Bill Anderson

This looks good: readable and concise. - Bill Anderson

A plea to remove specific journal formatting from the work of submitting articles for review. As a reviewer I'd like to see a reviewer format as the default. Maybe start with double spacing the text? - Bill Anderson

Is there a "Dunbar" number for collaboration? That is, in how many separate initiatives can one person be an effective participant? An important question for distributed, multi-player work practice. - Bill Anderson

A particularly nice web site and use of mind maps and other information representations. - Bill Anderson

First in a series of descriptions of the details of Google Wave. - Bill Anderson

NRC Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) annoucement of online Gateway to Scientific Data. - Bill Anderson

D Pollard describes his own experiences with independent study and also critiques the current (Canadian and US) public education system. It's worth reading all the comments. And while I agree that self-directed learning is the only kind that works, moving from the current system to an "un-system" will require effort and persistence. The thought scares me. - Bill Anderson

Discussion of the different incentives for releasing genomic data. Note the dismissal of small labs at the end. - Bill Anderson

Jeremy Mercer's essay describes some of the shortcomings of economic theory (as popularly understood - by me too) in terms of accounting for altruism. One commenter mentions the lack of any mention of "John Nash" and game theory in economics. - Bill Anderson

Selected reference material. - Bill Anderson

KM4DEV Ning network. Possibly a good model for some CODATA and IAP task group work. - Bill Anderson

Keeping research data safe - 2: webpage of JISC supported project to identify digital preservation costs. - Bill Anderson

Home page for the ongoing work of Tom and Kai Gilb. Requirements, project mgt, inspection, and more. - Bill Anderson

Two simple exercises, reminiscent of some yoga exercises, for hands and wrist. Most interesting for me was the difference in tension between the right and left hands. - Bill Anderson

This looks pretty darn interesting: "A few simple conventions, together with RDF and SPARQL, can turn your Twitter feeds into rich information streams, which you can then use for a more productive microblogging experience. The following sections explain how to: * Enhance microposts with machine-extractable data * Query the extracted data with SPARQL * Generate custom streams and reports to support your personal workflow" - Bill Anderson

This is something I might try. - Bill Anderson