If you are interested in scientific blogging and collaborative tools for research and happen to be in the UK this summer, here’s an event not to be missed: Science Online London 2009 will explore the latest trends in science online. How is the Web affecting the work of researchers, science communicators, journalists, librarians, educators, students? [...]
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June 4, 2009
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Science Online London 2009
By dario in Conferences, e-Science, Social Media, Socializing, Web 2.0
May 30, 2009
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Google Wave could fix collaborative editing and mail at the same time
By jose in Collaboration, Reading, Reference management, Search, Social Media, Software, Web 2.0, WritingThe general agreement is that mail is broken. We all use it but kind of hate it too. Well, it seems that Google came up with a very good alternative (ambitious, and technically impressive): Google Wave. A long video of Wave’s capabilities here. It’s very long at 1:20hrs, but worth it. It’s peppered with random [...]
March 29, 2009
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Diigo – Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, a delicious killer?
By jose in Reading, Social Media, Web 2.0Would you like to highlight parts of webpages? I do that all the time with pdfs, so I miss this functionality when I’m online. Sometimes I bookmarked a site, but when returning to it I don’t see the part that interested me. This problem has been solved by diigo. As you may have observed, here [...]
February 19, 2009
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How to run an invisible wiki
By dario in Computing tips, Social Media, SoftwareBeing pathologically nitpicky about details, I tend to refactor my personal homepage very often. To do this, in the past I used to go through tedious FTP sessions or to hack my changes through the shell. Since I started to work with wikis I realised how effective a wiki engine can be to invisibly power [...]
September 11, 2008
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Tools for online academic collaboration?
By shane in Reference management, Social Media, Web 2.0A reader writes: “Dear Academic Productivity, After having finished a phd project, I am starting a new research project together with a colleague. As a collaborative project requires, well, collaboration and coordination, I wonder if you or perhaps your readers happen to have any good advice, both on best practices and concrete suggestions for web-based [...]