Saturday, October 22, 2011

The genetics of bigger chickens | The Rational Optimist…

The fruits of genetics: More chook!

The genetics of bigger chickens | The Rational Optimist…:

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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Innovatives Convenience-Konzept: Shoppen per smartphone | food-monitor - Informationsdienst für Ernährung

Koreaner(innen) haben offenbar keine Lust mehr Einkausfstüten zu schleppen:
Innovatives Convenience-Konzept: Shoppen per smartphone | food-monitor - Informationsdienst für Ernährung:

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Tim Harford on the distribution of the benefits from innovation

Tim Harford: "Innovation works in mysterious ways"

Tim Harford muses about the contribution that Steve Jobs has made to TH's life and the rewards that SJ has received from TH.
Harford adds a reference to an estimate by William Nordhaus who reckoned that innovators capture 2.2 % of the total social benefits of their innovations. I wonder whether this estimate includes the long tail of duds that are perfectly useless or even harmful.
RAEM

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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute

Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute:

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Don't do what you preach

I was googling the web for a source on how to write good science wikis.
I went to this link:


Opening science to all: Implications of blogs and wikis for social ...

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von B Zivkovic - 2007
Editor, The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006. ... such as blogs andwikis to provide open channels for their social and ...

Which took me to this website:

Opening science to all: Implications of blogs and wikis for social and scholarly scientific communication

  1. Bora Zivkovic1, 
  2. Jean-Claude Bradley2, 
  3. Janet Stemwedel3, 
  4. Phillip Edwards4, 
  5. K.T.L. Vaughan Organizer5,*
Article first published online: 24 OCT 2008
DOI: 10.1002/meet.1450440122
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Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volume 44, Issue 1, pages 1–3, 2007

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Abstract

A growing number of scientists are turning to Web2.0 communication tools such as blogs and wikis to provide open channels for their social and scholarly discourse. Because of these tools, scientists are increasingly able to share data, results, and analysis of research (scholarly communication) with distant, and sometimes unknown peers, and are also able to enter the realm of scientific commentary (social communication) with the general public.  ...

When I tried to read the pdf-paper I got this:

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Is this an open channel for scholarly discourse? Are the authors serious about their topic?

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