tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36539008948535061342011-07-29T00:46:16.333-04:00thoughts of the snarky and innately curiouskaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.comBlogger611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-30751421197642998622010-09-08T09:28:00.002-04:002010-09-08T09:34:58.312-04:00

Times, they are (and have been) a-changin'. I've decided to move operations (and sandboxes) to Wordpress. Please visit my new home over here for more musings on science, technology, and everything in between (well, not food. that's staying where it is for now - right, um, here.) I promise to make more of an effort to update, as well. It's on my belated New Year's resolution list (from 2010 ...

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I'm currently in San Jose, Costa Rica, for aCCCeso - a seminar on creativity, community and science. The event was held from 11-13 November and largely featured representatives from Latin American countries such as Nicaragua, to Peru, Columbia, Chile, Argentina, etc. My colleague Eric Steuer (Creative Director, Creative Commons) joined me from the States to talk about some of our work at Creative

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Here is the second talk of last week, again at "Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Access and Information" at the ICTP, Trieste. The week-long workshop was hosted by the ICTP, eIFL and UNESCO. The talk below refers to the presentation last Wednesday (14 Oct) on Creative Commons and knowledge sharing, largely highlighting our Open Access policy and how that applies to not only content,

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Today's presentation on access and knowledge sharing, given at "Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Access and Dissemination" at the ICTP, Trieste, Italy. (More below...)Creative Commons: Access and Knowledge SharingView more documents from Kaitlin Thaney.A little bit of information about me that you may or may not already know ... I get the heebie jeebies when my talks are taped and

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Ah, the joy of workshops in computer labs. Here's more information about this week's workshop, the participant breakdown, and up-to-date program.There's even a free book available on a variety of topics relevant to this audience and access to scientific materials through Open Access. It's available under a Creative Commons license, visible below the all rights reserved, traditional copyright logo

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Today's my first full day at "Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Access and Dissemination" at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. I've been invited by Iryna Kuchma of eIFL, to give two long sessions broadly marked as "Open Science and Science Commons Project."The first will give an introduction to Creative Commons and Science Commons, then segue into our

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As many of you know, there are a plethora of reasons why I came to work at Science Commons years ago (3 years this August, so says my paycheck). Part came from my background in another form of "open information" - from my time at Reporter's Committee working on Freedom of Information issues, covering First Amendment cases, Katrina aftermath, and Open Government. Part was curiosity, having not

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Sciencecommons.org has been listed as one of the Top 20 Web sites every scientist or engineer should know by Baltimore Examiner. It's an informal list, including resources to find papers (ahem, sadly not OA), sort through the acronym soup so many of us find ourselves in daily, and Grants.gov (everyone needs moo-lah). Nevertheless, we're happy to be cited, and I encourage you all to check out our

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The last few months have consisted of a blur of meetings, round table discussions, presentations, and impromptu conversations on the train and at universities - all largely revolving around a few key topics. There's been the open science and knowledge sharing in the sciences dialogue, data policy and drafting codes of conduct, and innovation and access models for rare and neglected disease

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Prepare yourself for a heavy dose of awesome. In perhaps the most clever Science Commons fundraiser launched by a third party, the folks over at breadpig and DNA11 have brought us ROFLDNA - a set of leading Internet personalities' DNA and autographs, all being auctioned on eBay. And the best part, all proceeds will go to Science Commons. Among some of the famous Internet superstars out there (is

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So, first and foremost, I have to say - being spotted on Reddit.com, and seeing the story at #2 is really thrilling. Tease me all you want ... I'm pumped. The fact that the plug is to support our project - specifically increasing access to scholarly content - and elicited such a response from the public makes this extra cool. And no ... I didn't post the plug. This one is just a delightful

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Wow, that didn't take long. As if I needed another reason to jump up and down in jubilation today ... Now up on Whitehouse.gov:"Copyright NoticePursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.Except where otherwise noted,

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-5135228272047302912009-01-08T16:45:00.003-05:002009-01-08T16:52:42.183-05:00

If this doesn't make you want to get up and do the T-rex-ish dance move, I don't know what will ...Spotted over on The World's Fair ... A video on how memes spread, as depicted by silly dancing. Awesome, absolutely awesome. ;)

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So, right now, I was slated to be in sunny and warm (emphasis on the warm) Kohala Coast, Hawaii - prepping for a day of Open Science discussion at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Due to a certain financial crisis, I sadly had to back out of this commitment. Thankfully, with the help of Cameron Neylon and some social networking tools, the abridged version of the presentation is up now --

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-59137476435870971302008-12-08T09:43:00.002-05:002008-12-08T09:46:21.713-05:00

(Video available under a CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0 license)Many thanks to Jesse, the members of our staff and board featured here, and to the broader CC community for their ongoing support. Times are tough financially - CC and SC need your help. Every little bit counts.

