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I'm not sure I like the idea of paying, especially on a monthly basis for a subscription, once I have to foot the bill, and also if free cloud-based services exist and can do a half decent job... - Jason Snyder

Consider using WorkingWiki http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio... - it's free and flexible regarding data types. - Lee Worden

Central thesis: "open access means that there will be more potentially harmful papers available to general public". We should get rid of the internet too, perhaps? - Noel O'Boyle

And finally, the biggest win of OA will be when the general public actually cares about open access to knowledge, not when scholarly communication will be open and still nobody cares. That will translate to _rational_ public discourse, because fact checking and hypothesis testing will be a normal mode of coming to conclusions on public issues. Indeed, there's a place for anecdotal evidence, but they serve as a starting points of coming to conclusions, not end points. - Pawel Szczesny

:) - Winckel

Jim Henson is amused. - Xabaras (G.O.)

“Drawing on the work of the archaeologist Lawrence Keeley, Steven Pinker recently concluded that the chance of our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors meeting a bloody end was somewhere between 15% and 60%. In the 20th century, which included two world wars and the mass killers Stalin and Hitler, the likelihood of a European or American dying a violent death was less than 1%. Pinker shows that, with notable exceptions, the long-term trend for murder and violence has been going down since humans first developed agriculture 10,000 years ago. And it has dropped steeply since the Middle Ages. It may come as a surprise to fans of Inspector Morse but Oxford in the 1300s, Pinker tells us, was 110 times more murderous than it is today. (...) Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. (...)" - Amira from Bookmarklet

See also: Steven Pinker on The Colbert Report http://www.colbertnation.com/the-col... (video) - Amira

Great video - just stuck it up on YouTube too http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Graham Steel

It's actually a Beethoven quote: http://ff.im/Hoqpd . - Daniel Mietchen

Yeah, right now all I do is work, eat, and sleep... hacking a bit now for relaxing, but gonna pay for that the whole rest of the weekend... :/ - Egon Willighagen

Daniel++ - Egon Willighagen

"The Interplanetary Transport Network (ITN) is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the solar system that require very little energy for an object to follow. The ITN makes particular use of Lagrange points as locations where trajectories through space can be redirected using little or no energy. These points have the peculiar property of allowing objects to orbit around them, despite the absence of any material object therein. (...) The transfers are so low-energy that they make travel to almost any point in the solar system possible. " - Amira from Bookmarklet

I've seen science fiction writers refer to these paths as "chaotic" trajectories, on account of the complexity of the mapping process. I imagine we're now at a place where there's enough affordable computing power to actually map these paths in real-time. - Slippy

"Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) was the first woman to discover a comet and the first to have her work published by the Royal Society. * Mary Anning (1799-1847) began a long career as a fossil hunter. She found hundreds, possibly thousands, of fossils that helped scientists to draw a picture of the marine world 200 million to 140 million years ago during the Jurassic. (...) * Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) was awarded a Lasker Prize in 1981 and Nobel Prize in 1983. She discovered that genes could move within and between chromosomes. (...).... - Amira

Grace Murray Hopper - (1906-1992) "American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Amira

"After a couple years at Facebook, Hammerbacher grew restless. He figured that much of the groundbreaking computer science had been done. Something else gnawed at him. Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks." (...) "Any generation of smart people will be drawn to where the money is, and right now it's the ad generation," says Steve Perlman, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who once sold WebTV to Microsoft for $425 million and is now running OnLive, an online video game service. " (...) [Hammerbacher]: "If instead of pointing their incredible infrastructure at making people click on ads," he likes to ask, "they pointed it at great unsolved problems in science, how would the world be different today?" (...) At social networking companies, Wants may sit among the computer scientists and... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

"These consumer-targeting operations look a lot like what quants do on Wall Street. A Want system, for example, might watch what someone searches for on Google, what they write about in Gmail, and the websites they visit. "You get all this data and then build very rapid decision-making models based on their history and commercial intent," says Will Price, CEO of Flite, an online ad... more... - Amira

It's all about data mining, data mining, data mining and more data mining. The possibilities are exciting and endless, and I do not feel quite as jaundiced on the subject as Jeff Hammerbacher. One can learn a great deal about the human mind in general by data mining consumer behavior to the absolute limit. - Sean McBride

Must read for research institutes who use the JIF to rank candidates to positions... Jan Aerts originally shared this post: http://arxiv.org/pdf... - Egon Willighagen

Many of these are excellent. - Michael Nielsen

great tips, but not a beginner's list! - Mickey Schafer

talk to @neilfws - he's done some of this type of scraping of FriendFeed before: http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2010... - Chris Miller

Thanks, Chris. - Michael Nielsen

There is great ff achiever courtesy of http://friendfeed.com/zverok -- http://friendfeed.dwldr.com/ - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

Who is Greg Maxwell? - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

(Though I would hope it would avoid the corporate mentality.) - barbara fister

HUGE #OA WIN WIN WIN :)) - Graham Steel

As matters stand, other than this YTube vid, cannot find anything in writing on the web. - Graham Steel

finally found the SLIDES - http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/LIBER20... - Graham Steel

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Vol. 384, No. 3. (1 February 2006), pp. 620-630. Innovation in the last decade has endowed nanotechnology with an assortment of tools for delivery, imaging, and sensing in cancer research—stealthy nanoparticle vectors circulating in vivo, assembled with exquisite molecular control, capable of selective tumor targeting and potent delivery of therapeutics; intense and photostable quantum dot-based tumor imaging, enabling multicolor detection of cell receptors with a single optical excitation source; arrays of semiconducting nanowire and carbon nanotube sensor elements for selective multiplexed sensing of cancer markers without the need for probe labeling. These rapidly emerging tools are indicative of a burgeoning field ready to expand into medical applications. This review attempts to outline most of the current nanoparticle toolset for therapeutic release by liposomes, dendrimers, smart polymers, and virus-based systems. Advantages of... - Egon Willighagen

Despite the internet’s dynamic and collaborative nature, scientists continue to produce grant proposals, lab notebooks, data files, conclusions etc. that stay in static formats or are not published online and therefore not always easily accessible to the interested public. Because of limited adoption of tools that seamlessly integrate all aspects of a research project (conception, data generation, data evaluation, peer-reviewing and publishing of conclusions), much effort is later spent on reproducing or reformatting individual entities before they can be repurposed independently or as parts of articles.We propose that workflows – performed both individually and collaboratively – could potentially become more efficient if all steps of the research cycle were coherently represented online and the underlying data were formatted, annotated and licensed for reuse. Such a system would accelerate the process of taking projects from conception to publication stages and allow for continuous... - Daniel Mietchen

Wanted: summer student to use this for a Bioclipse plugin. - Egon Willighagen

Lawrence Souder presented on this at the SLA this week (analyzing Redfield's blog posts and related communication) - links to his screencast and slides through here http://ff.im/FUaus - Jean-Claude Bradley

I remain of the view that there are also very large opportunities for publishers getting into this arena to mismanage the process catastrophically...but will be very interesting to see... - Cameron Neylon

In terms of the OA Mega Journal, what about BMC? Current portfolio of 216 Journals. Would it make any sense or not to move some or all of these over to a "BMC ONE" type Mega Journal? @Egon see this rather cool Mendeley/PLoS mashup http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Graham Steel