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"At the heart of this effort is Pixar University: 'The operation has more than 110 courses: a complete filmmaking curriculum, classes on painting, drawing, sculpting and creative writing.'" - Michael Nielsen
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Useful summary of the successes and failures of the PLoS open access business model. - Michael Nielsen
That's what the original article should have been. That one was just very poorly written and looked too much like a hatchet job - Deepak
yes, this is a much better article even if I don't agree with him. - Pedro Beltrao
The article is mostly just a statement of facts about what PLoS has achieved on the business side, versus what they set out to achieve. It looks to me like an exceptionally useful document to OA advocates - OA journals need sustainable business models, and Timo is dead right that the best way to achieve this is open discussion. - Michael Nielsen
Much better than the original. Still I think Timo misses the larger point -- see esp. comments by Bjoern Brembs -- it's time to do away entirely with the *whole concept* of "high-end" journals. Journal-level metrics (impact factor, rejection rates, perceived prestige) simply do not work as a way to rank and evaluate projects, ideas or scientists. Let peer review do what it can do -- weed out the obvious crap -- and let search and database software and the research community do the rest. - Bill Hooker
It also amuses me to see Nature folks with their lace hankies pressed to their horrified mouths over the "kneejerk backlash" and "internet outrage". The original piece was outrageous -- I think most of the responses have been quite calm and reasonable. I guess it all depends whose ox is being gored, no? - Bill Hooker
I'd like to see a publication discussing the economics of scientific publishing in detail. It's clear that there are ways to sustain open publishing. I'd like to get a better understanding of the cost structure, esp in a purely internet publishing environment. - Deepak
Deepak, I highly recommend Odlyzko's 1997 paper. It's dated, but full of insight: http://firstmonday.org/issues/... - Michael Nielsen
Michael, will check it out, thanks - Deepak
@Bill - agree, some of the Nature people don't seem to get internet debate. Sure, it happens rapidly, is occasionally hasty and not fully thought through, brash or even a little rude at times, but we're hardly descending to, say, YouTube comment level here. In general I see commentary by interested parties, rather than a mob waving torches. - Neil Saunders
Hey - I missed this discussion but just posted to Timos blog saying basically what Bill H said --- the original piece was outrageous - Jonathan Eisen
I also commented on the post (of course with my usual plug on getting rid of journals). But I also had another idea: with editors choosing after peer-review, each editor would get the chance to establish a track record: how many of the chosen papers really were high-end? Measuring editor performance objectively... - Björn Brembs
I'm not seeing any comments showing up on the Nascent piece... - Bill Hooker
Comments are now up there at http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nas... - Jonathan Eisen
Has anyone got a delicious tag with all the commentary on this? - Cameron Neylon
I totally agree with Bill. It would improve the quality of reviews by reducing prestige journal reviewer burden also. - Mr. Gunn
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A journal which allows one to publish refereed code into the SAGE project. The citation format looks like it needs a bit of work, but this is a good step. Wonder if it shows up in places like Google Scholar and Web of Science? That's crucial. - Michael Nielsen
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The discussion in the development forum as the open source Sage project pass Mathematica as a tool for computing Bernoulli numbers. - Michael Nielsen
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Bentham publishers appears to be spamming random people to ask them to edit journals. - Michael Nielsen
It certainly doesn't look good for Bentham -- see Richard Poynder's interview with the editorial director: http://poynder.blogspot.com/20... - Bill Hooker
Yes, they do appear like quite an odd publisher. - Michael Nielsen
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yesterday at 1:26 pm - Link
"We were reminded that life is not about stuff; it's about possibilities, which the right tools can enable. For a world of expanding stuff, this book is the necessary anti-stuff tool." - Michael Nielsen
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You've heard of Google's 20% time, i.e., letting employees work on their own projects 20% of the time. Here's an employer who's trialling 50% time! - Michael Nielsen
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"While it’s hard to imagine a world where a free market is not “your choice of silo” or “your choice of walled garden”, imagining one is necessary if we wish to fulfill the original promise of the Net and the Web." - Michael Nielsen
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yesterday at 10:41 am - Link
Insightful rant - it's better to define a job more by it's output than by what's actually done day-to-day. That's why "Movie Director" is better than "Project Manager". - Michael Nielsen
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"The shift of online communities resembles urban development and the gentrification of many hip neighborhoods. The artists and hackers move in first... We are creating virtual communities and then by our very own actions gentrifying them!" - Michael Nielsen
