{"id":494,"date":"2008-11-14T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2008-11-14T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T10:53:06","slug":"biweekly-links-for-11142008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-11142008\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 11\/14\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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- Online Communities: The Tribalization of Business – O’Reilly Radar<\/a>\n
  - scottberkun.com \u00c2\u00bb Do we suck at the basics?<\/a>\n
    - Kevin Kelly — The Origins of Progress<\/a>\n
      - Planning to Share versus Just Sharing at EdTechPost<\/a>\n
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        The “just do it” approach to openness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        Preparing presentations: from mindmap to storyboard | sacha chua :: enterprise 2.0 consultant, storyteller, geek<\/a>\n
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        A fun workflow for preparing presentations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        Web Conference: October 24-26, 2008<\/a>\n
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        A hybrid online \/ real-world conference. Interesting list of speakers; lots of talks to watch!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        Google Reader Now Auto-Translates Stuff. Read Anything You Like<\/a>\n
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        Wikinomics \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Aardvark.im \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A new take on Social Search<\/a>\n
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        Very interesting: a new collaboration market: “The traditional knowledge markets like Yahoo! Answers do little active work in matching a question with a resident subject expert, instead relying on the community to keep an eye on the topics they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re best equipped to answer. A new social search service (still in beta) called Aardvark.im from the folks at The Mechanical Zoo aims to actively feed questions to self-proclaimed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153subject authorities\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who take it from there. As you pose and answer questions you build your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153knowledge network\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201da social network of your conversation participants. The question routing is done via Aardvark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s algorithm, which according to a VentureBeat article, will involve favouring \u00e2\u20ac\u0153friends-of-friends\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as the first-line recipients, but does the expert finding for you.\n
        The cool element about Aardvark is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a seamless merger of a knowledge market (a la Yahoo! Answers) and real-time conversation tools (Twitter). “<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        The Case of M. S. El Naschie | The n-Category Caf\u00c3\u00a9<\/a>\n
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        John Baez: “Now, I get crud like this in my email every day. I delete it without comment. What makes this case different is that El Naschie gets to publish these papers in a superficially respectable journal that he actually edits.\n
        The fact that Elsevier would let Naschie edit this journal and publish large numbers of papers like this in it shows that their system for monitoring the quality of their journals is broken.<\/p>\n
        The fact that this journal costs $4520 per year would be hilarious, except that libraries are actually buying it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d at a reduced rate, bundled in with other Elsevier journals, but still! “<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        Latest Earthquakes: Feeds & Data<\/a>\n
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        RSS feeds for earthquakes in the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        synthesis: iGEM 2008: Surprise — The Future is Here Already.<\/a>\n
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        “Here’s the short, pithy version: There is presently no vaccine for H. pylori. Between June and October this year, seven undergraduates built and tested three kinds of brand new vaccines against H. pylori. (They also put a whole mess of Biobrick parts into the Registry, which means those parts are all in the public domain.)”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        A bit more on the economics of happiness at John Quiggin<\/a>\n
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        “Within a given country, people with higher incomes are more likely to report being happy. However, in international comparisons, the average reported level of happiness does not vary much with national income per person, at least for countries with income sufficient to meet basic needs. The same is true over time – average happiness levels don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change much even as incomes rise. This is often taken to mean that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relative rather than absolute income that determines happiness, so an increase in everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s income won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make anyone happier. Hence, we shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry so much about increasing income, but should focus more on factors likely to contribute to happiness. The point that struck me was that, given Easterlin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s data, the paradox is almost certain to apply whatever potential source of happiness we consider, in one form or another. “<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        BBC NEWS | Woolly writing creates new poetry<\/a>\n
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        “”So I decided to explore randomness and some of the principles of quantum mechanics, through poetry, using the medium of sheep.”… A spokesman for Northern Arts called the scheme “an exciting fusion of poetry and quantum physics”. “<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
        Click here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
        Jamendo Useful resource for finding Creative Commons music. Online Communities: The Tribalization of Business – O’Reilly Radar “Community for community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sake: most businesses begin planning a community with traditional objectives (lower support costs, drive innovation, increase customer loyalty etc.). On the Social Web this is the equivalent of entering a personal relationship with an ulterior… Continue reading Biweekly links for 11\/14\/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-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}