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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009ReadWriteWeb presents a summary of the Open Government Initiative over in the US, where the government has been trying to get feedback from citizens. For the number of citizens in the US, the level of participation is woefully small. Jolie O’Dell asks the ReadWriteWeb readers why this might be the case.
I can think of several […]
Scholarly paper on Open Access science
Thursday, May 28th, 2009In case you are looking for a paper giving an overview of the history of scientific publications, you may be interested in this one by Kaiser Nikham and Rajendra Babu H., Moving from script to science 2.0 for scholarly communication, Webology, vol. 6, no. 1, March 2009.
This study attempts to trace the evolution of scholarly […]
Against the so-called link between violence in media and aggression in children
Monday, May 25th, 2009Thank you, Dr. Castronova, for explaining why all the research on links between violence in media and aggression in children is not very convincing. I always get annoyed when I read about this type of research in the media (especially the present boogieman of violent games), but I would never have been able to explain […]
Opening up access to research papers
Thursday, April 16th, 2009It annoys me greatly that although I am all for open source in science, I have not been very good at offering up my own research papers to the world. A small part of that is just sheer laziness, but a bigger part is that I worry about the copyright issues. Journals in particular are […]
Why wait until you’re retired to take university courses?
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009When I was young I always thought that, once I was retired, I would take the opportunity to go follow university courses in subjects I was fascinated by, things like English literature and archaeology, because that’s the kind of geek I am. Well, things have changed thanks the Web, and now the university courses come […]
Mobile programming
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008For our next project, which we’re discussing at the moment, I would really like to include a mobile application, since there are times when I project that people will need to enter data while away from their computer. I guess we have three choices: build a web site that people can access from their cell […]
Where are the HCI open journals?
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008I am searching through open source science projects, among other things, for a paper I’m working on with Daniel Lemire. A guildie gave me a list of open source projects (it’s good to be in a guild with a bunch of researchers), among which is the Directory of Open Access Journals, which lists over three […]
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