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Just for you Michael — Air your security gripes on TSA blog

January 31, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

The TSA has created a blog so that you can air your problems, “And it promises those complaints and suggestions won’t vanish into thin air.”

You have to support this…

January 31, 2008 in Fundraising, Funny Stuff, LISSA | 1 comment

I have no affiliation with USCSLIS, but think this is awesome…

The Mildly Attractive Men of SLIS
at the University of South Carolina
2008 Calendar

They are raising monies for the World Library Conference.

-Tony

Post #1 Scientific America is onboard!

January 24, 2008 in Medical 2.0, Web 2.0 | 1 comment

My first blog post of seriousness is about a Scientific America article. This journal is considered to be one of the more elitist and popular journals among scientists. This is evident by the fact that their articles where cited by other articles 4,993 times in 2006. It is read by most of the scientific community, and is known for being on the cutting edge.
So here is the cool thing. They have unlocked an article in the Jan. 9^th, 2008 issue. What does that mean? The author is inviting for collaboration. Although it is not a wiki style article, which in my opinion would have been a better way to collaborate, it is a blog format with comments and all. The article is about Web 2.0 technologies and researchers. It is about “Science 2.0”. The author has posted some questions for some truly thought provoking discussion. They have already had 89 comments, and most of the ones I scanned seemed to be positive. You can view the article at Sci Am, and contribute your own thoughts!