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Why Hasnât Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already?
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| When Tim Berners-Lee created the Web in 1991,
| it was with the aim of better facilitating
| scientific communication and the dissemination
| of scientific research. Put another way, the
| Web was designed to disrupt scientific
| publishing. It was not designed to disrupt
| bookstores, telecommunications, matchmaking
| services, newspapers, pornography, stock
| trading, music distribution, or a great many
| other industries.
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http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/01/04/why-hasnt-scientific-publishing-been-disrupted-already/
Jaron Lanier Gets Old And Crotchety; Maybe He Should Kick Those Kids Off His Virtual Reality Lawn
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| The list goes on, but at some point it's just
| not worth bothering with responding point by
| point. Lanier's trying to sell a book, and
| it's yet another in a long line of people who
| don't like the newfangled thing the kids are
| using because he doesn't understand it. The
| fact is, it doesn't matter. The internet is a
| huge success because people actually like the
| way it works and they get tons of value out of
| it, even if it's not the value Lanier wanted.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100113/0001057724.shtml
Recent:
FLOSS Weekly 81: OpenStreetMap.org
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| OpenStreetMap.org, the provider of free and royalty-free geographic data.
|
| Guest: Steve Coast for OpenStreetMap.org
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http://www.twit.tv/FLOSS
TinkerCell: modular CAD tool for synthetic biology
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| An application named TinkerCell has been
| developed in order to serve as a CAD tool
| for synthetic biology. TinkerCell is a
| visual modeling tool that supports a
| hierarchy of biological parts. Each part in
| this hierarchy consists of a set of
| attributes that define the part, such as
| sequence or rate constants. Models that are
| constructed using these parts can be
| analyzed using various third-party C and
| Python programs that are hosted by
| TinkerCell via an extensive C and Python
| application programming interface (API).
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http://www.jbioleng.org/content/3/1/19
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