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Bill Anderson
Talking with Kingsley Idehen about mastering your own search index « Jon Udell - http://blog.jonudell.net/2009...
Jon Udell's notes on K Idehen's vision of linked data. Some good links to examples. Key takeaway is that "we’ve spectacularly failed to help people create that web of linked data in the first place." Udell thinks Idehen's approach is a start. - Bill Anderson
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Robert Sosinski » Starting Amazon EC2 with Mac OS X - http://www.robertsosinski.com/2008...
Good documentation on starting EC2 instances. (n.b.: even $.10/hr can add up quickly) - Bill Anderson
Chris Rusbridge
Lynch took heart at continued mention of education; starting to see beginnings of graduate programs etc, sorely needed #idcc09
I find myself concerned that we will shortly be unleashing these new professionals on the world with unclear, uncertain, perhaps nonexistent job prospects. - D0r0th34
Dorothea, this is an important concern. I'm wondering where the resources to support all these activities will come from. - Bill Anderson from twhirl
@D: you mean like universities have been doing to newly-minted science PhDs for decades? - Bill Hooker
bingo - D0r0th34
I feel a blog post coming on... - D0r0th34
came for data paradise, now work in a parking lot? - Richard Akerman
no kidding, Richard - D0r0th34
Well surely there are uncertain job prospects for non-data librarians too? - Chris Rusbridge
And as far as data scientists are concerned, the point is that upcoming scientists are being inadequately prepared for the scale & nature of data handling that's goijng to be required of them. - Chris Rusbridge
Nobody (except the ALA, and that's a lost cause) is clamoring for the creation of multitudes of non-data librarians. It just seems to me that whenever something new comes down the pike, we get thundering calls for education and NO calls for job creation. I'm even more worried because existing repurposeable people (like, say, me) are not what I would call in high demand. I think the call-for-professionals may turn out to be pretty hollow. - D0r0th34
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Instructions for configuring network to use Google Public DNS. Have switched my laptop and so far so good. - Bill Anderson
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Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Testing Your Internet Connection for ISP DNS Diversions - http://lauren.vortex.com/archive...
L Weinstein's DNS diversion test page. The commands work right off the page in OS X. - Bill Anderson
Cameron Neylon
Struggling with my data sharing statement. I don't really need two pages to say "we'll make everything public and available"
talk about what you'll do to make everything discoverable, citable, and easily (re)usable? sustainability plan? - D0r0th34
See, you may need two pages. ;-) - Bill Anderson from twhirl
that's what the project is about... ;-) But yes, once I stripped it out into sections and added a sustainability bit it bulks it up. Still spending more time on what we can't make available and won't be able to guarantee sustainability of though....oooh, discoverable, haven't done that yet... - Cameron Neylon
Call me Bronco
possible business names: orchid eight creative. orchid eight consulting. orchid eight creative consulting. please discuss.
I like "orchid eight consulting" - aden
What kind of business? - Derrick
what's the significance of the orchid... and where are the donuts? I think better with donuts. - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Derrick, I'm a prostitute. - Call me Bronco
Okay just kidding. - Call me Bronco
Orchid Eight- We've got the Balls for Business. slogan courtesy of Erudite Puns LLP. - Pete, Enabling Force
You should spell it Or Kid Ate. - Rochelle
I help brands to figure out how to be better on line. this usually involves a website overhaul and social media training. - Call me Bronco
I realize "creative" is usually associated with design, but for me it means "creative thinking" - Call me Bronco
Orchid Eight Consulting sounds nice. - Yolanda
OECC .. a bit long but it captures what you do most of all. leaving out creative or consulting makes it too vague for me. - pea
the orchid and the eight - it's a long story. but it's become my personal brand and I've decided to just stick with it. and I HAVE NO DONUTS FOR YOU, SORRY. - Call me Bronco
You need Don Draper... - Christopher Harley from iPhone
I need him in more ways than one. - Call me Bronco
Oh well... Uhm, what pea said... though the abbreviation makes me think of someone with that compulsive disorder. - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
thanks everyone. - Call me Bronco
Well, no. I wasn't suggesting she go with the abbreviation. I was just too lazy to type it all out. :D - pea
Orchid Eight Creative Thinking - Michael R. Bernstein
well, except I think people want to hire a DO-ER rather than a thinker. - Call me Bronco
"Orchid 8" -- why bother with creative, consulting -- in my opinion overused, often meaningless words. - Brian Sullivan
Brian, true perhaps but if someone handed me a card or I saw something that said Orchid 8 with no other info, that doesn't tell me anything about what she does. Which is fine if she's making a direct pitch to me but for just stand alone marketing? I don't know. Not the way I would go. - pea
i agree with Brian, but pea makes a good point too, so why not try Orchid 8 Creative Consulting? i think the number 8 looks good, instead of word. my 2 pence worth. - Halil
there will be an eight and an 8, I have a plan for that. ;) - Call me Bronco
Better to have some mystery in what you do. Besides what exactly is creative, consulting or for that matter creative consulting. My business partner has another business than the one we share -- it is called Creative Edge - any idea what he does? - Brian Sullivan
Dating consultant? :p - Halil
That's an interesting take on it, Brian. I was always told you didn't want to leave people with questions, as they might not have the time or interest to look for the answers. - pea
O8EC... that works for me in a vague Van Halen reference kind of way. - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
so i went with the whole thing, as you can probably tell from the picture. i decided it was better to register the entire name, which i can always abbreviate if I choose. seemed kinda win/win. thank you everyone for your input! - Call me Bronco
Orchestr8 Consulting, LLC - Morgan Haley
Halil -- what he does is group facilitation using a structured Creative Problem Solving technique. - Brian Sullivan
sorry, i was just being cheeky, cos on twitter i keep getting these people following me who are so called experts on how to improve my chances with women or get more money or whatever, or apparently single women with very sexy pics, lol! i joined to make friends and expand my mind, not for dating or financial advice! oh well, i guess its part of the online twitter/ff experience! - Halil
orchid was hungry and eight the creative. - Bill Anderson from twhirl
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Storm Alert » What is Resource? - http://storm.alert.sk/blog...
