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"Unfortunately [...] multiple, competing initiatives are forming." Shirley, do you think that is a bad thing perse? Are the groups competing for money or are they competing that their system is better? I have no trouble with Mac/Windows/Linux, Movable Type and Wordpress, IntenseDebate and Disqus, Twitter and FriendFeed, OpenID and Facebook Connect. I think this kind of competition is only bad if it means not one initiative will get enough traction. - Meryn Stol

@Meryn, not necessarily a bad thing, but if the service is meant to be universal, having multiple services probably undermines that goal, at least until something is in place to make all those services interoperable. I actually don't know much as much about this but there's a huge thread on this subject: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Shirley Wu

You might think about it as similar to the DOI system. Would it work if we had multiple digital object ID systems? - Shirley Wu

There are alternatives to DOI (e.g. http://www.sref.org/ ) but not very widely used. I also expect a lack of standardization to prevent wider adoption of author ID schemes. - Daniel Mietchen

DOI is used in about 70 percent of journal articles. If we could get 70 percent adoption of an author ID, it would make a huge difference. - Dave Munger

I like the ResearcherID plan, because they're supporting existing authentication systems like OpenID, so they're more likely to get up and running, sooner - Mr. Gunn

Unless Thomson has changed their terms-of-service for ResearcherID, the conditions and limitations on use and re-use of the ID are too strong for my taste. I did an analysis last year and posted it at http://dltj.org/article... - Peter Murray

@Peter, that's a very astute and useful analysis. Thank you! - Bill Hooker

Things have changed substantially since last year, right? Aren't they now using OpenID and didn't they say that the EULA restrictions were basically boilerplate that they tacked on but didn't intend to have such broad coverage? Am I thinking of one of the other projects instead? - Mr. Gunn

Yes, I only used blog posts in my prep stage. - John Dupuis

I should have mentioned in the post, but I found that the Lessig-y style worked very well for me. I don't really frame things visually like some people do, so using sparse slides with only a few words that emphasized what I was saying seemed natural and flowed well. - John Dupuis

Great presentation! - Jill O'Neill

Like the clean, uncluttered look of the slides. At first I was daunted by 64 slides. Glad I clicked through all of them because the way you presented the info kept my interest. Well done, John. - Polly Potter

Thanks, everyone. No audio, unfortunately. - John Dupuis

Top man, John - most excellent !! - Graham Steel

Thanks for the shout-out to ResearchBlogging.org. Looks like it was a great presentation - Dave Munger

Any chance of a transcript, or some notes? (He says, who still hasn't put up notes for his talk last year...) I hate video/audio anyway, give me text or give me dea--er, that is, wind up way down my priority list. - Bill Hooker

Bill, unfortunately, I tend not to do extensive notes, usually just a bit of point form on the print out I use the day-of. Which I tend not to follow. Which is why I've slowly got out of the habit of using notes, because I ignore them anyways. For various reasons, I ended up with very little time to prep this presentation so what I ended up doing to prepare was to study the blog posts I linked to. - John Dupuis

John, my idea was to provide notes with each slide -- ideally after the talk, so that any spontaneous goodness that came up can be included. But that's a bunch of extra work, and as I said I haven't done it myself for my own talks! - Bill Hooker

513 entries, blimey! - Duncan Hull

Yeah, I'm glad I am not reviewing this year :) - Egon Willighagen

Bora - Yeah, seems like Gladwell is getting criticised from a lot of points of view. I still enjoyed the book, despite my criticism. - Michael Nielsen

You really nailed it in your comment that although he's not at all rigorous, he does write a heck of a story. - Mr. Gunn

Sounds like another book likely to stimulate thought - whether right or wrong - I'll put it on my list - Jean-Claude Bradley

I will definitely take a look - The Tipping Point really made me think differently so it does not matter if he got all the details wrong, he changed the way I operate. - Bora Zivkovic

Gregory - Anything by Dan Brown? - Mr. Gunn

Bora, Tipping Point also change my thinking for the better. So, at worst it espoused a useful fiction. I've read a bit about elite marathoners, all of which has said that it takes freakish genetics and ten years of running twice a day every day for 10 years to make it to the top. - damian pope