Michael Nielsen

• Google Search: “chief ontologist” OR “chief ontology officer”
  • If I had a time machine, I’d go back and tell my high school careers counsellor that I wanted to be a Chief Ontology Officer when I grew up.
• One Big Lab: Online collaborative manuscript annotation
  • shwu wants tools for online collaborative manuscript annotation. Anyone want to help her out? The Django book project and crit.org (now defunct, see the wayback machine) immediately come to mind.
• Yutaka Shikano on SciBarCamp
• TimothyPilgrim on SciBarCamp
• Org tutorials
  • I used to use Word to jot down my thoughts, and as an outlining tool. Most of my writing, though, is done in emacs. I’ve recently started using org mode for emacs, and am thinking it might be time to make the switch completely.
• What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate: Rewards, output and academia
  • “The Nature Biotechnology article is recognised by academia and qualifies for academic rewards. The blog posts – which are longer, more detailed, written by enthusiastic communicators and in theory, accessible to a much wider audience … are not.”
• Marginal Revolution: Cooked books
  • Tyler Cowen: “If I had to guess whether Wikipedia or the median refereed journal article on economics was more likely to be true, after a not so long think I would opt for Wikipedia. This comparison should give us pause.” Ouch. And wow.
• clapclap.org: Hallelujah
  • The history of Leonard Cohen’s song.
• Relativistic asteroids
• Tiny projects keep it new – (37signals)
  • “Shatter big projects into little pieces… Working on, finishing, and launching one little piece at a time will help you stay motivated because you’re always working on something new”
• Word of the week: Rebbe
  • Rebbe is a Yiddish term which means master, teacher, or mentor, mostly referring to the leader of a Hassidic Jewish movement. Compare to the Hebrew “Rabbi”
• Science: The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge: Wuchty et al. 316 (5827): 1036 — Science
  • “…teams increasingly dominate solo authors in the production of knowledge… Teams typically produce more frequently cited research than individuals do, and this advantage has been increasing over time…knowledge creation has fundamentally changed.”
• A Blog Around The Clock : Final Scifoo Wrap-up
  • Great summary of Sci Foo 2007 from Coturnix.
• Kevin Kelly: Countdown Clock
  • Kelly has a clock on his computer screen, counting down the number of days to his (expected) death: “The time left is still too short. And too close. And getting closer. And I’m sorry but I need to do something else right now….”

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