Learning with the Fang

I reckon the trend toward more open research is both inevitable and beneficial, but methinks the journey will be both messy and at times painfully destructive. Working for Microsoft during the open source revolution left me with scars that twinge when I see familiar patterns playing out in the scientific research community.

Watching chemists like Jean [...]

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Some things of interest noticed in the last week of April, 2008.
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Research on Research - interesting program described by Susan Metros
Open notebook science - introduction by the creator of usefulchem wiki
MIT’s Hal Abelson talks about his long history with the intellectual commons
Johnny Lee urges researchers like him to embrace online [...]

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My RSS reader is helping me triangulate my way toward the pointy end of the Open Science movement. Today, this article from ScienceCommons blog gave me three encouraging clues:
1. I am not the only crazy dude who thinks Creative Commons ‘Attribution’ is a good open license.2. Some Aussie researchers have made news thru their open [...]

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