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"ScribTeX allows you to work on LaTeX documents from anywhere with internet access and share them with your friends and colleagues easily. You can: * Create and edit LaTeX documents and automatically render them to PDFs; * View a complete revision history of all your files; * Keep your documents private, allow people of your choosing to view or edit them, or publish them to world; * Use BibTeX to keep track of your references and include them in LaTeX documents; * Upload images and include them in your LaTeX documents; * Create custom style files and use them in your LaTeX documents." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Interesting idea. Could be very useful, but the authors have a tough problem to solve - Latex is so complicated and dependent on all configuration issues (packages, macros, environment settings). Compiling Latex sources is a non-trivial task when done locally (e.g. I always have problems with images), not to mention remote compilation that works for all different types of documents that different people may want to create - Marcin Wojnarski

"a tool that can augment Google Scholar and monitor Google Scholar (and other services like Libra, CiteSeerX, SSRN), and also monitor the Web (Google, Bing, Ask) for mentions of the paper. You can access a pre-alpha version at http://www.citation-tracker.com" - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

at a first glimpse it doesn't really work for me being an organometallic chemist. it's easier to check scifinder (chemical abstracts) to see if someone cited me or use the journal's citation alert. i assume since scifinder is a commercial product it's not possible to implement it? - Oliver Schuster

That's so cool or 'Happy greets from Scotty of Star Trek IV' :) - Ronald from Bookmarklet

Yay *looks for klingon bird of prey* - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

^^ :)) - Ronald

CiteULike + BibDesk: Sync your references and live smarter: http://www.academicproductivity.com/2009... - Nathalie Cornee

Ah, just realised that the presentations yesterday were all using Pubmed as their source, so wouldn't have a chance of capturing anything except plain text. I'll check this out later. - Frank Norman

Of course, the version I uploaded does not include my own entries but instead has the iPhone entry as an example. My local copy uses "from:lph" so I can see my entries and add comments quickly. (e.g., this comment is added through steroidfeed.html and not through the site. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Really appreciated man, one of the best things for my following attitude - Amiroo ™

"ArchivePress is a blog-archiving project being undertaken by the University of London Computer Centre and the British Library Digital Preservation department, funded by the JISC Information Environment Programme under its Rapid Innovation Grants Call (03/09). The project will explore practical issues around the archiving of weblog content, focusing on blogs as records of institutional activity and corporate memory. As an alternative to the web crawling/harvesting approach of the Internet Archive and the UK Web Archive, ArchivePress will test the viability of using RSS feeds and blog APIs to harvest blog content (including comments, embedded content and metadata). The archived content will be stored and managed using instances of Wordpress, thereby maintaining the blogs’ native data structures, formats and relationships." - Michael Nielsen

This sounds like it might overlap with our ONSarchive project - we are still looking for help with this: http://onsarchive.wikispaces.com/ - Jean-Claude Bradley

Average TA publisher revenue per article $2500 - $3500. Unless I did something stupid. Edit: I did something stupid. See my comment #4 below. - Bill Hooker

Another (imo important and overlooked) point from Carl Bergstrom, by email: "It is certainly true that making the cost visible increases the competitiveness of the market. But there's more than that: when sold as toll access, Journal of Theoretical Biology and Mathematical Biosciences (for example) are economic complements. A library has to have one copy of each, even if the prices are... more... - Bill Hooker

PLoS ONE, Vol. 4, No. 6. (29 June 2009), e6022. Background The impact of scientific publications has traditionally been expressed in terms of citation counts. However, scientific activity has moved online over the past decade. To better capture scientific impact in the digital era, a variety of new impact measures has been proposed on the basis of social network analysis and usage log data. Here we investigate how these new measures relate to each other, and how accurately and completely they express scientific impact. Methodology We performed a principal component analysis of the rankings produced by 39 existing and proposed measures of scholarly impact that were calculated on the basis of both citation and usage log data. Conclusions Our results indicate that the notion of scientific impact is a multi-dimensional construct that can not be adequately measured by any single indicator, although some measures are more suitable than others. The commonly used citation Impact Factor is not... - Neil Saunders

+1 Bill! - Björn Brembs

What this makes me think about is incentives, again. Why do people do peer review? People comment on blogs for all kinds of reasons; how many of them obtain in the article-review space, and what could we do with that? I like your proposal, Cameron, but it feels a little too build-it-and-they-will-come for me to endorse it wholeheartedly. - D0r0th34

I see. Interesting, thanks for sharing. - Wobbler

Even naysayers must admit the broad utility gap this opens b/t FF & Twitter... - Noah Gray

Is this FF's move an anticipation for Google Wave? - Paulo Nuin

Interesting, but not enough physicists on Twitter to make it truly useful yet. - Matt Leifer

