As I mentioned a couple of weeks or so ago I’ve been playing around with Friendfeed. This is a ‘lifestreaming’ web service which allows you to aggregate ‘all’ of the content you are generating on the web into one place (see here for mine). This is interesting from my perspective because it maps well onto our ideas about generating multiple data streams from a research lab. This raw data then needs to be pulled together and turned into some sort of narrative description of what happened. Read more »

Posted: April 6th, 2008 under LaBLog, Yahoo pipes, data feeds, data formats, filtering, glueware, lifestream, rss, sharing, workstreamr.
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Another post prompted by an exchange of comments on Neil Saunder’s blog. The discussion here started about the somewhat arbitrary nature of what does and does not get counted as ‘worthy contributions’ in the research community. Neil was commenting on an article in Nature Biotech that had similar subject matter to some Blog posts, and he was reflecting on the fact that one would look convincing on a CV and the others wouldn’t. The conversation in the comments drifted somewhat into a discussion of peer review with Maxine (I am presuming Maxine Clarke from Nature?). You should read her comment  and the post and other comments in full but I wanted to pick out one bit. Read more »

Posted: March 13th, 2008 under academic credit, filtering, peer review, trust.
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