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-49957722859589281692008-11-17T09:32:00.003-05:002008-11-17T09:39:27.767-05:00

I just have to say, President-elect Barack Obama's new media team is really on top of their game. First off, he's a Creative Commons user ... Second, he's engaging with a whole new - and extremely important - demographic, through weekly videos speaking directly to the people through YouTube. I cannot stress how happy I am to see the soon-to-be head of our Executive branch incorporating this into

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-70310440495321703812008-11-13T06:03:00.002-05:002008-11-13T06:18:16.960-05:00

Fred Friend offered some insight into the costs for Institutional Repositories, as well as some closing remarks. He pointed to Alma Swan's study of these costs (found in the DRIVER guide to European Repositories) - "The Business of Digital Repositories". The study shows that there is a huge variation in start-up costs according to whether free software is used, the number of staff days required

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-35813446186119568612008-11-13T05:39:00.004-05:002008-11-18T08:26:34.674-05:00

On to the other panelists ... 2. Matt Cockerill (Publisher, BioMedCentral)BMC is one of the most prominent OA publishers and a profitable one - ever since its launch in 2000. Cockerill starts by teasing out exactly what is fundamentally different / what distinguishes an OA publishing business model versus a traditional model. Traditional models, as we all know, involve a transfer of rights, and

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-34020653687869533922008-11-13T03:45:00.002-05:002008-11-13T03:50:32.542-05:00

"Instead of "open science", we should refer to it as commons-based science. What science isn't open, anyway?"Commons-based science is developing quickly in terms of data, protocols, software, research instruments including materials.There are some significant challenges for defining commons regimes. In terms of data, Aigrain posits it's a paradoxical challenge -- for software or text, we have

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-38147723161271927632008-11-13T03:20:00.004-05:002008-11-13T07:27:11.948-05:00

We're on to the last panel of Day 2 of Berlin 6. I have a few blog posts that still need some cleaning up, but will get those up tonight. Apologies for the mix up in order. Some sessions are easier to synthesize on the fly than others :) This session is on the role of scholarly societies in Open Access. The panelists include Ingrid Gogolin from EERA (European Educational Research Association,

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Moderated by Christoph Bruch, one of our fellow OA contacts from the Max Planck Digital Library, Day 2 of Berlin 6 was kicked off with a dialogue on open standards. Now, I find standards, norms and what not fascination (don't judge :) ) but chose to focus a bit more on the standarization theory detailed by Dr. Stefan Weisgerber in this conversation. I would have loved to have heard more about the

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-82931044148584854122008-11-11T17:12:00.000-05:002008-11-11T17:13:36.535-05:00

"Results of publicly funded research should be accessible." - Horst ForsterOver the last year especially, with the passing of various Open Access mandates, this phrase has been used more and more - today by Horst Forster of the European Commission.His perspective (and many of his colleagues in various areas of the EC, from my experience) on the accessibility of publicly funded research is in

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Time to tackle synthesizing Tuesday's "Cost and Benefits of OA" plenary session at Berlin 6. Apologies for not getting this out sooner. This session seemed to be of particular interest to the crowd, since business models and sustainability for OA publishing is an ever growing concern. John Houghton (Center for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University in Australia) kicks off the session,

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(Note: My notes for some panels may not be as extensive / as much of a data dump as others. This one will focus on a few main themes and concepts that resonated particularly.)"We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing the mask of the preceding scene and we lose the meaning of the play." - Régis Debray, "Revolution in the

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-75797014370387285762008-11-11T09:29:00.004-05:002008-11-11T09:40:43.594-05:00

iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition) rocked the house (aka the Stata Center) this past weekend. I sadly was in Europe and thus had to miss this phenomenal intersection of disciplines / expertise, involving some of the most skilled students I've ever encountered pushing further and further into the field of synthetic biology. I've been lucky enough to offer be involved