Another interesting discussion on such metrics or indicators is at http://bit.ly/2dNCUa . - Daniel Mietchen

We are currently going from one twitter account of a special library, @wiwibib, (which is part of a bigger university library) to (at least one) more twitter account(s). I like to point colleagues to the simplicity and the multiple uses of twitter. As Anne Christensen (@xenzen on Twitter) pointed out at a german library conference two weeks ago, you can try Twitter "without anybody watching", you get instant feedback, you can interact, and you can count interactions/followers. - Lambert Heller

I think it's makes a lot more sense to follow users, because in theory if you see one of them tweet about "library" (even if not mentioning your institution) in your stream, you know they are talking about you... But this get's unwieldy if you have thousands of followers. - aarontay

twitter search in real time - jintan

Unfortunately I cannot think of a nice title for this talk/session... Perhaps "Studying science blogs"? - Enro

thanks @Enro - this is what I study - informal scholarly communication in science and impacts of social computing technologies (primarily blogs) It's such an interesting topic - could really be studied at all levels (structural using SNA like my IEEE paper), group/community, individual (did a qualitative study on that) - Christina Pikas

Too much to think about to respond sensibly at moment but just one point is that there are two issues, one is the technical issue - can it be managed legitimately - and the other is the social confusion issue - how many people do you lose because they assume that you're not allowed? I would certainly make the assumption that I can't mix CC-BY, GFDP, and oDBL together so would walk away.... more... - Cameron Neylon

Required reading for anyone interested in Open Data. I would still say PDDL/CC0 makes things simpler by removing all question, but I *think* you may be right about clean interfaces making PDDL/CC0 not strictly necessary. - Bill Hooker

I really need to find an hour to watch that... - Brian Krueger - LabSpaces

Yup, especially the federation part towards the end. - Björn Brembs

The account would only have to be "activated" from the moment on someone would want to subscribe to him/her. Otherwise, it would probably increase the load on FriendFeed unnecessary fast at this point in time. - Meryn Stol

Yes, I remember asking for this - when running the "twitter" import cant it suggest imaginary friends for the people in twitter not on friendfeed - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Flickr doesn't allow to replace pictures with newer versions. Version 1.3 had a small error: Endnote integrates with Web of Science (both are Thomson Reuter products) and not Scopus (Elsevier). - Martin Fenner

Maybe "Read" is not the best name. But I wanted a category that describes what reference managers do with PDFs beyond just linking to them. One use case is importing 100s of article PDFs sitting on your hard drive and retrieving the citations for them. - Martin Fenner

What also needs to be figured in his how long these services have been around... - Björn Brembs

Interesting, only a couple of names on the organizing committee are familiar. Anyone know more about this meeting? - Bora Zivkovic

The meeting is an international meeting that focuses on both social science using eScience tools but also social science on the use of eScience tools. Quite a varied programme - full of things I wish I could find time to pay more attention to - Cameron Neylon

Direct link to the newsletter article: http://www.library.yorku.ca/Faculty... - John Dupuis

Another library joins friendfeed. cool. but private feed? Doing small survey on friendfeed http://blog.nus.edu.sg/aaronta... - aarontay from Friend Deck

Important questions there on how to manage and acknowledge authorship - Cameron Neylon

Some great arguments for a serious reform of our reputation system in there! - Björn Brembs

Blog or Die. - Bill Hooker

Socrates would have drawn xkcd - Bora Zivkovic

Ach Edlef, seh das doch nicht so eng! Die Bezeichnung wurde doch nur gewählt, damit auch Leute wie ich, die gar keine Bibliothekare sind, aber in Bibliotheken arbeiten, eine Chance haben, sich diesem Kreis zugehörig zu fühlen. ;-) - Markus Trapp

Also wenn wir anfangen wollten das noch einzeln aufzudröseln - ICH mache die Wikiseiten dann aber nicht... ;-) - Christian Spliess

"there are societal debates that have much to gain from the uncensored voices of researchers. A good blogging website consumes much of the spare time of the one or several fully committed scientists that write and moderate it. But it can make a difference to the quality and integrity of public discussion." - Pedro Beltrao from Bookmarklet

Let's forget the sociological reasons for a bit, because they are true (sad IMO). Looking at commenting patterns in various places, especially in somewhat higher brow magazines and opinion places, perhaps the best place for comments is always going to be some kind of nested structure at the bottom of the page. It's just a familiar experience. The other one belongs in a blog post - Deepak Singh

an example of use http://onschallenge.wikispaces.com/list+of... - Jean-Claude Bradley

J-C, right, I was wondering if the logo said just "ONS" with the icons for the types next to it, if it people would understand what it meant, or if it would just obscure the meaning - Shirley Wu