Shirley Wu

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

Nice. Found out in time, this time round - but why don't they ship to Maryland? - Rajarshi Guha

@Rajarshi: Certain states do no longer allow this kind of testing. Just ordered mine. - Josef Scheiber

Just tried that code at that link and it is coming up as invalid - it should still be working on Nov 26, right? - Jean-Claude Bradley

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