Thought experiment: Replace "ideas" by some other noun. I just tried "XML", "money", "weapon-grade Plutonium", "jokes" and "problems", and they all still fit into this general depiction.
- Daniel Mietchen
A smashing success! Thanks to everyone who has participated. This is very cool. If you haven't yet, go ahead and do so. Original post here http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mark Krynsky
Added. Surely I'm not the only FF'er in Africa?
- Neill Adamson
@Neill, that's great. You just got us to the 6th continent. I highly doubt we can hit 7 as there surely can't be someone from Antarctica that FriendFeeds.
- Mark Krynsky
The Antarctica challenge: OK, here's the plan: we need to contact Eli Duke (http://twitter.com/elisfanclub) he's tweeting from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. We have until February (some background I just found: on his 1st stint in the Antarctic he was a dish washer. In 2006 he wrote a functioning RubyOn Rails site, got burned out and tried to give it away on Craig's List...unsuccessfully--it's back online now http://listyourlist.com/ . McMurdo Photo: http://is.gd/8Ltk)
- Micah
I reshared to the Translation room to help boost your international participation.
- Shannon Jiménez
nah, friendfeed isn't a niche play. it's got dozens of users! ;)
- Jeremy Toeman
Alrighty then, I just sent Eli a tweet (http://friendfeed.com/e... ) with a plea. I hope I'm not taken for a crazy. Hmm, I know that could be my first reaction.
- Micah
@Robert: caught up with an old buddy over a cigar, bottle of wine, and a few glasses of quality bourbon. and i have to be up at 6. so i'm having fun. ;) sorry we didn't get to catch up more at the 12seconds/uservoice party!
- Jeremy Toeman
WTF!!! Nobody from India... ??? Am I the only one..:)
- Devakishor
Well I was late to this party. Great idea Mark. I have all of New Zealand to myself!
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Turkey is on it must be. Anyhow, and Anyway, they'll be more Balloons One Day All Around Our World, BTW Thats a Great Daft Punk Track ain't it ;-D, Shall We Play it, and what Room shall we doeth Such? It Big enough for All. That is All. Time For Work Now, See You Laters, FriendFeed and Have A Nice But Try Not To Be too naughty Day. :))
- Jason
Why is Erhan Erdogan in the middle of the atlantic ocean on the map? Is he in the Bermuda Triangle or something? lol
- Alan Le
@Micah, great job on recruitment. Eli has added himself and we now have all 7 continents filled.
- Mark Krynsky
Erhan probably got moved accidentally. When I got to the page, and was moving the map, I accidently grabbed someone and moved them to the middle of the Atlantic. Thankfully, it was someone who used a special icon, so it was easy to search and put them back.
- Anika
Hmm, apparently I'm just up the road from Haggis.
- Rob H.
I just added myself. Curious - how do you get different placemarks? I like the Google-looking ones that aren't quite raindrops.
- Tamar Weinberg
Just an addendum to Spidra's explanation: To go back and edit, click the pushpin then click the "Edit" button (look waaay to the left on the page). Then you can click the icon to change, and you'll see Save button next to "Edit"
- Micah
Oh cool. Nice job reviving this guys. Hopefully we get another good round of users to add themselves.
- Mark Krynsky
Kind of frustrating to see how much time I spent on this map and then to find out someone had probably saved their changes over mine - hence mine was gone this entire time. Others should also check for this. In any event, thanks, Spidra, for the tip :) My other pet peeve is Google Maps scrolling incessantly out of nowhere. (Hi Jess.)
- Tamar Weinberg
Added myself yesterday. I notice, thought, that you have to flip to page 2 ... Can't we show all the FFers on one map, regardless of the page ?
- Ahsan Ali
Does Jean-Bradley have a Twitter button? Michael Nielsen does and he should be on there and Steve Koch. I used the list to sign up for Cameron Neylon's tweets.
- Hope Leman
515 after just 6 months or thereabouts. 1000 by the end of the year or time to call a halt and start categorising?
- David Bradley
Huh? Categorizing? Can't we use some text analysis for that? Phylogenetic trees of scientwitters?
- Egon Willighagen
There is a nice presentation and dare I say categorization over here as well: http://sciencepond.com/. I had avoided twibes but I suppose should not any more? Sigh. Need to feed all this stuff into one place. Oh yes: @Etche_homo for anyone interested. I'll tweet David.
