Monthly Archives: August 2008
Bioinformatics as mashup
bioinformatics: acquiring, collating and rearranging information already available elsewhere?
That is from a Tweet by Neil. My reaction was somthing along the lines of “boy that sounds like the definition of a mashup”.
Bioinformatics is a broad field, but part of it, a good part of what a bioinformatician does is exactly what Neil describes. [...]
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Scientific Identity
I have been thinking a lot about distributed identity lately and what it means for scientists. This was fueled by a bunch of things, including the recent news about OAuth, and discussions around social networks in science.
We keep talking about how to connect information together. In the general web world, you have various [...]
Posted in Open Source, Science, Social Networking, Software & Internet 2 Comments
The ‘Ubiquitous’ web
Image via Wikipedia All of you know about it already, but I shall happily add to the noise. Last evening I had one of those “Holy S**t” moments. Was sitting in a coffee shop, catching up with the days news, when I saw a flurry of activity on Friendfeed around Ubiquity. Turns [...]
Posted in Geek, Informatics, Infotech, Software & Internet, Technology, Visualization 3 Comments
Peering into PLoS One comment stats
Image via Wikipedia I was one of the lucky few who was given access to a dump of “social” statistics for PLoS One (my term). The data were given to us to analyze as we please, to glean from them what we may (I don’t really know who all the others were).
To give some [...]
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