Category Archives: Web as platform

Chemicalize

By Deepak Singh | Published: August 22, 2010

It’s ACS time in Boston, and there is a steady stream of tweets from the conference which you can track. Prior to the conference there were a couple of topics related to chemistry on the web which I’ve been meaning to write about. Better late than never I guess. The first one is Chemicalize, a [...]

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The internet, publishing, and data

By Deepak Singh | Published: July 25, 2010

A few days before Jim Gray sadly disappeared, I exchanged emails with him on a set of slides which are now a chapter in the Fourth Paradigm. There’s one slide in there that I wanted to share click for full size In this slide (the narrative can be found in the Fourth Paradigm), Jim states [...]

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Asking questions, and getting answers

By Deepak Singh | Published: July 11, 2010

The way I see it, Q&A sites fall into four categories (especially for science and technology related content) Mailing lists and newsgroups: The first form of Q&A that I ever used was a mailing list My PhD thesis calls out the Computational Chemistry List and the CHARMM mailing list for helping me learn a lot [...]

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Searching scientific literature in the 21st century

By Deepak Singh | Published: April 29, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Read a couple of things that made me think about literature searching and PubMed in particular. The first was an article in Edge by Phil Campbell, Editor-in-chief at Nature. In Night Time Ideas, he writes I remain uneasy that biologists worldwide are so dependent on a literature-indexing system wholly funded by US [...]

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The web as platform: The distributed self

By Deepak Singh | Published: August 16, 2009

Been thinking about a bunch about content creation and the web lately (sounds like Cameron Neylon and Google Wave, but not quite as ambitious). Part of it is “new shiny toy syndrome”, but also from the way the web is evolving and my own thoughts around distributed content and presence on the web. Some of [...]

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