About two years ago, I posted on the distribution of readership of this blog. The passage of time has increased this from 144 to 176 countries. There are apparently between 189-196 such, so not quite yet complete coverage! Of course, it is the nature of the beast that whilst we can track countries, very little else is known about such readerships.
Die Bundesregierung einigt sich auf ein IT-Sicherheitsgesetz, das Landgericht München verhandelt zum Werbeblocker Adblock Plus, Flickr entfernt Creative-Commons-Bilder doch wieder aus einem Druckprogramm. Außerdem im Wochenrückblick: Browser-Kartellauflagen ausgelaufen, Hollands Datenschützer vs. Google.
Increasingly, our access to scientific information is becoming a research topic in itself.
Vor kurzem hatte iRights.info zehn Anlaufstellen für freie Bilder im Netz vorgestellt – darunter auch Flickr, das Angebot mit dem größten Fundus an Bildern unter Creative-Commons-Lizenzen. Ein Grund dafür liegt darin, dass der Dienst schon seit vielen Jahren einfache Möglichkeiten bietet, Bilder unter Creative-Commons-Lizenzen zu veröffentlichen.
Durch die Digitalisierung haben sich Fotografen viele Möglichkeiten eröffnet: Foto-Sharing-Plattformen, wo Amateur- und Profifotografen ihre Bilder vorzeigen können, genauso wie neue Möglichkeiten der Speicherung, die das Foto-Archiv von Zuhause in die Cloud verschieben. Digitale Bilder sind schnell und flexibel – man kann sofort sehen, was man fotografiert hat und ob das Bild gut geworden ist;
In any discussion of data gathering or data cleaning the term "crowdsourcing" inevitably comes up. A example where this approach has been successful is the Encyclopedia of Life's Flickr pool, where Flickr users upload images that are harvested by EOL.Given that many Flickr photos are taken with cameras that have built-in GPS (such as the iPhone, the most common camera on Flickr) we could potentially use the Flickr photos not only as a source of
Following on from my previous post on BHL apps and a Twitter discussion in which I appealed for a "sexier" interface for BHL (to which @elywreplied that is what BHL Australia were trying to do), here are some further thoughts on improving BHL's web interface. Build a new interface A fun project would be to create a BHL website clone using just the BHL API.
This is a case of a comment that got so long (and so late) that it probably merited it’s own post. David Crotty and Paul (Ling-Fung Tang) note some important caveats in comments on my last post about the idea of the “web native” lab notebook. I probably went a bit strong in that post with the idea of pushing content onto outside specialist services in my effort to try to explain the logic of the lab notebook as a feed.
The Open Knowledge Foundation is running a workshop on finding and re-using open science resources. More details are available on the okf blog and wiki. I will be there along with a number of more interesting and important people. Come along and contribute to the discussion of how we can use what’s out there and how we can get a lot more of it.
There has been lots of interest amongst some parts of the community about what has been happening on FriendFeed. A growing number of people are signed up and lots of interesting conversations are happening. However it was suggested that as these groups grow they become harder to manage and the perceived barriers to entry get higher. So this is an attempt to provide a brief intro to FriendFeed for the scientist who may be interested in using it;