- Collaborative Thinking: Objects That Blog: Expanding The Architecture Of Participation
- Synthetic biology (Wired article)
- Worldwide Protein Data Bank
- Free and public archive of macromolecular structural data.
- Science in the open: Bursty science depends on openness
- The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC)
- Toronto-based effort to determine protein structure, and put them in the public domain.
- Galaxy Zoo
- Online astronomy project in which volunteer labour is being used to classify galaxy images taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Turns out that the volunteers are better than computer programs at this. More than 20,000 people have helped out.
- The Synaptic Leap
- Forum for scientific collaboration based on an open source model.
- open…: Ecuador Goes Free
- Ecuador is now mandating the use of open source software by government agencies.
- 2nd Blender Peach Open Source Movie Premiere and Economies of the Commons
- Blender is an amazing animation tool, and the Blender community has just released their second open source movie.
- Peter Murray-Rust: kudos to the Wellcome Trust
- The Wellcome Trust is leading the charge to VERY open access, including the possibility of re-use in derivative works.
- The Truth, Respectfully | Cosmic Variance
- A thoughtful discussion of the vexing question of how probing to be during a talk. This is something I struggle with as an audience member – I like to understand things, and so ask lots of questions, but I know this intimidates some people.
- Corie Lok: What can the Internet do to improve public discourse?
- Corie on Cass Sunstein and Yochai Benkler’s discussion of whether the internet leads to greater fragmentation and polarization.
- Niyaz Ahmed’s Blog: PLoS ONE’s strides at the Faculty-of-1000-Biology
- Examining changes in the impact of open access research.
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