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What Laurent said. Bravo! - Bill Hooker

Damn you wikipedia, so addictive! Well done Pierre, very impressive. - Dave Lunt

very impressed about the number of new articles on #wikipedia by Pierre too! - Egon Willighagen

Thank you, Pierre! - directeur

@Pierre so which ones are they? :-) - Duncan Hull

@Duncan: here they are :-) http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2009... - Pierre Lindenbaum

submitted to Open Lab 09 - Bora Zivkovic

Shirley - this is an excellent essay on this topic, which is very close to my heart. Well done! - Peter Binfield

Shirley, excellent (LONG) post. Can't wait to read your books ;) - Ricardo Vidal

Thanks! This took me a couple days pretty much full-time to write (the luxury of not working a job right now); how do people with jobs do this?? - Shirley Wu

Tom Roud (?) writes an interesting rebuttal against article-level metrics - or at least cautions against some of the metrics that might be used (such as blog and media coverage). It's in French but I used Google translator to read it. My memory of high school French classes only allowed me to decipher the first paragraph, and get the gist that it was an argument against. http://tomroud.com/2009... - Shirley Wu

The post on tomroud.com is interesting. Both your response on his post and the comment by Mitch on your post address most of his concerns, methinks. Popularity contests are no good, but there are ways around them (Mitch), they are just one of many metrics to be used with caution (PLoS), and GlamourMagz are also popularity contests where quirky papers have no chance (you). But his thesis... more... - Bora Zivkovic

@shirley: how do we do it? In pieces over many days... - Björn Brembs

or get a job where writing this stuff is what you are supposed to be doing ;-) - Bora Zivkovic

Having read the piece, I actually have some less vacuous comments: 1. To my knowledge, Garfield introduced the IF to help librarians cut subscriptions, not for scientists to help them chose publishing venues? 2. As you point out, journal level metrics are mathematically inadequate for what they are used for now. However, Thomson's IF specifically is worthless because it is negotiable... more... - Björn Brembs

Thanks for the tips Brad. Still a new way of thinking for me, but I do see a lot of exciting possibilities for it. - Neil Saunders

we're considering couchdb for jbrowse. still seems a bit unclear which document store will "win" - Ian Holmes

I was thinking that a document store module for GBrowse (and now you mention it, jbrowse) would be a nice project. - Neil Saunders

Can you explain what you'll be using a document-oriented DB for? I haven't yet figured out what situations cause one to say, "I know, I'll use CouchDB/MongoDB/a favorite key-value store". - Chris Lasher

Probably need more space for this, but a few thoughts. (1) I'm tired of designing MySQL schema that are basically 'lite' local versions of existing schema. (2) Code to bulk-update MySQL is frequently ugly, as you're always worried about foreign keys. "if record exists get id, otherwise create, then get id" - sound familiar? (3) A lot of biological data has a hierarchical, tree-like... more... - Neil Saunders

see also the NoSQL movement: http://news.ycombinator.com/item... - Ian Holmes

thanks Jill - Christina Pikas

Well, of course you did! :D Congratulations!!! - Laura H.

many congrats (we knew you would) - suelibrarian

great news! - Stephanie_GoBigBlue!

congrats! - Sir Shuping

Outstanding. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Congratulations! - Betsy (bentley) Vera

Thanks all! - Christina Pikas

Congrats! - Mr. Gunn

A big congrats! - Stephen Francoeur

Congratulations! - Martin Fenner

congarats! - Björn Brembs

Congratulations! - Kubke

Of course you did!!! Congratulations!!!! - Jill Hurst-Wahl

I was just chatting in e-mail with a guy at work - he asked me what alerts would be best for his stated research interests. After doing the standard librarian thing with the research databases - I threw in -or find some people who are interested in the same thing, subscribe to their blogs, and let them filter for you. If you're in a hot topic with people who like to share, that really works well. He is, but yeah, something like Mendeley that can go off what you read is probably the next best thing. - Christina Pikas

Mendeley with activity feeds would certainly fill much of this gap. Another place worth looking at is http://pubfeed.cs.toronto.edu/ . - Daniel Mietchen

Pierre, you definitely have too much time on your hands :-) - Jan Aerts

@Egon, this is an old treemap algorithm, I described it 3 years ago see http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2006... . I'll blog about it. contributor= someone who post something in the room. - Pierre Lindenbaum

@egon, hum, sorrry the link to my personal website at Integragen, my former company, is now broken. - Pierre Lindenbaum

@Jan I'm in holidays now :-) ! - Pierre Lindenbaum

@Pierre... I was more thinking about how you set up the data input... - Egon Willighagen