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Also, http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011.... Pull quote: "Different searches have different freshness needs." - marthalib

Because some days you just don't feel fresh. - DJF

The rampant use of chat abbreviations. - Rochelle

Touchscreen keyboards and autocorrect - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up. We need it right now, right now, right now. No time to really sit, think, ponder and develop ideas. - Derrick

writing as a process (how writers write)? or writing as a product (what readers read)? - tiffany

Some students don't know about Wite-Out(TM). - Just Joe

To Tiffany, both. - Just Joe

This question always makes me think of the poor future literary historians, who won't have all the draft revisions and such to rely on. - Mark Kille

Key loggers have the rough drafts. Malware-laced device storage will be mined for digital 'manuscripts' in the future. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

I think cutting and pasting large chunks of text has changed the way I compose. - Marianne

It's easier to compose and edit but plotting character dialoge that's still grunt work brute force thinking - WarLord

What Steve said. - RepoRat

My theory is that any topic that can't be enhanced by an xkcd cartoon isn't worth talking about. - John Dupuis

+++Steve - Catherine Pellegrino

I need to find someone who is easily offended. - John Dupuis

If you have to ask... Just use it - awd

[redacted] if they can't take a joke? - awd

Also, I am offended that you think we're not the right audience to ask, Steve, et al. ;) - awd

[redacted] Yeah! - John Dupuis

if that offends them tell them amy says to wear your big girl pants next time you go to a conference. unless she's an ornithologist, in which case, fair enough. - jambina

Based on the two times I attended, years and years ago, I'd say NO. Use it. People who are easily offended really don't belong at the Charleston Conference and should know that by now. (And since the conference encourages the Law of Two Feet, you won't even know whether they leave because they're offended or because they have better things to do.) - Walt Crawford

Who are the assholes? Catalogers? - Just Joe

Depends on who's asking ... - awd

OK, to present another side: my boss isn't someone who I'd describe as easily offended, but it made sense to me when she complained a while back about how she just finds it off-putting when a young (for librarian values of young) presenter gets up and is excessively informal and jokey. So it's possible to lose people with stuff like this not because they are so terribly offended, but because they just don't appreciate the style. Think of how many people around here react to Joey Digits, for example. - Your Neighbor Steve

Man, I so want to change my screen name to Joey Digits right now on this comment, but I figure that might not go over so well, considering the flap we had several months ago over the impersonation thingy... - Just Joe

"Joseph Digits" - Your Neighbor Steve

Most of them have seen it. Remember to ask permission to use the cartoon. - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

Actually, you probably don't need to; xkcd is licenced CC-BY-NC. - RepoRat

Thanks everyone. I've never been to the Charleston Conference before, so I don't know what the culture is like. And I will use it. As RR notes, I don't have to ask permission for non-commercial uses and if I attribute. Here's the license page for xkcd: http://xkcd.com/license.html - John Dupuis

I don't see a problem with it. The Lumpers vs. Splitters debate is a heated one and that's what the comic gets across. - copystar

well except for the assholes & douchebags parts. - DJF

LOL. Anyways, the lumpers vs. splitters isn't my topic. I'm actually trying to make a point that we need to understand the cultures of our patron communities and this cartoon illustrates something about the culture of bio. Just like this one http://xkcd.com/793/ says something about the culture of physics. And yeah, I'm using that one too. - John Dupuis

++ for xkcd #793 ;) - awd

I just noticed this one too: http://xkcd.com/435/. - Elizabeth Brown

gave it a try with falcipain-2 - waiting for processing to complete - Jean-Claude Bradley

Did you go into a queue at all? Or is it just processing time? - Deepak Singh

it says pending http://luna.bioc.columbia.edu/honigla... - Jean-Claude Bradley

Suggest there's a queue in place. Thanks - Deepak Singh

and so much from people around here - Deepak Singh

so much in the last two months even! - Cameron Neylon

and, if we can not do it, nobody will do it ;-) - joergkurtwegner

What do you mean by reference architectures? Reference for what? Also, it's not clear how the fierce competition plays a role in this. Why would less competition be beneficial? - Rajarshi Guha

For example, you could develop a platform for doing something. The actual architecture and standards used can be published, your own implementation can be proprietary. Think MapReduce and BigTable. Google published enough to allow Hadoop, HBase, etc to exist, but their own implementation is proprietary. Think of a data management system you develop for the FDA. That can be one implementation of a reference architecture for data management, where different people can implement in their way (contd_ - Deepak Singh

... around a common set of architectural guidelines and data standards - Deepak Singh

Competition around a very finite and small user community = things will remain closed and licensing protected for a while. Not from the quality standpoint - Deepak Singh

Hmm, regarding your FDA example, one could say that a reference is already in place - the FDA guidelines. Though it probably doesn't go as low as formats/data standards etc (?) Actually, I'm not sure that FDA is a great example for this since the cost of failure (security, compliance etc) is very high - it seems that'd be a barrier for multiple implementations - Rajarshi Guha

I am definitely talking about formats and data standards. The reason I use the FDA example is that it was part of a project I was part of and very much a reality. The FDA would have an application built for them, but others could use internally developed applications that met a certain set of minimum standards (way more common that you think, since almost all clinical databases are custom DBs built to a spec). - Deepak Singh