Some thoughts on the differences between abstractions and concrete things, the web notion of resources, information, and more. Generative. - Bill Anderson
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Good user experience is not optional : The Book of Trogool - http://scienceblogs.com/bookoft...
Dorothea's points about user experience neatly captured in this excerpt: "Mendeley offers low effort and high perceived value. IRs demand high effort and return negligible perceived value. ... We cannot, must not repeat this error as we design data-curation systems." - Bill Anderson
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Peer review, data quality, and usage metrics : The Book of Trogool - http://scienceblogs.com/bookoft...
Dorothea Salo suggests that data quality might be easily determined by their use and re-use. Christina Pikas' comment suggests that usage alone might not be measure enough. - Bill Anderson
Stephanie Booth
A List Apart: Articles: The Myth of Usability Testing - http://www.alistapart.com/article...
I liked the list of resources available for testing, and the discussion of the common testing errors. But I also found it confusing. Is testing about being scientific or intuitive? Both? - Bill Anderson from twhirl
Joe Bonner
Your thoughts on waving so far - http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2009...
Another silo, separated from my usual work practices. What happens in Wave stays in Wave. - Bill Anderson from twhirl
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Google and the New Digital Future - The New York Review of Books - http://www.nybooks.com/article...
Robert Darnton examines the proposed updated Google Books settlement, which still falls short of what's needed for a public library. - Bill Anderson from Bookmarklet
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apophenia: spectacle at Web2.0 Expo... from my perspective - http://www.zephoria.org/thought...
danah boyd's reflection on her Web2.0 Expo experience with a Twitter back channel. Mob behavior is never good. Civil behavior is an individual and personal choice and requires effort. How will I choose to behave? - Bill Anderson
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Access denied? : Article : Nature - http://www.nature.com/nature...
Global science needs global support for globally shared data collections. Hard choices ahead? - Bill Anderson
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We Know The Experts Are Out There. - Expert Labs - http://expertlabs.org/
AAAS is launching a project to crowd-source input on policy. One goal is to enable better scientist/citizen interaction. The NPO is led by Anil Dash of MovableType. - Bill Anderson
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DataCite - International Initiative to Facilitate Access to Research Data. A partnership of leading research libraries and technical information providers established to improve access to research data on the internet. Watch for progress. - Bill Anderson
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How to Manage a Group Project in Google Wave - Google Wave - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5407183...
One illustration of using Google Wave for project management. - Bill Anderson
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Current Google Wave commands. Required. - Bill Anderson
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Cat Stevens/ Yusuf's "Peace Train" (Hot Links of the Week) | Britannica Blog - http://www.britannica.com/blogs...
"... here are two versions of Cat Stevens/Yusuf’s hopeful hymn “Peace Train,” in reverse chronological order, the first world-seasoned, the second youthfully exuberant." - Bill Anderson
Jim Benson
I love people RT @pzriddle: Learn Your Damn Homophones! http://learnyourdamnhomophones.com/ /via @ppinheiro76
I do like the examples. However, "loose" and "lose" are not exactly homophones. I don't love the condescending attitude. - Bill Anderson from twhirl
Tim O'Reilly
Nice collaboration between bit.ly and the Internet archive: http://blog.bit.ly/post... Forward thinking, important, public service. (via @bryce)
Some positive action regarding persistence. Good! - Bill Anderson from twhirl
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Stefano's concerns about how context is lost when triplifying relational data sets. Seems like an important concern. - Bill Anderson
Bill Anderson
Stefano's concerns about how context is lost when triplifying relational data sets. Seems like an important concern. - Bill Anderson
Semantic Web News
Semantic Web: Can Your Computer Read a Web Page Without Your Help? Soon it Might - ResourceShelf (blog) - http://news.google.com/news...
Semantic Web: Can Your Computer Read a Web Page Without Your Help? Soon it Might ResourceShelf (blog) Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, have recently been ...
We're not using the word "read" here the way I do when I say that Sean reads a Wikipedia page. Are we? - Bill Anderson from twhirl
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ACM Announces Initiative for Long-Term Preservation of Content in Its Digital Library — Association for Computing Machinery - http://www.acm.org/press-r...
ACM puts some preservation plans in place. Finally. - Bill Anderson
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CKAN - Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network - Groups - lod - http://ckan.net/group/lod
CKAN list of Linked Open Data sets, more or less. - Bill Anderson
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Data Sharing : Specials : Nature News - http://www.nature.com/news...
Nature special issue on sharing S - Bill Anderson
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Professionalization in the academy | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2009 - http://harvardmagazine.com/2009...
Louis Menand outlines the changes afoot with regard to graduate education (and education in general?) and notes the danger of losing academia's contributions to social criticism and reflection. - Bill Anderson
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SSOAR - The first Social Science Open Access Repository is online - http://www.antropologi.info/blog...
SSOAR: a multi-lingual repository of social science research papers. - Bill Anderson
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