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thought Pawel in particular might like this - Bill Hooker

Awesome! Congratulations, Jean-Claude. - Bill Hooker

The site itself seems to be academiadotted. Via Pierre. - Richard Akerman

Noam Chomsky's on there now (academia.edu, that is). And Richard Dawkins. - Maxine

http://mashable.com/2008... - Jay Cuthrell

"Why would anyone give away valuable advice? What can explain the amount of cooperation that does occur in online communities? In this chapter [the author] analyzes how the economies of cooperation change as one moves to the Internet. [He] argues that there are fundamental features of online interaction which change the costs and benefits of social action in dramatic ways... [Note:] Any piece of information posted to an online community becomes a public good... One motivation [for contributing] is anticipated reciprocity...A second possible motivation [is] reputation...[Third is that] the act results in a sense of efficacy... For none of these three motivations do we need to assume that an individual is altruistic... Although there are a number of different motivations... there are three features required of any successful online community: ongoing interaction, identity persistence, and knowledge of previous interactions" - Hilary

This talk will describe the practice of Open Notebook Science (ONS), a form of Open Science where a laboratory's experiments are made immediately publicly available. The UsefulChem project, involving the synthesis and testing of novel anti-malarial agents, will be highlighted as an example of ONS. The use of blogs, wikis, mailing lists, GoogleDocs, Second Life and other social software will be detailed. The application of cheminformatics tools to store and retrieve information will be demonstrated as a means of moving towards automation of the scientific process in novel ways. Such an open architecture is conducive to productive collaboration between groups of complementary competency. For example, the design, synthesis and testing of novel anti-malarial agents, bringing together groups from Indiana University, Drexel University and UCSF, will be detailed. - Duncan Hull

* In other words, although I had used what I thought was an ethnographic basis for designing the methodology, * Problem 1. The people on the projects were not interested in learning our system. * Problem 2. They were successfully able to ignore us, and were still delivering software, anyway. ... What I find striking about these projects is that they show: * Almost any methodology can be made to work on some project. * Any methodology can manage to fail on some project. * Heavy processes can be successful. * Light processes are more often successful, and more importantly, the people on those projects credit the success to the lightness of the methodology. - Danielle Fong

People, as active devices, have success modes and failure modes. The following are the main ones that I have named and used to date: 1. People are communicating beings, doing best face-to-face, in person, with real-time question and answer. 2. People have trouble acting consistently over time. 3. People are highly variable, varying from day to day and place to place. 4. People generally... more... - Danielle Fong

@Robert - how are you planning to "track" / follow the chatter on this topic coming out of Redmond? Will you get phone calls? email? Tweets? IM? DM? What does MSFT typically do when they reach out to you? Do they often reach out to you or do you usually go out and seek specific teams/products to go interview and write about? Curious about your past process of engagement. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I really hope you get this article. From a software development perspective I would be extremely interested to see how these changes affect the quality of work produced. There is just so much potential for some great knowledge to come out of this work, I think you would definitely do it justice :) - Devlin Dunsmore

Oooh! There are so many fields that are far away from my area of expertise... I'm suddenly feeling very optimistic about my science career! - Hilary

Benefits of a slow friday afternoon - can work through the back log - Cameron Neylon

Great site with a very pragmatic and open minded view about Social Media! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

You've just received an e-mail from a journal editor asking if you could review a manuscript. The research is directly relevant to your field, and you've got a month to do the review. You're flattered this editor knows and trusts you, but you're filled with doubts. You've never reviewed a manuscript before. What exactly will she expect from you? How do you go about doing a proper peer review? - Duncan Hull

Heh, I knew it - LouCypher

Refers to Friendfeed items:http://friendfeed.com/search... I love the idea of a response letter being on the wiki. That is a very interesting and open approach. And if this post publication 'peer review' gets further peer reviewed it will be even more so. Go Duncan! - Cameron Neylon from Bookmarklet

Good idea frank, I've done it now - Duncan Hull

See also this discussion: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Björn Brembs

Of course I had to use the comment function there to link to our work on the topic :-) - Björn Brembs

Maybe, to avoid confrontations, one could say "flexible choice" rather than "free will" but it amounts to the same, especially with respect to responsibility. Ah, semantics! - Björn Brembs

web site from APS highlighting research across the vast domain and including viewpoint articles from experts... free for foreseeable future (via LibLicense and Sprouse) - Christina Pikas

The author basically says: "Let's dump all basic sciences and distribute funding according to economic returns". I can't imagine that guy ever gets beyond the commentary section in Nature... - Björn Brembs

Given the UK research councils actually just gave up trying to come up with any sensible way of measuring economic returns I think this is unlikely to go anywhere. - Cameron Neylon

Honored. Please let us know if you run into any bugs. We will be happy to try to help. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Brandon: have you tried the latest river view? It was designed to help simplify the navigation for people who read a lot of feeds. It would be interesting to know if in your view, river + the ability to inline an article inline address par of the navigation issue you are raisin. - Edwin Khodabakchian