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"I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreaters-- but what was in front of our open door--was another door! Like, a full-on wooden door, that had a sign that said "Please knock." So we did, and the door swung open to reveal a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers, curlers in their hair, etc, who proceeded to coo over our "costumes" and tell us we were "such cute trick or treaters!" One even pinched my cheek. Then THEY gave US candy, closed their door, picked it up and walked to the next house." - Michael Nielsen

If its a public RSS feed then preparing a service that talked to the OWW MediaWiki API to post the image shouldn't be too hard. Making it properly secure would be a nightmare though and there is the question of where it should go obviously. - Cameron Neylon

Hey Jean-Claude and Mickey, Thank you for the feedback and ideas! Sorry for my delayed response: my 3 year old son and I went on an adventure to see friends in VT and my phone got doused with water while my body was being used as a trampoline by a bunch of children. So, I was disconnected but having fun. Going to work on making this a better class for the students as Mickey and others... more... - Steve Koch

This can be simply achieved by providing a similar three strikes mechanisms for traditional media. Thus if a television broadcaster uses, without appropriate attributions or licensing, video, images, or text taken by an individual then they should have their broadcast licence revoked. Similarly if print media utilise text from bloggers or Wikipedia without appropriate licensing or... more... - Frank

I agree it's important to speak their language, but had you written "development" instead, he (or his stuff) would have understood "growth" anyway but the message would not have been inaccurate. - Daniel Mietchen

Very cool: move to any point in the history of a document: "Have you ever forgot to hit "save" and lost work? Ever wished you could go back to an earlier version of a document to see how the document evolved? Now you can. EtherPad keeps track of all your typing in realtime. With our new Time-Slider, you can browse the complete history of a document using a familiar user interface." - Michael Nielsen

time slider. Hm. - Rob Schonberger

"The clue’s in the name of the service: Twitter. It’s not called Roar, Assert, Debate or Reason, it’s called Twitter. As in the chirruping of birds. Apparently, according to Pears (the soapmakers...– certainly their “study” is froth and bubble) 40% of Twitter is “pointless babble”, (http://is.gd/2mKSg) which means of course that a full 60% of Twitter discourse is NOT pointless babble, which is disappointing. Very disappointing. I would have hoped 100% of Twitter was fully free of earnestness, usefulness and commercial intent. Why do these asinine reports jump onto a bandwagon they don’t understand and why do those reporting on them relate with such glee that a service that was never supposed in the first place to be more than gossipy tittle-tattle and proudly banal verbal doodling is “failing to deliver meaningful commercial or political content”. Bollocky bollocks to the lot of them. They can found their own “enterprise oriented” earnest microblogging service. Remind me to avoid it." - Michael Nielsen

Maybe one should start a company which hands out degrees after thoroughly testing edupunks? - Björn Brembs

The clearest, most nicely written post on the entire issue. Well done! - Bora Zivkovic

I think recent interview with Pete Binfield is a good addition to this thread at this point: http://network.nature.com/people... - Bora Zivkovic

(Highly entertained that Cameron is a "brit"). - Michael Nielsen

lol, you guys crack me up... - Björn Brembs

Excellent article explaining mechanisms by which incorrect science can be amplified and become widely accepted. - Michael Nielsen

Which goes to show that the citation structure of scientific publications should be made easily accesible - it's all part of the validation of results. - Alexei from Nambu

It also goes to show just how devastating and horrible practices like ghostwriting really are. - Christopher Granade

Nice article about the history of coffee shops as "third places", inbetween home and work. - Michael Nielsen

I'll be interested to see if the coffee shop workers migrate to hospital cafeterias for an alternative office. - Polly Potter

Stimulating and very well written article about editing an academic journal, by Preston McAfee. - Michael Nielsen

" 'Who are you to reject my paper?' The answer, which I didn’t send, is 'I’m the editor.' ” -- remarkably similar to the comments I don't make to students who ask "who are you to tell me my writing doesn't work?" :) -- just finished the whole article...this was a really good read -- laughed aloud in one place -- feel like I got new insight by the end - Mickey Schafer

Awesome! Good opportunity for a feature request: embed code for literature folders. That way, I can display any groups of papers on my website with links to the PDfs and can use Mendeley to keep them all up to date :-) - Björn Brembs

I briefly thought about putting the pink MenULike logo into the announcement, but I was worried that the name would stick :-) - Victor / Mendeley Team

"Once the kit is assembled, connect it to the Internet through the built-in ethernet jack, jam the leads into the plant’s soil, and subscribe to the plant’s twitter feed. It will tell you when it needs watering, or scold you if you’ve overwatered it, and report its status in between." - Michael Nielsen

Even as a Twitter user, this seems a little excessive. But still a very awesome DIY project. - Christopher Granade

I'm wondering... how does the XML export work with images and PDFs? Does it also provide the OCRed text representation of images? - Fa La La La Lindsay

what about opening up source code for your subsidiary http://ritescript.com/ -- that would be much more powerful step (and costs down) for you - A.T.

finally! - Sean Oliver

"Scientists from the Evolutionary Acceleration Research Institute (EARI) announced that the first test of the Giant Animal Smasher (GAS) will begin on December 19, 2008, the 41st anniversary of the premiere of Dr. Dolittle." - Michael Nielsen

http://www.lab-initio.com/screen_... (long long ago at waikato) - Alexei

I want that ability so much... probably actually my #1 want. - Fa La La La Lindsay

i'm pretty sure they're enabling that soon - Zee.

now I know why you get that bad rap! ;) - Marko Bon

ya me too alex, would rather content was pushed left and everything else in the right sidebar - sean percival

This is a request in regard to conference microblogging on FF, e.g., http://friendfeed.com/rooms... A frequent frustration of participants is that there is frequent comment duplication, as multiple people post the same material within seconds of each other. This is happening a lot, and is difficult to eliminate. Any chance of seeing comments as they are drafted in real time? It would make FF much more useful for conference microblogging. - Michael Nielsen

I concur, when you have more than 10 people in the room that is an issue - Paul Guinnessy

Either of these would be good solutions, although it would be a lot more natural to have automatic real-time showing of comments so that I don't have to use the refresh button every few seconds. - Jen Dodd

Thought you might be interested in my blog post on my personal blog... Will likely be writing something for the MaRS Blog (blog.marsdd.com) as well. Welcome ideas/comments for that post. Thanks! - Cathy