{"id":381,"date":"2008-05-02T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2008-05-02T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T10:53:07","slug":"biweekly-links-for-05022008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-05022008\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 05\/02\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2008\/04\/how_to_be_mr_po.html\">EconLog: How to Be Mr. Popular When You&#8217;re Old<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/04\/30\/rebutting-the-lobbyi.html\">Michael Geist on Copyright in Canada<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Excellent short summary of key issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2008\/04\/30\/is-there-a-general-skill-of-management\/\">Crooked Timber: Is there a general skill of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153management\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/scientists_dont_have_to_do_eve.php\">Uncertain Principles: Scientists Don&#8217;t Have to Do Everything Themselves<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rodrik.typepad.com\/dani_rodriks_weblog\/2008\/03\/american-politi.html\">Dani Rodrik&#8217;s weblog: American political economics in one picture<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hive-mind.com\/bee\/blog\/2005\/04\/swarm-swarm-swarm.html\">Hive Mind Bee Blog: Swarm! Swarm! Swarm!<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>How beehives reproduce.  It seems to really make sense to talk about the hive reproducing, as much as it does an individual bee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colony_Collapse_Disorder\">Colony Collapse Disorder &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Bee Hives are suddenly collapsing, and no-one knows why.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterrohde.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/29\/pagerank-in-academic-publishing\/\">Peter Rohde: PageRank in academic publishing<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peertopatent.org\/\">Peer to Patent, Community Patent Review<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Crowdsourcing patent review.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080428-malware-authors-turn-to-eulas-to-protect-their-work.html\">Malware authors turn to EULAs to protect their work<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>What next, the Mafia?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/asp\/jctn\/2008\/00000005\/00000005\/art00002\">A Minimal Toolset for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Proposes a universal toolset for building stuff in carbon, all analysed using density functional theory, and claiming reliable function at 80 Kelvin.  By Freitas and Merkle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=682\">Not Even Wrong: Creutz On Rooting<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>A fascinating case study in the power referees have.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/How-to-Start-A-Flash-Mob\/\">How to Start A Flash Mob &#8211; Instructables<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/homophily-serendipity-xenophilia\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6My heart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in Accra: Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Breaking the barriers of the cloistered social worlds we live in, and what this has got to do with the rest of the world.  Hard to summarize, but superb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/04\/18\/encyclopedia-britannica-now-free-for-bloggers\/\">Encyclopedia Britannica Now Partially Free<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting business model.  Basically, qualifying bloggers can get free access, and a form of one-off linking that lets their readers view a small part of the site.  It seems like too little, too late, but who knows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apperceptual.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/28\/ai-success-stories\/\">AI Success Stories \u00c2\u00ab Apperceptual<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Great list, with dozens of links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EconLog: How to Be Mr. Popular When You&#8217;re Old Michael Geist on Copyright in Canada Excellent short summary of key issues. Crooked Timber: Is there a general skill of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153management\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Uncertain Principles: Scientists Don&#8217;t Have to Do Everything Themselves Dani Rodrik&#8217;s weblog: American political economics in one picture Hive Mind Bee Blog: Swarm! Swarm! Swarm!&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-05022008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 05\/02\/2008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}