http://www.spreadingscience.com Science 2.0 and beyond Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:14:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by …†∆†¡∆µ∆  Building scientific communities: [Via business|bytes|genes|molecules] Here is an interesting point that should be discussed more, especially with scientific community building (my bolding). I will start with something I have quoted all too often Data finds data, then people find people That quote by Jon Udell, channeling Jeff Jonas is one that, to ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/07/03/scientific-commuity-building/ by oskay 15 human genomes each week: [Via Eureka! Science News - Popular science news] The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has sequenced the equivalent of 300 human genomes in just over six months. The Institute has just reached the staggering total of 1,000,000,000,000 letters of genetic code that will be read by ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/07/02/two-a-day/ by SantaRosa OLD SKOOL Three Thoughts on Interdisciplinary Research: [Via Michael Jubb's blog] Comments on Michael's three thoughts following some meetings he has attended recently: The first was a suggestion, perhaps a hypothesis, that interdisciplinary research will lead (has led?) to an increase in researchers’ interest in open access. The thought here is ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/07/01/using-other-scientific-disciplines/ by *L*u*z*a* How Do I Add FriendFeed Comments to My Blog: [Via chrisbrogan.com] Hey, smarter people: how do I add a FriendFeed comments module under my blog comments? I want to see all these great comments. Just found these several days later: Man, so many great people saying great things, and I didn't ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/30/ask-a-question/ by jeffpearce Socialtext is Growing Up: [Via Enterprise 2.0 Blog] I had a great chat with Socialtext’s co-founder Ross Mayfield this week, and he highlighted a few interesting facts about wiki implementations. Notably, he says that wikis fail in the enterprise if they are imposed by IT, rather than by business groups. ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/30/ross-is-right/ by TankGirlJones Column on NIH and Harvard policies: [Via Open Access News] Karla Hahn, Two new policies widen the path to balanced copyright management: Developments on author rights, C&RL News, July/August 2008. A light bulb is going off that is casting the issue of author rights management into new relief. On January 11, ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/29/norms-are-changing/ Life Sciences likes this: Friendfeed: [Via OpenWetWare] I'm going to assume that only those currently using FriendFeed will understand the self reference in the title but if you didn't that's OK. Just keep on reading, you'll get it, eventually. If you happen to be interested or work in the life sciences area I'd ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/27/life-scientists-at-friendfeed/ Effective Online Networking: Nurturing Relationships: [Via Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media] It's Harvest Time for Networking and Tomatoes by Beth Kanter This week I am an online mentor on the topic of "Effective Online Networking" as part of the Networking for Success project at the the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre. ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/25/using-our-social-networks/ by helmet13 Action and Reaction: [Via A Journey In Social Media] Conversations are basically what Web 2.0 is all about. It uses new tools but they only accentuate what humans already do naturally - interact and exchange information with a large social network. Many of the same social skills we use in ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/24/web-20-behavior/ from Alexander Rich Kevin Kelly -- The Technium: [Via The Technium] Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/23/this-is-important/ You know the conference you are at is too big when ....: [Via The Tree of Life] You know the conference you are at is too big when .... Now - I confess I was really impressed with how ASM handled this enormous meeting I was just at. If you are going ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/20/why-i-hate-big-conferences/ by Darren Hester NYT: Businesses Fight the Email Monster They Helped Create: [Via 43 Folders -] Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast - NYTimes.com Is Information Overload a Billion Drag on the Economy? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog If you’ve seen the video of my Inbox Zero talk ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/19/email-and-time/ by Arbron Let's Talk about Numbers: [Via Transparent Office] Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, SocialText has made another major product announcement: SocialCalc, the first truly wiki-integrated spreadsheet. SocialCalc has one really big, really obvious benefit over traditional spreadsheets like Excel: it's distributed. In other words, ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/18/wikis-with-numbers/ by ul_Marga A million minds getting together can be confusing but might end up being really cool: [Via The Tree of Life]There is a possibly interesting paper in Genome Biology by Barend Mons et al: Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins. I say possibly because the ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/17/confusing-will-not-work/ by * etoile Why Web 2.0 Is No Bubble: Corporations Are Willing to Pay for It: [Via HarvardBusiness.org] Everyone seems to want an answer to the question "When will Web 2.0 startups start making money?" The implication is that unless we can answer the question, the "bubble" of Web 2.0 will burst ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2008/06/16/enterprise-is-next/