blog, wiki, google scholar, web 2.0 and academic research
By ET
Nature has a few new articles talking about what Wikis, Blogs, Digital Libraries, Google Base, and other Internet technologies may mean for the future of scientific communication beyond the confines of scientific journals.
From the article:"For every ninety-nine mediocre ideas, there will likely only be one brilliant idea. The few brilliant ideas, however, are worth the investment of many mediocre (and chaotic) ones…The few brilliant ideas will survive in the market place of ideas." (quote from Calvin Andrus, head of the CIA’s unit for collaboration technologies)
Paul Myers from U Minnesota is quoted:"Put a description of your paper on a blog, and people far from your usual circle start thinking about the subject."
Many scientists don’t blog because they fear it has a poor image and could damage their careers. Most younger biologists blog anonymously, "Many fear that their superiors consider it a waste of time, or even dangerous," "Until blogging is seen as normal, this will continue to be a problem."
May 15th, 2006 at 12:12 am
just test
December 18th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
that’s right, in a recent issue of the magazine SEED, an article talks about a few influential physics blogs, laypeople like us can have a much better understanding about what those physicists are doing.
I’ll try to talk more about my research ideas in this blog, talking about my ideas to people really helped me with my career. For example, in last year’s WISE conference, I discussed with Juan Feng about a new model for sponsored search, and we started to collaborate, and in this year’s ICIS conference, I presented the paper. From what I heard, people liked this paper.
December 17th, 2005 at 11:01 pm
I hope that we get past the old myths of blogs and they become more acceptable be all industries!