only if you (or they) can think of a way to implement tagging that 1) doesn't create much of a burden for the tagger and 2) provides a lot of value to the readers/subscribers. An enforced taxonomy = pain in the rear. An unenforced taxonomy, in my experience, results in chaos, annoyance, and not much of interest. Flickr is a mild exception, but isn't all that great wrt tags, IMHO. - Adam Lasnik
"6. Stealth Kiwi - If you’re not big on self control, let Stealth Kiwi do it for you. It blocks all “recreational” websites, but allows you to take a 10 minute break every hour. (GreaseMonkey)" --Hey, Alan? Is that what you were using to block FF? LOL - Mona N.
I keep telling myself that I need to organize my bookmarks better on delicious. I still never get around to it. - Rob Diana
@Rob organize your bookmarks? In what way? I just tag them as I make them and if my tagging scheme fails on lookup (usually does the job 90% of the time) then the search on Del.icio.us works fine... - Lindsay Donaghe
My diigo bookmarks are a hot mess LOL Sorry to the people who've added me =| - Mona N.
look at FF once a day for only 10 minutes... - Pokai
but I don't WANT to be productive when I'm online. I'm online because I'm trying NOT to be productive. - Nine (pedestrian wolf)
But Nine, what if your work IS online... :| - Mona N.
Why organize when you have search? ;) - Phil Glockner
As far as organizing the most used icons on Windows, forget the desktop, I really like Rocketdock. Gives you that Mac dockbar feel. And it's free too. - TDavid
If I still used a Windows Machine TDavid, I will totally use Rocketdock :) Thank you for your input. - Mona N.
I don't see the point of icons now that I use a Desktop Launcher. My desktop is blank. - Rahsheen™
rocketdock just changed my whole game up...thanks TDavid! - joshuabacker
Lindsay, I try to be organized, which means I use tags similarly to folders. The problem is that I also tend to be lazy and use existing tags that I already have. So my tags become useless. Sometimes I like to browse through my bookmarks to see if there is something I want to re-read as well. - Rob Diana
a few days ago someone here on friendfeed was saying "privacy is a false issue" (meaning: c'mon, it's not a real problem)... yeah, sure! - lezionidistile
This is not a privacy matter. This is a security matter. Is pretty different. - Federico Fasce
the problem is: your privacy is always a security matter. this specific episode teaches (to anyone unaware of the problem) that your data (being it online or offline) is always linked to the security of some system, and breaches do happen... people should be aware of it (and then freely decide what/how/when share stuff online), most of them, unfortunatly, are not. - lezionidistile
Just after posting this, a Facebook friend told me that Best Western says the newspaper report isn't accurate, saying the data breach relates to one hotel only. They've issued a press release which I don't think clarifies much. And that release isn't listed on their website. http://tinyurl.com/65kztw - Neville Hobson
@Federico Fasce : I second lezionidistile; this is 100% about one's privacy. If you think having your credit card info stolen isn't a Privacy matter of the most critical importance, what do you think is? - Woodrow Jarvis Hill
What's the difference from privacy and security matter? Does this both connote restriction? - Jack
"By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP." - Dave "Actual" Winer
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PGP & more widespread adoption of encryption even if the result of perceived attacks on what is right has the solid result of pushing more security & strong encryption to the people - who are the government & to whom we all must be accountable ... sometimes unintended consequences are the only impetus for change - good & bad (PGP is good & RSA's first major notable client was the Clinton White House concerned about the security of their own communications) - difficult perhaps, data security belongs to us - Scott Moskowitz
forgot what famous powerful president did the late, former MPAA leader Jack Valenti work for? the American message does matter to politicians for many, multifaceted reasons ... Soft power, perhaps ... Narrative? Noise? Objectivity? - Scott Moskowitz
I know, lets just put them all in a big bag, shake it up really hard, and see if we can get one acceptable politician out of it. American politics has become a game of choosing the one who will cause the least amount of damage to the status quo. - Bob Blunk
I agree with Scott Moskowitz: adopt GPG now. There's no reason anyone should be able to read your e-mail except you and the recipient. - Tom Morris
If you're in an area where there's a lot of low-hanging fruit, so to speak, maybe there's an issue, but even then some repetition is necessary, so scooping is just an imaginary problem which affects the uncreative - Mr. Gunn
