Mr. Gunn

Nice short writeup on Mendeley in the Chronicle. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"Tenurometer is a social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help evaluate the impact of an author’s publications." A firefox add-on which works with Google Scholar. Looks interesting. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Ah, there it is... not sure how I missed that... thanx! - Egon Willighagen

"Tenurometer is a social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help evaluate the impact of an author’s publications." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"Ng et al. recommend “that DTC companies report the proportion of the genetic contribution of a disease that can be attributed to the markers used in their test…” There are many metrics that can be used to describe the completeness/accuracy of these types of tests. However, each of them has advantages and disadvantages, and all can be misinterpreted by experts and laypersons alike. Furthermore, the call for such information must be put in context with currently implemented non-genetic risk communication. For example, does your doctor know/communicate what percentage of the total risk of cardiac disease is contributed by your cholesterol level?" - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Someone asked me on twitter about him. - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

Great thread talking about online protocol databases - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"It can be difficult to convince present-focused researchers to give a long-term perspective, such as that of a librarian or archivist, the time of day. (So to speak.) Here's my favorite way to do it: the "… and then what?" game." Someone who shares your name starts to publish some really bad papers, and lots of them... - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"Unlike some other top-ranked journals, mBio won’t ask authors to perform months more of additional experiments with no promise of publication. Our philosophy is that if the author needs to do a lot more work to get a paper into mBio, it’s better to get a clear rejection and have the choice of doing more work and resubmitting to mBio or of submitting to another journal." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"You need to be well-behaved. (If you don’t behave, you’ll be labelled disruptive and that will do exactly what you think it will to your chances of academic success. Yes, even if you are bored because lessons are too easy.)" I know it sounds very "punk-rock trite" but there's a kernel of truth in this. I've been disruptive in some situations where I simply didn't have the political savvy to recognize what the power structures were and ended up undermining them. This would have been very much to my detriment if I wanted the blessing of the group (and I did, so it was, but I'm better now), so it's very important to recognize when you need the blessing of the group, and when the group needs some disruption for the benefit of the larger interests the group no longer adequately represents. People often rail against amateur efforts, but sometimes disruption by a bunch of experts is exactly what is called for. (Journalism, academic publishing, and *ahem* the field of stem cell research - more on this soon). - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"It would be in the interest of PLoS to combine their article-level metrics with an author identifier as soon as possible, most likely the proposed CrossRef ContributorID, rather than the Elsevier Scopus Author Identifier or the Thomson Reuters Researcher ID." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"Daniel Mietchen - Open Science Policy Director" Congrats, Daniel! - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

I like what you're doing there, but I think you may want to think about usability. What does a prospective member think when they land on the page? Is the value proposition clear, or will it be just another site they'll have to sign up for, track activity on, etc. - 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

Yes, I got the one you sent and I really appreciate it. I do plan to follow up when I get back into town. - Mr. Gunn

Oh, that's terrific. - Neil Saunders

I thought about this for some time, but it seems like it fits well alongside what I'm doing for Mendeley. My aim is to help two good companies become great. - Mr. Gunn

Thank you. I am trying to do as much mindcasting and as little lifecasting as possible. Also, last night was the last edition of Tweetlinks on my blog - by now, those who realize that I post good links on Twitter have moved there already, those who won't never will. - Bora Zivkovic

Perhaps this is a testament to the insular nature of silicon valley or perhaps an indication of how important PR is, but I haven't heard of but a few of these Eurpoean startups - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"Another need is to create curated conversations out of the raw material of the discussion" - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

"Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto (PDF) was just released by the RLG Partnership Research Information Management Roadmap Working Group." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

It used to be that conversation only happened in face-to-face interaction or phone calls, while printed and published work was slower and more serious. Rarely did someone preface their conversations with (disclaimer, I think this because ...) because it was just a conversation, there wasn't a high degree of formality about it. It made complete sense to ask someone to disclose their conflicts before publishing a serious print article because it was a formal statement that would last and be seen by others than the immediate parties to the conversation. Now we've got both fast, conversational material existing right along side longer, more serious stuff, and they're all just as permanent and just as discoverable, so the framework they propose just sounds a little dated to me. Perhaps what we need is a new set of default assumptions? - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

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