- Heather
I never could see the point of Twibes, it just seemed a way to spam your followers. Maybe a WP wiki would be an easier way to handle the data?
- Sally Church
Homologous recombination in human cells using artificial restriction DNA cutter... [Chem Commun (Camb). 2009] - PubMed result - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.li...
Show ability to cut a specific, single region of human genome. Probably an incredibly useful technology, related to what Cameron was telling us about last week. Linked to me by F1000 and reviewed there by Scott K Silverman
- Steve Koch
"Boing Boing Video proudly debuts "Meet The Elements," a new animated music video from They Might Be Giants. This animated, upbeat ode to the periodic table of elements and how they form our world, appears on the new TMBG kids' album "Here Comes Science." Video directed by Feel Good Anyway."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
I sent this whole set to my kid's elementary science teacher -- she has to buy the CD b/c the school's internet blocks Youtube -- but I had a great 45 minutes listening to them. I also really liked the one about the sun.
- Mickey Schafer
cool, going to look for the rest of the album, only heard this song so far. would be nice if students and teachers could use more free internet resources, glad they got access to interesting media like this in the end :)
- Mike Chelen
Was an awesome day. Thank you so much for traveling and spending time with us today, Cameron! I learned a lot about science and means for carrying out open science. I'm energized about what seems like a very nice future protein-DNA collaboration. And I'm also energized about trying to implement some of the LaBlog and Google wave things you demoed for us.
- Steve Koch
I agree it was a great visit. I enjoyed showing you the version of the $100 spectrometer I'm working on and all the great conversation. I hope KochLab can start a collaboration with our friends across the pond.
- Andy Maloney
from iPhone
I think I'm going to put some nuggets of information from today onto this thread. Here is a link to the Neylon, Ward, Towrie, and Parker Tus-Ter single-molecule proposal (linked in Cameron's open notebook; see PDF at the bottom): http://blogs.chem.soton.ac.uk/sortase... I think that the system they are studying fits...
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- Steve Koch
I started learning more acronyms having to do with open and linked data. RDF = Resource Description Framework http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... There was some other acronym that I can't remember or find that Cameron was suggesting as a way of bundling an entire open data set of arbitrary format...lots of vowels, something like OAI... "open access...? NOTE...
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- Steve Koch
Cameron showed us some of the robots he and others have programmed for Google Wave. I learned that it's not crazily complicated to write a robot, and that you can use Google App Engine (http://code.google.com/appengi...) to host your code and run the robot. It currently runs Python and now Java. I still don't understand how it connects with Wave, but it solves a mystery to me of...
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- Steve Koch
(Coincidentally (or maybe not), right after waving with Cameron, Google Wave gave me my 20 invites to send out. Let me know if you need one!)
- Steve Koch
I'm sure Cameron and others have already said this in their many fantastic presentations and blog posts about wave. But I was happy to hear Cameron agree with my thinking that google wave + robots would be a very good way of handling data analysis workflows. When we process unzipping data, there are a few layers of software involved. I imagine each software application being run in the...
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- Steve Koch
Cameron's current LaBLog at Rutherford can be found here: http://biolab.isis.rl.ac.uk/cameron... Hopefully I'll be able to get access to this to see the edit features (I "requested" an account by logging in with my yahoo openid). I had previously been impressed by the notebook, but today was really wowed when I saw him edit a new entry. The particular things was the ability to...
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- Steve Koch
+1 for a Wave invite, please (pmiller@liv.ac.uk).
- Peter Miller
That's wonderful that Cameron visited your lab Steve! For all the usefulness of communication technologies nothing can replace a productive meatspace interaction.
- Jean-Claude Bradley
I had a great time - meeting and talking with Koch and the team. Lots of very cool stuff going on and lots of ideas that just seemed to bubble out of it. The meatspace interaction is really important but having that bit of background about what was going on and the context and trust built up here on Friendfeed amongst other places makes the whole discussion a lot quicker and more interesting.
- Cameron Neylon
Agree -- pre-meeting definitely made the in-person meeting very quick to start off. & @Peter Miller, sent the invite
- Steve Koch
Sounds like a fun (and productive!) day - thanks for sharing it with us, Steve. Also, I would appreciate a Wave invite (if you have any left!) - thanks! tom.tullius@gmail.com
- Tom Tullius
A few comments back, I was simply looking through this filter http://search.creativecommons.org/... with open science - At worst, some really cool Flickr/CC images for future usage for anyone.