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-88252924207776642672008-11-11T06:09:00.008-05:002008-11-12T09:32:17.225-05:00

Time for the first plenary session at Berlin 6 -- New Modes of Scholarly Communication: Blogs, Wikis and Web 2.0 in Academia. This session explores new forms of scholarly communication beyond the paper metaphor (an idea that jtw and I speak on often), with the focus of this being specifically on hypertext publishing.My notes on this session will be brief, since a lot of this is common knowledge,

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-3445314570868930642008-11-11T05:18:00.004-05:002008-11-11T05:50:09.600-05:00

Just spotted this on Wired.com. It caught my eye largely due to the fact that I'm reading (yes, still reading ... it's been eternally in my travel bag) The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, which takes a close look at where our meals truly come from. It's a fascinating book, one that I hope to finish in the coming weekFast Food: Just Another Name for CornBy Brandon Keim -- November 10, 2008

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Tony Hey of Microsoft Research, formerly of the UK e-Science initiative, former Dean of Engineering at Southhampton, kicks off the discussion with the first keynote.Researchers are facing moving from data to information to knowledge, at a very rapid pace. I think it's safe to say that the digital deluge in research is a reality uncontested largely, and there is an ever important need for ways to

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-76241492545257618802008-11-11T04:29:00.009-05:002008-11-12T09:33:00.343-05:00

'Allo from the Northern Rhineland. I'm currently sitting at the Berlin 6 Open Access Conference - Changing Scholarly Communication in the Knowledge Society in Dusseldorf, Germany. In the organizers' opening remarks, one gentleman from Heinrich-Heine referred to a children's fable from Franz Kafka (specifically from "A Little Fable", not trying to sound redundant). The story is a familiar one:'

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-28677098330448975542008-11-11T04:02:00.005-05:002008-11-11T04:29:10.558-05:00

I will elaborate upon this later, but for now, a brief recap of the Elevate Festival these last few days in Graz, Austria, as told by David Bollier (onthecommons.org). Many thanks to the organizers and my fellow speakers for this robust discussion and diverse array of voices included in this discourse.The main part of the event was held in Schlossbergplatz, between the Stadtmuseum and the Dom im

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-30100103750693183032008-10-30T11:25:00.002-04:002008-10-30T11:28:12.904-04:00

Man, next Halloween, I've got to get my hands on one of these ... ;)

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-3168134160005365152008-10-15T10:27:00.006-04:002008-10-15T10:48:31.265-04:00

(disclosure: Science Commons is a project of Creative Commons, hence a work-related plug.)Today marks the kick-off of CC's Annual Fundraising Campaign. Help ensure that the Commons remains a vibrant and growing resource, and that freedom to share creative works is preserved. Every dollar counts. For those of you unfamiliar with CC, or looking for an early morning video as you sip your cup of

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-88467732688092826652008-10-10T15:35:00.002-04:002008-10-10T15:41:21.531-04:00

Yes, you read that right. I've decided to take a stab at learning rudimentary programming in Ruby, to help broaden my understanding of taxonomies and programming syntax in general - as the first step towards increasing my technical understanding.So far, I can successfully use my Terminal app to do basic math, and say "Kaitlin is the coolest." That's skill. No, but seriously, as silly as this all

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-42276622733076711942008-10-10T14:07:00.004-04:002008-10-15T09:53:13.864-04:00

This past Monday, I was invited to speak on technical issues surrounding data sharing at the Wellcome Trust, in coordination with the WHO's Health Metrics network. The meeting - "Code of Conduct for the Collection, Analysis and Sharing of Health Related Research Data in Developing Countries" - brought together public health researchers from the developed and developing world, social scientists,

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I will be attending - not speaking - the 6th annual Berlin Open Access Conference, this year in Dusseldorf, Germany. I will be heading from Austria straight to Germany for this, the event lasting from 11- 13 November. Last year's conference was held at the beautiful University of Padova, in Padova Italy (photos). The program includes a number of the usual suspects, as we call them, with such

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I will be joining other Commons advocates, affiliates and experts next month at this year's Elevate Festival in Graz, Austria. For those of you in the area, I'll be speaking on Science Commons, as well as Creative Commons on Thursday, 6 November - as well as joining a podium discussion "Commons of the Mind" later that day. I hope you can attend.The event's focus this year is the Commons,

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-22314574585653797252008-09-11T11:13:00.001-04:002008-09-11T11:14:20.685-04:00

Brushing off the cobwebs here at STB to share this gem of a video ... ;)Feel the beat.

