- Sergey Brin’s blog
- Stanford offers 10 free online Computer Science courses
- Hal Varian: Copying and copyright (pdf)
- The Long Tail: Another Harvard professor helpfully suggests that we make hits
- Heh: “What is it about Harvard Business School professors and their embrace of the grindingly conventional pitched as fresh contrarianism? The latest is HBS marketing professor John Quelch, who bravely argues for, well, successful products”
- The Long Tail: A passionate amateur almost always beats a bored professional
- “Amateurs self-select for the job. Professionals are selected. For most jobs, volunteers beat draftees.”
- Schneier on Security: The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity
- Charming: “A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous… The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the “IP Traceback” drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback proposal. Members of Q6/17 have declined to release key documents, and meetings are closed to the public. “
- Jason Fried – 10 Things We’ve Learned at 37Signals | Kris Jordan
- Excellent list from a company that’s done a lot of bold experimentation.
- A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data
- Ellen Roche
- Heartbreaking: “Ellen Roche was a healthy 24 year old lab technician at the Johns Hopkins (JH) Asthma Center. She volunteered to take part in an experiment to understand the natural defenses of healthy people against asthma. Roche was part of a group that inhaled hexamethonium, a drug which induced a mild asthma attack. Physicians stood by in case of complications and to measure how the subjects responded to the asthma attack. Within 24 hours of inhaling the drug, Roche had lost one-third of her lung capacity. Within a month she was dead… Dr. Alkis Togias, the director of the
experiment, apparently limited his hexamethonium research to one contemporary textbook and PubMed… PubMed is a premier example of FOS, a contender for FOS at its best. So does the Ellen Roche case prove that FOS is inadequate, even hazardous? How just is this interpretation? What are the lessons of this case for FOS?”
- Heartbreaking: “Ellen Roche was a healthy 24 year old lab technician at the Johns Hopkins (JH) Asthma Center. She volunteered to take part in an experiment to understand the natural defenses of healthy people against asthma. Roche was part of a group that inhaled hexamethonium, a drug which induced a mild asthma attack. Physicians stood by in case of complications and to measure how the subjects responded to the asthma attack. Within 24 hours of inhaling the drug, Roche had lost one-third of her lung capacity. Within a month she was dead… Dr. Alkis Togias, the director of the
- AbÅ« RayhÄn BÄ«rÅ«nÄ« – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Extraordinary Persian polymath of the 11th century.
- Caveat Lector » What do we want from IRs, and what are we doing to repository rats?
- Dorothea Salo on the future of Institutional Repositories.
- Confessions of a Science Librarian: Science in the 21st Century reading list
- Really great list of books to read from John Dupuis.
- A Blog Around The Clock : ScienceOnline’09 – Registration is Open!
- Building on the very successful Science Blogging 2007 and 2008 events.
- John Graham-Cumming: Dear Nature
- “…you want to sell it [the paper] to me for $32. How do you justify selling a PDF of a 76 year old paper that contains just over 700 words for $32?”
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