- Graham Steel
It occurs to me that in virtually every photo of me online I'm wearing the same jacket and same shirt. Typical academic...
- Cameron Neylon
Went into my garage looking for a textbook. Haven't found it, but found an '87-'88 Slauson Exodus middle school yearbook. Hilarious! Thinking I can probably make some money off this, agreeing not to post certain photos etc. Just to remove myself from the equation, I'm chunky with hair parted down the middle.
Nice photo. It looks like the balloons in the sky are moving whenever I don't directly look at the photo.
- Diego
Now that you mention it, I see that too, Diego. Very cool! KT actually took the photo from her balloon ride with her Dad. Seemed like a great time.
- Steve Koch
Are u kidding me? They Gave You the Nobel Peace Prize? Really? Sorry to ask Mr. President, but Do you even know the definition of the word "Peace" sir? Just Look At Your Face In The Mirror And Ask Yourself how often you Really Think About Other People in other Countries? You Can't even Get Your Troops Out Of Iraq and the whole world is wondering whether you guys are just staying there 4...
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- +Holy Killer+
Especially when you know he is responsible for the murder of Hundreds of My innocent Brothers And Sisters… Just Because You're preoccupied with the Oil in Iran And Fear they might make an atomic bomb one of these days and pass it on to Hamas & Hizbollah to use against Israel doesn't give you the right to remain silent. You know what Mr. President? I Don't Believe in your Audacity of...
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- +Holy Killer+
Totally agree with Holy Killer. now that you have won the prize, you can at least start doin somethin to show you deserve it.... and that somethin better be good Sir ;-) you see... the world needs to be reassured...over and over again!
- Miss Self-Suffice
Hey Mr. President! I'm not agree with Holly Killer and the others. Now would you grant me a green card for being nice and supportive? :D
- AutoBioFeeder
بچهها ببینم میتونیم یه کاری کنیم که جمیعا از اینجا پرتمون کنن بیرون و بلاک حتی :دی خیلی علاقه دارم از جانب یه سیاستمدار برنده جایزه نوبل بلاک شم حتی :دی
- Miss Self-Suffice
يعني يه سيخ و منقل هم پيدا نميشه! اينا كه كلي ادعا دارن...! شام هم كه ندارن! حالا نگفتيد باراك چه كاره است؟ تو مايكروسافت كار ميكنه؟ اسمش آشناستها...
- هادی خ
that's cause Iranians are a huge majority on the net Mohomed ;-)
- Miss Self-Suffice
Mr President when ever you want to answer me just call me and tell my secretary you won Nobel !he will let you go through my private line!
- فوژان
تجمع اعتراضآمیز به همدستی رژیم اشغالگر نروژ با استکبار جهانی فردا 10 صبح از روبهروی منزل آقای شریعتمداری به سمت دفتر کیهان برگزار میشود
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
the majority of Iranians hate A.N. and that's why we don't think President Obama deserved this noble cause he closed his eyes to all recent incidents in here
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
ای ملت رئیس جمهور ندیده :)))) بابا اکانت توییترش را کسی اضافه کرده به فرندفید حالا ملتی به شما می خندند که اینها چقدر جدی گرفته اند
- farzaam
then stop negotiating with our criminal government!
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
فرهاد جون عالیه...بحثو به جای منم ادامه بده
- بوف_کور
@فرزام: چقدرم ملت جدی گرفتن!!! بابا دهن فید رو سرویس کردیم با این مدل کامنت ها!
- علی آقا
We're already doing that Joe, risking our lives going to streets and protest in every available event! what else do you expect? start an open war with 100000 fully armed IRGC military force with near 2.500.000 Basiji militia?!
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
at least US could act a little close to what France and Germany did
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
u r in the road that carter was before
- Liquid Soul
Thank you PEOPLE of America! but we're not talking about people ! it's your President who is now helping A.N boasting about major political victories and helping our government divert the point of attention away from the Crisis at hand
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
Yes! you also elected Mr.Bush! the Big Murderer
- علی آقا
he's the representative! not the people, you are not your lawyer!
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
OK. Obama is so much better that Bush... but the question is: does he really deserve the noble prize?
