Category Archives: “virtual communities”

Anyone for crystal mashups?

Posted on October 27, 2007 by pm286

From the blogosphere through Bora: Liz Allen posted this on the Wall of the PLoS Facebook group yesterday: Here’s a fun Friday activity for all of you who like to track the stats of the inevitable rise and world domination … Continue reading →

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Reconciling points of View

Posted on October 21, 2007 by pm286

Over the last few weeks there has been strong and active discussion about issues relating to Openness and some of these have been commented on (or even initiated) here. Some people feel that I have may been simplistic or overly … Continue reading →

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Eyeballs from the blogosphere

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Fantastic! The blogosphere has already responded to our request for accounts of data quality enhancement. Egon Willighagen Says: October 1st, 2007 at 8:18 am ePeter, I’ve placed some pointer to past blog items from my blog that I feel relevant … Continue reading →

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Open grant writing. Can the Chemical Blogosphere help with "Agents and Eyeballs"

Posted on September 30, 2007 by pm286

In the current spirit of Openness I’m appealing to the chemical blogosphere for help. Jim Downing and I are writing a grant proposal for UK’s JISC : supporting education and research – which supports digital libraries, repositories, eScience/cyberinfrastructure, collaborative working, … Continue reading →

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Semantic web : the scream!

Posted on September 24, 2007 by pm286

I have just blogged Paul Miller’s Talis Community Licence and realised that – I think – I used to get a feed from his/Talis blog. So I put it in the Feedreader and found a whole lot of posts on … Continue reading →

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How blogging makes contacts and seeds communities

Posted on September 23, 2007 by pm286

I mailed yesterday about how blogging links to other blogs and generates new contacts. Here is a direct example: Jakob Says: You wrote: “More, because I have added this link to my blog, Jakoblog will get notified.” This is true … Continue reading →

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CrystalEye GreaseMonkey

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

Nick Day has just released a Greasemonkey script which provides a full crystallographic overlay for existing journals. It’s worth trying as it’s visually exciting as well as very useful. This post tells you what it does, how it works, and … Continue reading →

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blogging peer-reviewed articles – icons and greasemonkey

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

One of the features fo having subscribed to planeScifoo is that I am now getting lots of new feeds. I probably shan’t continue some of them, but here Bora highlights something similar to what the chemical blogosphere has been doing. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the chemical blogosphere

Posted on August 3, 2007 by pm286

I’ve a few minutes to kill before the shuttle to Scifoo… I believe the chemical blogosphere is among the leaders in domain-specific blogging and I’ll be bouncing this idea off the SciFooCampers (where the blogosphere is seen by many as … Continue reading →

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The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) – Open Knowledge Foundation

Posted on July 5, 2007 by pm286

Rufus Pollock is a tireless campaigner for Openness. He is a graduate student at Cambridge – “writing up”, but still with enormous energy for other activities in the area of Openness. He is a highly competent hacker – and promotes … Continue reading →

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