I recently came across an article in Wired, "The End of Theory: Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete". To sum it quite quickly: the volumes of data available to entities such as Google allow analysis of data without hypotheses,…
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A while back I posted links to some research on Web 2.0 tools and scientific collaboration. For anyone who might be interested, there is a Workshop on Research 2.0 offered as part of the next Conference on e-Social Science. The…
Clay Shirky posted his talk from last week’s Web 2.0 conference as a wonderful piece on what he calls social surplus – extra cognitive capacity that people don’t know how to spend at first. He argues that our next revolution is the shift from spending our spare cognitive cycles consuming content – watching TV – to spending our spare cognitive cycles consuming, producing, and sharing content.
It’s an interesting train of thought. I particularly like the bit at the end:
In a recent Guardian column, Cory Doctorow discusses his tips and tricks for email. He highlights his favorite piece of "email ninjitsu" - sorting by subject - in this boingboing post. But what caught my attention was this bit from…
I saw an article posted to Slashdot yesterday about how scientists are using Web 2.0 tools to facilitate collaboration. The original piece, published in Scientific American, offers some food for thought around these parts. The article is pretty basic, but…