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-3904114199887377332008-04-04T11:18:00.003-04:002008-04-04T11:24:39.971-04:00

with the famous Max Tegmark on vocals ... For all of you wondering where I work, you can see the delightful geometric building in the opening segment of the clip.Happy Friday, everyone.

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-13333323159679862152008-02-04T11:26:00.000-05:002008-02-04T11:28:27.064-05:00

Wow, can't say I've ever seen a group so excited about PCR technology. But hot damn, this is hilarious, brought to you by the music group Scientists for PCR. Ode to PCR.Happy Monday, everyone.

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-52316694841955943422008-02-03T17:38:00.000-05:002008-02-03T17:41:34.632-05:00

In the spirit of tonight's game, an interesting post that'll help keep your brain working despite all the beer, pizza and nacho cheese.(Spotted over at /.)Football Physics: The Anatomy of a Hit Researchers are using new tools to study the science of a football fundamental: the tackle. By Matt HigginsIt happens about 100 times a game in the National Football League: a bone-jarring tackle that

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Today, at 1:58 p.m., the LEGO brick turns 50. So, in my first post on StB in over a month, I'd like to wish the famed toy of my childhood a very happy birthday ;) Gizmodo has a fascinating timeline, highlighting some of the major achievements over the last 50 years. It's chock full of interesting tidbits. (image courtesy of Craig Rodway, under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 license.)

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-76652660141245378012007-12-04T16:00:00.000-05:002007-12-04T16:11:21.560-05:00

Spotted on FSJ, hands down the best tech bubble song I've heard. Music to my ears.Simply amazing.

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-5046818264032266112007-11-27T14:29:00.000-05:002007-11-27T14:56:53.986-05:00

Nowadays, it's not uncommon to cite Metcalfe's Law or Moore's Law when speaking about the power of the network, which happens quite frequently in my line of business. So when I spotted a new "Law" in Cory Doctorow's new Information Week column on Facebook, I was intrigued. And after a closer look at the "Law" - Brooks's Law - I was amused.First off, I highly recommend giving Cory's latest column

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-58483342121929557592007-11-26T14:49:00.000-05:002007-11-27T14:29:08.012-05:00

Spotted over at Retrospectacle, an interesting piece in Reason magazine that aims to tie together studies of mirror neurons, humans' moral sense, and Adam Smith.The article, entitled "The Theory of Moral Neuroscience", kicks off with a few lines from Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), in which he argues that one's ability to empathize is directly tied to our moral sense.Here's the

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(KT: My apologies for not getting these up on Friday. Due to technical difficulties, I'm just catching up now.)Here are some notes from the second panel (out of two) at "Publishing in the New Millennium" at Harvard Medical School, entitled "Publishing 2.0". Each panelist gets five minutes to introduce themselves and to identify a few key issues.The panelists:John Wilbanks - Vice President of

kaythaneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16776559861077987743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653900894853506134.post-1091975479121045252007-11-09T14:49:00.000-05:002007-11-09T15:45:51.772-05:00

"What publishing model best serves us as we move forward?" - Emilie MarcusTime for the first panel (out of two) at "Publishing in the New Millennium" at Harvard Medical School, examining the state of scientific publishing. Each panelist gets five minutes to introduce themselves and to identify a few key issues.The panelists:Emilie Marcus - Editor-in-Chief, Cell Press; Editor, Cell -- here to

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Publishing in the New Millennium: A Forum on Scientific Publishing in the Biosciences - Harvard Medical School - Nov. 9, 2007Currently attending a forum on scientific publishing, organized by a group of curious graduate students here at Harvard Medical School. The purpose of the conference is to critically assess the role of publishing in biological research, and how the publishing landscape is

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OK, so maybe not. But it is good to know that if I ever endure an injury warranting this, am miles away from a hospital, and have some hot sauce, that I can pull a medical MacGyver.Brought to you by the letters "AP" and the Baltimore Sun:"[...] Chili peppers have been part of folk remedy for centuries, and heat-inducing capsaicin creams are a drugstore staple for aching muscles.But today the