- علی آقا
so do we of ours for Mousavi and Karoubi! it's our lives at stake here and your elected president started a peace talk with a criminal and illegitimate dictatorship government!
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
Obama did nothing to bring the peace to the world? He just talked about the peace... but what happened? are the U.S Troops out of Iraq and Afghanestan now?
- علی آقا
دمت گرم مستر شکلات عزیز...داری با طرف بحث میکنی که نوبل حق کروبی بود:)))
- بوف_کور
اي بابا... ولي خودمونيمها، اين جايزه نوبل مسخره تر از اين حرفا شده! حتي حيفه كه به يكي مثل كروبي اين جايزه رو بدن! همين كه به يكي مثل اوباماي تازه كار دادن، خودش حسّابي اين جايزه رو خز كرده!
- هادی خ
DrHussein you Arzeshi bros are always amazing! although I support Palestine too it doesn't mean you have to kill someone to support another! stop with your 30 years of nonexistence enemy of IRI already!
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
جناب هادی خ @ دست کم نگیرید این ملت جاسوس را . اینا حتی میدونن برو خونتون کنایه از چیست . مثل ما نیستند که برای علافی فرفرگردی کنند
- راحیل
اوباما جایزه صلح نوبل میگیرد، دقیقا بعد از اینکه تصویب میکنند نیروهای آمریکایی فعلا در عراق و افغانستان بمانند :) / چه جايزهي مسخرهاي، چه جايزهگيرندهي مسخرهتري!
- هادی خ
آلفرد نوبل زمانی که برادرش لودویگ فوت شد، روزنامهها اشتباهاً فکر کردند که نوبل معروف (مخترع دینامیت) مرده است. آلفرد وقتی صبح روزنامه ها را میخواند با دیدن آگهی صفحه اول، میخکوب شد: "آلفرد نوبل، دلال مرگ و مخترع مرگ آور ترین سلاح بشری مرد!" آلفرد، خیلی ناراحت شد. با خود فکر کرد: آیا خوب است که من را پس از مرگ این گونه بشناسند؟ سریع وصیت نامهاش را آورد. جملههای بسیاری را خط زد و...
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- هادی خ
الان من به کسی فحش دادم خدا رحمتت کنه محمدمسیح؟
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
وقتی شیرین عبادی این جایزه رو برده دیگه معلومه
- راحیل
شيرين كه اون موقعها خيلي كوچولو بود، ميخواستن اينطوري بزرگش كنن! ظرفيت اين بزرگشدن رو هم نداشت و نشد!
- هادی خ
برادرا توی مبارزه نرمافزاری با براندازینرم پیروز باشید و با خودتون حال کنین! منم میرم به سایر کارهای جاسوسانه و پلیدم برسم
- LōrÐ ҒarhaÐ
It's funny how an Iranian is counting himself among the Americans and referring to them as us....
- Miss Self-Suffice
But I also know that this prize reflects the kind of world that those men and women, and all Americans, want to build -- a world that gives life to the promise of our founding documents. And I know that throughout history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes. And that is why I will accept this award as a call to action -- a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.
- erinther
آخه این چه رفتار زشتی بود که با جو داشتین آخه .می خواستم جورش کنم بیاد منو بگیره که دور بعدی بتونم به میس تر پیس -اسپلش:پی آی دابل اس - رای بدم.. نامردا خدا ازتون نگذره!
- Mahsā
ما بازم دیر رسیدم ولی دریافت جایزه نوبل رو به جناب اوباما تبریک عرض میکنم و البته من هم با آقای متکی موافقم! دریافت این جایزه برای آقای اوباما زود بود و بهتر این بود که این جایزه رو به احمدی نژاد می دادن به پاس جنایات و فجایع قبل و بعد انتخابات
- ممد نبودی ببینی!
I just like this writing but i do not understand what they mean! cool but atleast i can read and understand f.ahmadinejad, which is funny. hey! visit my site http://www.vinonagroup.com
- VinonaStringNetwork
آقا مبارکه Congratulation Sir فقط but لطفا pls حمایت کن از دموکراسی support democrasi :D:D
- uɐſʃɐʌ uɐſ
Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama - good. Now the goals --- 1. stop Iraq devastating costly colonial occupation war. --- 2. stop Afghanistan occupation war. --- 3. Cut US military budget of $1 trillion to $300 billion a year. http://costofwar.com. China military budget is $60 bill a year .. China has a surplus of $2 trillion, US, by wild capitalism de-investing and industries...
