Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category

September 1, 2008 1

Happy Birthday AP.com!

By in Announcements, Blog

Tweet Precisely two years ago, Shane posted our first mission statement. Simple and ambitious as it was, that post pretty much sums up why we are still here.

August 26, 2008 6

The failure of open science

By in Blog, Social Media, Time management, Web 2.0, Writing

Tweet Michael Nielsen has a great post on why open science is failing to take off. His main point is that science was never that open to start with, but thanks to the communication needs of the time and the technology available people developed the peer review system. A system that is now hauting us, [...]

July 6, 2008 4

And the academic most likely to accidentally eradicate human life is…

By in Blog

Tweet Ok, this is just a quick, relaxing post.In your view who is the academic most likely to accidentally eradicate human life?

April 4, 2008 4

The wisdom of crowds or what this blog is about

By in Blog, Visualization, Web 2.0

Tweet Following up on Jose’s musings on good and bad keywords for a productivity blog, I came across an interesting tool to visualize the evolution over time of aggregated social bookmarking tags for popular websites. It is actually a pretty old project called Cloudalicious created a few years ago by Terrell Russell (of ClaimID fame). [...]

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March 28, 2008 19

Rethinking life hacks

By in Blog, Evaluation, Time management, Web 2.0, Writing

Tweet “Math is hard; let’s go shopping!” -hacked Barbie Summary: It looks like the difficulties of measuring  productivity make people use common sense to give advice on how to improve it instead of actually attacking productivity as a hard problem that needs empirical study. But people do follow barely tested advice on productivity. They are [...]