Science of the Invisible - Latest Comments

Re: The Semantic Web Will Not Be Televised

kenzonar — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:36:45 -0000

nice post :D

Re: No

Chris R — Sun, 01 May 2011 12:57:58 -0000

Perhaps it would be simpler just to stop BNP voters going to the polls at all?

These adverts really annoy me. I voted in many Australian elections using a very similar system. Sometimes I would give a minority party my first preference, trying to send a signal to the government that I wasn't happy. But I made sure I didn't vote for the people who were likely to get in but whom I didn't want.

Re: No

Ed Rybicki — Sun, 01 May 2011 11:31:16 -0000

Hey, we in South Africa don't even get to vote for MPs or mayors! We vote for a party list - which, in the ANC's case, may get imposed unilaterally on a region by head office. And in some cases again, the mayoral candidates are not even known until after the vote - "because you are voting for the party, not an individual"!

Gotta love democracy....

Re: No

Egon Willighagen — Sun, 01 May 2011 05:16:34 -0000

A shame the video doesn't show what the current system does...

Re: The Complexity of Cooperation

Michael Nielsen — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:15:15 -0000

If you enjoyed Axelrod's book, you might enjoy Mancur Olson's "The Logic of Collective Action" and Elinor Ostrom's "Governing the Commons" (which helped Ostrom win a Nobel), if you haven't already seen them. Both consider collective action problems, which can be thought of as a prisoner's dilemma situation, but with many parties, not just two. Both speak very much to the problem of open science and changing norms in science.

Re: iPhone4

Valerie Matthews-Lane — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:38:53 -0000

Your post was forwarded to me by a colleague - Matt Mobbs. Really useful information - brought my iphone direct from Apple and now using Giffgaff network which is great. (My husband has also got an iphone now and will be using Giffgaff). Only issue is I'm not sure Giffgaff is for technophobes (which I am) due to lack of technical backup (no real email or telephone back up support)- whilst we had issues accessing the internet I fortunately have great technical back up via my husband (who spent hours trawelling instructions and asking questions.

Re: Social is an emergent property

AJCann — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:31:33 -0000

I've never used facebook for any academic purpose where there is any compulsion (e.g. assessment) because of not wanting to merge the private/professional spheres. For that reason, we've deliberately stayed away from facebook of the PLE (now more properly described as PLN) module. I use facebook to augment and amplify existing services where users have a choice of where they would prefer to participate.

Re: Social is an emergent property

Chris Jobling — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:02:25 -0000

I look forward to your report on the experience! Is it the method you used for this year's course on PLEs?

Re: Social is an emergent property

Alan Cann — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:25:24 -0000

It's a long road. I'm currently admin for 8 facebook pages. In most cases, the number of followers (Likes) has built very slowly. The extent to which each page feels like a community is also very variable, but in the more successful cases, it has allowed me to sequester a little attention back from the facebook beast.

Re: Social is an emergent property

Chris Jobling — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:44:10 -0000

Alan, How's your experiment with Facebook pages. It's a direction that I decided I needed to take but how do you grow the community to the exploits benefit of the socialization of learning?

Re: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

AJCann — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:46:15 -0000

Yes, it was by me - I need to make the multiple authoring on SciReadr more transparent. I didn't particularly like this book, thought it was overblown, but the main problem is that it was not right for this particular project.

Re: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

M J Weller — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:50:20 -0000

Is this your review? SciReadr doesn't say who submitted it. I liked Guns, I'm not sure it's meant to be about scientific method, more a reasoned discussion based in anthropology. I think Diamond's a good writer, his Collapse is excellent.

Re: Quora Masterclass

Stuart Johnson — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:31:18 -0000

I'm still at the very confused stage!

Re: Posterous groups

Stuart Johnson — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:32:28 -0000

Posterous groups was just what I was after for easy private sharing with tech-shy family members. Thanks Dr Cann!

Re: I Has App Store

Stuart Johnson — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:30:49 -0000

You people with Macs

Re: A Decade of Fear

Stuart Johnson — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:30:09 -0000

Thanks for that cheerful post!

Re: Posterous groups

jayjay — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:44:19 -0000

I helped beta test posterous groups (was top secret!) - and there were a couple of points to note. The noise does get a bit crazy in your inbox, especially when it feels like a free for all in the beginning. It was nice to start threads and comments from inbox and saw it being more useful than say, a mailing list, especially if you want something that is recognisable as a website or blog externally. Look forward to testing it more with smaller sizes in future.

Re: 2011: The Year Ahead in IT

Terry — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:49:12 -0000

I would generally agree - the 'core' provision struggles to provide anything like the range of features of off-campus services. One remaining benefit though is a robust set of software tools for common tasks e.g. statistics packages, and the local expertise to get some meaningful output from them. The other challenge to campus IT is probably the support/licence costs for the one-size-fits-all VLE/Portal/CMS provision, and the loss of granularity resulting from the corporate approach.

Re: Strong Stuff

AJCann — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:19:22 -0000

;-) http://www.ocado.com/websho...

Re: Strong Stuff

A.E. (Tony) Ratcliffe — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:15:11 -0000

Hoping this will make it to Canada (perhaps the Bristish shops). We get the regular Marmite in some grocery stores. If not, it will be on the shopping list for my next visit to the UK.

Re: Strong Stuff

Ed Rybicki — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:56:57 -0000

It's always Marmite time...B-) Well, it was also Che Guevara time too (the same people do LP clocks as well), but this one actually works!

Re: Strong Stuff

AJCann — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:52:32 -0000

I'll let you know what it tastes like :-) (and nice clock - What time is it? It's Marmite time!)

Re: Strong Stuff

Ed Rybicki — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:42:28 -0000

Brilliant! Strongly approve. Would also desperately like to try some, but that won't happen (I wouldn't let anyone have any of mine if I had such a thing) - but I can share an image of my present to me. Saturnalia rules OK!! And great minds think alike B-)
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog...

Re: Tron Legacy (3D (on ice (with eskimo music) ) )

Ed Rybicki — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:44:48 -0000

Better still: watch the original...B-)

Re: BibSonony - delicious done right

AJCann — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:04:23 -0000

Clearly BibSonomy won't be able to scale up to the level of delicious, but I don't think they'll have to. That's a problem diigo may have (although I doubt it with the rate people are abandoning bookmarking services). BibSonony has a much more academic feel to it and won't attract such a big user group.

iPads - are iPads. Don't expect then to be laptops. Sill want one. My poxy-screened iPhone is growing on me more and more and at the rate specialist iPad apps and publications are appearing now, I'll need one soon.