Hairy and hairier: Visualizing unresponded email in your mailbox
According to a study by research firm Basex recently covered by the New York Times, information overload will be the Problem of the Year in 2008, costing US companies up to $650 billion a year. The...
View ArticleThe wisdom of crowds or what this blog is about
Following up on Jose’s musings on good and bad keywords for a productivity blog, I came across an interesting tool to visualize the evolution over time of aggregated social bookmarking tags for...
View ArticleWho does Google think you are?
One of the themes we’ve been discussing here is the idea that prestige and attention are the main currencies of academia. So it only makes sense that you want your online presence to be an accessible...
View ArticleBuzzwords: Rise and fall of cold fusion and feminism
A glimpse at the hottest topics in scholarly literature according to PhdComics. [via FlowingData]
View ArticleReaderMeter: Crowdsourcing research impact
Readers of this blog are not new to my ramblings on soft peer review, social metrics and post-publication impact measures: can we measure the impact of scientific research based on usage data from...
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