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Academic Branding and Portfolio Control
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One of the things the digital era affords us as scholars is the ability to both deliver to a wider audience, and develop a reputation independent of institutional structures. That is, not only can you blog about developments in your field, and blog about how those developments might be of interest to a wider audience, and audience outside of your immediate classroom and colleagues, but perhaps more importantly one can develop a profile and voice that is more important than the specific institution with which you are associated. Think about this as rather than being a professor from Omega university who writes about Legal Institutions in Meerkat Communities, you can be a professor who writes about Meerkats and the Law and who is associated with Omega university. This is not really anything earthshaking, but rather a general trend that the internet creates, administrative and sorting functions are pushed down to the local level. This is happening in all sorts of fields and education will certainly follow.
How to cite twitter, how to cite tweets, how to archive tweets
A good post by Gunther Eysenbach about how to archive and cite Tweets (or other online materials) using the WebCite service.
Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse
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The Interwebs could become an early warning system for when the web of life is about to fray.
By trawling scientific list-serves, Chinese fish market websites, and local news sources, ecologists think they can use human beings as sensors by mining their communications.
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Sources And Methods: Open Source Communicable Disease Surveillance Tool (Biocaster)
A very cool tool. It would be nice if there were a generic application like this that would allow you to "roll your own"--i.e. allow you to plug in source feeds, set persistent searches, and then have the data displayed on a map, or possible even a network graph, line graph, etc.
Scientists Use Social Media
Overview of recent survey of scientists' use of social media.
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- 77% of life scientists participate in some type of social media
- 50% see blogs, discussion groups, online communities, and social networking as beneficial to sharing ideas with colleagues
- 85% see social media affecting their decision-making
- Discussion groups and message boards are still the most-used types of sites, but online communities are gaining fast
- User-generated content is not completely trusted for product information, but it is more trusted than information in printed trade magazines, editorial web sites, or online portals
BioInformatics LLC conducted a survey in November 2007 that found some interesting trends:
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- Nature Network (36%)
- BioMed Experts (35%)
- Facebook (35%)
- MySpace (34%)
- LinkedIn (33%)
- ResearcherID (19%)
- CiteULike (18%)
- 2collab (18%)
- del.icio.us (15%)
- Connotea (14%)
- Digg (14%)
Elsevier’s survey went a little further than the earlier survey, asking respondents to name sites. This generated a Top 11 list of social media sites in the sciences:
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Blog Comments and Peer Review Go Head to Head to See Which Makes a Book Better
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What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers?
That's the question being posed by an unusual experiment that begins today. It involves a scholar studying video games, a popular academic blog with the playful name Grand Text Auto, a nonprofit group designing blog tools for scholars, and MIT Press.
The idea took shape when Noah Wardrip-Fruin, an assistant professor of communication at the University of California at San Diego, was talking with his editor at the press about peer reviewers for the book he was finishing, The book, with the not-so-playful title Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies, examines the importance of using both software design and traditional media-studies methods in the study of video games.
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