Justine Sanderson

"Scriblio (formerly WPopac) is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a project of Plymouth State University, supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation." * Free and open source * Represents bibliographic collections — library catalogs and such — in an easily searchable, highly remixable web-based format * Leverages WordPress to offer rich content management features for all a library’s content * Don’t forget the free and open source part" - Justine Sanderson

"Through the theories discussed in Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational (and largely based on the excerpts in Chris Yeh’s outline of the book), two articles have emerged on different sides of one topic: our irrational decision-making in terms of products and purchases. One on how to take advantage of our irrationality when marketing products, and another on preventing manipulation by being aware of our own irrationalities." - Justine Sanderson

Jonah Lehrer's take on Tom Stafford's Prospect article 'Tall Stories on confabulation and improv. - Justine Sanderson

Mind Hacks's take on Tom Stafford's Prospect article 'Tall Stories on confabulation and improv. - Justine Sanderson

“This is a story of betrayal, a story of selfishness, greed, and irresponsibility on an epic scale.” That’s how James Hoggan opens his newly published book Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. Hoggan initially thought there was a fierce scientific controversy about climate change. Sensibly he did a lot of reading, only to find to his surprise that there was no such controversy. How did the public confusion arise? There was nothing accidental about it. As a public relations specialist, Hoggan observed with gathering horror a campaign at work." - Justine Sanderson

NZ online fabric store: gorgeous alternative fabrics - Justine Sanderson

Excerpts from Frank Jacobs' s book Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities. - Justine Sanderson

"Towards a science of technology-mediated social participation: I believe we need to develop a deeper science and education about technology-mediated social participation. It needs to promote: (1) new theories that are rich and encompassing enough to provide practical guidance on how to design an online community, (2) new examples of socio-technical architectures that harness more people in complex, engaging, and productive ways, and (3) new methods and infrastructures to promote the study of online interaction, while protecting people and stakeholders." - Justine Sanderson

Book recommendations for science writing or non-fiction writing. - Justine Sanderson

Compromise bias - Justine Sanderson

Looks interesting (the thinking, not the execution) but haven't had time to investigate... - Justine Sanderson

Target (Milford MA) use game mechanics (scoring / personal leaderboad) to encourage faster checkout times: - Justine Sanderson

How to make homemade icrecream in 3 minutes ;-) - Justine Sanderson

Round-up of current 'alternative', cross-disciplinary conferences (TED, Ignite, Pecha Kucha, etc). There's still missing a few... - Justine Sanderson

Fantastic talk summarizing research on sex/gender differences, particularly in developmental stages. Small biologically-influenced behavioural biases get accentuated by environment. - Justine Sanderson

"a young and half-organized but growing bibliographic list about touch screens, multi touch and touch user interface" - Justine Sanderson

Don't know what's more amazing: nature itself, or the cinematography involved to capture it - Justine Sanderson

"One of the best read that I had over the summer was David MacKay’s Sustainable Energy – without the hot air. The book (which you can download for free from his website) is easy to follow, clear and a very interesting analysis of the options open to the UK in terms of energy provision in a way that is sustainable and without reliance on fossil fuel." - Justine Sanderson

Lovely article riffing on confabulation and improv, two themes I've been exploring this year. - Justine Sanderson

"Our navigational gadgets, says journalist Alex Hutchinson, could actually be damaging our sense of direction." - Justine Sanderson

"Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world’s top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Researchers—often implicitly—assume that either there is little variation across human populations, or that these “standard subjects” are as representative of the species as any other population. Are these assumptions justified? Here, our review of the comparative database from across the behavioral sciences suggests both that there is substantial variability in experimental results across populations and that WEIRD subjects are particularly unusual compared with the rest of the species—frequent outliers. The domains reviewed include visual perception, fairness, cooperation, spatial reasoning, categorization and inferential induction, moral reasoning, reasoning styles, self-concepts and related motivations, and the heritability of IQ. " - Justine Sanderson

"Portugal's newest daily newspaper, i, was launched in early May and has attracted a significant amount of attention due to its rising circulation figures and innovative approach. It recently won a design award from the Society of News Design. The Editors Weblog spoke to editor-in-chief Martim Avillez Figueiredo, managing editor for online Mónica Bello and art director Nick Mrozowski, to find out more about i's approach and the reasons behind its success." - Justine Sanderson

"Is online activism effective in bringing about political change? What mechanisms and tools are effective? Does the ability to take action increase and sustain interest in a topic? Does action need to have political effect to sustain interest? Does increased interest lead to increased media attention, and does that attention lead to real-world change? What sort of data and experiments do we need to move these questions beyond anecdote and theory and into testable propositions?" - Justine Sanderson