This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
The web represents an opportunity for a phase transition in terms of connectedness and openness in scientific practice, as in software development, and we're not taking much advantage of it. Why?
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This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
I've been reading Michael Nielsen's book Reinventing Discovery, which is an awesome and inspirational book about (among other things) accelerating scientific discovery using the Internet. Highly recommended.
From my position within academia …
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This is one of a bunch of posts on what I'm calling 'w4s' -- using the Web, and principles of the Web, to improve science. The others are:
The awesomeness we're experiencing, which provides some examples of current awesomeness in this area.
The challenges ahead, which covers some of the reasons …
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This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
I don't think I can devote myself to any big projects, but I do have a bunch of ideas for relatively small projects that I think could lead to worthwhile change.
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In his paper, Reproducible Research and Cloud Computing, Bill Howe asks:
What happens if you do all your work on a virtual machine hosted in the cloud? When it came time to publish, you might make a snapshot of the VM, make it public, and cite it in your paper …read more
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Inspired by the awesomeness of disqus on my other sites, I wanted to make it possible to enable disqus on my sites on ReadTheDocs. A bit of googling led me to Mikko Ohtamaa's excellent work on the Plone documentation, where a blinding flash of awesomeness hit me and I realized …
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An increasing number of people are asking about using our assembly approaches for things that we haven't yet written (or posted) papers about. Moreover, our assembly strategies themselves are also under constant evolution as we do more research and find ever-wider applicability of our approaches.
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