Was ich über wissenschaftliche Blogs denke, war in der Werkstatt zuletzt mehrmals nachzulesen. Und in einer dreiteiligen Serie habe ich versucht, den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, sowie der Rolle von Wissenschaftsblogs innerhalb einer “Wissenschaftskommunikation 2.0″ nachzuspüren. Für alle ungeduldigen Werkstattbesucher gibt es einige meiner Argumente hier nun in komprimierter Form.
The list of research questions I published in SOAN last week (What we don't know about open access: research questions in need of researchers) is now up on the OAD wiki for community editing and enlargement.
What the world needs now is not another metasearch engine. Mind you, having more and better and even free metasearch engines is a good thing, but there are already many metasearch engines, each with different strengths and weaknesses, and even some that are free and open source (e.g., see Oregon State’s LibraryFind). Metasearch isn’t an effective solution for the problem at hand.
Many have asked me about my Keynote (it is not PowerPoint) presentation style. I honestly don't have much to say about it, as I've not thought it through. But Chris Tunnell, a researcher on the SNO neutrino physics experiment has, and he sent me his thoughts about how and why (and whether) the style works based on his own experience using it for physics presentations. Read about it in the extended entry.
This was shot on BET Animation and 106 and Park. IT IS A SATIRICAL OBSERVATION ON THE CURRENT RIDICULOUS, OFFENSIVE, AND EMBARRASSING STATE OF THE ONCE NOBLE ART OF HIP HOP. THE RAPPER WHO MADE THE SONG IS ALSO SATIRING THE CURRENT POPULAR RAP MUSIC WHICH IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO EVERYTHING RAP WAS. WHILE MAKING THIS SOCIAL SATIRE, HE ALSO PROVIDE A POSITIVE MESSAGE AND A SOCIAL COMMENTARY.