I know that this will probably not be popular, but I have to disagree. In my experience, the most crucial part is to be creative and get the good idea. If you share those ideas too early, you run the risk that someone uncreative takes your idea, finishes the work faster than you, and takes the glory. In which case it is precisely you, the creative scientist, who has been affected. And by the time you don't get your next grant, the problem is by no means "imaginary" any longer - but your lab might be. - Lars Juhl Jensen
Lars, I don't disagree with that. Especially if you have collected the data for a specific purpose, e.g. you only publish your raw data for a protein structure after you solve it, and perhaps identify a mechanism of action. My problem is with the paranoid fear around "my data" which seems to be a direct result of the publish or perish model - Deepak
and you must be reasonable. You can't keep working on a mechanism of action for 3 years and hold on to the coordinates :) - Deepak
Deepak, we completely agree that there is no excuse for not making data available after publication. But I don't really see that as having to do with being scooped - if you wait until after publication then scooping is obviously not a risk. Am I missing the point here? - Lars Juhl Jensen
Lars, I see two situations. One, where you collect data for the sake of collecting data (a big genome or something). There, you MUST make it available immediately. There's enough in there for many people - Deepak
"You can't keep working on a mechanism of action for 3 years and hold on to the coordinates" actually you can thats what "Deep throat" and all the M15 (5 horsemen) did.. they scooped every darn bit of data and retained the same coord's for over 25yrs ! - Peter Dawson
In the other situation too, in an ideal world, I would consider releasing the data. The only reason we hold on to it today is that we have a "first past the post" publishing model, so my previous statement fell into the trap I advocate against. We are trying to fit into an existing system, rather than changing the system. For the case you describe, how long do you hold on to the data. Until you submit? Until it gets published? 6 months? - Deepak
The attitude I've seen from some scientists towards "scooping" borders on obsession. And that's the part that really makes me worry, cause it's all about the publication or finishing a thesis and not about good science anymore - Deepak
Peter, you can do it. It's just not the right thing to do - Deepak
I fully agree that the problem is that science is so focused on publishing today. If it was not a matter being "first past the post" then there would indeed be no reason to hold onto data. I always try to make data available as soon as the paper is published - but there has been cases where collaborators did not agree to that. - Lars Juhl Jensen
Lars, in that case, we have little to disagree on :) - Deepak
I also agree that if the primary purpose of a project is to produce data, then the data should be made available as early as possible. - Lars Juhl Jensen
I still maintain that scooping is very real, though ;-) (But I hate it too!) - Lars Juhl Jensen
Another case for using CC licensing on some datasets. Protection against slimy #$(#*&(@#*$&@!)# - Deepak
I've recently spoke to a person from structural genomics center, who opened my eyes on the fact how many enemies you can gain after publishing a paper from "somebody's else" data even if release (for example coordinates) was couple of years ago. Such people call it scooping and will make sure everybody in the community know how bad person you are (aka bottomfeeder). It's all crazy - Nobel prize washes brains of otherwise smart people... - Pawel Szczesny
Well, Pawel, that's exactly why this fetish about scooping is so stupid. Everyone here reading this is not only more creative, but more technically skilled, which is why I think most people here have little fear of someone taking their idea and doing more with it than they could. - Mr. Gunn
Actually, the use of CC licenses on datasets is a bit problematic. The problem is that CC licenses are based on copyright law and as such they legally only cover "creative works". It is clear that a scientific paper counts as such, it is equally clear that facts of nature are not covered by copyright, but as far as I know it is unclear if data sets qualify as "creative works". - Lars Juhl Jensen
Pawel, I also cannot comprehend how someone can find it unfair that you use a data set that they themselves released. Thankfully, I have not run into such individuals in the microarray / protein interactions field - otherwise I would have a lot of enemies by now ;-) - Lars Juhl Jensen
AFAIK sequencing community has unformal agreement that people hold off others data for six months (NIH funded projects cannot put sequences "on hold" at NCBI). There's nothing like that among crystallographers. And that's the only reason my idea for bug tracking service for scientific data was put on hold - I've been warned that I shouldn't do it as long as I have academic affiliation (or success rate of my colleagues grant applications is going to decline). Strange, isn't it? But true. - Pawel Szczesny
