is of growing importance, whether you do it through your lab’s web page, your set of tagged articles on Digg, your blog about your research or personal interests or your photos on Flickr. When people are interested in asking you to give a talk, hiring you, joining your lab, or collaborating with you, they’re going to look you up via Google, and as the Times article points out, there’s a danger in not participating, and thus not controlling your online image"
  (tags: onlineidentity scientists)
• Science of the Invisible: SmallWorlds
  SmallWorlds project at U. of Leicester: "This project will facilitate the construction of online professional networks using freely available Web 2.0 tools to support the development of early career stage laboratory scientists in the Life and Physical Sciences. We will do this by guiding and encouraging development of clustered small world networks."
  (tags: scientists students onlinecommunity socialnetworking SocialSoftware smallworlds)
• Minor Revisions: 20mg of perspective
  (tags: depression essay)
• Elias A. Zerhouni to End Tenure as Director of the National Institutes of Health, September 24, 2008 - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  Press release from NIH
  (tags: nih zerhouni pressrelease)
• Drug Maker to Report Fees to Doctors - NYTimes.com
  "Amid a national debate over the influence of industry money on medical research and practice, two pharmaceutical giants say they will begin publicly reporting payments they make to outside doctors."
  (tags: pharmaceuticals merck lily)
• N.I.H. Director, Elias Zerhouni, to Step Down - NYTimes.com
  "Dr. Zerhouni was chosen after President Bush announced strict limits on federal financing of stem-cell research, and the White House made clear that Dr. Zerhouni was expected to support this policy. But in 2004 and 2005, Dr. Zerhouni told Congress that the president’s policy was hindering scientific progress."
  (tags: nih zerhouni)

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• Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses - NYTimes.com
  (tags: education democracy capitalism traditionalists concervative nytimes)
• Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008 - Day 1: Who Are the Bloggers?
  Day one of 5 day report. Demographics of bloggers.
  (tags: bloggers blogging technorati)
• User-generated science : Web 2.0 tools are beginning to change the shape of scientific debate - From The Economist print edition
  (tags: peerreview stm publishing science2.0 blogging)
• Opening Up Education - The MIT Press
  TITLE - "Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge" Free e-book edition available.
  (tags: openknowledge, openingupeducation, mitpress, teaching, education)

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• T. Scott: Libraries or Librarians (Redux)
  via David Rothman on Friendfeed — "But librarians are more relevant than ever, if only we can disengage ourselves from privileging our buildings and collections the way that we do and utilizing our individual skills in more effective and relevant ways."
  (tags: libraries librarians)

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• How to get scientists to adopt web 2.0 technologies - Expression Patterns - Eva Amsen's blog on Nature Network
  Excellent post on workflow solutions
  (tags: workflow web2.0 connotea 2collab)

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• Elsevier announces 10 semi-finalists for the Elsevier Grand Challenge
  "The ten semifinalists were chosen by a distinguished panel of judges from among over 70 excellent entries offering a range of approaches involving semantics, visualization, protocols, social networks, and citations."
  (tags: elsevier elseviergrandchallenge scholarlypublishing scholarlycommunication publishing contest stm stmpublishing)

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• On the Nature of Networking — #3 - The Scientist - Richard Grant's blog on Nature Network
  More discussion on Cameron Neylon's open letter.
  (tags: sciencenetwork science2.0)

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• Main Page - The Facebook Project Wiki
  Includes links to research articles and facts about Facebook.
  (tags: facebook research bibliography)

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• New WebJunction (WebJunction - Crossroads Newsletter - August)
  Congratulations to the folks at WebJunction. The overhaul looks great from what I can see.
  (tags: webjunction libraryman michaelporter oclc librarians community)

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• Elsevier Article 2.0 Contest
  “We’ve worked hard to build the Article 2.0 dataset, and now we’re opening it up to developers via a simple, straightforward REST API. We will provide contestants with access to approximately 7,500 full-text XML scientific articles (including images)?
  (tags: publishing journals scholarlypublishing elsevier contest library2.0 stm science2.0)

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• The Amsterdam Expat Meetup Group (Amsterdam) - Meetup.com
  I recently took over as the organizer for this group. Founded in February 2007, it is now 400 strong and growing. We hold weekly events.
  (tags: meetup hobby social amsterdam netherlands expat expats expatriates expatriate)

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