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A co-worker mentioned to me yesterday that a colleague of his is thinking about starting an online journal club type website for scientists. The idea seems to be discussions about papers, data sets, and other web-publishable materials, from any source, in a central location. It would also have discussions about scientific culture, which made me...
It would be a place where people (students, junior faculty, etc) could learn the ropes of academia and science without the pain and misery that traditionally is required. The differences I can see from existing services is the focus on journal club-style discussions and maybe a low barrier to entry - Shirley Wu from twhirl
But obviously, whatever he ends up pursuing should learn from the trials and tribulations of the many related services out there (including services like FF, which is also discussion-oriented) - Shirley Wu from twhirl
It's easy to immediately discount any proposal that sounds like yet another facebook for scientists, but there are still some interesting and potentially good ideas out there. Unfortunately, people who aren't as familiar with the existence of these tools always think of facebook as the ideal and as a brand new idea if applied to the scientist community. Hopefully I convinced my co-worker otherwise, while still encouraging the more innovative aspects of the concept. <end rant> - Shirley Wu from twhirl
Thanks for doing that. - Mr. Gunn
AcaWiki is built around a very similar concept, and John Wilbanks makes an argument for bringing journal clubs online (cf. http://ff.im/airoV ). - Daniel Mietchen
Shirley, Besides AcaWiki (great place to have these discussions, but I'm biased! http://acawiki.org/ ) your colleague also might be interested in GradTurkey, a journal-club discussion wiki originally aimed at grad students: http://gradturkey.fastcoder.net/ - Jodi Schneider
can discussion on AcaWiki be linkable and embeddable for public like you can do on FF? If not, so why don't do journal club on FF? Can't get it - Alexey
my comments on the topic in 08/07 http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007... - Attila Csordas
Knol has many journal features built-in. Here is an example of a successful research journal on H1N1: http://knol.google.com/k... - no name
John Wilbanks mentioned doing journal clubs online in his talk here recently: http://bit.ly/3jxnxr - Walter Jessen
this topic came up during a discussion today with Mike Eisen of PLoS, re: why commenting hasn't really taken off - his thought is that people are more likely to comment if there's a central place to do it rather than individually at each journal website for each paper (how many of us access papers directly through journal websites except through PubMed anyway?). The whole time I was... more... - Shirley Wu from twhirl
can somebody point to the platform for journal club online better then blog post? It's combine everything - presentation (ppt embedded from SlideShare or Gdocs, video embedded from YouTube/Vimeo...) presenter's opinion, discussion section under the post, embedded comments from FF, ranking of the presentation and number of views. Importantly you don't need to register or get account for commenting, it's public and linkable, moderatable . Whole world can participate. What can be better? - Alexey
@Neil Saunders Were you thinking of JournalFire? We recently updated the site and are looking for feedback. I posted about it yesterday: http://friendfeed.com/the-lif... - John Delacruz
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well that's just depressing. - Marie
It made me smile. - Daniel Mietchen
I'm with Daniel -- I didn't think it was depressing at all. - Bill Hooker
all that effort and toil for the equivalent of a dent. woe, no? - Marie
Looking at the even bigger picture, there are millions of PhDs alongside your own, pushing the boundary of knowledge ever farther outward, so in that sense, it is a very good thing. :) - Shirley Wu
It would be interesting to see how the boundary is shaped by the number of PhDs working to advance knowledge in different fields. e.g. how big/far out does the "theoretical physics" part of the circle go, vs. "cell biology" vs. "ecology" etc? What happens to the circle when new disciplines are added? What would a time-lapse look like? Having visions of crazy infographics here... - Shirley Wu
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