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- pb:
"The peculiar demands of our granting system have favoured an upper class of skilled scientists who know how to raise money for a big group... They have mastered a glass bead game that rewards not only quality and honesty, but also salesmanship and networking." I agree with much in this article. Some years back I constructed a list of papers I especially admired, and was surprised to discover that with only a few exceptions they were produced from unfunded research. This was sobering, since it suggest that receiving research grants was (at least according to my judgement of scientific quality) anticorrelated with doing work of the highest quality. Grants seem to be good at sustaining an established area, but not very good at all at producing the conceptual innovations that start new subfields.
- Michael Nielsen
@Duncan, oh absolutely. The idea of long contracts (5 - 7 years) makes sense. But these approaches will really require systemic changes - even if I could get by with small amounts of money (say for 1 student), the university won't like the fact that I'm not bringing in gobs of money to pay for electricity
- Rajarshi Guha
I agree with Duncan that although the situation is depressing (and quite accurately represented in there), seeing it gain higher profile is refreshing.
- Daniel Mietchen
Pushing these issues more and more is vital if we want things to change - even if we don't agree on the solutions, awareness of the problems is a prerequisite for change.
- Björn Brembs
To be nitpicky, I'm afraid that the following suggestion is as open to abuse and laziness as the current one: "Everyone should get slotted into a funding category and assessed every five years. If you're productive, you get five more years of resources. If productivity is down, you are moved down a category. If it is high, you can apply to move up. Starting PIs are in a different...
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- Heather
Hmm. can't write English today. The suggested improvement to the system is subject to abuse, as much so as the current system - dead wood will be carried along. No room will be made for younger people moving up the ranks. And I meant "effective".
- Heather
Lest we forget: http://www.nytimes.com/2008...: "Trained as a biochemist, Dr. Prasher, 57, was interested in the chemistry of how certain animals are able to glow. In the late 1980s, he applied to the National Institutes of Health for a five-year grant to track down the fluorescent protein gene...'I knew it could serve as a genetic marker and it would be really, really useful, which it has turned out to be.' That application was turned down..."
- Richard Klancer
Michael Nielsen wrote above: "Some years back I constructed a list of papers I especially admired, and was surprised to discover that with only a few exceptions they were produced from unfunded research. This was sobering, since it suggest that receiving research grants was (at least according to my judgement of scientific quality) anticorrelated with doing work of the highest quality....
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- Bora Zivkovic
I don't have a blog post about it. To make the judgement I used a large fraction of what I know as a scientist. I couldn't easily reduce that to a short list of criteria.
- Michael Nielsen
"It doesn't matter if the book is for lay persons or professionals, the science has to be correct. And saying that all viruses integrate their genomes into that of the cell doesn't help anyone. Dendritic cells take up antigens and particulate matter; their ability to take up entire viruses is a matter of debate and should not be included in a lay book. Exactly what scientists do understand needs to be distilled for everyone but in a correct manner."
- Vincent Racaniello
Great. Now we're going to have the public thinking that flu integrates into the host genome: "help help, the virus is mutating me, aaaaahh!!!".
- Bill Hooker
"Here we examine the development and application of the HapMap to genome-wide association (GWA) studies; present and future technologies for GWA research; current major efforts in GWA studies; successes and limitations of the GWA approach in identifying polymorphisms related to complex diseases; data release and privacy polices; use of these findings by clinicians, the public, and academic physicians; and sources of ongoing authoritative information on this rapidly evolving field."
- Attila Csordas
from Bookmarklet
Thanks, Bill. We're really happy that is coming to Kingston. Poor kid will come just before winter, so we hope he stick around for longer, after the first snowstorm :-)
- pn
Way cool!!! So how are you going to react when he opens up Mendeley :)?
- Deepak Singh
Mendeley is currently block in the lab. He will have to prove capable of circumventing our firewall.
- pn
Googling "firewall circumvention for dummies"... ;)
- Ricardo Vidal
Watch your back Paulo, they're trying to get an insider to remove your top search result for "mendeley review" :P Sounds fun. Good luck Ricardo!
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
It's a grant typed as catalyst in Canada, focusing on the creation of collaborating teams. On this one we will study bladder cancer and biomarkers. More at http://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/cfdd...
- pn