Biweekly links for 06/20/2008

• Science in the open » Friendfeed for scientists: What, why, and how?
  • Excellent guide to using FriendFeed for scientists, including a beautiful example of how it can be used to start collaborations.
• Kevin Kelly — Scenius
  • “Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate.”
• How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles – Citizendium
  • Fascinating for cultural anthropologists. It’s like a guide to Rome for people from Paris.
• Citizendium Blog » Myths and facts about Citizendium
  • Corrected my impressions on many points.
• Industry Minister Jim Prentice interviewed about Canadian copyright on CBC
  • Absolutely excruciating.
• Ectropy » Citation trading
  • Alexei, attempting to cause trouble by proposing a citation trading scheme. Wonder if ifyouscratchmybackillscratchyours.com is taken?
• SocialCalc, a Social Spreadsheet
  • A wiki-spreadsheet. Should help enable open-source model building, and more transparency.
• Dad Jokes
  • Only for those very very easily amused.
• Joho the Blog » Microsoft the good sport
  • “The Microsoft Internet Explorer team sent a nice cake yesterday to the Mozilla Firefox team, congratulating them on the shipping of version 3.0…. ‘Mozilla should send a cake back, include the recipe, and ask for advice on how to improve it. ;)'”
• SubEthaEdit
  • Very cool looking scientific groupware application – rea-time collaborative text editing, with LaTeX and Skype integration. For OS X unfortunately, which means I haven’t tried it.
• One Big Lab: Would open science profit from a non-profit?
  • I think it’d benefit from many non-profits!
• Science in the open » The trouble with institutional repositories
  • Institutional repositories don’t work. This isn’t surprising – the people who run them have interests and incentives quite different than one would desire for a repository. The result: poor design, and poor interoperability.
• How we read online. – By Michael Agger – Slate Magazine
  • What’s known about the types of writing people prefer online.
• twistori
  • Watching the collective think. Eerie.
• Citation in Science: Nature Network London
  • Discussion forum about citations in science.

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