Lars ... good point, and actually part of the reason for the "open data" premise. We just need to figure out an appropriate attribution mechanism - Deepak
I thought crysallographers also had informal "not until published" agreements in place? - Deepak
Deepak, I think it's rather "not until I squeeze every possible bit out of the coordinates" and possibly originates since DNA story (no other field has so strong sense of ownership). Anyway, I've just mentioned that as an example what "scooping" means to different people. My guess is that all kinds of different attitudes towards data ownership could be easily addressed by removing manual labor from the data generation pipeline. I dream about virtualized and automated laboratories... - Pawel Szczesny
The "to be published" remark in released coordinates is extremly abused rendering an "not until published" agreement in my opinion useless. - marcin
Pawel, that would be one aspect. The crux of the matter, though, from where I sit, seems to be in the system. Take away the publication pressure and my most hated word loses all meaning. - Deepak
I sincerely hope what Neil says can become reality one day. Its a rat race, esp. in biology research and I cannot understand why 2 people cannot come up with the same idea, incommunicado. That said, there is a dark underbelly to this term, exemplified by the Watson & Crick saga. Publication pressure and massive egos don t help science either. - Aarthy
Deepak, you've just given ultimate solution, mine was a partial one :) - Pawel Szczesny
we had a discussion about this with respect to release of DNA sequences as well this morning and the suggestion was even there, which is often given as the example of good practice, these social norms are abused. I'd be interested in Matt Wood's take on that. - Cameron Neylon
The question is. Do we prepare for the 5% of negative cases that will arise in whatever model you choose, or focus on the 95% of honest scientists? - Deepak
I once talked to a lady from sequencing lab in US. Jumping on her data before this unformal 6 months time span happened few times, but I was told overall they do not worry much (and they write publications as fast as possible). She was more concerned about her employees missing opportunity for a good paper than about somebody making huge discovery they would miss. - Pawel Szczesny
Scooping is just a consequence of the normal step-wise progress in science and the saturation of certain fields of research. To say that it doesn't exist is either because you are lucky to work on an open field or have your head buried in the sand. It happens, too often for comfort. Also, to say that only the uncreative worry with scooping is unfair, to say the least. In wet labs, the main limiting factor is often the experimental system (project turnover of 2-3 years), not the researcher's creativity. - Ricardo Almeida
my jewelry (and randomness) blog: yolanda.vox.com - Yolanda
Personal Blogs definitely count...unless you don't want anyone to read it...in which case...nevermind :) ...Just trying to get a glimpse outside of the box I'm in right now :) - Rahsheen™
Why, how kind of you to ask =) http://www.isthisstupid.com which is, obviously, about things I find stupid. This does occasionally include tech and/or social media, but that's not the focus. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I need to make a blog about my travels in Narnia. - Ben Parr
In case anyone is refraining from sharing because they don't want to be in a blog post about blogs not about tech/social media...this is not that kind of party :) - Rahsheen™
I am not smart enough for it to be about tech/social media. just opinionated so it focuses on the 2008 election, with a few other tings thrown in www.ilivetoshop.typepad.com. - Ruth Ferguson
I'll be revitalizing an old blog but it will very very little to do with tech/social media - Steven Hodson
Sean does *some* social media stuff, but does a lot of pop culture and general comic geekery at seanpaune.com. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Mo Kargas: That's just not fair! I posted mine and it's in utter shambles, thrown together between work and 2 side projects. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Wow some nice sites here, even a few I already visit (Snarfd by Mr Baskind for instance) @Stupid Blogger *sweeping em under the carpet and hoping they go away* :D - Mo Kargas
Oh, another good non-tech blog: http://almostfearless.com - about a woman who recently quit her job to fulfill her dream of moving to Spain indefinitely. - Lindsay Donaghe
http://www.peat.me.uk primarily a personal blog, is a bit of tech, but also sci-fi stuff, plus some posts for family/village/church events and such. Main topic in recent days has been posts in support of Dave Walker, a British cartoonist and blogger who has been the subject of some legal bullying from a Texan lawyer over seventy-five posts reporting on the collapse of the SPCK bookshop chain that the Texan bought. (see http://friendfeed.com/rooms/da...) - Richard Peat