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Ted Nield, geoscientist turned editor/journalist, rants about the misuse of geological metaphors by journalists on this week's Podium on the Nature podcast. Highly entertaining, and has the added value of being true ;) It starts at the 21:25 mark.So before you write about the seismic shift in public opinion or rate an event using the Richter scale again, think twice. For Nield's sake.Sidenote -

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Thirty-five years have passed since Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. issued the legendary concurring opinion in Branzburg v. Hayes. This case, one of my personal favorites from my First Amendment days, marks the only time the Supreme Court has ruled on whether a reported must divulge their confidential sources and testify. A piece in the New York Times takes a closer look at this in light of the push

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Cory Doctorow, "Free data sharing is here to stay", Guardian Unlimited (9-18-07)"Since the 1970s, pundits have predicted a transition to an "information economy". The vision of an economy based on information seized the imaginations of the world's governments. For decades now, they have been creating policies to "protect" information — stronger copyright laws, international treaties on patents

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I've been remiss in writing about the series of meetings I've had over the past few weeks.// slaps self on wrist.So instead of going through all of my notes and posting 15 posts here in rapid succession, I'll resort to summarizing in bullet-point fashion. Hopefully this can adequately encapsulate the basic gist of each gathering.First, Berlin 5 Open Access Conference in Padova, Italy:- best

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After a short stop in Amsterdam (thanks to the ever-so-put together Travelocity team), I am in Padova, Italy ("Padua" to us Americans). Today is officially day 2 of the Berlin 5 conference (full title - Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact, Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination). Due to my computer's lack of a battery (my fault, solely) I have been largely offline, but have plenty of

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From a CNN.com article with a bit too much alliteration in the headline - "Funky Fries and other foods that flopped", brought to my attention by a colleague of mine. The most astonishing item in the list of marketing disasters being Gerber singles, a take on traditional Gerber baby food but designed for single adults.From the article ...--------------- 8. Gerber Singles At some point in time,

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Fantastic. Happy Sunday to me.Dilbert, on Web 2.0Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not anti-Web 2.0. Just ... apprehensive, I guess, when too many companies try to reinvent the wheel, but there is a lot of good beneath the buzzwords.OK, with that out of the way, on to the laughs. This Dilbert strip had me in tears ... maybe because of this, this (newer version, here) and my personal favorite, this.

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Spotted over at 3quarksdaily, thoughts on the meaning of life ... the actual word, that is.Apparently, as Carl Zimmer has discovered, the word "life" is yet another term that falls into the "more definitions that one can count" category. Though that's not all too shocking, since consensus on definitions of what some would consider "common terms" is often hit or miss, this bit does spark an

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For those wordsearch fanatics out there (me being one of them) ... Wordsearch Wallpaper, brought to you by 5.5 designers. Simply amazing.This brings me back to my childhood, not just because of the countless hours in a car on family road trips, but reminds me of my older brothers' wall decorations. An entire wall of their room was covered in a maze with 70's cartoon space figures and other

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... since it's one of the most commonly misunderstood quotes, in my opinion. plus, the true story behind it makes me chuckle. :)In a comment by bannedbycastro to the article, "Evaluate the data, not the author":---------------"'If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.' Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675 Sounds nice doesn't it?However, you

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OK, so two posts in a day from the same paper after nearly a month of radio silence. My apologies. With that said, on to the goods ...From a Guardian column called "Bad Science" (which I encourage all to peek at), an article called "Examine the data, not the author." This, in a way, piggybacks off of an earlier post about applying the same ethics of the media to evaluating scientific literature.

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Found this article in The Guardian thanks to a post on Maxine Clarke's blog. In it Professor Jonathan Wolff (University College London) asks an interesting question: Has the same ethical code of traditional journalism been mistakenly applied to science?To better frame this, he describes a situation involving a philosopher of science, Naomi Oreskes, who has come to wonder the same thing. Oreskes

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After tossing around the idea, discussing with colleagues and others, I've finally done it. I started a blog. Resistance is futile, as they say.This isn't the first time I've ever "blogged". I manage the blog for an organization called Science Commons - a project of Creative Commons. Entries vary from press releases and news bits, to announcements, and interesting news from our community. It aims

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