Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

January 30, 2012 0

To RSS subscribers: sorry, last post was not intended for ap.com

By in Announcements, Blog

Tweet The explanation below may only make sense to you if you read this from an RSS reader. If you don’t please skip it. Have you ever sent an email to the wrong person? Did wish you could pull it back? I just did this, but for our blog (!). I was feeding a WP [...]

September 22, 2010 15

ReaderMeter: Crowdsourcing research impact

By in Announcements, Collaboration, Reference management, Statistics, Visualization, Web 2.0

Tweet Readers of this blog are not new to my ramblings on soft peer review, social metrics and post-publication impact measures: can we measure the impact of scientific research based on usage data from collaborative annotation systems, social bookmarking services and social media? should we expect major discrepancies between citation-based and readership-based impact measures? are [...]

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February 14, 2010 4

Tenure denial starts shooting, kills three. Columbine in the academia?

By in Announcements, News

Tweet This is a quick note that may not surprise most people. Amy Bishop, at University of Alabama  Huntsville, just killed three colleagues and injured some more. It seems that this act may be related to having been denied tenure.  A PhD from Harvard, Amy Bishop had grants, and sat in a startup board, which [...]

November 17, 2009 8

Review of Google Wave as a scholarly HTML editor

By in Announcements, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Writing

Tweet Peter Sefton wrote a series of posts on wave. He has published on Scholarly HTML so I read attentively what he has to say. What follows is some highlights of his posts, and my thinking about where things are going. There are at least four things that bother me about wave –as it is [...]

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October 2, 2009 0

If you read only one Google Wave post, read this one

By in Announcements, Software, Web 2.0

Tweet After 100,000 invites went out yesterday, the web is boiling with reviews. The best no-nonsense explanation I found is a chapter of a forthcoming O’reilly book. If you got an account, I’ve been on the dev preview (intended for developers to build on but otherwise identical), my user is quesada@wavesandbox.com