Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

September 19, 2009 2

Blogging is not (serious) writing, and that’s a good thing

By in News, Opinion, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Writing

Is blogging writing? Of course! You say. I would have said the same, before I encountered Jaron Lanier’s essay: The question of new business models for content creators on the Internet is a profound and difficult topic in itself, but it must at least be pointed out that writing professionally and well takes time and [...]

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September 12, 2009 0

Hierarchy of modern life distractions

By in Social Media, Socializing, Web 2.0

Hilarious visualization here: Reminds me why, after sacrificing it to the washing machine twice, I decided not to have a mobile phone. (credit: informationisbeautiful.net)

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August 20, 2009 5

Nascent: Igor – a Google Wave robot to manage your references

By in Collaboration, e-Science, Evaluation, FOSS, Software, Web 2.0, Writing

Looks like the Connotea team is on the right track. Instead of trying to bolt something to insert references into word, they are trying to go straight to wave. We have blogged before about what a good integration between references and writing tools should look like, and quite honestly, Igor looks like it’s really getting [...]

July 26, 2009 10

RWW on Elsevier’s Prototype: Is This The Scientific Article of the Future?

By in Announcements, Reading, Social Media, Web 2.0

Looks like Elsevier experiments on how to present scientific papers are starting to get coverage  (on RWW no less). The basic novelty here is real time search, but everything is peppered with other webby things like comments and AJAX. The key features of the concept are here, and one can play with working prototypes. They [...]

July 9, 2009 4

SpringerImages: Scientific images for the masses (of subscribers)

By in Reference management, Resources, Search, Web 2.0

Springer launched yesterday a new service allowing users to search, browse, annotate and reuse scientific images from their huge database of publications. SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from images.MD. The continually updated collection – currently over 1.5 million images – [...]

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