Mr. Gunn

Many of you know I've been working with Mendeley as a sort of ambassador/community liaison. I started this because I've always felt a little shut out from contributing to open science/open access/open data because I don't work for a publisher, don't really write code, and wasn't in a job where I could openly share data. This was a way to influence how things develop by promoting the people who "get it". - Mr. Gunn

Interesting situation! My take is that people who have no history of interaction with you, will not spend a lot of time looking you up online. As soon as they know you're being paid to do this, you'll be a sales rep - which means there isn't even any need to look you up, they already know who/what you are. Thus, IMHO, no online history will get you out of the sales rep box. - Björn Brembs

intriguing, what feeds do you put in there? I'm trying with TOCs of journals. How do you compare FF with feedzero? Didn't know FF had bayesian or other algorithmic filters. - aarontay

Yeah, thousands, at least. There are whole categories of feeds I don't read directly, only filter/search. - Mr. Gunn

"Readability is far more than an ad blocker. It addresses multiple unpleasant trends in Web layout these days: type getting too small, layouts getting cluttered and complex, text overlapping with graphics, ads interrupting the flow of the prose, and so on." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"One man foresaw a global network before any such thing was close to being possible. J. C. R. Licklider (sounds like a character in a Coen bros movie!) envisioned, in a 1960 paper called Man-Computer Symbiosis, "A network of such [computers], connected to one another by wide-band communication lines…[which provided] the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and [other] symbiotic functions." In other words, he saw it all coming." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Some seemingly simplistic tools on this page. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"The future of the Internet in Canada may have been decided in Seoul, Korea, this past week." I don't usually go in for hyperbole, but this does sounds really bad. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"Ordinarily I wouldn't question others' parenting choices. But the problem is literally one of live or don't live. While that parent chose not to vaccinate her child for what she likely considers well-founded reasons, she is putting other children at risk. In this instance, the child at risk was my son. He has leukemia." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked." Under this treaty, Youtube, Flickr, hosted blogs, and most forms of user-generated content will cease to exist. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Sounds fishy. Almost certainly won't happen, iMHO. - Björn Brembs

Sometimes I feel like just digging a big fucking hole in the ground, climbing in, covering myself up, and telling people to wake me up in a couple years. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"What's more, the Dartmouth analysis shows, clusters of doctors tend to result in higher health care costs -- and, perhaps most surprisingly, outcomes aren't any better in cities with the largest physician populations." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

there was a great This American Life podcast all about this recently : http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_E... - Jo Badge

Cool, thanks Jo - Mr. Gunn

"Sometimes I wonder why many humans (me included) have trouble understanding probability. In cognitive science, probabilistic models are taking over most areas. Still, most people struggle with them. Could it be that the notation is just hard to swallow? What’s Wrong with Probability Notation? is a magnificent post that gives some basic reasons:" - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Dredging back up an old post - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Got some pretty good comments on my blog. Guess those fears expressed by some that friendfeed was stealing comments from bloggers aren't true, at least not for me. - Mr. Gunn

Putting on my 'futurist hat': I expect that if the gatekeepers manage to regulate DTC genomics, making personal genomic information more difficult and expensive to acquire, some consumers will seek 'outsourced' tests provided by facilities in a different jurisdiction. It would be difficult for governments to police the practice of sending a tube of split overseas to an unregulated... more... - Andrew Perry

A summary of a couple good pieces from genomics law report. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Great post about data standards from someone who's been working with them from ODBC to AJAX to XML, with a focus on healthcare data standards but relevant to life science, particularly point 2. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

That's a serious chunk of change! - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

My sympathies go out to all. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"This whole business of being hard on drugs, the 'war on drugs' is all a bit bonkers." Can someone in the Obama admin hire this guy, PLEASE! - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

as Will Self said, you may as well have a war on tables - http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion... - Neil Saunders

Let's see how much better they can do than data.gov - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"Raindrop comes with a built-in experience that bubbles up what conversations are important to you. You can participate in the experience by writing extensions that use standard open Web technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Or, use the lower level APIs to make your own experience. You have control over your conversations and how you want to play with them." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Hmm, my email client already does most of that and FF does the rest. Doesn't look too promising... - Björn Brembs

Well, only if you believe that friendfeed will always be around in exactly its current form. - Mr. Gunn