yup! http://balutpress.com/zhey - it's a personal Chrisian blog, a lot of apologetics and Christian resources, downloadable sermons (mp3 and pdf/word files), stories of struggles, pains, joys and basically, Gospel. I hope you guys hop by and if you do, please, feel free to leave your marks :) - Zhey Chua
http://www.penguinsix.com/ I do talk about tech, but also a fair bit about national security matters around the world and politics (my pre-tech careers). Occasionally a posting about whatever sails past my window. - Andrew Leyden
I write a blog dealing with narrative, it touches on social media and technology, but the focus is on how we tell and read stories. It's actually touched on social media more these days because that's what I get on Friendfeed. http://rwvblog.org - Aram Zucker-Scharff
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I've just started blogging about economics and monetary police at http://www.johnbudnik.com/blog . I'm not sure that anyone will find it particularly interesting, but I have gotten a few people following me on FF based on earlier comments on monetary policy. - John Budnik
From io9: "My paintings deal with scale. It's why I can paint a colossal space-scape and then, Godzilla or something like that. It's all about scale and size. Think about it. I like big things next to little things. The human race is a speck in the universe. But an ant colony is small next to us. Everything is relative to scale. I tend to like to try something different with each job I do." - Mark Trapp
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"I veered into fantasy heavily and then came back and applied this romantic vision to the SF work. Who wants to see things as they are? We want to see them as we dream them to be." - beautiful - Patricia Hanrahan
The Stata Center is home to MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), created in 2003 by the merger of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Laboratory for Computer Science. - Cee Bee
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egad post modernism is getting out of hand. try some new design cohesion... must everything make a self reference? I find it sad that a community dedicated to progression like MIT can't find a better use for new architectural possibilities. one hundred years from now it will just look like an old joke. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
The entire complex looks like some giant came along and stepped on it. - Peter Simard
This building is cool to look at, but according to some of the people in it, it leaks terribly. I hate to name drop (not really) but I was so fortunate to get to meet Noam Chomsky, who's office is in this building. The rest of the campus is lovely, as well. - Bren
Chomsky's office leaks eh? kind of like his theory that there were no WMDs in Iraq. Too bad he had to back peddle on that as well. How ironic that he works in a self referential post modernist house that parallels all his elitist bias. Perhaps if the architecture he worked in were better then he would see that history doesn't always reflect and cycle and that the signs of one mistake do not add up as mistake in other moments in history. Better Architecture=Better Brains! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Linguists need to understand Language. Perhaps the language of architecture? Innovate... don't hesitate! Chomsky=FAIL! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
finally an edifice that reflects the ugly ineptitude of revisionist theory. Looks like elephantitus of an institution. Cancer of the code has materialized... Post Modernism and all it's bastardizations like Feminism reflects and what is seen is a waste of technology, money and energy. We all suffer from the Blue State Fashion Tyranny. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Noah: Chomsky didn't design the building, he just has an office there, and in fact he hates the building, for any number of reasons. And your utterly fallacious argument regarding a correlation between the architecture of one's office and the 'architecture' of one's theoretical constructions reveals a simplistic world-view. Alas, I can see from your posts that you are here mainly to incite and inflame. - Bren
I'm sure Chomsky has enough clout that he can decide where his office goes. Nothing but passing the buck of guilt in the Blue States like usual. Always looking to claim that you had no power... looking to bureaucracy for responsibility and afraid to delineate structures... because if you do it looks like this! THE BUCK STOPS HERE on this comment. http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N... Gehry told the Times that he had received support from professors and others the building was designed for. They are “sending me e-mails dumbfounded that their institution is doing this,” Gehry said. by the way... where is the link for Chomsky's opinion on this building? - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
