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"Open Data Excuse" Bingo We might want to use it in a paper People may misinterpret the data Thieves will use it There's no API I don't mind, but someone else might Lawyers want a custom License It's too complicated We will get too many enquiries It's too big Terrorists will use it Poor Quality There's already a project to... What if we want to sell it later It's not very interesting Data Protection We'll get spam For open data teams; print out a copy and put it on your office wall. Cross out each excuse people give you. There are no prizes, but you can tweet "bingo! #openDataExcuses" if you think it might make you feel better Generate your own bingo grids at http://data.dev8d.org/devbingo/

For what reasons do academics follow one another on Twitter? Robert Jäschke, Stephanie B. Linek and Christian P. Hoffmann analysed the Twitter activity of computer scientists and found that while the quality of information provided by a Twitter account is a key motive for following academic colleagues, there is also evidence of a career planning motive. As well as there being reciprocal following between users of the same academic status (except, remarkably, between PhD researchers), a form of strategic politeness can be observed whereby users follow those of higher academic status without necessarily being followed back. The emerging academic public sphere facilitated by Twitter is largely shaped by dynamics and hierarchies all too familiar to researchers struggling to plot their careers in academia.

“All these papers were deliberately bad. They were created with the purpose of exposing exploitative publishing practices. That is, the works collected here were sting operations on predatory journals.” So says the introduction to the book Stinging the Predators: A collection of papers that should never have been published, assembled by Zen Faulkes.

Im Januar 1916 sah ein Prophet namens Hugo Gernsback sehr genau eine Literatur voraus, die nie von gestern ist: Science-Fiction.