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"Utopia Documents links scientific research papers to the data and to the community. It enables publishers to enhance their publications with additional material, interactive graphs and models. It allow the reader to access a wealth of data resources directly from the paper they are viewing, makes private notes and start public conversations."
Yeah. It's happening.
links for 2010-10-11
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"Utopia Documents links scientific research papers to the data and to the community. It enables publishers to enhance their publications with additional material, interactive graphs and models. It allow the reader to access a wealth of data resources directly from the paper they are viewing, makes private notes and start public conversations."
Yeah. It's happening.
links for 2010-10-11
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"Utopia Documents links scientific research papers to the data and to the community. It enables publishers to enhance their publications with additional material, interactive graphs and models. It allow the reader to access a wealth of data resources directly from the paper they are viewing, makes private notes and start public conversations."
Yeah. It's happening.
links for 2010-10-07
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Great map. This guy's good.
links for 2010-10-06
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Brilliant. Very much aspects of a text service I dreamed up so long ago and was to lazy to ever build.
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"And yet, somehow we're left with mainstream media coverage that's often sterile, formulaic, unimaginative. Writing covered with the stench of the intellectual decay that inevitably comes from the meek acceptance of often-arbitrary rules. Science deserves better, and as science blogs rack up ever increasing millions of readers every month, traditional media companies still dragging their feet will need to respond, sooner or later. That, or face irrelevance."
Absolutely brilliant.
links for 2010-09-30
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"Like an engineer accounting for a skyscraper swaying in the wind, Madagascar's Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini) spins enormous, river-spanning webs that stretch and contract as the trees to which they're anchored bend this way and that. A new study finds that this spider's silk is the toughest biomaterial yet discovered."
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"Now, scientists in the United States have devised a computer model for identifying a protein that could serve as a type of scaffold, locking an epitope into the structure to which a neutralizing antibody can bind." Yay, for protein design!
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"As Einstein predicted, a slow drive or a step up a ladder is enough to warp time."
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Want.
The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only Happen Within the First Hour
For some, Twitter is a social network and for others it is just a broadcast medium. Judging from the latest data from social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos, for the majority of users, Twitter is indeed mostly a broadcast medium. After analyzing over 1.2 billion tweets, the Sysomos team found that only 29% of tweets actually produce a reaction – that is, a reply or a retweet. According to Sysomos, just 6% of all tweets are retweeted and these retweets have a very short lifespan. Virtually all retweets happen within the first hour after the original tweet.
via @alexdc via www.readwriteweb.com
Hm, Tweet lifetime of attention around an hour.
Methinks it's due to the way people follow. For example, we've noticed that Facebook posts peter out after about two days. But I bet the power curve is more like 24 hours.
And knowing the Facebook pattern, I never thought of what the pattern would be in other channels. With this new piece of data, it clear (d'oh, and so obvious) that the way once follows a stream affects the lifetime of a "quanta" withing a stream.
Thinking of YouTube, you have a high degree of promotion of videos and also folks searching for videos, which might explain why a video I made two years ago is still gaining tens of thousands of views a month – it feeds itself and grows.
Now I'll be looking at stream design in a new light.