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John points out that in a network-based economy there is no reason to expect the distribution of income produced by a free market is in any sense socially optimal. - Michael Nielsen
Love it or hate it, perhaps the most powerful political idea of the 20th century was that free markets produce a distribution of income that is at least close to socially optimal. This excellent post points out that this is not even close to true for network-based economics. In my opinion working out the implications of this observation (not original, but very nicely expressed) will be one of the defining tasks of the 21st century. - Michael Nielsen
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"there is a strong sense that computers are less of an asset to the economy than they might be if we truly knew what they were good for and how to use them." - Michael Nielsen
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A McInsey report on open innovation. Free, but registration required. - Michael Nielsen
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Boston Globe article on efforts to understand and teach attention. - Michael Nielsen
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Many useful ideas from Sacha for taking notes on books. - Michael Nielsen
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People don't do enough stop motion animation anymore. - Kambiz Kamrani
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The amazing background story to the song "Sweet Lullaby" - Michael Nielsen
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Amazing: "what's the oldest existing university? According to Wikipedia, it's the University of Al-Karaouine, founded in 859 in Fez, Morocco." - Michael Nielsen
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July 2 at 10:04 am - Link
"The incentives at work in the loose community of online science writers are not conducive to coordinated efforts, the dissemination of basic knowledge and other tasks necessary to make these online venues a true form of science education." - Michael Nielsen
I wasn't aware that I was supposed to be edumacating when I wrote a science blog. (My real goal, of course, is to get others to waste there time, therefore upping my effective productivity.) - Dave Bacon
I don't think he's trying to claim that science bloggers should be educating. Just wondering how well they could be educating, if they so chose. - Michael Nielsen
Everything is educative, just not in the conventional school-requirements way. - Eva
His post was descriptive, not necessarily prescriptive. Where do you fit? - Mr. Gunn
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July 3 at 6:39 am - Link
Interesting content and presentation. - Michael Nielsen
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The EFF's comments on the recent ruling that Google must hand over it's entire YouTube logging database to Viacom. This has the potential to get really ugly. - Michael Nielsen
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July 1 at 3:48 am - Link
Stunningly beautiful. - Michael Nielsen
Best watched by clicking on "watch in high definition" under the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Michael Nielsen
So, that was true, life exists beyond Paris... Can't be true. - Pierre
This, and the Discovery Channel commercial ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... ) , make me want to travel sooo bad. - Eva
Yeah, I had the same reaction. Hadn't seen the Discovery Channel commercial - it's pretty cool. - Michael Nielsen
Found a translation of the Bengali lyrics here (see "Stream of Life) - http://www.schoolofwisdom.com/... - "The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass [...]" - Michael Nielsen
What I like about it is that it is so simple. I was wondering today about social/cultural context. Would this video evoke similar responses around the world ? - Pedro Beltrao
@Pedro His dancing made lots of others dance around the world, so I think it would have similar responses around the world (with exceptions). - Ricardo Vidal
He talks a bit about how he got people to join in in one of his blog posts. Says that in countries where email is popular he just recruited people to dance who had seen one of his earlier videos and emailed him. In poor countries with little email he said that people were happy to just join him. In rich countries with little email (he talks specifically about Kuwait) he says that people weren't so willing to join in. - Michael Nielsen
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July 2 at 9:40 am - Link
You've got to give Hitchens a lot of credit for putting his money where his mouth is. - Michael Nielsen
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June 30 at 7:56 am - Link
Thoughts from a former Microsoftie who left to work for Google for a year, and is now going back to Microsoft. The cultural differences are striking. - Michael Nielsen
Interesting. He left because he couldn't see the point of building things because they're cool, but not necessarily immediately worth paying for. - Mr. Gunn
Another reason never to deal with MSoft. "the only measure of value is what you can get away with charging" -- wow. - Bill Hooker
Bill - and to think I just read an post here asking what people would pay for a guaranteed stable FF and twitter. - Mr. Gunn
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