Michael Nielsen

• Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style
  • “We have always loved one another… With love alone, you can get together a birthday party. Add coordinating tools, and you can write an operating system. In the past, we would do little things for love…now we can do big things for love.”
• Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog
  • Great blog about the future of publishing, from a publisher.
• Global Moxie: Magic Boxes, Canned Chaos and Creative Totems
  • “mystery is more important than knowledge.”
• Creating Passionate Users: Users shouldn’t think about YOU
  • “It’s so natural to write with a critic sitting on your shoulder representing the person who isn’t even in your target audience anyway, slamming you for leaving something out, or not being technical enough, or not proving how smart you are.”
• VideoLectures – exchange ideas & share knowledge
  • Video site, mostly focused on computer science at this point.
• JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments – Biological Experiments and Protocols on Video
  • “Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, open access, online journal devoted to the publication of biological research in a video format.”
• Einstein Versus the Physical Review
  • Einstein’s sole encounter with anonymous peer review did not end happily.
• Ed Boyden: How to Think
• “Zero as a Special Price: The True Value of Free Products”
  • What happens when you give stuff away? People’s behaviour varies smoothly as a function of price, but is actually discontinuous in interesting ways when stuff becomes free.
• Hill Library Blog: Digital Economy Fact Book
  • Lots of very interesting statistics.
• Geekcorps
  • The peace corps for geeks – aims to transfer skills to entrepeneurs in developing countries.
• Ethan Zuckerman: From TED to BIL
  • Interesting list of rules for successful heretics, from Aubrey de Gray.

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