Daniel Mietchen

Interesting debate on the interaction between science, journalism and the public. To me, this underlines the need to render expert-reviewed encyclopedic knowledge accessible (both technically and intellectually) to the public. - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

"In the first instance DarwinTunes does three things. It stores a lot of computer-generated songs on a server, presents the songs to the world via a web interface, and allows people to listen to and rate them. So far this sounds rather like the online music services on offer today – but there is an important difference. Whereas the songs on Last.fm, Pandora, Spotify, etc are made by singers, songwriters and bands, DarwinTunes makes its own songs, and the songs get better through time." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

"The One Percent Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to engaging young adults in philanthropy. The Foundation is a giving circle – a group of young adults who pool their funds and time to strengthen their communities, while at the same time increasing their understanding of and participation in philanthropy. Partners in the One Percent Foundation pledge to donate at least one percent of their income to philanthropy each year." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

"This document presents an overview of a number of popular tools for conducting surveys online. We have no hard statistics on which of these tools are currently being used at OSU. We have either taken surveys delivered by OSU entities via one of these tools or have been contacted by web administrators who have used or currently deploy the tool within their department or unit. At the end of this document we mention a few other tools we came across in our research." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is asking for public comment on four white papers that outline potential areas for research funding grants under the Institute’s Technology Innovation Program (TIP). The papers outline national needs for new and improved technologies in the areas of monitoring and repair of the civil infrastructure, manufacturing technologies for advanced materials, enabling technologies for an electric power “smart grid,” and technologies for health care based on proteomics, data analysis and biomanufacturing." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

@ommachi sorry but the victim ant was tethered such that its helpers ultimately couldn't help - guess who did that - yes, scientists: http://www.plosone.org/article... . - Daniel Mietchen

No mention of friendfeed, so what about writing a correspondence piece on this? It could be based on http://ff4s-paper.wikidot.com/start and perhaps also put the recent NIH grant for a "Facebook for Scientists" ( http://ff.im/beKk7 ) in perspective by providing an overview over existing tools along these lines and why they are not widely used. - Daniel Mietchen

I would actually prefer the Fb4Sci stuff in there, and the article would be more balanced if we were to name a few more services that offer microblogging (I listed some in the Organization part of the document). FF can then be described in two sentences as a particularly useful example because it provides hierarchies of threaded conversations in which the most current and the most popular entries compete for the top of attention. - Daniel Mietchen

"Data portability is the ability for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications. The DataPortability Project works to advance this vision by identifying, contextualizing and promoting efforts in the space." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Great! Let's try and get some DataPortability repping at #futurelabcamp - Mackenzie Cowell

"Almost 43% of faculty between the ages of 50 and 59 did not know what digital repositories or open access really were." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet