- Public Library of Science: readership survey
- “So in addition to the 414 readers in Indonesia, 259 in Saudi Arabia, 64 in Zimbabwe, and 15 in Iraq we also see that we have single readers in Niger and Sierra Leone.”
- Word Spy – tweetup
- tweetup n. “A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service.”
- Jimmy Wales: Free Culture and the Future of Publishing
- Reed Elsevier to stop organizing arms fairs
- Aaron Swartz: How to Promote Startups
- Thoughtful comments on how to create a more entrepreneurial society.
- The Harris Poll – Large Majorities of U.S. Adults Support Easy – and Free – Online Access to Federally-Funded Research Findings on Health Issues and Other Topics
- 2006 poll showing overwhelming support for open access to federally funded research in the US.
- Heritage of humanity, by John Sulston
- An account of the drafting of the Bermuda principles in 1996, which effectively made the human genome public property.
- Growth of Genbank
- Graph showing the growth in base pairs in GenBank. Very clear exponential growth, with a doubling time of roughly 18 months.
- Mathematical Physics Preprint archive
- Launched before (!) the Los Alamos archive. I’d never heard of it until just now. Still active in 2008.
- WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project
- One of the original proposals by Berners-Lee and Cailliau
- RFC 2555 – 30 Years of RFCs
- History of the RFC (Request for Comments). Lots of fascinating tidbits about the origins of the modern network.
- Formerly Elegant Milky Way Galaxy Downclassed As Cheap, Lousy “Bar Galaxy”
- Two arms, not four.
- JASON report on “Human Performance”
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