When one talks of visual language and uses it for metaphor to the language of history and politics, of course it is simplicity. Metaphor is dependent on a certain abstraction. It is your words that reveal a lack of understanding. Your bias does not allow you to listen to anything that criticizes the status quo academic tyranny. Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but Chomsky's edifice will fall before your names hurt me. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Pointlessly erudite flame wars are my favorite. - Derrick Burns
I don't have a problem with disagreement do you Derrick? I have problems with intellectual laziness. Calling people names and barbs. Please respond and argue in the context of the thread. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
@Noah: Frankly, I quite enjoy disagreement. And I will gladly concede that intellectual laziness is a problem. As for my two cents on the thread: As far as I can discern, your contention is that Chomsky's philosophical models either A) reflect, or B) are reflected by, the dissolute post-modernist architecture of the building in which he works. I will yield that environment can impact psychology, but I'll go no further than that.[ ...] - Derrick Burns
Beyond this, you are arguing metaphor and symbology, which are intractably subjective and externally referential. In other words, if the building seems to you a physical manifestation of a philosophic model, the responsibility for that association is yours, not Chomsky's. - Derrick Burns
All of this is, of course, overlooking the fact that this entire comment thread reads like a series of Markov chains sourced from a freshman philosophy textbook. - Derrick Burns
your Subjectivity betrays a sad denial of a truth. I am arguing against self reference and you argue for it by using the very argument that is in question. You are not capable of leaving your limited logic. Enjoy the cancer of the code... it is yours to cherish with the rest of the monoculture. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
because you have no understanding of metaphor. You only understand CODE... and you have met recursion. CANCER of the CODE... when you forget humanity and its liberation is determined by structures like Polity Republic States or Good Architecture. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
'good architecture'? Who gets to decide what is good and what is not? ...I'm also not entirely certain that human liberation is determined by structures of any sort. Derrick: your point about environment impacting psychology is apt, but I would note that most of Chomsky's core theoretical work was done before he was in this building and, therefore, could not have been impacted by *this* environment. - Bren
his scene is a reflection of that building. It is his manifestation and it is yours as well. It is what happens when you deny structure and then attempt to put one together with a last minute bandage. If you see no place for an elegant evolving structure then that is your flaw. NO MORE GREEN GHETTOS! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
the sad thing is there is structure in this building. ...though it is hidden and elitist like Robert Scoble's private feed. If the structure were a bit more tranparent in an non- absolutist way then there would be a beauty and intelligence. Instead what we are left with is the ugliness of Blue State deception that deny the self, by making reference to it's own history of mendacity, spuriousness, & inaccuracy! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
there must be a structure. and we shouldn't pretend it shouldn't be there. there is a morality, a truth; a set of patterns that are worth fighting for. Never forget that. Don't reject our culture and then build a heap of garbage over it. Don't let the LEFTISTS build "60's project buildings" over ghettos. Stop hiding the truth. Tell us what our roles are (gender for example). It is time for our leaders to be more honest about us. please don't let this important thread decompose into more recursion - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
"Those five minutes before the room cools down are a real bitch, especially if the boogie man is hiding under that dark bed." - duh... - silpol
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Tell me what those mentioned hotels are who install european toilets and I will go for them in a heartbeat. Twice I had overflowing toilets and the american system simply makes me nearly puke. - Nicole Simon
@nicole: and the dangers of puking into an American system adds to the complications =) - Alex
speaking of toilets... I wonder about what people (who's never been to Asian countries) would think of the squat toilet :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... - BeeLing
