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Down time
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A quick warning that the server on which this blog lives will be down from Friday evening through Monday morning (UK time). Have a nice weekend!
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Intellectual Property redux
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In her comment on this post, Gia asks I’ve got a domain name all ready to go, but I’m not sure my server at the University of Manc is the right place to host it… What is the deal at Imperial regarding ‘personal’ things on their servers…? At what point could your blog become an…
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Travelling ten
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I’ve been a bit quiet the past week, so here’s a very random top ten from my just-completed trip to North America (New Jersey/New York and Toronto). In no particular order, except for number one: My sister’s wedding — Congratulations and Mazel Tov to Allison and Chris! The skeleton of the new Daniel Libeskind extension…
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Google maps in the UK
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Google Maps is (are?) up and running in the UK. Here’s where I work, more or less (actually I thought I was in SW7 2AZ, but it can’t seem to find that…). It’s a slick interface, although it will be much cooler when the Satellite maps are available, like they are in the US.
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Intellectual Property
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Who owns my ideas? After listening to Stanford law prof and internet pundit Lawrence Lessig, I’ve decided that my words, meager though they are, should be officially free to all. Right now, this blog is hosted by Imperial College, and I’ve done my best to find out if they impose any of their own restrictions…
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Geek dinner
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Just back from a slightly sadly but aptly named “Geek Dinner” in London. Thanks to Scoble for inspiring us, to all the attendees like Rachel, Keni, Barry and Theresa, special guest Frank, and most especially Lee for organizing the dinner despite all the uphevals in his life nowadays. Aside from the minor hiccup that the…
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Science Publishing III: Attribution
Finally, my colleague Sean Carroll writes about David Politzer’s Nobel-prize speech, and giving credit where it’s due.
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Science Publishing II: RSS & XML
&uot For the technically-minded, here’s an article (via Lockergnome) on The Role of RSS in Science Publishing: Syndication and Annotation on the Web, by Hammond, Hannay, and Lund of the Nature Publishing Group: RSS is one of a new breed of technologies that is contributing to the ever-expanding dominance of the Web as the pre-eminent,…
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Science Publishing I: Science Commons
Some of the biggest issues in science today have to do with the prosaic questions of publishing: How do we disseminate scientific work and the underlying scientific data so that the maximum number of scientists (and members of the public) have access to it? How do we ensure that proper credit is given for work?…
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Astronomers on the internet
I’m up in beautiful Edinburgh (perhaps my favorite city in the UK, even at this very dark time of year) fulfilling my duties as the chair of the Astrogrid Science Advisory group, at their latest project meeting. Astrogrid is part of the world wide effort to create a virtual observatory, a way for astronomers to…
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