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15 Mar 09

The Del.icio.us Lesson - Bokardo

  • The one major idea behind the Del.icio.us Lesson is that personal value precedes network value. What this means is that if we are to build networks of value, then each person on the network needs to find value for themselves before they can contribute value to the network. In the case of Del.icio.us, people find value saving their personal bookmarks first and foremost. All other usage is secondary.

Open Reading Frame - On science and selfishness.

  • Scientists will do nothing that doesn't immediately and obviously contribute to publications, unless forced to do so. Witness the utter failure of Open Access recommendations, suggestions and pleas vs the success of OA mandates. These are people who ignore carrots; you need a stick, and a big one.
08 Mar 09

StatCounter Global Stats

  • # Identify search engine usage trends
    # Get market share stats for mobile browsers
    # Find the most popular operating systems
07 Mar 09

globeandmail.com: Lent?s most controversial sacrifice: Facebook

  • The most common uses for the Web were socializing and making plans to socialize. In this way, sites like Facebook brought people together more often.

    Guess which one he thinks will be harder.
06 Mar 09

International Conference on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 - ICSD 2009 (Sept 8-11)

CFP deadline April 16, 2009

www.icsd-conference.org - Preview

  • The International Conferences on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 (ICSD2009) will take place from September 8-11 at the University of Trento.

Semantic Library » Linked Data and libraries

  • Discussion has recently turned to the potential of Linked Data for libraries, and it’s a subject I’ve been doing a lot of reading and thinking about lately. More on my thoughts later, but for now take a look at this spot on post by Eric Lease Morgan -

    “Finally, the use of linked data is yet another example of how librarianship needs to change its methods. We still need to describe materials, but we need to do it differently.”

globeandmail.com: The Internet has changed the nature of scientific debate

  • There is, of course, some good scientific material on the Web. Much of the health-related nonsense that is circulating through cyberspace has been debunked artfully on sites such as quackwatch.org.

    What one needs to wonder, however, is why there is such an appetite for quackery.

    It has emerged largely in the vacuum created by a lack of science literacy.

Vivek Kundra: Federal CIO in His Own Words - O?Reilly Radar

  • Vivek Kundra on data.gov and the Imperative to Distribute Data

    VK: One of the things we want to do is embark on launching data.gov which would democratize data and give data access to the public and based on that challenge whether it is citizens, NGOs the private sector to help us think through how we address some of the toughest problems in the public sector.

    VK: Data.gov will publish data feeds, so we'll have a vast array of data, and the way I like to think about this is that if you think of two forms of data that have been published in the federal government that have fundamentally transformed the economy. One example is the National Institute of Health working with other world bodies when they published the Human Genome Project data online. What that did is it created an entire revolution in personalized medicine where you ended up having over 500 drugs that were created and that are in the pipeline coming into the FDA.
02 Mar 09

blog.GC20.ca

  • Intended audience: Public servants of the Government of Canada interested in the application of Web 2.0 and collaborative tools in Government, as well as students of public administration and other Canadian public servants at other levels (provincial or municipal) or outside of Canada. I am interested in your feedback, especially your corrections to my contradictory statements.

Getting it out together

  • At the heart of this new journalism is a desire to work with data, and it struck me that a reporter’s quest is increasingly to exploit data sets documenting our government and our lives, many of them public data sets compiled by our local, state, and Federal governments, such as those liberated by Carl Malamud at Public.Resource.Org. The goal is to weave together these data, associate trends, and tell stories about people, their lives, our societies, by linking data together using simple tools, basic web standards, and engaging visualizations.
01 Mar 09

Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!

  • The revolution will be powered by data, which should be unshackled from the pages of regulatory filings and made more flexible and useful. We must require public companies and all financial firms to report more granular data online—and in real time, not just quarterly—uniformly tagged and exportable into any spreadsheet, database, widget, or Web page. The era of sunlight has to give way to the era of pixelization; only when we give everyone the tools to see each point of data will the picture become clear. Just as epidemiologists crunch massive data sets to predict disease outbreaks, so will investors parse the trove of publicly available financial information to foresee the next economic disasters and opportunities.
28 Feb 09

Final version of Government Data and the Invisible Hand | Freedom to Tinker

  • Thanks to the hard work of our patient editors at the Yale Journal of Law and Technology, my coauthors and I can now share the final version of our paper about online transparency, Government Data and the Invisible Hand.

globeandmail.com: Ingram 2.0 - The Policy Wiki: A new issue -- climate change

  • we are launching our third issue today, one that we know many Canadians feel strongly about: Climate Change. We hope that people who have views about this issue on either side of the fence will come to the Policy Wiki and read the prepared analysis we have from both Dr. David Suzuki -- one of Canada's pre-eminent environmental advocates -- and environmental consultant Ian Morton of the Summerhill Group, as well as an overview from Mark Jaccard of the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University and former CEO of the British Columbia Utilities Commission.
25 Feb 09

Go figure ... why mathematicians rule the internet | Science | The Guardian

  • Learning to sift through the vast amount of information being sent across the internet every second to divine people's feelings or intentions could, Kleinberg believes, be the next great technological leap.
24 Feb 09

The Berkeley Electronic Press

  • Hundreds of institutes, departments, and research units utilize the Berkeley Electronic Press working papers platform. View a complete list.
22 Feb 09

Peter Shankman?s HARO - Help a Reporter Out (TM)

  • You're reading the "I AM A SOURCE" page. If you're a JOURNALIST who's LOOKING for sources, click here.

    This list was originally conceived on Facebook, but since Facebook caps group emails at 1,200 people, this is the next incarnation.

    Each day, you'll receive up to three emails, each with anywhere from 15-30 queries per email. They'll all be labeled with [shankman.com] in the subject line, for easy filtering. If you see a query you can answer, go for it! HelpAReporter.com really is that simple.
18 Feb 09

ICSTI 2009 Conference - Managing Data for Science

  • ICSTI's 2009 Public conference will take place on June 9 and 10, 2009 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

    Speakers from Canada, the United States and Europe will address:

    * How eScience affects the way libraries, publishers and scientists relate to each other.
    * How the era of "big data" will enable enhanced experimentation and collaboration in science.

Top climate scientists leave as project funding dries up

  • "I didn't really want to leave," says Meissner, who is walking away from a coveted tenure-track position in Victoria [British Columbia]. But she says the opportunities in Australia seem much more promising. ''Long-term it looks quite scary in Canada," says Meissner.

    It is a refrain heard across Canada as funding dries up at the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS), a prime source of funding for university-based projects underway from the Arctic to B.C. mountaintops.

    Projects involving hundreds of scientists have entered their final phase and will shut down by March 2010. "They're dead as of next spring," says atmospheric physicist Richard Peltier of University of Toronto, noting that there is no new federal money in sight for new projects or to build on existing ones.
16 Feb 09

HOW TO: (backup Google-hosted data)

  • every web service, Google included, can mess up, and sometimes it means losing your data. So, when was the last time you backed up the data on the various Google services you use? I thought so. Let’s look at some easy solutions for extracting and backing up your data on popular Google apps and services.
12 Feb 09

Association of Research Libraries :: The Research Library’s Role in Digital Repository Services: ARL Digital Repositories Tas...

  • The report, “The Research Library’s Role in Digital Repository Services,” identifies key issues surrounding repository development, explores common strategies that libraries are using, analyzes relevant environmental trends, discusses issues where ARL and its member libraries should focus attention, and recommends ... actions for research libraries to undertake
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